Kabam we will need some information for season 2.
Riegel
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Many alliances just got their rating adjusted for account sharing. This is great and thank you.
However, a leader may not know an account is being piloted (outside of the alliance pilot). If this happens the alliance will suffer, and have no way of knowing who to kick to fix the problem.
There has to be some way for an alliance leader to find out those who pay for outside help account sharing or have more nefarious motivations.
An account could be purchased by a competing alliance, and get a put into my alliance to cause war rating adjustments to happen to my alliance throughout the season.
You may think this isn't a likely scenario, but you'd also think one person playing hundreds of accounts every way isn't likely as well, and that happened.
However, a leader may not know an account is being piloted (outside of the alliance pilot). If this happens the alliance will suffer, and have no way of knowing who to kick to fix the problem.
There has to be some way for an alliance leader to find out those who pay for outside help account sharing or have more nefarious motivations.
An account could be purchased by a competing alliance, and get a put into my alliance to cause war rating adjustments to happen to my alliance throughout the season.
You may think this isn't a likely scenario, but you'd also think one person playing hundreds of accounts every way isn't likely as well, and that happened.
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If an alliance mate gets banned their privacy is already gone. We just need that privacy safety net to go away a little sooner. Yes, it goes against their current policy, but their current policy doesn't allow for corrective action by an alliance, unfortunately.
This situation is frustrating because:
1) Consequences are currently not enough to stop players from cheating. We found posts made by other players about this alliance cheating in multiple pasts AWs and already having their war rating decreased by 300, yet they continued to cheat. If players are penalized for cheating and continue to cheat, then their consequences were not severe enough.
2) Now players are trying to disguise their cheating by limiting how often they hack/mod, like only doing so on difficult paths like 4-6 and 9 so that they decrease their KOs just enough to continue to win. This is further proof that consequences for cheating in AW are too mild.
3) Kabam decided the evidence my teammates provided was enough to penalize our AW opponent within 24 hours, yet they did nothing to compensate the difference in both our AW rewards and our AW rating. This loss moved us down to tier 4, cheaters continue to screw over other alliances and those who play fairly get no compensation even when they prove they’ve been cheated.
Kabam has said they care about making MCOC a fair game. The previously described situation and others detailed by other players about cheaters not being penalized makes it easier to believe that $ is more important than taking steps to make MCOC a fair game.
To the OP point, yes a temporary ban or something needs to be done when a war rating is reduced so that leadership can take appropriate action. If not chances are it will happen again and probably destroy an alliance, people will leave to get away from the cheater instead of him/her being kicked.
Our war rating has been restored so we’re back to tier 3. Last I had checked when I wrote my earlier post that was not the case. Thank you Kabam for taking action before AW Season 2 matchmaking had begun.
I agree if a mod or hack is ever used it should be 0 tolerance and a perma ban.
Leadership of an alliance HAS to be able to make corrective action. It is 100% necessary now.
Except the Accounts still stay visible when someone is banned. It's the Members who divulge that fact. It would be very easy for Allies to deduce who it was by seeing them inactive after War Rating went down. Then it could open them to all kinds of abusive behaviour that could follow them into new Allies, leaving them blacklisted. Just one reason why privacy is important. Either way, they're not likely going to divulge that information because they don't discuss actions taken. For that matter, it's important to know your Ally. All these cases of people being surprised, I find it hard to believe no one knew. Not that I'm implying it in your case. Just that there are so many now. Someone had to know something. It's not hard to tell. People talk. People brag. The first sign for me would be if someone is clearing Bosses and Nodes without losing Health, or if they don't communicate at all.
The privacy thing will be used as an excuse to make an alliance fail in season 2. People will do whatever they can to win. If the leaders of an alliance have no way of correcting an issue guess what it doesn't get corrected. If the account gets banned and it's not at the last war of the week, then that player will not place new defense and will lose an alliance 2 wars instead of 1. This is unacceptable in a competitive environment.
Yeah I love when I watch sports and they throw a flag on the play. It’s always funny cus the coach is like why’d you give us a penalty flag? And the ref says “I can’t tell you that. 5 yard penalty 1st down.”
It’s not an important rule or policy. Many games display banned accounts as banned. It’s highly highly exploitable to have this policy in place and it’s potentially very damaging to alliances.
The rule or the content needs to change. Winning wars and having one guy paying a pilot will ruin an alliance. Not being able to have the information to fix the problem is horribly bad for the game.
I really hope Kabam has something in place for this type of scenario. I really hope they thought farther ahead than this.
@Kabam Miike will alliances have anyway of knowing who is causing AW penalties so corrective action can be taken?
There’s nothing convincing any of you can say to prevent what is going on in here, so have some self-control and pretend it’s all written in invisible ink.
You always seem to be on the disagreeing side of everything,You know?
So @GroundedWisdom you believe that if an alliance gets penalized for the actions of a cheater the cheater deserves privacy and the alliance should have no idea who caused the penalty? No recourse to prevent it from happening again?
Well,Yeah.If the cheater also got penalized,It's already breaking "privacy",And there is no "quantifiable amount" of which "privacy violation" increases,
So,There there is no reason they should punish allies and not tell the leader they cheated.
I appreciate the legal standing, but there does need to be some way to increase the visibility for alliance leaders to know what the offence was, even if they offender themselves isn't revealed.