#HEAVILY restrict guest usage
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you can like the challenge
that's not an issue
but you can fight the exact same human while they are on their account being balanced
you don't have to fight that specific human when they are smurfing to get an opportunity to play with them
plus everyone else gets the benefit
Its very difficult to fight when Ur so underpowered and its unfair. But u know whats cool about this? It makes so good that when the issue Is resolved u become so good at normal fair balanced matches
Agreed. But thats just the way it is. I aint leaving the only game I Love for some smurfs.
the opposite of course is that you have the smurf on your team
and your team has over 30 points
and their team has literally 0 points
and you don't even have to be doing anything, the results stay the same
incredibly boring to play
I change teams then.
then with all due respect, let everyone else play in peace
Huh? I didnt understand? They are welcome to play
your argument is the same as saying you really really love spicy food so we should just chuck in all the chilli into the one pot everyone eats from
instead of it being an optional thing for you to add to your own bowl
you are saying everyone should get dragged in
You shouldn't have to change teams if it was able to be properly balanced from the beginning
you may like bad balance
sure
that's you
majority of people and the science points to fairness being fun
Nah its just that I mean. I wont leave because of smurfs not that I prioritise it over fair gameplay
Correct
I adapt that what I mean. I find it challenging. But I like fair team balance more.
Not that I would throw the whole thing.
U feeling me?
No I didnt say that.
I said if its incredibly spicy, I would chew on it when noone else does and wont let that food go to waste. I like The challenge but I like regular food more.
you just changed my analogy to your points... to prove my analogy correct
do not add the chilli to the pot
give everyone their bowl
everyone enjoys their bowl and nothing is wasted
if you want to add spice, you add it to your bowl
you get your spicy bowl and are happy
the others get unspicy bowls and are happy
everyone is happy
your solution is to add chilli to the pot and everyone is forced to have it the way you like it
you are happy because you like the spice
the others are not happy
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not only that, but if you don't want it to be spicy one day, you are able to not add the spice
? No my analogy goes like this... I dont add any chilli at all. If it were to me I would do as The majority likes. If the food comes as spicy I would not go and throw the food away.
I would not add spice to mine or their's
Same for smurfs
then according to that logic, the majority want the game to be fairer and for smurfs to be removed
so please do not say to people that it's honestly fine and you like it
that it's just a skill issue
they can get better and it will all be better
Yes me too. But I simply wont just hate the game and leave it just cuz their are smurfs.
I like it but I like fair much much more.
I was always talking bout me btw
awesome, just please be careful not to be insensitive ... that's all I am saying
if you pose it as a skill issue, you are going to trigger a lot of users who have suffered with horrible matches for years
some of which are the top of the top 1% of players
No no no not a skill issue.
I wasnt talking bout them lol
"just get better" is not going to sit well with them, so just be careful how you word things
Oh darn I said that
?
the implication is there... if you go and say you say you would consider it a skill issue and that you need to get better, it is easy to infer that EVERYONE needs to just get better to avoid the issue
I was talking about myself
which can greatly annoy users, particularly when they are trying to eradicate the issue
I can break it down if that makes it easier
Nah you understood me. Thats all good.
Yah ig
Remember smurfs R humans. If they have skill and I cant cope with it the issue Is really just me not The smurf (unless there was like 3 in one team and even then any Ai player can solo em).
you are talking about yourself here, yes
with this though the sentence carries an underlying message that the issue is on the individual (even if you refer to yourself, it is inferred to mean the readers and everyone complaining as well)
this also of course puts justification to the smurf as just some random person and that they are not an issue... which also attacks the position of the individuals here
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wording can be incredibly important
Mhm
One last thing.
Thats not what I meant. Ofc it does throw off matches a lot. And most certainly ruins a lot of fun. And for me, it makes me lose a lot of gelo and elo. Die a lot. Activity in the match goes down especially if I cant fight back. But here us where I differ with ppl, just adapt. Find the fun in everything. The problem aint goin away so the best choice aint to ditch the game and cause it to die rather stay in the game. And try to have fun. It sucks but it is what it is.
I dont mean get goods Its their skill issue. I know it is not I said dont give up. Just grind.
solution: become the smurf
You agree that it ruins balance and a lot of fun and that you want more balance...so what is your actual reason for voting the suggestion down?
Nevermind. Found your original reason.
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Ah yes, if you can't beat them, join them
I wouldn't smurf (mostly because I hate playing on browser), but I will don the guest skin sometimes to make things fairer.
Spy vs spy.
Only if there’s no other players in the server
Otherwise I am against that
I think everyone should join the guest skin gang in that situation. Equal terms for whole lobby.
That was another story, scroll up to read my pov and how they responded.
No, I am loyal to the Anti-Guest Gang Association only. Begone with that filthy suggestion.
Well, actually. I'm the founder
Guest skin != guest
spetsnaz = smurf
disliking this suggestion is trolling
bruh. Just read...also part of it is trolling ngl
I don't feel like reading up lol
there was over 400 messages or smth
same
there is no reason to dislike that
or ur a smurf
That is actually very wrong.
Omg, pls don't be a judge
ah so 56 ppl are verry wrong
You seem to misunderstand me, I didn't say they r wrong. I said if u dislike it don't mean that ur automatically a smurf
can you explain in a concise fashion why you disliked this suggestion
actully all are upvote, ur using downvote, so all other ppl don't like your choice
Ok there are couple reasons.
1-Logging in can be risky for ppl who are banned to game.
2-I honestly view smurfs as a challenge, an enemy is an enemy, it does ruin a lot of things from stats to game-making to fun, but when this issue is resolved ull be much more used to the pressure.
3-If we remove guest usage, how will newcomers ever visit the game as, well guests? They will be forced to log in. Now smurfin ain't like guests but if u remove smurfing it decreases amount of ppl visitin the game
4-To be honest, there are problems which are more important to address, for example underage (this game has 13+) but they don't really enforce that. Matchmaking itself is ruinned without smurfs they should figure that out
They sure don't, thats why if I was dev, I would disregard my opinion, cuz most ppl didn't agree. Thats literally why we have voting and I am happy to disregard my own opinion
The first point just doesn't make sense
If someone is banned
that .....
what
they can't play on that account
Wait, I don't mean banned by devs, I mean banned at home lol
😭
how many people do you think are going behind their parents back to play a .io game
Yeah...
Ok bye I hate this conversation
ur literally encouraging smurfing then
Um, not exactly, you see
yes exactly
I talked with furious who debunked the first point.
that what i see
also, like I said, I would love smurfing to be resolved. But...
I don't mind the smurfs.
Viewing smurfs as a challenge is not the point.
They may serve as a challenge
but they undermine the balencing of the game.
The game stops being fun.
That is true.
If there are like 5 good players on one team, and one good player on the other.
Then the game is no longer fun.
But like I said, matchmaking is ruinned anyways.
Smurfs lead to more good people being on one side than the other leading to people on the other side not having fun.
In fact, that would lead to more people not joining because a new player wouldn't find the game so fun.
I don't mind smurfs. I upvoted this suggestion for a different reason.
thats yalls opinions.
Mine is different.
thats why there is a voting system.
I have never said that you shouldn't offer your opinion.
Like I said, all in all, the matchmaking is ruinned
I was clarifying mine, I don't mind going against 3 ai players (wait I actually did, and id probably posted an image) It will be extremely terrible. But I will just adapt. such is life.
Then in that case, you do not align with the supermajority of players of the community.
Um of course.
ur not EU player
I am based in asia, but I always play US. There are good players there.
I can't play without loosing 15 elo per kill.
and you don't play at EU hours
Why so.
Yes, there are not many smurfs in NA.
Bruh I lost like 30 elo to smurfs. I still don't say this game is horrible
us is like ... chill
1 or 2 smurfs
max
and the US players are ..ok
EU is such a smurf heaven 😂
when you fall on Nachtflake, discat, the destroyer, sporox guy, and many other that ... way harder
plus smurfs
also a reason of why no one understand why the KBAR random guys are horrible
why spawn rushing with heli is horrible
why spawn rushing is horrible
I do play in eu when us is inactive
Nachtfalke the 50 Cal guy?
nachtflake does many think but mostlky 50, sniper and smg
Yeah. I played with him a lot.
nachtflake is not that good btw
But yeah like I said. I dont mind the smurfs.
comparing to other eu "regular" players
because you never meet them ig
that the only reason i see
I literally told you I lost 30 elo to them, one match, what is the point of saying this?
Thats the only reason you see but not The only reason for me.
What makes smurfs good, if anything, in your opinion?
I'm guessing nothing, as you are really for having the guest option
but not specifically smurfing
Good? Hmmm maybe the pressure. Makes u a better player.
But like yeah
Nothin else
and even all "eu" players like furious, nandy, ... non offence buy u guys don't rly play anymore. i don't see how i could get advices actually because u guys don't play at same moment or idk. they were way less smurfs before and way less strong and skilled as now. same for plok. stop saying "get better" or "skill issue"
its not simple
I think it's you believe smurfing is merely an unintended and unavoidable side effect of having such a good guesting system?
count to ai guys too, other than discat and lod
It Is intended a lot sometimes.
Seeing the player's name makes better pressure. "I've seen this guy, SpetsnazGRU a lot. He kills me pretty consistently, I'm honestly a little scared of him." sort of thing
then why disliking ???
Spetz is ragebaiting just ignore it lol
The action of smurfing is intended, definitely 
nah we are ragebaiting on him not understanding smurfs lol
Nah Bro. That is smth else. For example anytime I see an Ai tag I am scared. But I mean If we have only discat vs lod. You will expect it. But u expect guests.
I don't think I'm being rage baited, I'm actually rather calm right now because of my music. I have the mental capacity to read what might other times set me off 😔
They are lying. If i was ragebaiting we would all be muted. I swear I am not.
Point is that you know the nick, with the guest tag you do not. I like knowing who it is I am versing :D
I would rather guests be eradicated alltogether in competitive play
what is this ai guy i'm not scared at all 🤔
i don't remember the name but lol
Roblox is such a good example of sign in options though, EVERYONE using it needs an account. No exceptions
I understand but you will be more wary when you dont know who Ur facing right? Especially that they all R similar
Not really. Much more scared to see Iffy's skin over the guest skin.
Well.. Thats actually pretty cool. For me its iffy hiding under guest skin. Lol and sorry my opinion may have angered some of you
#1370898478116503582 message long text of another game using login and guest think but have blocked possibilities for guests which make way more ppl having accounts. that a good way to start ig
I like the idea of restricting guest usage but not the complete removal.
we could start by restricting heavly
then we see what happend
time to let ppl having accounts
and then delete completly
Maybe add a popup after a certain amount of time that says "To play more please create an account".
Its great
deleting completly the guests may be a chock
Pretty sure that was the idea early on. Something like after one or three rounds Plok has said.
Gtg yall ill be back
idea is good, reality useless. just refresh cookies and alldiseapear. play on inconito mode and its useless too.
This game caters to a younger audience. I wonder how many of the players who smurf would be willing to figure that out.
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Chocked i meant
The ones that refresh the incognito tab anyway and follow you around, hunting
shock in that spot can imply a change that requires you to get used to
and that may be harder to get used to
Hmm, I don't often use incognito mode. Do you use it frequently, or know if others do?
I dont think younger are that dumb if they can be proer than many ppl
I know Plok had this experience and many others have reported of it.
I see.
Ik how it works on wb
I'm pretty sure I've had this. I have seen 1550s "leave" during vote and 1500s "join"
Just like if u opened the game for first time
What about if we used an IP ban of some sort.
With shotgun ar loadout
Unsure of if that was discussed, would that not impact them using their real account, the one we want them on?
And VPNs work around that, no?
I suppose if they're alting, we don't want them playing anyway 😅
and children know how to use VPNs?
Yeah
An also login don't work on incognito mode
Schools ban things on their wifi all the time, people find ways around them
especially with more and more younger kids getting phones and whatnot
Any way to try creating account and login with alr existing
N it hard
Not*
Just look
Opera have an alr vpn itself
Just click it's done
When they get an IP ban, why wouldn't they just create an account? I doubt these people are deliberately going out of their way to smurf.
Most are
They don't think creating accounts
Because it's not clear
Nothing different to playstyle tbh
Gameplay same
Do you place these same doubts on those incognito-refresh-tab-after-each-round smurfs?
Like, u see, for us, we have an steam ad when we are on beowser
We have an steam ad when we are on stats site profile
We have steam ads here, in discord server with the role, command
Steam ad too in wiki
Where are normal account ads ???
How it's explained to guests to do accounts
Only on menu customisation things
Which is useless for someone want to play
I suggest to block few weapons to guests and increasing accounts popup for them
That's really interesting. I know for me if I play an hour or two of a game and like it I'll buy it and/or create an account.
Also many of them don't know how go to menu
Perhaps we should consider why these people smurf. Is there something else we can fix to reduce the number of smurfs?
Blocking weapons ain't going to happen though
How easy it is to see Elo live?
I also know that many people play this game during breaks between classes at school. Perhaps they don’t login because they see it as just a school game. Meanwhile at home they can play more "mainstream" games.
how u restrict then
thta the only way
cosmetics are nothing for them
if we block aksmg, new weapons, sniper and few basic things
forcing them to login, just give them pop-ups after a few rounds sort of thing
they will make accounts
make them more aggressive
Restricting guests too certain weapons
makes sense
Ar and shotgun?
nah they are alr
Fr tho
Not gonna work, vpns mask the ip.
I was still 12 when I started using vpns so maybe
Hmmm. Mostly ppl smurf to keep their elo or to stalk someone
Would still cut down on the number most likely
What? Sorry I didn't understand
If that's the case remove ELO from guests then.
What?
Would cut down on the number of Smurfs
@spice idol pointed out that many people smurf to keep their ELO. I suggested the idea of removing ELO from the guests or make it so that guests don't affect logged in player's ELO or that guest player's ELO doesn't change.
Removing elo from guests would make the situation 100x worse
It would make every guest into an unbalanced mess
And you can’t stop guests from removing players elo… if they lose a game, they lose gelo
I would not agree on smurf to keep elo
Sure, it prevents elo from decreasing, but also from increasing
Same goes for every other stats
Smurf to target someone is much more likely
It prevents people from recognizing you, and makes the team arranging for you completely random instead of elo based
A VPN can be detected FYI
it could be set up so that if you are identified as a user on a VPN, it blocks you from playing
if we really wanted to
schizo
🤦
I don't think AI members have actually said that
what is this even about atp
I can search back but i dont have time
🗿
Viewing smurfs as a challenge is great, but unfortunately they do tamper with the games matchmaking, which is not so ideal.
As about point 4... I am not entirely certain how Trebuchet Entertainment is supposed to "enforce" this. Perhaps you should need to send an image of you with your ID card?
It's not as easy unfortunately.
#AntiGuestGang
Usually suggestion forums are used to discuss the suggestion, not post the same thing over and over again
Hi so a couple of pointers from me for each of your point (to bring the thread back on topic)
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That is your own opinion, not an objective downside (unless I misread your sentence completely).
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That is your own opinion, not an objective downside.
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Valid reason, but the downsides clearly outweighs the benefit of having guests for the game. In terms of players, it's not a solution for a healthy game. Guests (specifically smurfing guests) currently acts as deterrents for long-time players. As explained in the original message by Plague, there were cases where the guest would follow a player to different servers to specifically target them and nothing can really be done about that. Once players understand the fundamentals of the game, even without knowing the specifics of ELO, can immediately tell if team balancing is off because of guests. You don't need to be a genius to figure out issues regarding guests. Guests smurfing are getting more common by the day, and the concept of "guests" is no longer a simple fix for players to supposedly try a "small" sample of the game.
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It's not up to you to decide on the priority of the suggestions, it's the developers. Feel free to open up your own suggestions for the issues you find around the game.
Sorry for the late reply, just trying to minimize usage of discord. Yes I do agree with both your points. But all I said was I aint leaving the game for some smurfs. As for your second. It is indeed pretty hard to do so... Maybe need to send schools Certificate showing Ur above 13 Idk. Tbh
Yes these are my opinions and were shares because I was asked to. I think the devs put rules for a reason. Things that are breaking the rules rank over hated ones like smurfing. So alts and age limit are more important than smurfing and elo farming.
It's not up to you to decide on the priority of the suggestions, it's the developers. Feel free to open up your own suggestions for the issues you find around the game.
No use trying to find solutions for under age users, alts, etc in a post that talks about guest useage.
Like I said. It may not be my decision but its my opinion. I said it matters more than smurfing. But then again. Its an opinion. Would Love to hear yours.
I just stated my opinion…
But yes, this is me officially asking you to stay on topic when it comes to these posts. If you want to talk about other issues, open up your own suggestions or add to an already-existing one.
It isn't just a hated thing, smurfing is very commonly against the rules in almost every single game you can name
I'd like to point to the famous ban wave that Valve did for a recent Christmas event in Dota 2
a lot of smurfs got coal in their gift
the coal came with the message "You have been banned for..."
and alting itself already is a form of smurfing
the most common smurfing is with guests
cause it's just that much simpler and easier to do
that's why this suggestion looks at why guests are positive, how we can keep the positives for the innocent bystander just wanting to try the game, and then purge everything else we can about the system to stop everyone else from using it improperly
Ur becoming plok

No its. ok...all g
Sorry idk bout other games but yeah.
most guest are bots
factually incorrect
bots are strictly limited to a max of 4 per match
2 per team
as humans begin to fill the server, the bots will be replaced
most guests are real human players
and the issue is not for real guests or even bots
this is about smurfs
Oof
players who are not signing in and breaking balance because they are being treated as worse than they actually are
i see
wha?
oh
let's say you have someone that has been playing a few years and is level 500
you want them on their account because the team balance will treat their account as powerful
if they make an alt, or use a fresh guest... they are treated as brand new to the game
the game balances the match assuming they are weak... meaning that team they get sent to is actually a LOT stronger than it is meant to be
if it's against you, you have a horrible time even trying to win
if it's with you, you have a boring time because you don't even have a challenge, it's just an automatic win
Why is this post still active
That is true for BR and DEC, just not classic. 4v4 is maybe closer to half and half.
So that it always stays at the top of the suggestions.
Oof
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xd
It wasn’t even him tho
Mazda RX7 voted both 🙃
great, now i look like a fool
b u m p
A week of inactivity doesn't harm, let it rest more before posting non topic.
This is now 95% of nonsense and bumping and irrelevant slogans. It is unreadable. Too much of effort to go through to find the good stuff.
This thread needs locking and cleaning. Then passed on to Joja.
Plague may have covered this in his more recent post
@subtle scarab you wanna close off this one and have the focus on your other one?
This is a part of the new
Okay he did cover it
So there will no longer be a need to “bump” this thread up. If you guys want to bump, do it for the #1375454975886622780. Leaving this open so people may add further ideas but messages other than that will be deleted. We would like Joja to focus on the ideas mentioned in this thread.
I don't really care if it's a "oh don't bump"
we must delete all guests. every server I go, everywhere, even when it's a bot server, they follow me, they target me, they come for me, and every server that don't show 4/16, you will see a smurf appear.
I wish all guests can be deleted, it leads the game to be hyper toxic, many of our greater players left the game because of that
this thing and matching have to be a priority for now to the devs. maps and cosmetics can come after. it's stupid to add cool things if there is no players to see it because all left
I think the idea is that this suggestion was replaced
so there's no point bumping this one
bumping the most up-to-date one makes more sense
title includes "megathread" in the name
how is this still alive
