by TheTrust on Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:42 am
... it could simply be that while he was sitting, he valued his friend's game to be of same importance as his own. Perhaps in posting he instinctively just clicked "Forums" as opposed to logging out.
There is always the chance that he is cheating (the fact that 2 players can be from a same country seems to be enough to warrant an accusation nowadays but I am in a situation where I can understand playing with friends and respecting that line of honouring the rules without avoiding playing with friends.
I could be wrong but I think Sparta 1 just made an impulse post after being suspicious of play and did not remember to log out. For what it's worth, a player that will occasionally forget to log out of a "sit-ees" account and hastily chase clarification about suspect cheaters is the kind of player I would want sitting my account. You may forget to log out of my account when you instinctively hit "forums" and make a post, but this tells me you accord the same value to sitting your friend's game to the best of your ability and do not say: "Well this is suspicious, but its not against my account so I'll let it slide and tell my friend when he gets back what happened, I'll let him deal with it"
Good on you Sparta 1. If there is a counter-claim and you also get a pending investigation I sincerely hope you guys are cleared quickly. Take it from someone who knows, when friends play together, it is very tough to prove innocence. Friends of mine have gone through the whole... (whats the english term...) "Shabang(?)" a time or 2 and the worse thing that can happen is if a friend leaves or stops playing because they feel its the only way to satisfy someone.
again, good on you for taking your sitting responsability as serious as you take your own games and it is very respectable that you would report suspected abuse against your friend's account as opposed to waiting for them to come back saying "I made your moves, but dealing with cheaters, your account, your job"
