A little thing called integrity
I guess it all depends on how you want to play the game. With integrity & honour, or with stealth & dishonour.
There have always been bad guys since the stone age. The west was no different. The difference was that the bad guys were more open about being bad. They just robbed and killed people, drove them off thier land etc. There was hardly any spying going on. I'm not saying it never happened, I'm just saying it wasn't the norm.
They were tough times, it was kill or be killed in some instantces. You had to be tough & resourceful to survive. Survival of the fittest or the richest lol.
Basically, mad alice, is using information that the west would never have had, to use in a simulated western game. Yes, there is no honour in this, yes it aint very western like and yes it is definately a low down, yellow belly, dirty rotten, stinking thing to do.
In the west, they had town justice, they hung those that were convicted of crimes. They hired lawmen to bring justice to the town and it's townspeople. I say that if you disagree with how mad alice plays the game. Duel her and her towns people, keep dueling her, over and over and over, so she losses money over and over and over.
Just a suggestion anyway