[IMPORTANT] Cheating & reporting cheaters

[SMG Studio]

• Playing with someone you know against unsuspecting strangers in Global Domination, is considered cheating and will result in a ban.
  
• Hacking or tampering with the game to get an advantage in multiplayer in any way leads to an instant ban of the account.
  
• If you play with friends, family, colleagues, online buddies - stick to "Play with Friends".

We have increased the flags and detection protocols for this Steam release, so especially collaboration and collusion cheating are tracked & banned much faster. We understand that it can lead to a "false positive" banning, in that case please contact support.

Here we go with all links you need:

Fair Play rules:
http://smgstudio.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/11000017727

Report cheaters:
First, always report ingame by clicking their avatar and then using the report button. If you want, you can also report on the community-ran Discord:
https://discord.gg/risk

If you got banned and think it was a wrong decision, write a support ticket here:
http://smgstudio.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/new

[General.Aubrey.Smith]

Just as I am about to win the map or make a critical victory in taking out a enemy fortification, I get disconnected.
Host Disconnected is the report I get.
When i am losing I never see this only when I am about to win or knock out some critical country.
I will no longer be playing RISK and uninstalling.
Typical tho, just did some digging turns out RISK is actually a EA product.
Rolls eyes....
Go figure....

[General.Aubrey.Smith]

This happens to me EVERY match now for the last 5 or so matches.
Just as I am about to win the Host disconnects me from servers. Ending the game and I lose the match.
Fair?!
Fix your game developers.

[Thurston Forbush III]

Three out of every four games I play are games with people playing with dual profiles.
This is beyond a problem.
It's now a style of play.
This platform has all sorts of systems in place to encourage it like RANKINGS.
Eliminate rankings.
Fix your f*****g game!
Also 24 hour bans for serial non validators.
These are dual profiles whose only purpose is to ruin games by placing in bots.
Also, you leave a game, that's it, you're done. No getting back in. Once the computer takes over your turn you're done. The online/offline strategy is for cowards and it's toxic. SMG introduced it to this game. It's not good for the game. It's a tool used exclusively by cheaters. Get rid of it.
All sorts of easy fixes, that have been suggested here many times, for problems SMG refuses to, or flat does a crappy job of addressing.

[Thurston Forbush III]

Eliminating rankings, eliminates 90% of this game's problems. Conservative estimate.

[Konsterter]

Hello.

> Playing with someone you know against unsuspecting strangers in Global Domination, is considered cheating and will result in a ban.

Very strange rule. What if someone who knows eachother play same room by fortune? If they are fair play and no teaming?

[Lemming]

So you want us to experience being teamed on and go out of our way to record evidence/submit reports of them since the report button in game, this should be addressed more by the developer.

The developer takes action to fix this garbage ranking system to naturally counteract team play by identifying when players do not or minimally attack one another for maximum benefit. With the system detecting when this happens in multiple matches with the same people and banning them.

This would target two types of team play:

Low rank accounts being used to wipe out non team mates, then throw to boost the rank of other team members.

All rank accounts doing win trading.

Victims of teaming have all ranking points restored from playing the match after confirmation and penalties are given out.

For those wanting to play the game with friends the answer is simple, play non ranked and have fun.

[Truereview101]

If cheating is occurring at 20-30% of the time, that is still very high %. In truth, it's probably the right amount. But I will say this, that there have been some very obvious collusion/teaming which I have reported, but most reports do not have actions done to them. In the probably +100 reports over the last year, I've only seen two messages back with any actions delivered.

If, there is a 30% collusion rate, and you are only acting on 2% of them, how is a 7% effective rate going to stop collusion from happening?

In the games defense, of half of my reports, the players reported were likely just really, really bad players (i.e. players who don't really want to win). But that still leaves the vast majority of collisions left unchecked.

Also, some very obvious repeated teaming from players I have reported multiple times, but appear to have purchased a bunch of emoji's and specialty items, are left without penalty. Begs the question that if there is some bias among the ranks of admins and their owners.

[mario0139]

Thats true. I reported a lot of players for teaming. Almost all the time one of them just suicide on me then other one just took my capital and it was dead for me. I see the same players still playing and teaming and my reports gives nothing.

[Jim]

Playing multi accounts is CHEATING...
No matter how you think about it, its an unfair advantage.
Why is it so hard for you DEV folks to make a randomizer for the open play?
If the host allows both Free Accounts and Paid Accounts in the same game there is 100% chance you will be playing against someone playing 2 or more accounts,
and its been this way for YEARS...
One can only assume you want it this way,
After this long it has to be on purpose.
And now even if you separate them, some have 2+ paid accounts or 2+ free ones,
Its now probably above 70% chance you'll get one of those cheaters.
It truly is a shame that a legendary game like risk has so many that are cheating because no one will make a simple change to stop them or find a way to enforce the rules.
I've been playing this game over 50 years its very obvious to me when this type of cheating happens ingame.
With this system, anyone who is above expert is probably playing multi accounts,
Because those of us who Dont cheat cant compete without a solid run of cards that is enough to handle 2 players.....a rare thing the way these cards come.
TO The Cheaters,
When I see you Teaming in FFA I will report you, then expend all my troops into you and your alt then quit, I have zero desire to play with low morality cheaters.

[ScottWAR]

Jim님이 먼저 게시:

Playing multi accounts is CHEATING...
No matter how you think about it, its an unfair advantage.
Why is it so hard for you DEV folks to make a randomizer for the open play?
If the host allows both Free Accounts and Paid Accounts in the same game there is 100% chance you will be playing against someone playing 2 or more accounts,
and its been this way for YEARS...
One can only assume you want it this way,
After this long it has to be on purpose.
And now even if you separate them, some have 2+ paid accounts or 2+ free ones,
Its now probably above 70% chance you'll get one of those cheaters.
It truly is a shame that a legendary game like risk has so many that are cheating because no one will make a simple change to stop them or find a way to enforce the rules.
I've been playing this game over 50 years its very obvious to me when this type of cheating happens ingame.
With this system, anyone who is above expert is probably playing multi accounts,
Because those of us who Dont cheat cant compete without a solid run of cards that is enough to handle 2 players.....a rare thing the way these cards come.
TO The Cheaters,
When I see you Teaming in FFA I will report you, then expend all my troops into you and your alt then quit, I have zero desire to play with low morality cheaters.

Its becoming a huge problem. more and more games have players obviously working together.

[Jim]

Just witnessed a player called DRYG start with 10,000 troops.
I must have reported him 100 times while he swept the board in the opening round.