I concor - we've got to do something about multi-position players.

I concur also

Please post additional reasons if any!

I was looking into this just to see if I could tell anything obvious - practicing detective work - I was immediately suspicious of Handsomeman just because the commonality of the games.

Then in game
http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5341

I was watching how Prosp and Exponent interacted, and I thought - yep - looks consistent with Multi-Acct to me, but the guy did at least have a legitimate alliance with Germany, apparently by the moves. Then I decided to check who Germany was and sure enough it was Handsomeman, who joined on the same day as one of the other two.

I wouldn't call him a skilled tacticion - I bet it's REALLY easy to win this game when you are 3 of the players!

I would like to know what someone gain with creatting multi-accounter... There is no money on these games, and the best part of the game is the strategy, analysis, and traiton!!! If someone don´t feel happy to loose OK: just don´t play more!!! I still haven´t win any game but I insist in playing with my account without creating a "ghost"...

Oi, show some respect!

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TTT - gotta know if I was right about handsomeman

How is this fool still playing on here??? Gahhh, it's frustrating !! Kestas, have you looked into this? In M Kahunas 2, he is claiming it's his "roommate" and that they have different ISPs from different computers. Is this true ?? Can we confirm or deny that this is one player?

it is one person but kestas is busy :-(

Can we maybe appoint a vice-moderator to pick up when Kestas gets busy? Maybe some sort of rotating position or other scheme? This would ease the burden on him and ensure draws, multi-accounters etc are handled promptly. Win-win for everyone.

Yeah, I checked out that Pirates! game mentioned by Philcore above. At the beginning, Italy does nothing to advance itself, even by taking Tunis which he could so easily without fear of giving up position. Instead he hovers around the Ionian to support Austria. Just too suspicious.

one of these players is in CD in Sharpe's eagle - anyone taking over will be able to check his press

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In one of my games ProsperityYPP! (or something like that) will shortly be going into CD. If you takeover, be a little friendly to Russia (and Austria, he's new). :)

I was tempted to take it over just to see his press, but then I saw he was basically the board leader, so I couldn't pass it up. In that particular game I didn't see anything blatant - like supported moves without be requested or anything. But it looks like they've gone through 4 Austrias, 2 russias, 2 Germany's and 2 France's. Not a lot to go on with all of those CDs and no history of who originally started the positions. He had communication with everyone but one player and it all seemed normal enough to me. The one he didn't talk to has been around much longer and has no other games, so I think that was just a proximity thing. There wasn't any need to talk.

Anyway, thought some might be curious.

I meant to say the one he didn't talk to has been around on the site much longer and has no other games in common with either him or his 2 suspected aliases.

Where's Kestas ?

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Well he went into cd in our game. Not before claiming that theywere just living with eachother and therefore had a stronger bond. That is of course almost as bad in my opinion even if its true. Regardless, I think we've seen the last of him.

Yes, he went CD in M Kahunas 2 as well. Got caught red-handed and went off to sulk elsewhere I guess. Good riddance. I'd still like to see his accounts eliminated, regardless, and his IP banned so he doesn't just pop up again and hide it better.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was software that looked for games in common between players, looked at the results, flagged suspicious player accounts so... when joining a game, that info would be visible, so no one would join their games?

How about a “Monitoring Counsel”? “Counsel” being the operative word. In addition, how about deleting accounts that have multiple “civil disorder” infractions? ‘Sore losers’ who disrupt the natural flow of the game should be eliminated.

You're never going to be able to write software with better AI that'll find multi-accounters than the hyper-suspicious Dip players :0 As a rule, I always check out the players at the start of the game, see how many games are shared, join dates, login times, etc. I think the current system is good, but I would be in favour of more vice-moderators to help in checking out (and confirming/denying) multi-accounter accusations.