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Back when I was a youngster playing nettrek, the same thing happened. Basically, those smart enough to hack the code could create their own cheats. The wikipe
by bb88 7y ago
Back when I was a youngster playing nettrek, the same thing happened. Basically, those smart enough to hack the code could create their own cheats. The wikipedia page says that game mechanics were changed so that borgs no longer had a specific advantage, but I don't know what those game mechanics were. Though it was pretty obvious if you were playing against a borg or not at least in the early days. In play chat also alerted people to those that were playing borgs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoBack in the day, you would shoot at a borg, and if your shell was aimed perfectly, it would side-step one tank width while the shell was in flight. You couldn't kill one unless you were right on top of it (or had guided missile or laser).
- steveeq1 7y agoDo people still play netrek these days? Read somewhere that game has been around since the '80s.
- bb88 7y agoThe wikipedia article says it still is.