So, bottom line here... just to clear everything up, the message that both Lizardmen
and Druchii players should be getting here is that the comment about proxying
was not intended to be an order. Got it? Good... Druchii.net members have played this campaign entirely clean so far, and we're not going to start blemishing our record now. There's still every possibility that either force could swing the battle in their favor
legitimately.
Now, with that being said... I think this issue is very, very minor. If someone was to go to that much effort just to guarentee a win, what's to stop them from just posting one without playing at all? I can guarentee everyone that there are
hundreds of members on the SoC site who are posting false battle reports
everyday. So, as I said, if someone were willing to "bend" (more like break) the rules to that extent, I don't think it would have any impact on the campaign. I'd contend that there's at least a 5% swing already based on false results and/or cheating.
Regardless, comments like this:
Xinithorp wrote:Unless this order is withdrawn the Lizardmen have won.
We'll either win honestly or lose to cheaters. In my book, those both count as wins.
So, thank you for the victory.
are downright combative and mean-spirited. Ninety percent of the members here at Druchii.net have put in a lot of effort, and gone out of our way to play this campaign
properly, and I don't think any of them (including me) take kindly to accusations like this. Even if several of our less-informed members did take the orders to heart and in fact use this "proxying" tactic (which hopefully did not happen), I don't think that nullifies all of the other members' work that's been done so far.
You guys called us on the faux pas... fine, I'm sure Underway and the rest of us can accept that and see that it was a mistake. If any battles were indeed reported using this unfair method, I'm sure our staff will go out of their way to make sure they are corrected.
But don't you
dare accuse this entire site of being "cheaters"... that's crap. We've put way too much time and effort into playing this correctly for you to start that kind of argument. Blanket statements like that make the entire community look bad and cheapen the entire campaign... you don't want all of your effort reduced to some random accusation, and niether do we. In reality it was only one mis-spoken post and possibly a couple of battles (which will be corrected if they indeed did happen), not some large-scale conspiracy which you seem to have attributed to our entire site.
We've all worked too damn hard for you to start tossing out bombs like that... if you're looking for a scrap, I'm sure we can dig up some dirt on you guys as well. In fact, if I do find out about any Lizard player(s) cheating, I'll make sure to remind your
entire forum that they're "cheating" as well....as long as we're throwing out accusations maybe I'll just accuse the entire CoL of cheating.
As far as I'm concerned, this issue is over... you guys can continue combing through
our forum for any other tidbits you'd like to point out, but if you're looking to start another crap-fest, I'd suggest you keep it on your own forum, because I'm not interested in any more of your comments accusing our entire site of cheating.... those accusations crap, and you know it.