I won't call names and I tried to report these players but there was no valid option pre describing what they did. So I have no option but explaining their way of cheating the system and hopefully a moderator can tell me if BGA agrees with this playing behavior and this ELO-System cheat.
Both players use this cheat in the 2019 edition at the 2-player count with "random board without board 8" or "random board" settings. They only seem to agree starting a game vs players ranked below 300 ELO all the way down to 0 ELO.
The cheat works as follows:
When they get an disadvantageous start they ask the other player (repeatedly) to abandon the game and it seems to work at an extremely high rate.
Keep in mind this would not work against competent players who understand the intention of why the other player wants to abandon the game.
The lower ranked players do not fully understand how far ahead they are at this point in the game.
Therefore they will think the other player wants to abandon the game because of an emergency or other urgent events.
This leads to the lower ranked players most often politely agreeing to abandon the game.
These players also often do not care as much about their ranking points as opposed to their "win at all costs" opponent players.
The highly ranked players obviously do never ask to abandon a game in which they have a favorable start.
In which instances are they asking to abandon the game in their first 2 turns?
1. They draw a (way) worse board than their opponent (which makes it much less probable to win the game)
2. They rolled very badly in their first 1 or 2 turns while their opponent had a much stronger start (which makes it much less probable to win the game)
3. Their opponent got KT #6 in their first turn. (which makes it incredibly difficult to win the game even if they are much higher skilled than their opponent)
Keep in mind that KT #6, boats and mines are the by far most important tiles you want to get early on in the 2019 edition regardless pretty much of what the board is.
This way they are guaranteed to win like every single game. They are wasting other people's time, they cheat other players off their ELO and they also occupy top ranks in the All-Time Ranking List which other fair players would occupy if they hadn't cheated their way up there.
Anyone reading this do not agree vs extremely highly ranked players to abandon a game right at the start if any of these things I mentioned above happened except of course if you have an emergency yourself.
I find this behavior an absolute disgrace and very shameful.
I sincerely hope something will be done about this. Thank you for your time.
Both players use this cheat in the 2019 edition at the 2-player count with "random board without board 8" or "random board" settings. They only seem to agree starting a game vs players ranked below 300 ELO all the way down to 0 ELO.
The cheat works as follows:
When they get an disadvantageous start they ask the other player (repeatedly) to abandon the game and it seems to work at an extremely high rate.
Keep in mind this would not work against competent players who understand the intention of why the other player wants to abandon the game.
The lower ranked players do not fully understand how far ahead they are at this point in the game.
Therefore they will think the other player wants to abandon the game because of an emergency or other urgent events.
This leads to the lower ranked players most often politely agreeing to abandon the game.
These players also often do not care as much about their ranking points as opposed to their "win at all costs" opponent players.
The highly ranked players obviously do never ask to abandon a game in which they have a favorable start.
In which instances are they asking to abandon the game in their first 2 turns?
1. They draw a (way) worse board than their opponent (which makes it much less probable to win the game)
2. They rolled very badly in their first 1 or 2 turns while their opponent had a much stronger start (which makes it much less probable to win the game)
3. Their opponent got KT #6 in their first turn. (which makes it incredibly difficult to win the game even if they are much higher skilled than their opponent)
Keep in mind that KT #6, boats and mines are the by far most important tiles you want to get early on in the 2019 edition regardless pretty much of what the board is.
This way they are guaranteed to win like every single game. They are wasting other people's time, they cheat other players off their ELO and they also occupy top ranks in the All-Time Ranking List which other fair players would occupy if they hadn't cheated their way up there.
Anyone reading this do not agree vs extremely highly ranked players to abandon a game right at the start if any of these things I mentioned above happened except of course if you have an emergency yourself.
I find this behavior an absolute disgrace and very shameful.
I sincerely hope something will be done about this. Thank you for your time.