Exploit: One Player Two Accounts in Game Resource Advantage
A single person cheating 2 accounts in same game.
Cheaters who play in one game with multiple accounts to gain an advantage are no more than 2% of all players. However these couple of percentage points ruin the game for the other ~98% of players.
Consider ~equivalent of a Steam VAC type system, where community bans the few trolls, and improves the experience for all non-cheating users.
In 2-3 times its happened to me - its not same guy with same name - its same guy with different name - e.g. playing under two different ips/machines. Katan algo does not know this (afaik) and does not allow for karma free exit
telltale signs this is happening:
1. Potentially same IP / same /browser/OS (circumventable by VPN, using 2 different connections - ISP + cellphone etc)
2. lightning fast trades only between player A account 1 player A account 2 => giving player A an unfair resource advantage (cheating)
3. Account 1 + 2 have equal number of games played / exited.
Comments: 2
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16 Nov, '20
Dandelionx MergedI have had two strange experiences lately. In one game, one of the players could change his nick to, for example, the same nick as the other players. In another game, there were two players with the same nick - always trading with each other. Don´t know what is going on, but I think it should be fixed.
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16 Nov, '20
JUAN Admin"Avoid two players with same nick" (suggested by Dandelionx on 2020-11-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.