Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Originally posted by shangoose:

You cannot cheat, if there is no one to be cheated.

You're cheating the designers of the game. It is 100% impossible to play a game solo, because a game by definition requires a failure state dictated by a designer.

then the designer has failed by incorporating mechanics within the game that i can use to bypass their set failure state. if i am able to harvest fine wood by continually rolling regular logs in to the fine wood tree until it falls, is that cheating? it is certainly the design of the game that i should progress to bronze before being able to harvest fine wood.