Haha always enjoy a good pun

Thanks Tom!

rixx was banned today for being camel's latest account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiHFeIw_5U

camel is back as zyx

http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/5028/I_Am_Legend_an_open_letter_to_Tom

The following multiple account cheating ring run for the benefit of nolan plays has been banned:

Wow, a lot more accounts than I thought, thanks Tom!

Man - I can't believe the effort people go through for some imaginary points. :(

tom wrote:

The following multiple account cheating ring run for the benefit of nolan plays has been banned:

nolan plays

felix the helix

Mr mono poly

samsmith

budwiser

captainbeecham

easysland

klimlebeau

joelinton

lanecoombe

lovemondays

Thank you for those of you that reported your suspicions.

Will lost ranking points vs these players be reset?

I see I lost quite a few games to this 'gang'.

Btw: Great work Tom!

Thanks tom!
I've suspected nolan plays for a long time, but never enough proof, so never reported them. Thanks to Chele for doing so.

I've lost way too many games to this group.
Heck, out of my 12 live 10player WGWFs, 7 have 3+ of the gang, 5 have 5+, and 2 have 7 of them. 7 of them out 10 players! That too in 2 games.

The recalc should affect a lot of frequent WGWF players.
@IRsmart: My history tells me that maybe the recalc is already done. I see a lot of terminated in my recently finished list, which I thought I had lost.

Looking closer, I believe the recalc has not yet been done.

Games have been terminated, and the rankings history page has been updated. But the main rankings have not.

My rankings history has me at 500 GR higher! Seems fitting, given the number of games I've lost to that group.

Pratik wrote:

Looking closer, I believe the recalc has not yet been done.

Games have been terminated, and the rankings history page has been updated. But the main rankings have not.

My rankings history has me at 500 GR higher! Seems fitting, given the number of games I've lost to that group.

Often it takes a day for the recalc to come through after it has been performed. I think it's something to do with the database updates. So, I'll wait and see. 

I just dont get where the fun is in playing a game 7 vs 1 through  cheating. But glad this is now sorted!

This game: http://www.wargear.net/games/player/712195

Has suddenly had 3 accounts disabled.. were they part of the "ring" ?

Wow. Great work Tom.

I wasn't too affected, he was obviously focusing on WGWF and I haven't for a while. This "gives" me a win in the monthly rankings, though, I was 2nd to Nolan Plays. I forget which exact month. 

Ozyman wrote:

Man - I can't believe the effort people go through for some imaginary points. :(

I guess some get frustrated by lack of success. We can assume that anyone who uses 12 accounts to pass IRsmart and his one account in the WGWF rankings - and still doesn't manage to do it - would likely not be a top player using one account.

Litotes wrote:

I guess some get frustrated by lack of success. We can assume that anyone who uses 12 accounts to pass IRsmart and his one account in the WGWF rankings - and still doesn't manage to do it - would likely not be a top player using one account.

He actually did pass IRsmart for a while

Was #2 on WGWF for a few weeks at minimum.

Though, of course, your point still holds.

Pratik wrote:

Litotes wrote:

I guess some get frustrated by lack of success. We can assume that anyone who uses 12 accounts to pass IRsmart and his one account in the WGWF rankings - and still doesn't manage to do it - would likely not be a top player using one account.

 

He actually did pass IRsmart for a while

Was #2 on WGWF for a few weeks at minimum.

 

Though, of course, your point still holds.

My mistake. I have actually looked at the WGWF rankings from time to time but, apparently, not often enough.

Can you terminate the following empty games started by one of those accounts?

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714423

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714424

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714425

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714426

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714428

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714431

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/714432

http://www.wargear.net/games/join/712210

Thanks!

They'll collapse on their own accord of not enough join, and if enough join.. so what? The game will play out without them?

I wonder if you'd start with extra neutrals. Like the disabled player joins, but is immediately booted?