In the VBN tournament, he cheated and made it very clear.
If anyone thinks otherwise... let them publicly demonstrate something similar.
That is, they come over, sit down at a normal computer, and play normally. Let's say 1000 attempts are more than enough.
As for the program and the competitive aspect... it's even sickening to read. In offline mode, the ability to win difficult battles accounts for only 5%. In all my years of experience, I've only encountered a situation where morale was needed once!!! And that was only because I lacked experience at the time. But in reality, it could have been done without it.
Reducing battles to constantly relying on morale and luck is the same as using bugs with infinite turns. And everyone agrees that's fair, right? Maybe someone suggested creating an auto-killer? Or even a final-converter, where you give him a starting save, and he immediately kills all the AI opponents and gives you the final save. Then the question is, are those who play like that really PLAYERS? Oh yes, I forgot, they're athletes... or cheaters? Is sports a game played by the rules, or not? So what does changing the program's code have to do with it?