Accounts playing together in CATAN to cheat

[rishwik]

* and * are playing CATAN together as a team to gang up on the 3rd and the 4th player. They also trade to help each other win and only rob the other players until there is a clear advantage for one of the two to win.

You can look at all their games history in the past where they have played together and in the majority of them, one of them have won following this unfair play.

If you end up playing with them report, give red thumbs down or report to the moderators.

BE AWARE of this kind of cheaters.

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[rishwik]

Look at the below games and you will understand:

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and the list continues ... you can keep going on their game history and see this trend of cheating to win! Such bad mindset of cheating and unfair play.


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[Romain672]

Didn't look at their replay, but you sure? Their elo are pretty low.

Playing together a lot don't mean cheating. You can even when there is two similar trade, prefer trading with your friend since you know it while you don't know the other person. Which is a tricky situation.

[rishwik]

What about both of them always robbing from the others and not each other to gain advantage till they ensure one of them wins?

[player1772]

I came across a similar situation a while ago playing the same game. I was in a 3 player game and the other players knew each other (probably boyfriend/girlfriend). They were boosting each other the entire game. I have no problem with couples playing together in the same game, but cheating is another thing. I believe rishwik's account since these two players have appeared in many games together. Unfortunately, this problem is much more common than you'd think.

[wargonn]

Your a spammer, better write bad stuff all over our profiles because you were winning and got the robber on you a couple times. I play with my dad in the other room and it tells you before you accept a game we are on the same ip address for that reason. So I can talk to him from the other room to say what ill trade/ the other way around. Both of us new to the catan game. I paid for premium so my family could play together not to get harassed by other players. Also why would you write bad stuff on every other game I played on here, not even with you or any of my family in them...... I log in and see like 20 notifications about you leaving comments and some friends bringing it up too. Grow up

[rishwik]

You are playing as a team and sitting / talking together which shows you are intentionally ruining other player's games by robbing only from the others than you two, trading goods only between you two to get an advantage, building together to help the other win. This you have done to countless players in all your games together which is unfair play. So, you should grow up kiddo.

If you want to play with family, do not invite others and rob among yourselves. If you do want to play with family then play fair and square else you are both cheating together on BGA by ganging up on the 3rd and 4th players. And who knows the truth if you are yourself playing from two systems by yourself and this is a story made up, because no one can trust you when you play foul in all the games.

[euklid314]

rishwik, shaming people on forum is forbidden on BGA. Even just writing their user names on forums is forbidden. If you think somebody was playing unfair you can report them to the moderators and they will look into the case.

If you discuss these things on the forum while calling out players names you can be punished yourself by the moderators - independent of the fact if your claim is correct or not.

Tipps for playing with family: Do not chat in person while playing (you can discuss and chat after the game is over) and play like with every other person. So if you want to chat use the chat functionality and/or the Catan trade functionality built into BGA. Otherwise playing with family is perfectly fine. Enjoy!

[rishwik]

Understood. My intent is not to shame (and I sincerely apologize if that is felt as such) but for them to stop playing unfair is critical given this was not their first instance nor second nor third; this has been going on for games after games. This sort of malpractice is ruining the entire gaming experience on BGA and many players have to face this unpleasant experience because of a few.

[wargonn]

I got spam comments all over my profile on many different games from this guy.....And you have no clue how my other games have gone nor do you know the people I was playing with. I play by the rules. Less then one week new premium member, If I knew I was going to be harassed like this I don't think I would of joined premium. I have 4 friends that have premium so I didn't need to get it, I just did it to support the game mainly. It would be nice if you could remove and delete all the negative stuff on me and this forum post.