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Well if you do something as obvious as that, then sure it'll be easier to spot, but it could be made much more subtle - for example the slightly-fudged dice rolls thing I mentioned in a previous post, or a slightly increased chance of skills increasing when used, or a slightly better chance of a decent magical item popping, or a slightly greater chance to flee, or slightly slower responding mob AI...or a combination of many such small factors.
But even in the case of something like landing attacks, it can be very difficult to take into account outside factors (even assuming both characters fight in exactly the same way each time). For example, perhaps you were playing a vampire who gains bonuses at night and penalties during the day, and that's why more of your attacks hit. Or maybe you simply got unlucky at the beginning of the fight and took a wound which reduced your fighting ability...
For a PK mud the difference would only have to be "he seems to win more fights even though X, Y and Z" - and you get that so much anyway that it could be pretty much dismissed as any sort of evidence.
True - but they're already high ranked, and most probably wouldn't risk it. It's the muds which covet a high rank yet are not getting sufficient votes that would be more likely to be a problem.
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