It's only a game...

Bill Shankly, the celebrated Liverpool manager from the sixties, famously said one time :

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

Substitute GEWar for football and that is the way I suspect a lot of players feel about GEWar! I too admit to being somewhat obsessed by this game. But when this passion leads one to cheat then you know it is time to quit and take up knitting instead! An old, well-known player has recently been caught doing this and some probably celebrated in private whilst others perhaps were forced to reflect on what this game means to them.

In any sphere of life you will have people trying to gain some advantage from "bending the rules" to outright cheating. In other words it is inevitable, but that does not of course mean that it is right. Very early on in this reset some players from an alliance that Ronin were fighting were caught using scripts, and again more recently another alliance was using an illegal script.

Thanks to the efforts of the GEWar team this sort of thing is being tackled. Another consequence of the passion from playing this game can sometimes be seen in the forum posts. Where players easily fall into personal abuse, again thanks to the moderators culprits are swiftly dealt with. Perhaps a delay could be initiated when posting to force people to give some more thought to their words?

Anyway, this post has been a bit rambling but I guess the point is that please think twice before you get up to any shenanigans, please remember it is only a game, life and death is much more important.