People botting out for 2nd place

[BIT Bear]

I'm a regular RISK player and I love playing for rank (not always). However, there is an issue where many players do not surrender and instead they deliberately bot themselves out. How does one do this? Simple: either they afk and let a bot take over or they disconnect/quit the game. My problem with this is that as soon as someone does this they are no longer a threat on the board and not focused down by others. If they had some decent stacks on the board then they are higher to survive and get 2nd place than a player still playing.

This is very unfair. Why I care? Because i'm losing more points by becoming 3rd place whilst I could have 2nd place if the player in question surrendered (as they should) and not botted out.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Unfortunately, if you try to play 'Risk' online, you are just entering Cheater's Paradise. Been going on for many years. Don't hold your breath waiting for a positive change.

I used to DM for an online game, and also became a major coder for "fixing" things in the game. I still swear that players would lay awake at night, dreaming up new ways to cheat. After I would stop a way of cheating or abusing the system, usually within a week somebody had found a way around my fix. It's a never-ending battle.

[BIT Bear]

For a couple months now i've been trying to reach Master but I think it's impossible without having to resort to cheating myself (and i'm not going to). I'm saying that this ranking system and playing Risk is so flawed it makes me sad. Maybe the devs can add more options to for example not allow disconnects to rejoin and therefor auto-lose instead of 10min bot/defeat timer. But also maybe just disallow anyone with same IP to do online matches, sadly this seems to happen too (but less often). For now i'll have to be content with "Expert" and sometimes Novice/Intermediate when raging. lol

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by BIT Bear:

1. For a couple months now i've been trying to reach Master...

2. Maybe the devs can add more options to for example not allow disconnects to rejoin and therefor auto-lose...

3. But also maybe just disallow anyone with same IP to do online matches,

1. I even don't bother. I just play enough online to try to earn the game achievements.

2. Can't. Then people with an honestly crappy internet connection would not be able to participate.

3. Again, can't. From my own coding experience, I can tell you that it doesn't work. If you ban a CD/game key, it takes them 5 minutes to find another free key on the internet. If you ban an IP, they'll just use a VPN. Also, many modems and routers these days use a different IP every time you open your internet browser just as a general security feature.

Probably 90% of my 'Risk' time is in Solo Mode. Just me versus 5 AI players on the "hard" setting. I find it relaxing.