Two GB games in a row now, there has been obvious communication between players as evidenced by excessive and continual coordination between the offending players. Following the games, as usual, I found that two offending players were habitually playing together and uniting. I confronted all four players in private, and along with other players from the games, emailed the mods. I received two responses from the accused players.
The first stated: "He's actually my brother. We are both new to the site, and we wanted to play a few games together. We didn't realise that communicating outside of the game wasn't allowed, so yeah, we were using Skype to talk to each other that game. All I can say is I'm sorry. It was an honest mistake. I've emailed the mods and explained what happened, and asked for them to take the points from us if they can and distribute them to everyone else in the game. And it won't happen again. Neither of us are cheats, it just never occured to either of us that this wouldn't be allowed, which is obviously just stupid of us. Looking back I can't actually believe how naive I was :/ I'm sorry if this ruined that game for you. I'd be happy to give you a fair rematch some day :) Otherwise, please just accept my apology." An honest and contrite response, to which I replied that I accepted his apology. As an aside, I played another GB game with these two gentlemen, and this time they weren't communicating and attacked each other with vigor.
A second response from a different player: "Suck my dick. I have friends, and you don't."
To which I responded: "Having friends is not the point. The point is that you CANNOT communicate with other players in a gunboat game. It is obvious in looking at the game we played that you were communicating -- you two were way too coordinated for a gunboat game. Friends are fine unless you a) communicate in a gb game and/or b) ALWAYS unite with them. BOTH are considered cheating. You've been reported to the Mods...good luck!"
He responded: "if you get me banned i will just register again. i don't care about my stats. i care about my friends.unlike you."
I said: "So you're saying that you're going to keep in CHEATING?!? You're not getting it are you?!? It's not about friends, it's about the honor and integrity of the site. People on here take cheating very seriously. If you play a gb game, you're not supposed to communicate. I have friends that play in here too, you're not supposed to ally with them EVERY time you play. If you do either of those things, you're a cheater."
He said: "yeah i will keep on cheating."
Amazing huh? As I said, I've emailed the Mods about the specific game, as did another player in that game. But, from the sounds of it, this chap is going to register under and new name and continue to undermine games.
Any thoughts?
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