Spring RTS Engine

We need to try and stop people from smurfing and renaming accounts all the time..

SmurfServ wrote: Player '[1SA]BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Israel (IL) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['Zissler', '[1SA]BasiC']
Player '[SIN]BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Israel (IL) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['[SIN]BasiC', 'Nezereth', 'CopyCat', 'MultiKoll']
Player 'BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Korea, Republic of (KR) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['BasiC', '[1SA]BasiC', '[1SA]Stoompeh']

smurfing 1 bar accounts
- ip ban
- rank limit
rename
- ip ban


Not all perfect measures, but can help. Also MTR.

If satirik could program TASClient so there was a list of the clans you are in, and you just select one and that tag appears in your name.. There would be much less need to smurf

SirMaverick wrote:

SmurfServ wrote: Player '[1SA]BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Israel (IL) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['Zissler', '[1SA]BasiC']
Player '[SIN]BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Israel (IL) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['[SIN]BasiC', 'Nezereth', 'CopyCat', 'MultiKoll']
Player 'BasiC' (GEOINFO:Country: Korea, Republic of (KR) , ISP:WIP) has smurfs ['BasiC', '[1SA]BasiC', '[1SA]Stoompeh']

smurfing 1 bar accounts
- ip ban
- rank limit
rename
- ip ban

Not all perfect measures, but can help. Also MTR.

Some people thing smurfing is a good thing..including some of the moderators and different developers.
That is why its not against the rules...
moderators and some devs have their own tools to see quickly who is a smurf so they dont mind peole smurfing as much cause they can find out who they are...
the ones getting hurt are players...
There is a conflict of interests here...

Smurfing never hurt me

what's a smurf?

JohannesH wrote:Smurfing never hurt me

So you dont mind when good players smurf and fuck up a game's balance?Both manually balanced games and automatic balance.

Some use a second account when they try out SD lobby.

Cool another smurf topic.

Gota wrote:

JohannesH wrote:Smurfing never hurt me

So you dont mind when good players smurf and fuck up a game's balance?Both manually balanced games and automatic balance.

Yep I dont really care. If I play casual games with random lowranks, it isnt so balanced or serious game in any case.

Crap i guess that makes me a smurf. Though i only have the second account because i could not for the life of me figure out how to change my username. Any one know how to change usernames in teh lobby and maintain rank?

JohannesH wrote:

Gota wrote:

JohannesH wrote:Smurfing never hurt me

So you dont mind when good players smurf and fuck up a game's balance?Both manually balanced games and automatic balance.

Yep I dont really care. If I play casual games with random lowranks, it isnt so balanced or serious game in any case.

So next time when u want to play a 1v1 and i come as a low rank smurf than beat you(cause your not expecting a good player) you will be fine with it?
Or when i smurf and dgun you in a team game and disconnect?

JohannesH wrote:Smurfing never hurt me

me neither. and smurfs with clantags you do not confuse with noobs anyway.

Gota wrote:So next time when u want to play a 1v1 and i come as a low rank smurf than beat you(cause your not expecting a good player) you will be fine with it?
Or when i smurf and dgun you in a team game and disconnect?

You might have a slight metagame advantage on me if you play with a smurf vs me, but its not gonna affect my play that much. So yes I dont care

If I get dgunned (by ally apparently), I dont really care if I was dgunned by a smurf or someone I know :D