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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8710381" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah, if I suspected cheating I would take steps to determine whether it was happening, and if so, approach the player about it. Track rolled values, talk to players in private, that sort of thing.I try very very hard to be as openly supportive and pro-player as I can be, so I would hope that cheating isn't considered necessary. If someone did still cheat, that would be a profound breach of trust and respect and I'm not sure I would want to continue running the game for them.That actually happened with someone else I knew. We had played many games together for many years, and I would almost always lose. Turned out, they'd been cheating at several games. Not all of them (some didn't really admit the ability to cheat), but enough that it was...extremely frustrating. They did apologize but, frankly, finding out that they'd been cheating for literally years and years and acting like victory mattered, that my skills needed improvement, etc....it just put too sour a taste in my mouth to keep playing with them. And since playing games together was one of our primary forms of socialization, well, that meant the friendship was basically over.Ouch. Never feels good to hear someone tell you they're a cheat without telling you they're a cheat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8710381, member: 6790260"] Yeah, if I suspected cheating I would take steps to determine whether it was happening, and if so, approach the player about it. Track rolled values, talk to players in private, that sort of thing. I try very very hard to be as openly supportive and pro-player as I can be, so I would [I]hope[/I] that cheating isn't considered necessary. If someone did still cheat, that would be a profound breach of trust and respect and I'm not sure I would want to continue running the game for them. That actually happened with someone else I knew. We had played many games together for many years, and I would almost always lose. Turned out, they'd been cheating at several games. Not all of them (some didn't really admit the ability to cheat), but enough that it was...extremely frustrating. They did apologize but, frankly, finding out that they'd been cheating for literally years and years and acting like victory [I]mattered[/I], that my skills needed improvement, etc....it just put too sour a taste in my mouth to keep playing with them. And since playing games together was one of our primary forms of socialization, well, that meant the friendship was basically over. Ouch. Never feels good to hear someone tell you they're a cheat without telling you they're a cheat. [/QUOTE]

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