Uncle Fred wrote:Just to make sure I understand these cheating rules...
If you don't attack someone until you have a lot more troops than him or her (may need to wait a turn or two &/or get a match), that's cheating.
If you make a mistake the first time you play a new map, that's cheating.
Any other cheating rules I should be made aware of for future games?
Well, so far, no judgement has been given. So maybe nothing is going to happen to you no worry.
Just take a minute to read what iAmCaffeine and me have been saying. We aren't saying that you are actually intentionally cheating. We are just saying that because you know erikisfool, both of you are having a gameplay that help you win the games when you are playing together.
And ofc, no making a mistake with bombarding isn't cheating, and I personally believe your explanation about the bombarding.
Also not taking out fairman because you wanted to have enough troops to be sure to do it, also isn't cheating.
What is (maybe) cheating is playing poorly to make your friend win, for example in the game with fairman, erikiscool should have broke the truce with you way before fairman was eliminated.
That erikiscool keep attacking fairman even when you have more troops than both remaining player and deploy more than both of them together, in a SUNNY flat rate game, is total non sense.
Now if erikiscool only ever had play one game with you, we could all be thinking that it is just poor play from erikiscool, but because you play a lot of game together it makes us wondering if both of you aren't playing poorly to help the other one.
Just imagine following situation. fairman and me play multiplayers games together. And in each game, as soon as we are bordering each other, even if it would be better to maybe fight each other, we make a truce because we do trust each other. That is giving us an edge against the other player that don't know each other.
Even if we do it publicly in the game chat, because we know we are going to have a truce, we can choose to develop next to each other early in the game, then make the truce when we both have a bonus.
This is unfair.
If you play multiplayer game, you shouldn't favour some player because you know them. it seems you have been doing that, maybe not intentionally, but it's still unfair.