Just posted this in a different thread; probably more useful here.

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PREFACE : Before you try anything in this post, you should make sure Tr0y hasn't made an updated script available first. That would make much more sense to use.

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I too can't live without Tr0y's excellent script ...

Heh; this is pretty amazing.

http://www.rkg-eng.com/rand/cc/Game-14790-Round-4.png

The facts:
* Yellow and Blue are the ones I'm accusing of being a multi, or -at least- having a 'secret alliance' going.
* Blue had 6 armies on New Guinea.
* Yellow had 3 armies on Indonesia ...

He's at it again:

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1031

(ref: m)

This pigfu ... well, I -try- to stay away from name-calling ... is at it again.

m

The account majorqueen signed up after Lack's verdict in the other thread that banned the first three multi accounts (theredarmy, guerredumonde, schwartz979) from playing together, and the first four ...

I was checking the XML file (first time playing the map, and trying to make sure I understand all the borders correctly, since I already got bit by the visual connection between Norway and St. Petersburg when expecting to be able to attack), and noticed that Scandinavia lists

<component>Kyushu ...

Lack,

I was wondering if there's a reason you don't abort or otherwise politely terminate games that have now-known multis in them.

If you look at

m

at first I though they were going to be smart (in light of having been discovered) and deadbeat, but instead if you look at the turns from ...

Got it; I've now found the bit at

m

about "the points formula is applied only to players who have taken a turn after Round 1", finally noticing the all-important "after Round 1" distinction.

Of course, I suppose an option here is to turn it into an inadvertent 3-on-3 game.

Hmmm. I was looking at

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=9092

...one of the games with these three characters (along with a poor fourth as their mark), and at the end all three of the offenders missed turns until two were kicked out, and they still lost points.

Already played, so still lose points, no?

Whenever I start in a new game I check up on the history of anybody new I'm playing against. In game 13815 I noticed that the last three players (theredarmy, guerredumonde, schwartz979) joined CC about the same time and have pretty much always played in the same games, and that any time they play ...