Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9890645-20131112205748/@comment-11482499-20131215162908

TheRhombus77 wrote: Shoosh....my point isnt semantics. Its that one small group gained an advantage and everyone in here blew up...but when a large group gains an advantage..although not "their fault", its okay.

Clearly Mobage didnt think the original group "cheated", or they would have been banned, right? When a small group gains an advantage BY HACKING, which break's Mobage's TOS, of course we blow up.

When players gain an advantage BY PLAYING NORMALLY, not at all breaking the TOS, that's called....playing the game normally. duhh.

When the group of 30-40 of us gather in the chatroom in the last 6 hours of a raid, seeding and hitting each other's L8s to rack up huge points, do we gain an advantage over everyone else because of our superior teamwork? Yes. Is that cheating because, as you say, a small group gained an advantage over everyone else? No. Because we played the game as it was made, with no hacks.

Mobage doesn't ban cheaters simply because it is soft on crime, and spreads its legs to terrorists/cheaters if they're rich and paying.

Rhom, you have consistently failed to address this point - on how you can justify using the word "cheater". Are you afraid to answer on this very simple point? I suspect you cannot defend your use of the strong word "cheat", which has a very strong and clear definition. As I have refuted multiple times already, cheat doesn't mean "one player gaining an advantage over another". It means breaking the TOS. So could you kindly enlighten me on which clause of the TOS you think has been broken?

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If you feel, on further reflection, that your use of the word "Cheater" to describe the early players was ill-advised and born more out of (understandable) frustration rather than rooted in fact and correct definition, and feel compelled to apologise now for your inaccurate use of the word, I would respect you, as it takes a big man to admit his mistakes after serious consideration.

If you feel the term "cheater" is an accurate label despite everything that's been said, I'd appreciate if you could supply us with a valid definition of the word, and demonstrate how the early players meet those definitions. It pretty simple to do. Yet you have consistently failed to do so. I am losing my patience and will give you 1 more try to produce some justification. After that I'll ignore your continued rants in this vein as repeats.

(On a side note, you're lucky you have not accused real names and identities of cheating, or they could technically sue you for slander. When a man uses a heavy word like "cheating", he must be prepared to back it up in court, robustly and precisely. No fudging, no glossing over the definitions.)