Xconq - Cheating

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## Cheating

The standard builtin AI `mplayer` does not cheat; it always plays according to the same rules as you do. This should be true of any AI in Xconq. If you have evidence that would seem to indicate that any AI is using information it should not have, or is otherwise cheating, that is a bug and should be reported. Note that sometimes the AI is smarter than you are, or moves more quickly; it may very well have spotted one of your units and disappeared again without you noticing.

Cheating by human players is possible, though not easy. For instance, a player could examine a saved game and learn all kinds of things, perhaps even starting up a separate game from it. As always, human ingenuity will defeat any purely technical defenses, and the best way to forestall cheaters is to refuse to play with them. If you suspect cheating, look at the game history and the final game statistics for things that seem suspicious.

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