Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180507055000/@comment-26829117-20180508083611

The reason the wiki doesn't allow discussion of cheats and hacks is because the admins don't want this site to be the place where players come looking for cheats and hacks. I can't think of a quicker way for FM to get this wiki shutdown than for it to support that sort of activity. This site already courts that danger by posting information that could only be obtained by hacking, maybe that should stop too. However, it supports discussions like this, without specific details, because we'd all like to see a cleaner game.

Wiki's are not about exposing wrongs, they are about community created and maintained information. It doesn't do away with the need for editorial control, as Wikipedia themselves quickly discovered. The use of wiki's to avoid editorial control quickly degenerate into a collection of unconfirmed rumours and conspiracy theories.

It seems to me that those complaining the most about cheating are those that are regularly cheating. If Hulk was only doing this to expose cheating and hacking then why did he use his primary account? Why is he constantly being banned by FM when he tries to create a new account (and, I assume, maintaining his current progress). I'm far from perfect but I wouldn't risk running a hack on my primary account after investing 4500 hours in this game (wow!). I have experimented with hacking to understand the art of the possible, and to obtain information for this wiki, but I've always done it on a test account, well away from my primary game account.

I think it is time to put the threads about cheating to bed as they aren't generating any new information and they clearly aren't having any impact on FM. If you really want to make a difference then why not follow up with FM on their message about cleaning up the game and ask them what they have actually done? Seems to me that message contained a lot of promises and very few have been delivered.