Well indeed, you could even alter your skins so all players would appear bright pink too. This was before resource checking so such cheating was impossible to d

Well indeed, you could even alter your skins so all players would appear bright pink too. This was before resource checking so such cheating was impossible to detect. In retrospect it's hard to see how the game wasn't more plagued by cheats than it already was, but again it comes back to learning which servers were good servers and had active moderators who could ban people who were obviously cheating, and the less obvious probably just got away with it but were by definition less disruptive. Of course, that also led to third party tools like PunkBuster in the end whose function then was later centralised with VAC.