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In article <934495715.13275.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,
  "Chris locke" <mcmu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, there are 2 cheats - TTDPatch which affects the
>.EXE, and Josefs patch, which adds vehicles, etc.
>
> So, by looking at company profit/income, you could see if there is an
> unusual increase.  Also, if the game doesn't load on my system
>(unpatched) then it could be iffy.

Sign cheats are easily detectable by "Cht: Used", and the rest leave
clues, but no real proof (if done properly...)

Ever since I wrote this patch I was wondering how this would affect
competitions, whether it would be abused to cheat in them.  Personally
I've never participated in one (just not enough time), so I can't really
tell.

But I was thinking of somehow restricting TTDPatch in competitions,
maybe such that the host would prepare a scenario and then mark it with
a special TTDPatch option, and allow only certain switches (if any at
all).  This way, the scenario would still be loadable in the original
version, but would fail with TTDPatch if any additional switches are
used.

For example, you could allow pre-signals and extended stations, but none
of the rest.

My only problem is that if any switches are allowed, this would probably
force people to use the patch, in order to keep up with the competition.

So, I'd like to hear everybody's opinion on what to do about this.  Is
the above a viable solution, or is there something better?

(note- I'm not reading this group very frequently (I'm only Deja-Newsing
it), so it might take a while to get a reply unless you email too.  But
eventually you will, I promise!)

Also, please use the address from my web site, the my-deja address is a
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