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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
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Subject: Re: Starting-up notes (beware -- mild flame)
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Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 10:51:58 EDT
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But cheating is part of empire!  The manuals are full of hints on how
to get the deity to do this or that for you (the deity can *never* have
too many icons).

On the other hand, you should make sure that the deity cheats "within
the rules of the game".  This works best if you can find a
disinterested third-party to be the deity.  We did this in one of our
games and it worked quite well, up until the deity granted a favor that
was deemed by one of the combatants to be against the spirit of the
game (in this case it was divine intervention to support further
aggression rather than defense).  This prompted a "takeover" of the
deity (Yes! God is dead! Long live God!) by the disgruntled party.
I don't remember if this was done using super-user privileges (which
virtually all the participants had anyway), or a more classic password
cracking approach.

In any case, the new deity did *not* cheat, but controlled more than
half the world anyway, so why bother?
-- 
	Tom Teixeira,  Massachusetts Computer Corporation.  Littleton MA
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