@Al - This wasn't a PM. It was a real email.

@JMO

Yes, sir. But you are an administrator. Unfortunately, you are *stuck* worrying about such things. Bo and I are mere players. We have the luxury of not taking it as seriously. I was worried about my friend Bo getting pretty worked up about something that, seen in the proper light, should be considered amusing. Alas. Perhaps I am missing the point.


BURN THE CHEATERS! BURN THEM!!

Maybe if I put it this way... Metagaming is using info outside the game and you don't get much more outside the game than using googlemail to try and trick soeone into revealing their password.

@philcore - "Can we get a new rule that makes threatening to sue a bannable offense?

Look what you started draug! "

You posted this before I ever posted to the thread. Anything you want to confess to, phil?

You know, I guess I see where you guys are coming from. I remember getting pretty worked up over similar issues at other points in time. I guess if you take the game really seriously, then it's a big deal.

how did the player in question figure out you email address draug?

O.o

That certainly is a question. Draug's E-mail address is not on his profile.

It's all over the forum as the league td.

He posted his email address on the forum a few weeks ago.

And here is the thing... That they tried it on me bothered me very little but they could just as easily tried it on someone less savvy than I and gotten away with it. That bothers me more. If they were in a game with a player whom they had tricked, they could have been doing last minute order changes and effectively been playing two accounts.

One more note. I didn't post it here and would not have. The mods chose to in their manhunt. I would not have bothered if they hadn't cause it wasn't the forum's concern or at least it wasn't my place to male it the forum's concern.

Damn, the switch to actual injected insulin has mellowed me some. Should have done that long ago.

Ok that makes sense, sorry I don't follow the tourneys so had no idea Draug was hosting one, let along that his email address was public.

I think we can all agree the worst part of this cheating effort is that it's a dumb and ineffective plan, right? Draug, don't you do web development or something like that?

Yeah, it was stupid to think they could trick me. A) the mods don't need my email to see the games or anything on my account and B) I'm a bit more IT savvy than to be fooled by a simple phishing scheme.

Back when I was learning to play in high school, orders were turned in on my global history teacher's desk in an upside down German officer's hat. If you touched that hat, you were fucking dead. The hat was strictly out of bounds. If you were dumb enough to let someone watch you while writing orders, or leave your orders somewhere other than the hat, or gave your orders to someone else to turn in, it was your own dumb fault. So in that sense, it is in the spirit of the game.

On the other hand, had I put a fake hat on the desk to collect orders, I imagine that would be would be met with a pretty swift kick in the balls and probably kicked out of any games I was playing. Taking that one step further, deliberately impersonating a site administrator to gain access to orders is not only identity theft and illegal by Google's terms, but it goes above and beyond the spirit of the game.

tl;dr Fuck Acosmist

are we 100% sure Acosmist did it?

Impersonating site staff should be against the rules regardless. This is *not* okay in any twisted or convoluted way. At all.

Acosmist was banned for cheating in a game and denying it to the point of beligerence. He had nothing to do with Draug's thing other than being a dick in this thread (as far as we know!)

@ Fasces - there is no suggestion that Acosmist was guilty of the offence mentioned in the OP. Acosmist has been banned because he was a multi, as per the banning comment on his account and jmo's comments above.

"Banned by a moderator: multi/meta/asshole"

So Mapu, there's still no way to figure out who did this? Did they try to log on any accounts?

I'm pretty sure Acosmist was banned because of this rather amusing gunboat game: gameID=100465

Since the other player in that game isn't banned, that's apparently not the case...

@ PSMongoose: please do not make cheating accusations in the forum.

@draug, my suggestion was for making the threat of lawsuit a bannable offence after acomists threat.

The "see what you started" comment referred to your multiple threats to sue the site, or individual members or mods, etc.

It had nothing to do with the OP. I know, big surprise that I would post something off-topic, right?