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Re: C&C place buildings ANYWHERE on the map

#103
From: human
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:00
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gry...@ix.netcom.com (Luke Woodford) wrote:
>>Building sandbags takes a nasty amount of time if you really need to
>make buildings. I've seen maps where theres no way 
>>someone could have built sandbags out there *and* have all those
>buildings, and now I know how they did it.
>>
>Don't be too quick to declare someone a cheater.  I have gone to some
>amazing lengths to build a sandbag wall out to a patch of tiberium just
>so my harvesters would be closer to it.  Maybe people will just have to
>start leaving a few sandbags as proof of their efforts.  Of course,
>this is not foolproof but I don't know of any other way, aside from
>allowing both sides to scout out the whole map at the start of the
>game, that would offer proof of not using this method of cheating
>

They admitted it when I asked 'em. We laughed. We play the rule that if you find a cheat, you get to use it once, 
to see if the others can spot it!
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Subject: Re: C&C place buildings ANYWHERE on the map
Date: 1995/12/05
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