🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4cjdeb$6...@dec-alpha.fred.net>, @fred.net () wrote:
>I just started play  WC2 over the modem and the first person I played
>build up stuff quicker than I have ever seen like in 10 minutes he had
>dragons and death Knights. Now we had the code turned off are there
>any code out there that still work even if you had the code off.
>
>
>Jay

Yeah, he was "cheating" allright.  I had a friend of mine pull this on me on 
my first network game of WC2.  What you do is send a peon/peasant to go build 
something, then you send a bunch more over to where the first guy is building 
the item, and you have them "repair" the item being built.  The SOB was 
strafing my home base with 4 griffins about 20 minutes after we started the 
game with only 1 peon/peasant apiece and NOTHING else.  After figuring out 
during the game what he was doing (after it was WAY to late to affect the 
eventual outcome), the other three of us concurred and we yanked the thinnet 
cable out of a NIC board on one of our machines bringing his monster-romp to a 
crashing halt.

I don't have a problem with this technique of building stuff quickly - I have 
a problem with him pulling this on two other people (myself included) who 
weren't in the know, especially since he already had an experience advantage 
over us (we didn't even know what the different buildings did, or the various 
strengths and weaknesses of the different units - in fact, we'd had to start 
over once earlier because I had my peon build my stronghold in a little nook 
formed by a forest and wound up trapping my peon in the space between the 
forest and the stronghold.  And of course, I didn't have enough gold to 
generate another peon).

--Noid