Ban teaming.

[long coral]

Part of game is making pacts and betrayal, but it shouldn't be a part of a game that people team up out of game. MOST of "Everyone vs Everyone" matches ... i guess 15 out of 20 I played last day I meet group of 3-5 players sharing same tag and doing coordinated attacks to eliminate everyone else. This make game playable only in team vs team mode. We should have possibility to in-game report such players and ban them out of game.

P.S.
Interesting is that in team vs team I meet such groups maybe once per 3 games. That make me think "find a clan" caused "we can't win so we team up to ruin other's game, if it is not fun for us then noone can have a fun".

[lapis laurel]

The problem of teams v teams is that you can join 5 people and all end up in different teams. Besides if you see 3 people with the same tag and don't target them it's on you honestly.(You as other people in a match.)

• Banning such behaviour would result in half of French players ending up banned

[rugged glen]

I do agree that a 'competitive' mode where you need to have an account that has been in the server x amount of time and can be reported and banned out of would be a good adition, but I do wonder if you are overstating the frequency of the problem. Just because two people have the same tag does not automatically mean they are playing together.

[rugged glen]

as understand team games are supposed to group players by tag, does that not actually work?

[lapis laurel]

Idk, we joined into same match in like 5 once and all ended up in different teams

[rugged glen]

I have no issue with players from a certain area being banned more often if they cheated more often

It is actually also already against the rules to team in FFA from what I understand, there is just no meaningful enforcement

[long coral]

3 of them spawn reasonably close to eachother ... I'm minding mine buisness on other part of map. Suddenly I can see that guy I was fighting against have 3 landing troops from 3 TAg-sharing players landing on him. I cease atacking him as I know his fate and prepare to protect my land, but I can not do anything since minute later my neighbor perish, and another minute later i share his fate.

[lapis laurel]

Honestly there should be similar to FFA gamemode but focused on length and alliances etc.

[long coral]

and let's name tag-sharing guys A B and C ... I was on south pole on world map ... after their invasion south pole was looking like ABCACBACA

so if it is not cooperation, then what is ?

And if You can't be on same team when joining team vs team then ask dev to implement such option instead of ruining game ...

[lapis laurel]

Again if you let 3 people team up and erase everyone around it's on other people in the game not focusing on them... But at the same time those people won't even attack the top 1 together, even will backstab you when you try to so lol

• often you'll just find a bunch of players (French ones) just having the same flag and doing co-op just like that

So idk if there's a solution for it

[long coral]

Thing is that You can not atack any of them. Lets say that after minute of game everyone have 50k troops and first border fights between players start. Everyone loose troops and time fighting beside them, cuz they can use their combined 150k troops to destroy anyone who atack them. in 3rd minute let's say that on average everyone have 100k troops. Top player have 250k troops. They have at least 150k each because they do not struggle at borders and have guaranteed alliance with eachother that guarantee them extra money flow from ports. And from this point they just snowball map.

[rugged glen]

"There is a way to counter my cheating" is not an acceptable excuse to cheat.

[rugged glen]

You highlight exactly why teaming is unfair, because you have allies that you can count on, while others do not.

[rugged glen]

If it can be demonstrated that there is a consistent trend among players from a certain region cheating, those players should be given a warning upon connecting to a game that this is cheating, and perhaps some automated review of game logs should take place.

hopefully once the steam version comes out they can use steam to enforce fair play.

There should also be a 'team breaking' effect, where some percentage of players that have connected to games featuring the same other players get a 'sorry, joining failed' message.

that way if the others leave, then reteam that is further evidence.

[long coral]

I guess steam version will give us reporting system and risk of getting account banned would be proper deterent.

[rugged glen]

imagine getting a VAC ban over cheating in map game lol

that would be so funny