Wow that is some serious disconnection from reality there Misha. If an unskilled player goes out for SVS they are trying to win but failing.
that's a far cry from sitting there taking turns sinking a buddy.
If a cheater goes out to raise bounty with their cheating buddy and become svs admirals on the side, that is what im complaining about.
Its easy enough to see from the log files that its going on, especially if it got reported.
Announcing you are NOT gonna punish people for doing it is green lighting it and now as far as I am concerned this game is dead to me.
You missed the point about my challenge to Kate. All things being equal the gold does give advantage of one player over another.
I never claimed it was everything (please try to point out where I said that, since you so skillfully (not) misrepresented my previous post)
Imagine two people reach level 15 and want to buy their war ship. One cheats and gets all the money they need an the other doesn't.
they meet out in svs and the one with the warship doesn't have an advantage? (Again all other things being equal)
She came back and said that skills were more important so I challenged her to prove it, and well she chickened out.
Tlopo terms of service: (which she cleverly (not) edited out parts to make her failing point)
"Any form of cheating, exploiting, or use of third party programs is not allowed. If you find someone who may be using a third party program, report them using the in-game report feature. If you discover an exploit, let us know by emailing us at
support@tlopo.com."
Cheating, exploiting or use of a third party program has the word or in it.
So cheating by itself is a violation of the terms of service. Exploiting by itself is too. Or means that any of these things is a violation.
Now if the language says "and" instead of "or" then only cheating and exploiting while using a third party program would be a violation of the terms of service. Since it says "or" instead of "and" then any form of cheating is a violation of the terms of service.
Here is a link to a post where John Foulroberts says "TLOPO staff considers trading bounty to be an exploit"
Either they have changed their minds or Kate may be out of a job (I hope).