I found this one time on the aok forum. Doesn't it hold true for aoe as well? I thought thats what the last patch was supposed to have done.
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How It Works
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What a trainer does is take a variable in aok like the food, wood, gold, and stone variables and changes them, usually by increments very high such as 1000. Thus giving you advantage without having to type in "robin hood" or "cheese steak jimmy" everytime you wnt some extra resources.
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Why NOT To Worry
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In multiplayer games, where trainers really count, imo it is impossible to use a trainer. Age Of Kings has checks to prevent the use of trainers. If we were having a 1v1 over the zone, that is a peer-to-peer connection (correct me if i am wrong). Our two caomputer are constantly pinging each other with information like units on the map, changing variables (such as a depleted stone pile, and most importantly player resources. So lets say i alt-tab my playing screen, open up that "awesome" trainer of mine with the name of like "CrAckzDeViLz" or something on it. Then i was like "oh i'll just give myself 10,000 stone and circle his base with castles." So ic click the 1000 stone buttin 10 times and i get my stone. Then, next time my computer talks with yours, yours says "uh oh, we have separate counts for your stone, something has gone terrible wrong." Next it flips out, screems like a little child, and the games goes Oos (out of sync).
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Intent Of Trainers
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The problem is that people using trainers are mostly not in it for the extra resources. If you are in a rated game and are losing badly and dont want to lose those points from your game, why not purposely Oos using a trainer and get no points taken off. This way you dont lose the game, and dont lose points. People who do this should be labeled cheaters and nnot played with anymore, the only problem is, not every game that goes Oos is caused by trainers, so its impossible to distinguish between the two. However just when the tide turns your way and you are about to take down someones last castle, or 20 elephants are ripping his town apart, thats when the game "mysteriously" goes Oos. This is the problem and as of now, there is no wat to stop it.
(Idea Contributed by Trouble_4_U)
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