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posted by
SolidSnake:
Meh, I would invite an admin to go through each laf country individually over the time hanlong has returned to the game to make sure none of them ever got anything that wasnt attained legitimately.
Anyone that was found to have benefited, delete/ban. Anyone cheating in any way on ee is far worse than anything in e2025, on ee the players are the only reason the game exists, so when you screw one of them with this type of bs, you screw all of us.
I posted this in the other thread, but it pertains to this as well:
Even if he didn't "gift" his country, having access to data gave him a significant advantage. For instance suppose you see a country in an alliance stock oil and price it all up very high while all the other countries in the alliance started selling bushels. It doesn't take much to figure out there's a potential for a market buyout and capitalize on it by front-running the beneficiary. Also during stocking or destocking time you can determine the market depth in the bushel market or when some large stockpiles were about to be liquidated and front-run those orders.
This insider information is something that can be easily "tipped" on to others which invalidates much of LaFs "accomplishments". I'm not saying that this was the case and that all of LaF's finishes should be deleted; however, even if there was no direct manipulation of a country's status, just the passing of key information is enough to give an unfair advantage.
I'm not trying to say all of LaF participated or anything like that. I'm just saying just because there's no physical evidence (i.e. goods "transferred" to a country) it doesn't mean that they did not benefit from the hacking.
