better ability for CC to detect bogus accounts

[mccallan25]

For the past three months in every public game I have created. Someone creates a new account, joins one game and then never shows up again on this site. This is not a random act. It takes them a whole 2-3 minutes to do this out of their day. I have complained over and over to the site that they need to look at every IP address and figure out how to keep this from happening. At least lower the number of missed games by a new account to termination on the second round instead of the third for no show new accounts. The public games I list are very slow for three rounds and for the others you can see by the lack of them going on to play many other games that it is detracting from creating new members to this site.

New deadbeat accounts are out of control, all you have to do is look at the public games of mine over the past three months.

It just occurred to me that this person in my games is joining and in less then a minute sometimes finding my game so he has to be using the game finder option. So to catch them would be easy enough since whoever is entering my name over and over can be traced backwards and blocked.

[sailorseal]

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[blakebowling]

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You do realize his thread was posted before yours.

[mccallan25]

I am actually not really concerned with the points or rank. Otherwise I would hang out like so many do of upper ranks with top players since they fear losing their "status". My private games are people that are good fun players, not necessarily of any particular level.

I do like your idea Sailor. I can tell you one thing. This is so out of hand I will not be renewing my subscription nor 9 others I have bought for people unless a solution is found.

[Night Strike]

What are you trying to solve for? You're calling them "bogus accounts", but they probably aren't multis. Deadbeaters are those who join the site, miss 3 consecutive turns, and never returned to the site. They aren't targeting you specifically. If you're interested in some good and consistent competition, join some tournaments.

[mccallan25]

Most people that create an account spend a lot of time looking for a few games that they join and then stop playing or do not even play in when it doesn't start fast enough for them. They then go away to never never land. It's very different when you have someone join a game you start after having just made their new account seconds…minutes before and then never join another game and also never play. It's an immature individual that was and still is pissed off over be reprimanded in chat for slow play or missing multitudes of turns. Being a Judge I would hope I have enough intelligence to tell the difference over a deliberate action and random chance. This is different and defies statistics. Being a subscribing member to this site, I do not think it is up to me to have to prove through my games using statistics that I have been targeted by someone. That is the job of this site when a complaint is made. Each time I have asked for it to be looked at I was giving almost an immediate response that it was just normal deadbeating. There's no way that could be possible with the amount of times it has happened.

I made an inquiry this last year to purchase this site. Unfortunately the asking price was approximately 70% too high for the value, otherwise insane things like this would be kept from happening with enough server power and a well written program. Not to mention moderators that actually listen to the customers that pay for this sites revenue instead of deciding that we may not be correct in our assumptions. The problem needs to be addressed. Not with a flippant answer of create a private game (which I have had to do) or join a tournament. I do not bother with tournaments since they do not play the map I like.

[Night Strike]

You only play World 2.1.

That is one of the maps that new accounts are allowed to play on, so I'm sure many see an empty game on a map that's similar to a certain board game and choose to join it. This is just how things work on the site. I would encourage you to welcome those members to CC.

If you have a serious concern that someone is targeting you, then please post those accounts in the Cheating & Abuse Forum.

Not to mention moderators that actually listen to the customers that pay for this sites revenue instead of deciding that we may not be correct in our assumptions.

Not listening to you would be completely ignoring your thread. I can read your post and still believe that your assumption is wrong. We all volunteer to help out the site, and we'll help out when you do have an issue. I don't have the ability to see if anyone is targeting you, so you'll have to post the account names in the Cheating & Abuse Forum.

[mccallan25]

Nice So I am going to have to post 321 different names?

[Night Strike]

Nice So I am going to have to post 321 different names?

If you think they're all purposefully targeting just you, then I guess so. I don't see why anyone would purposefully target you though, I've never seen you on the forums, much less being someone a multi/troll wouldn't like.