Thank you SteevoKun! I just don't want this to happen to anybody else

In the future, as to avoid a public accusation, email the mods with your concerns at [email protected]

It sounds more like metagaming than multi-accounting to me.

I am playing in a game with them both and they were both online just a moment ago, so I don't think multi-accounting is an issue.

But in anonymous games it's certainly a cheating form of metagaming, because you can't check their histories.

yep. no more anonymous games for me

anyway, before I am am banned I'd like to thank all the folks who have worked on this website - great game, great job!

So, duzenko, why do you metagame with your friend that way? It's clearly listed in the FAQ as being an unnaceptable action.

or maybe you are the same person?

i really just don't understand what the point of this is, isn't it fun to stab your friends?

Ursa, how does that rule out multi accounting? It is easy to log on to several characters at once. Different web browsers, computers, modes of logging in and other methods that are easy for non-computer friendly users to figure out.

2 Draugnar - why if I can ally with any player why can't I ally with him
2 guy~~ - I don't like stabbing at all

You can, but don't go into the game with a predetermined alliance. That is the problem. The fact that you have allied in every game gives the appearacne that you go into the game allied. That is wrong because then your friendship is taking precedence over the game and your alliance is unbreakable. At that point you may as well be multi-accounting. It has the same effect. this is not a game about unbreakable alliances, but a game of mistrust and negotiation. If you want unbreakable alliances, go play Axis and Allies.

@Duzenko

The problem is that it seems you and your friend allied in an anonymous game, in which no player should even know who anyone else is - let alone be able to conduct alliances/deals outside of in-game messages.

I see. The problem is half of players do not respond my attempts to negotiate, and half of the rest are never going to form alliances

@duzenko - Simple question. did you and your friend talk about the anonymous game and, therefore, know what nation you each had in it? If so, you cheated. If you don't like the rules, don't play, but don't whine about them and expect them to change. This game is as old as me (I'm in my 40s) and has an established online presence via email and now web (and postal play before those). N one is going to change the rules just because you whine about them. Play by the rules, or go the fuck away.

alright

It was ridiculous, in an anonymous gunboat game, two forces that don't attack each other the whole game, and at the end, I just couldn't hold them off... While the game was fun, the realization at the end was not. Draugnar, thank you for fighting the good fight while I was in class.

This happens quite a bit at low levels I think. I had reported 2 such situations. In both, when accused they admitted to being friends and playing together just like this guy. It sucks. I don't get why people do it.

Because it's fun
Because they win
Because it winds people up
Same reason we all do the stuff we do.

It's fun to win so that's why people do it. I join games with Geofram all the time and pretend that I want to work with him just so I can stab him at a horribly crippling moment.

I must admit that's kinda funny. It is actually more fun and challenging to stab someone you know for a longer time. Perhaps the largeness of this site's population works in hand some kind of anonimity. Hey, another noob.

BrightEyes, sorry for this game. I didn't like it and there weren't any fun at this game for me, actually

So judas, you're admitting your guilt?

dukenzo, why metagame in the first place knowing you're going to get caught anyway?
Don't like the diploming part of Diplomacy, then just don't play. Play Axis and Allies which has unbreakable alliances or Risk which has no alliances and no diplomacy. For me, I love stabbing at the precise moment. Most players on this site breathe by that principle.

Anon games suck. I just finished my first one, and found out when the names were revealed that a metagamer pair was part of it. I also have strong suspicions in my secon (and last) anon game. But that cheaters and metagamers are attracted by anon games has also a good side for us others---we should just avoid anon games and might be relatively safe, right?

Draugnar's got it right. If they were able to determine the country each other had and then played together as friends, they cheated.

@Hibiskiss, when it comes to stabs between us, I think I have you beat!

Wait this was a gunboat game as well? GTFO cheaters.

@geofram Exactly, you aren't even suppose to COMMUNICATE in gunboat games at all. plain and simple. @duzenko, you cheated, but probably as you seem to know why now, you won't get banned. Just don't do it again. Gunboat means no communication. Not just no communication through this website. Communicating is cheating.
Anon games means you cannot know who is playing who. Unless you want to announce it to everyone. Basically, no privy information. All is public.
Thems the rules.

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