Conquer Club

I noticed two players who are together in a lot of games waiting on new players. Just the two, but they both have Hobbit names, so I looked closer.

Accused:

Subject 1:
"Bungo Baggins" at http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=452072

Joined: Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:06 pm
Last visited: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:27 am

Subject 2:
"Belladonna Took" at http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=452075

Joined: Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:10 pm
Last visited: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:29 am


The accused are suspected of:

Being Multis

Game number(s):

Too numerous to note; they have played about 20 games each and they've won about the same amount each. Here's a total list of games by player:

http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=find&submit=Search&p1=Bungo+Baggins&so=D

http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=find&submit=Search&p1=Belladonna+Took&so=D

Comments:

There's just NO way that this is not the same person... no chance.

I saw these two in the open public games listing a while ago and was instantly suspicious, but at that point they only had played one game together so I didn't pursue it. Good call though Troyer, this has got to be a bust.

Hi, Belladonna Took is my wife's account and king achillies is working on trying to clear this up. I can understand your concerns. Thank You.

And you two just so happen to be online together all the time? Really?! No, that's crap; sure one of you might be online to play, but instantly if it helps you will take the other one's turn.

I would be far more inclined to believe you, sir, if it weren't for the fact that nearly all of your games are Team Games. That just makes it instantly unfair.

Two laptops, one house or two laptops two houses and msn....whats the difference

Troyer IV wrote:And you two just so happen to be online together all the time? Really?! No, that's crap; sure one of you might be online to play, but instantly if it helps you will take the other one's turn.

I would be far more inclined to believe you, sir, if it weren't for the fact that nearly all of your games are Team Games. That just makes it instantly unfair.

Actually I would tend to believe him because of the team games.

He says KingA is looking into this, so it is pending.

Bungo Baggins wrote:Hi, Belladonna Took is my wife's account and king achillies is working on trying to clear this up. I can understand your concerns. Thank You.

Correct me If i'm wrong but even if there are two different people two account on the same IP number surely have to be treated as a multi?

And wasn't there a ruling before like this where loads of accounts were made for orphanage kids who went to the local library to play and all got busted for being multi's?

they got busted because the guy copied an old story where someone actually HAD brought orphans to the library if i recall correctly. and they don't only use IP checks.

the IP-adress is not the only thing that is checked by the hunters!

The thing that makes me think Bungo Baggins had previous accounts is that Bungo Baggins is able to make 2 second moves in his 1st game ever
Game 7473694

2010-08-15 23:26:40 - Bungo Baggins assaulted Buenos Aires from Sao Paulo and conquered it from Proactive
2010-08-15 23:26:42 - Bungo Baggins assaulted Lima from Buenos Aires and conquered it from Proactive

2010-08-15 23:26:53 - Bungo Baggins assaulted Havana from Mexico City and conquered it from Proactive
2010-08-15 23:26:55 - Bungo Baggins assaulted Chicago from Havana and conquered it from Proactive

Most new players (+/- 99%) don't have clickies the 1st game they play, if they do, it normally takes a while before they are able to be that quick.

For reference....

My husband - bungo baggins was just laid off of work and I am out on bonding time. I have 4 children in the same house and 5 computers. Only me and my husband play. We are under a great deal of stress and do ALWAYS play together. We can switch between accounts quickly because as most of you know firefox saves account sign ons and with a double click we can switch over. We will either share the same desktop in the household or use the desktop computer and a laptop to play together. As we have many games and little time, we do tend to play quickly. We were advised previously that the same computer is fine, the same person is not. We are not the same person.

If you want the facts...two years ago we had accounts Tabsnake and jlcase30. JLCASE30 was mine and had multiple tickets attached to it because I was in an abusive relationship and finally got out. Case is the name of my exhusband so naturally did not want to continue to use it. I've made requests over the last two years for an exception and was finally advised BY STAFF about two years ago to allow ourselves to get busted, explain the situation and offer to pay for premium accounts as consideration. My history is short, but my husbands is longer. We start games to allow others to join so as not to be construed as taking advantage, and we play fairly. We had to play independent games initially to get the option to play doubles on these accounts, but otherwise all games are together.

King Achilles stated that if we had approached them initially, it would have been considered, but he is leaving out jlcase30 account which I actually told him about to have him look at the tickets that were created. We stopped playing for two years to wait for this process to be corrected as we were hesitant to follow this advice, and apparently we were right to do so.

I am not finding Conquer Club to be a couples friendly site and hope that someone else will review the account. Again, I believe that if it is reviewed, whomever doing the research will find that it was King Achilles who gave the advice in the first place, but as I don't have access to the tickets, I cannot confirm.

Side note - where was our use of orphans that we are being accused of coming from?? We have been straight- forward from day one. And I find it odd that no doubles teams play at the same time. I'm sure we are not the only couples that play and don't need to make our opponents wait so that we can avoid the pretense of being duplicates.

I also welcome any two people to challenge both of us on separate games one on one at the same time. I do take longer on the first round to actually read the directions but from there on I'm usually quick. Or if you would prefer, you can chat with me - typing in whatever format you would like to and have someone else play Bungo Baggins at the same time and see how we are the same person. We are both online right now - so please feel free to contact us for this challenge.

The only problem with this is as we have lost premium status - we cannot start or select new games so we either would need to have an existing game fulfill this challenge but maybe an administrator could help. I'm not entirely ready to just drop out of 24 games.

An administrator is also welcome to call us or have us call them and we can give our phone numbers privately as you can imagine my hesitation to provide it live over a forum.

email from King Achilles....

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Hi Belladonna Took,

For the record, you were busted with jlcase30, while Bungo Baggins was busted with the tabsnake account.

As what the rule states:

Rule #1: No multiple accounts

Multiple accounts are discovered by routine scans and community cheating reports. They are strictly forbidden whether or not they play in the same games or ARE EVEN IN USE.

http://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=rules

This means that multis are also not allowed even though one account was only in use.


Regards,
king achilles

-----and see above with my comments advising of jlcase30....so are we the same person or no?

Belladonna Took wrote:email from King Achilles....

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Hi Belladonna Took,

For the record, you were busted with jlcase30, while Bungo Baggins was busted with the tabsnake account.

As what the rule states:

Rule #1: No multiple accounts

Multiple accounts are discovered by routine scans and community cheating reports. They are strictly forbidden whether or not they play in the same games or ARE EVEN IN USE.

http://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=rules

This means that multis are also not allowed even though one account was only in use.


Regards,
king achilles

-----and see above with my comments advising of jlcase30....so are we the same person or no?

I highlighted the parts telling who was busted with who. You were not busted with each other but both of you were stripped of your premium.

Seems based on their explanation, oh well

I like the user names. Citing JRR is always a good idea and that hubby-wife chose these particular names is very cool.

Too bad though...adios!