There has been alot of talk about cheating on the board lately ... and I'd like to try to draw a line between 'cheating' .. and spoiling the game only for yourself .. or things also known as "Spoilers".

This thread started out talking about the "Leader Board" .. which is the internet comparison of how your game is going compared to everyone else who compares their games with those stats. It's the info you get when you hit "Refresh" in your statistics chart. The Board is based on how much money you have earned during the game.

As I understand it, early versions of the hand held game had a bug it it that allow this data to be falsified. (I don't have the understand of how it worked or anything). Folks using that type of cheat have put scores on the Leader Board that are just obviously not realistic, and remove the chance of the rest of us getting on the board to slim/to none. Arthur has removed a lot of nutsy scores since I've been looking at the stats.

That is one problem unto itself ... without much of a solution at the moment, except for Arthur having to take the time to clean out the board himself. (Bet he could spend his time better working on other things!!!)

But then the thread pick up the common usage of the work "Cheat" these days ... and that is where there is a 'trick' to the game (secret things that give you lots of money ... fish that live forever .. things that give you an advantage in the game, or ways of doing things quicker than the game is designed to do it) and there 'Are No Cheats' of that type that I have heard of.

What there "IS", is things people have learned about the game by playing it LOTS. Things they have shared with others. These are in the threads marked "Spoiler" .. because they spoil the game for you if you'd rather figure it all out on by yourself.

But if you want help with the game............ That, IMO, is not cheating. That just means you are stumped and could use some advise to figure out what to do.

For example .. If you are playing the game and find this board, and are reading it to learn a bit more about the game, you might not want to run across information that would tell you what order you should buy things in to start the game quickly. That information spoils the game... but only for yourself. You aren't hurting anyone else, and the info definitely will not help get you on the leader board.

I have TONS of information on my website. I've gone Manic with the game, and beat it yesterday in 14 hours IF beating it means finding all the Magic Fish. (there is soooooooooo much more to the game than just that .... like finding the 21 Perfect Fish ... and then all 441 fish! I've done that, too and I'm STILL playing the game and still love it. It's just not a game that is ruined when you beat it. It's a game that is FUN!

Last year my 29 year old niece/ mother of two / was brutally murdered in a yet unsolved stabbing. I have a link to her memorial page on my Fishies Website (Her page is down at the moment... my server forgot to renew the domain name. DUH!!!!). While or family does not know "who" took Jamie from us, we do feel we know "WHAT" took her ... and that is the violence that is in the world today, and part of that is the violence in video and computer games. I have a page on her website about Overcoming Evil With Good.

When a game like Fish Tycoons comes along, It's just what the world needs, IMO! I guess maybe that's why I'm devoting so much time to it, and building such an extensive website for it.

I'm going to jump off my soap box here, and continue this thought as a new webpage ... I can see it's going on way to long. But my point is.

If you want 'cheats' for the game there aren't any. If you want "Spoilers .. also called HELP" with the game, check out the guide section of this forum. If you still need help .. check out my webpages. I'm covering about every aspect of the game I can think of.

Let's raise our kids on games like Fish Tycoon!