First a wanna defend Paradox. There is nothing like a secure system, there always gonna be lopp-holes. Espesially since it is half-open system using text files for saves and configurations. One hasn't to Einstein to figure out how to cheat.
Now what keeps me playing is that what i think most of does when playing strategy games is that you wanna replay history events and simulate diffrent outcome of a war. After a while you get bored how AI react it's to linear and predictable.
Since you want the REAL CHALLENGE you begin to play MP against other humans. In the beginning i think it is easy to fall into the temptation like reading saves to figure out what other are up to. But it is my belif that that gonna fade away after a few games.
Some may cheat to get the attention, or sensation or the repution to discover a loop-hole. They get caught just by the simple fact that they wanna get caught.
Other do subtile things thats hard to discover even by a experinced player. My belif is though.. if i know a player has been playing MP games for a while, the more the better, i also know he is looking for the ultimate challenge and then less likely to fall into temptation to cheat.
Even in SP i imagne one get bored using cheat codes after a while.
Those who want to play safe can register on sites like PA. Just for the fact it register how many games you have played. More games also means you have more to loose if somebody else find out you have been cheating.
So i don't find there really is a need to fix this loop-hole. If you wanna cheat there are a lot ways to do so. Better to spend time on developing the new HoI 2
