i used to play this game alot, daily, nearly constantly (being at uni gives free times in bucket loads)... and i used to be really good, and so did others, i was constantly in the top 50...

Then the cheats started to turn up, and i just got fed up, and for a while, i started using the map reveal :mad:... using this, it was so obvious how many people were cheating, i was still using xwif back then, and once i got 900 points, i was playing the top 200 nearly all the time... and i could see, nearly everyone in the top 200 was cheating as well... they all had the map reveal, even if they didn't wash, it gives a huge advantage, you could see them getting the crates, going straight to tech buildings, blocking any quick tactic you thought up.

After a while i left, olaf did his best with the cheat reporting but it was just too much.

Anyway, i came back not too long ago, still using the exact same hack as i had been 1 year ago, no change there westwood... and came looking for xwif... instead i found mf, and game spy...

Thanks to this, you can tell if people are cheating, and get then 'cleaned up' very easily... the stupid cheaters at least... but lets face it, knowledge is power, even the smart map hackers make a slip up at one point... moving to a crate in an unshrouded area, changing strat to counter...

As a result, i stopped using my cheat... i refound my old passion for the game which i lost... the excitment of not knowing what WAS round the next corner (shroud)... and finally scouting them, to see they had a rush on... changing my strat, and still just beating them. That was i loved about the game, it wasn't the winning, it was the winning when you should have lost, the totally turn around, which u never get when you hack, because there are just no surprises...

And all this has come back to me, thanks to olaf... a great job for the community, so three cheers to olaf.

I won't reveal my name, as it has been kept clean for all this time, and rightly so, i only cheated in 1 month, and the end of the previous month, and when i did start, i quit ra2... its a new month now (i think), and its time for me to get back in... cheatfree.

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Oldbie.