Why does it seem like people are constantly teaming up against me? I report and nothing happens. It's pretty obvious when it happens. It seems to happen a lot lately and my reports don't do anything.
#cheating!!!
cedar vale
proud geyser
Well I just got banned for teaming up even though I absolutely didn’t 😡 so I’m really mad
scarlet elm
pure fern
@cedar vale Teaming up is not against Fair Play rules. It's actually how the game is supposed to be played. As long as you don't personally know your opponent or have outside communication with them, then there's no reason why you can't work with an opponent. My guess is that you have an aggressive play style (breaking bonuses, hitting opponent stacks, not getting out of the way, etc). This is a very common reason why people will work together. It goes back to the saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The reason you report and nothing happens is because they aren't actually cheating. I'm not saying people don't cheat or that it hasn't happened to you, but if its happening all the time to you, it's probably you and not cheaters
cedar vale
I don't have an aggressive game though. I'm very passive. I see it all the time where 2 players will be "at war" with eachother then the second you attack one, they both go all out on me. I've played enough to know when it happens. It's super obvious.
pure fern
I don't have an aggressive game though. I'm very passive. I see it all the time ...
So they aren't hitting you for no reason. You hit one of them and they hit you back. There's also a lot more that goes into whether you get hit or not than just being passive. For example, how many bonuses do you have. If youre holding NA and SA youre going to get hit. Same can happen if you are the Australia turtle. Where are your stacks pointed. If your troops are directed at another player or you keep building up on a border then thats a threat and they might hit you for that. After the first player hits you the second player may see that as a way to get a free kill or create an alliance and trust with the other player. I honestly don't know without seeing you play, these are just examples of how it can organically happen without cheating. Maybe you're right and they are collaborating, but there's not as many collaborators as people think and if its happening all the time to you then that would make me believe that its not collaboration. From my experience, if you report them and they actually were cheating, the system is pretty good about catching them
nova vigil
Why does it seem like people are constantly teaming up against me? I report and ...
It may seem that way if you are not thinking about plays from your opponents point of view.
If it seems like they are all always attacking you. Perhaps the problem is not about what’s happening on the board but in how you are interpreting it.
It isn’t about you… don’t take it personally.
The more you are able to predict your opponents moves the less they will “offend” you.
For example:
I just hit five territories to get down to break Australia since that player was holding two continents. Now I can expect that any of the players I went through or the Australian /Europe player might hit me and maybe all of them will. Thems the breaks. You’ve got to factor the risk of that into the cost of your move.
eager berry
To be fair i have seen people deliberately lower stacks/break them and then not continue and let the person next to them get the kill or bonus leading to that player getting first in a situation where they wouldn’t have. Irl teaming do exist
nova vigil
To be fair i have seen people deliberately lower stacks/break them and then not ...
I’ve done the very plays you describe (unless you mean not continue to mean quitting the game) with no outside communication. Teaming up is part of risk.
If you piss people off you can expect that they will work together to make sure you don’t win. If a player is unwilling to advance the game or do any work against another player who is running away with the game then you can be assured that I will do my best to make sure they go out with as low a placement as possible. I will take an active second place over waiting around to get suicided into. If play for first is no longer feasible with out stalemating the game for three hours due to players not working within the balance of the game then I am going to play for second no matter who I have to team with or how dirty I have to play. I’ll roll your stack down and feed you to the bot or to the noobiest noob on the board whatever.
**See what you are saying:
That sounds like either extraordinarily incompetent play or incompetently obvious cheating.**