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Originally Posted by Shev
It's noticed all the time, and ignored. You're burying your head in the sand if you sit around all day saying "Noone cheats!".
Actually, scrap that, anyone who actually sits and decribes themselves as "in the know" and "someone" regarding an internet spreadsheet needs some serious help.
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I didn't say no-one cheats. I said hardly anyone bothers to set up actual farms. A good attacking player has always been able to consistently perform as well as a roidfarmer, even during the start of a round. Good non-cheating ziks have always been able to consistently perform as well as those who have a dedicated ship-farm early on. The real problems are the crimes of opportunity, such as when some player quits a round and lets a friend in an opposing alliance farm him/attack his fleet, but these are rare and do not merit changing the game mechanics to combat.
The real common form of cheating is the use of VNC to log into other peoples computers in order to accountshare. This is completely impossible to detect, and has been going on since pretty much the conception of PA. There was also another form of this where people set up their home computers as essentially proxy servers and used a collective bot to manage planets through those proxies, but this bot is not in use anymore.
Oh, and lest I not forget, there's also the occasional accusations of someone using extra planets to escort/defwhore for themselves, but these accusations seldom turn out to be much and have been restricted to a very few people. Again, the effort of playing up a whole other planet for almost no gain simply isn't worth it.