Cheaters... How are we going to deal with them?

[wendyfoo]

This multi pilot thing is getting out of hand. I am not pointing fingers on this post, I just thought that you guys would have some ideas on how to fix this. In my oppinion, multis create an account, and vote nocofidence for a faction, then leave their accound and make a new one.

How about, If you have a total score of less than 2000 then you can't vote? That may discurrage it abit. I hate to watch a FC have a really low confidence level when everyone *my opinion* is comfortable with what the faction is doing.

I know this is more codeing but heck, this game gets frustrationg bc/ of things like this.

Wendyfoo
I WANT A PICTURE UNER MY NAME TOO!

[suicidesquad]

Nice idea, but it's too easy to get to 2000 points though. I would say more like 5000.

[Kristof]

Very good idea. Is it really a problem? In my experience, if an FC has enough support from the faction but an election is forced, that FC just get's re-elected. The current FC stays FC during the election so scans and FC to FC comms are never lost. I've seen a couple forced elections and each time the current FC won if he still wanted to be FC and if he had faction support.

The multis can disrupt a good election though. At the start of this game both me and our current FC were running for FC. It was more of a formality really but still a nice election. Then one of the Waffles put himself up for the position. We didn't want to risk him getting elected so I dropped out in favor of our current FC. If the votes from the rest of the faction were divided over the 2 of us and the Waffles had a couple sure votes and maybe some other multis, he could have become FC and we absolutly didn't want that. We'd be at war with the entire galaxy then.You'd see a first 5 on 1.

[cobrav]

you could send a cookie whit information on wich faction they are in to every user that subribes
and if a user sucribes again you could erase then erase both of there accounts
most of the people has cookies enabled so it will work

[Ruler]

Ip loggings with users so if two accounts use same ip it could be banned.

[2potscreama]

What happens when 2 people are legitimately playing from the same place?

What happens if a whole load of people play from 1 college, which only has a limited number of external IP addresses?

Also, not everyone uses cookies. And not everyone who does use cookies keeps them forever.

[alexp]

IP logging doesn't work. Dial-up IPs change every time you connect and if you use a range (213.1.xx.xx for example - which is one of BT internets main ranges,) that will be the same range for many players. For example, there are about 20 people on this board who regularly have IPs in that range....

[Grimlock]

For instance in g1 me and my bro both played eoc from the same comp and that would mean only 1 account per ip which is not really fair to people in a situation like me

anyway i think that there should be sort of status thingies. Not just a FC but also a council type thing that can vote cheaters out of the faction etc