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Re: Are Some of these guys cheating?- TROLL BATE

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From: Gary
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00
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Adam Williamson <adam@spamfree.org> wrote:
: On 15 Jul 1997 03:10:27 GMT, Gary <grimgarf@angband.gt.ed.net> wrote:

: >Umm... who good is from WPI? No one who could challenge SiZZ as far as I know.
: >SiZZ was top 5 in QW.

: Hahahahahaha. And what does that prove? Fuck all, as far as I can
: tell. How many modemers were in the top 5? How many people do _you_
: know who rank-cheated? (Setup a two-way private server, get someone to
: spawn in on a new account they don't care about, then kill them and
: kill them and kill them and kill them...)
:

I did that.  I was #1 in UK.
But I didn't have a second person... I automated it:
had a board with one spawning point and plenty of ammo.
Person who is to be killed is a computer running a script to continually
jump.
Other person is set to turbo fire.

The only trick was overcoming the filters designed to catch people like
me, which wasn't too hard... it took me maybe three hours to go from a
fresh player to a champion player


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: Adam Williamson
: Real Mail: adam "at" scss.demon.co.uk
: 88.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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From: Gary <grimgarf@angband.gt.ed.net>
Subject: Re: Are Some of these guys cheating?- TROLL BATE
Date: 1997/07/15
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