Lies! Heh it was all a play by him to throw you off. Edmontonians are tricksy devils

Very true.. Warring in general now isn't too much fun since you can die in 30 seconds pretty easily and are near invincible just by being online when hit.

Something between the two extremes would be good

You're the one who started this rumor, and neither you, nor anyone else has any evidence. You can't just start a rumor, and then expect evidence to "materialize."

The biggest irony is that you are mocking RD for hiding behind fake aliases, yet you yourself are hiding behind a fake alias.

To sum it up: go fluff yourself.

^^^^^

as much as it is crazy at how availible every top RD coutry is, around the clock. I dont think it is anything outside of just that....being availible.

creating an alias posting on AT and not going to mods in private isnt the way to go about it.

there is no war of public opinion to win here, only to lose it with posts like this.

if this is a SoLer, as it seems to be
more hitting, less trolling.

^

+bonus

Might say the same about a couple Sol countries mdevol ;) The top countries on either side are only top countries because they wall fast or are around all the time now since everything else has died at least once :P

nice, this thread just gave me ideas

Ninong give me your bank account and I will stonewall for you

hrmmm i'll pm you!

Don't trust locket, he just said he is the easiest to kill because he doesn't stonewall :p

i'm disappointed :(

Martian probably provides the most to this thread.

The main point being that most people have smart phones nowadays.
Smartphone + SMSbot = stonewall.

RDP babysitting would just take too long with too many steps:
A) lookup country info, ip, username, password for member
B) login
C) open browser
D) try to stonewall

By that time, your country is already dead. RDP being beneficial during a killrun is a huge stretch unless it's the side that is doing the FS. (uh oh, opened another can of worms)

Looks like Rd will dominate. GJ both sides

As a freelance contractor, I have RDP access to several machines, so in theory I could run 4 countries, maybe five if I was really careful with my phone. Sounds like a lot of work.

One thing I can say about my particular situation is that while I COULD do it, I would not want to. My remote desktops are laggy, slow and unstable. The thought of trying to war from one of them (in my case) is laughable.

The one time in this game when I cheated, I got caught. I was babysitting for somebody in another tag on the old EC server and logged into my home country from my work computer. Less than a week and I fluffed it up. This game is not worth the effort to cheat at, especially by hand.

^this; we catch a number of people this way heh

Seems like an easy way around this would be to just have the browser on each machine store the login information for that machine's account. Then just never type in credentials manually, just use the stored ones...

No reason to be smug about it

;p

I could cheat but as archaic eluded: I'm to lazy it sounds like a lot of work.

I cant even be bothered to play primary and alliance at the same time let alone coordinate cheating computer rings.

Instead of letting the enemy get a free kill, RDP into the target country, no matter how slow or laggy, provide a chance at walling.

For example, if martian told me he's going out on a duck hunt (wearing a G string) for about 5hrs and ask me to babysit his country using RDP, i could effectively have the RDP connection at the ready, with martian's screen at the login screen with username and password already saved onto its browser. As soon as news feed alert, start the rdp connection, takes about 10sec?at the most? click login, run turn/buy troop turret whatever.

If martian's country has cash and turn, a normally idle country takes, what ? 500? 600 turns? to kill (someone provide a more accurate number pls) would end up either being alive or a lot more turns to kill, which by the way, is the whole purpose for this RDP thingy the poster suggest. So instead of just roll over and die, i could make martian's country into a fodder or simply kept him attack deterent just by being 'online'

And now imagine i have everyone's password int he tag to babysit. How many tags out there makes 2 different kill run on 2 different country at the same time ?

There are many ways to cheat. All we could hope for is the admins creativeness to counter it

left hand cheating on the right on this board more like ;)

hey guys just a nub visiting.

in all seriousness it seems to me that a blanket accusation was thrown against RD for using these 'RDPs' ... ???
and literally not one ounce of evidence was presented along with this accusation.

whatsup with that? lol
i mean cmon at least throw something in there lol.

i.e. mr tan was not killed instantly and tan is such a nublet that this alone confirms someone must have stonewalled for him.


that sort of thing

good ta see ya vic :)

always good to see you buddy boy :p

Ok I have the proof!!!
Martian is all of RD and all of us in one. He is RD, SOF, TIE, iMag, the entire game...matter of fact when you read this..you will realize you are martian too. :D
I am just galleri. Wait.

^^ lol see RD Watcher, that's the type of evidence i'm talking about man

Ha, the truth is OUT. Martian must now admit that the Bacon is Greater than the Cheese. :)

On the subject of cheating...

The bottom line in my book is you have won nothing by cheating. You can't brag that you won and produce any evidence that you won without exposing that you are a cheat.

Thus, it's a useless venture.

Cerb,

I agree cheating is an immoral pursuit.
However.


The presentation of your case is flawed. Here's why:
You said, "The bottom line in my book is you have won nothing by cheating"
Well however unfortunate the reality may be - this simply isn't true.
Some, may I even say MANY, have done precisely that by cheating - won.

Now we can bring the cheater's morality into question - but we can not claim 'you have won nothing by cheating' if indeed someone does win by cheating.


"You can't brag that you won and produce any evidence that you won without exposing that you are a cheat"
Sure you can brag that you won. <--- ok so let's start with this.
If the condition of 'winning' i.e. finishing in 1st place, is met by reset's end then you are indeed able to brag that you won.

In fact, I will even venture as far to say that one can brag that they won even after finishing 15th place! Who is to stop it? It may be stupid. But sure, I could come on AT and brag that I won even if I didn't.

"And produce any evidence that you won"
Ok so with that CONDITION, a 15th place finish would not qualify one to brag about finishing 1st. OK.

but
the only evidence of winning that a cheater needs to produce is simply located on the scoresheet, and on portal under 'top players' (assuming the player and cheater wins the given set)
so again it is without question and an undeniable certainty that just the precise opposite of what you said here is true: that a cheater can indeed produce evidence of winning, regardless of his or her cheating.

"... without exposing that you are a cheat"
Ok so here we have a major flaw.

You claim that if one cheats and wins and subsequently decides to 'brag' about the win the cheating will be exposed.
Well no. It is completely conceivable for someone to cheat and brag and remain undetected. The only way to expose cheating is with concrete evidence. So your statement suggests that there is another way. By simply cheating and bragging.

This isn't true.


So I hate cheaters! BUT.
The bottom line is actually:

Cheaters may or may not have won something by cheating. You can brag that you won all you want. The only way you will be exposed as a cheat is if you are caught in game cheating.

Thus, under your scrutiny, it is a fairly attractive venture.


:)

I thought that was what the main objective in a war was, once you have the advantage in your favor... you keep the advantage in your favor.

not really what i was getting at Stryke

Perhaps you are correct, Vic, on those points exactly. However I still will maintain that even if you are the only one who knows that you have cheated to win, you will not be able to shake that feeling of not being able to win without cheating in the future. Thus, you will eventually lose your self-respect, which is way more valuable than winning some stupid game.

Learning to play the game to be successful under the conditions and rules applied to the game is a much more attractive option in the long run.

Detecting a cheat always happens because there is always someone that is envious of their win and will dedicate time and effort to finding out how they did it.

cerbs i was just playing around there as well :)
basically i think this is a fluffballs post and i'm trying to have some fun on it :)

RD has a text bot? CHAETORZ!!11

Also, too, Anthony Ciolli.

Lucifer - I'm not very knowledgable on this topic so this might sound like a stupid question - but when you give someone access to your desktop remotely, are you giving them access to your entire network, or just to that one machine? If it's the latter, couldn't somebody use a very old and outdate computer without ANY personal information on it at all that they use simply to access Earth online? Would that protect them from any of the privacy/personal information concerns you've mentioned?

if you give control of your computer remotely then you are giving access to whatever that machine has access to. It is the same as being in front of the box with a keyboard and mouse except slower because the stuff on the monitor needs to be sent over the internet to your box.

So if that machine has unrestricted network access, then you do do (via the machine).
As an aside, watching movies or playing fps games through a RPN is somewhat futile..

What's the over/under on how many new 'players' alliances server gets next reset?

I still think you guys need to release the number of safelisted countries in each alliance... :P

@Trife:
The number of active safelisted players is much lower than you might.

.. think

I wonder how the security scripts treat Tor users:

http://online.wsj.com/...04578185382377144280.html

https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en