ORIGINAL: Symon
Of course it's possible to "game" it. The game is flexible, so one can "game" just about anything.ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
So we're all familiar with all of the ship repair threads, especially Alfred's. I have a question that may not have been asked before.
Little 12 year olds that just wanna get the computer auto-victory, can do it in a heartbeat. Good on you for finding yet another smelly outhouse that people can go visit and discuss and ruminate over the size, length and girth of the logs they find. Sooner or later the liddle kiddle's acne will clear up, they will get older and acquire a skoosh of wisdom, and figure out what this game is about. Till then, you go, boy ! Computer game "cheats" is what it's all about. It's not the game system, it's getting the "cheats" so one can win. But then winning is what it's all about, even though you cheat, isn't that right?
I am going to be as diplomatic as possible right here:
Are you serious?
Judging from your prior posts, I can only assume that you are. I hate to green button a dev, but......... Come on dude. What would happen if I wrote a post like that? I understand that you helped with AE. You're proud of it. And you should be. Very proud of it. It is one of the most excellent games ever created, going above and beyond what GG created with WITP. But just because I'm finding errors or possibilities for loopholes in the game and posting about it on the game's own forums doesn't mean that I'm a 12-year-old kiddie with acne who's looking for poop and not playing the game in a Gentleman's Agreement fashion. Sheesh. Also, it isn't a "cheat" if it's (now) public knowledge, built into the game engine, and requires no special tool or hacking of the .exe to perform.
I think it's pretty clear from my initial posts, and followups, that I wasn't entirely sure what was going on. I'm gathering more data points from my games, but I'm pretty sure now that (repair accidents notwithstanding) it's possible to abuse the ship repair system in this fashion. I don't think it's a huge deal, possibly not even worthy of Michael M's attention, but it's definitely a deal.