title: 'Cheating' #

Cheating #

Quoting JT from chat, 12 Mar 2011:

"If I or any of my staff ever catch anyone using more than one account to benefit an account they control, then they deserve any punishment they get."

"I don't care whether you had their approval

Their approval isn't the point'

The point is that you used someone else's account to benefit your own

That's bad

in any game

anywhere"

Wiki editor's note: This discussion came up in the context of using a sitter password to send resources from one empire to another. It would also apply to having multiple empires run by the same person. It is a direct violation of rule #6.

Note #2: The odd style of JT's quot is the result of the interaction between chat copying and wiki editing. It is not a stylistic attempt at free verse.

Community notes #

What if you mage two empires but they never help each other??

Tralala French: Siblings beware! if you have 2 people at the same computer trading in any way, depending on your knowledge of the value of items (or lending with interest type behaviors) one sibling (choice of which one seems arbitrary) may have his entire genuine empire erased. As there is no 2nd server to avoid this kind of issue, I could recommend that the rules at least mention this risk but no one listened. ALSO: of course there is the problem when one sibling at the same computer won't SAY the other sibling his empire name, this may lead to accidental trading, to avoid it I took the unusual step to settle in a very far zone and abandon zone 0,0 (while one of my long-term internet friend and his sibling genuine accounts both got banned for accidental trading between siblings. Which sucks of course). And let's not get me started on how many people seem immune to that kind of banning... my brother got a sorry, but not refund, and now plays solely in the hope of eventually screwing up the game for everyone. )-;