So I have played this game for several years. I played and went through the ordinary stages of kdice reality from learning the strategies to learning the players. From learning the methods of cheating to then calling out some of the worst offenders.

I quit the game for a while because once I was in the top arena, playing with the same top people, inherent PGA ensues. It's not good or bad, it's just reality. The "pecking order" of who's who becomes more important when it comes to who gets 2nd place. Friendships always trump vflags or anything else. Also, the predetermined winners in past months kinda sucked as well. (don't even get me started)

And maybe to my own demise, I never got involved in AIM or proxy.

But now, after trying to makes a serious run for top 10 this month, I have hit a major stumbling block. A block that truly pisses me off. This does not involve cheating. This does not involve anything else but the kdice probability program for luck and the random program for starting position.

Lets say that you are an average to experienced player, and things are going well for the month and you have a 49% luck rating and have played about 70 games. Also, lets assume you have over 8,000 points and your total % of game standings are as follows: 1st: 22% 2nd: 21% 3rd: 25% 4th: 15%.

Well, the above stats look like a pretty decent player. With a 49% luck rating, you cannot assume that the player was "overly lucky". Well, the above stats were exactly what I had about a week ago. I was having fun.

Then the dark cloud passed over and the frustration ensued. At about the time I played my 71st game, my starting position was sucky to shitty about 70% of the time. You know the feeling, being set in at least 3 corners of the board. On top of that, my starting place was 5-7 about 80% of the time. Furthermore, my defense luck in round 1 was non-existant. getting taken down 4v4 or 4v5 like it was nothing. My actual attack luck became just as poor. In most instances, I am left with a 5 stack, hit the neighboring 4 or 3 and BAM!!

So my 8,000 score get wittled down to 5,600 with no means of control.

While it sounds like I'm whining above, I'm not. I fucking hate whiners. All I'm trying to do is outline the core inspiration for cheating.

Any player that goes through that downward spiral of horrible luck that I described above, without even having to "factor in" the losses due to the cheaters out there, is ripe for a new strategy. IN WALKS MR. PROXY. IN WALKS MR. PGA. IN WALKS ZOID.

So if you know you have the skill to win. And you have to put up with all the bullshit that I have gone through. Screw it. Just cheat.

I think that you could equate PGA and AIM users to those people who buy characters in WOW. Why waste all those endless hours acquiring gold to buy stuff, when you can save a ton of time and play with your friends with a level 50+ night elf. I don't play WOW, but my nephews do and I have read about it.

So while there have to be rules in any society. There is always going to be some who break those rules. And now I completely understand both sides of the coin.

So who needs a PGA buddy?