carter j burke wrote:I hate multi boxers as much as anyone but we need to stop and think. This "name and shame" thread is utter flawed and toxic.
* toxic because anyone can list a name and they are assumed guilty
* flawed motive because it's disgruntled players word against another
* if you're a good player you're often accused of cheating/multi boxing
* the community is sadly declining, and less people are coming to the forums
And most importantly...
* If a boxers names are listed, he just creates new accounts.
Unfortunately there is no mature anti-multibox solution without cooperation of the developers. Only the developers can make 1) new accounts harder to create, 2) randomise servers that people connect too, 3) track device ID/ip address to hunt for boxers.
Great point. I just recently have had an incident where I was falsely accused. Falsely? Well, you will be the judge.
The history: Me and my gf have been playing for about a year, about 60% on same server and about 40% on separates. We never used eachothers account to do anything, nor hid the fact we were a couple. Whether we were allied or not depended on circumstances (other alliances, map positioning, interest), and we often fought eachother, and had no above average success in any game. As games go, as the mines started popping up and the countdown began, it was always every man for himself.
We play mostly unrated. This is because we kind of suck at rated (emphasis on betrayal, double alliances and espionage) and I've had such a bad experience one time. It was my own noobish mistake (I gifted a large sum of drillers, and forgot it was a rated game) and I was not just quickly eliminated, but insulted on public and private chat and made to look like a bad guy. The game of 10 ended with no survivors except the two abusive dorks.
Actual story: We finally log on another rated game, and this weird virgin dude with no previous games gifts my gf drillers, outposts and agents in the first few hrs, because he likes her screen name or something. Even buys here 7 medals at the beginning of the game for no reason whatsoever. I tell her others are going to think it's cheating, but what the hell, she takes his stuff.
He never logs in again.
I get put in a teamchat with everyone except them, concerning multiboxing. I tell them what happened, then we get attacked from everyone and that's that.
I saw a post a while back about making a system for measuring how often two players play together, how many times they're allied, how much they fight. Maybe making public notes on players possible. Now I don't expect anything enymore, but expecting players to solve this themselves is a bit much.
This game is a rough cut diamond, and I feel divided between having to play unrated with noobs or rated, but without my girl. People find it suspicious if you play with a girlfriend, but they don't find unbreakable alliances suspicious. Since this is a game of elimination already, cheating is a much more profound issue. The game depends on lying, accusing, he-says-she-says tactics, and it's impossible to tell how much is real and how much is just to get rid of competition, especially in rated. Even in such 'glaringly obvious' cases as I described.