Send them all the evidence you've gathered as well, as that will help them act.

how do I contact a moderator?

^via e-mail

Did you read my message or what?

yes thanks. moderator has been contacted. many thanks

@Balaran: What may look like suspiciously well-coordinated moves might be high quality players correctly guessing other's intentions. Once Lando and I were accused of meta-gaming because we struck up many profitable alliances in our gunboats - but I can assure you that was not the case, and we were just adept at playing in gunboats.

Having said that, I just saw the final convoy in your most recent game: gameID=70229 and am indeed very surprised to see such well-coordinated moves.

yes Austrian convoy from syria to STP , convoyed by turkey and Italy. This was gunboat!!

Yeah, after looking at the play it is terrible and shocking - that convoy wreaks of [edited out for forum's sake]. I was in that game but unfortunately I forgot I had joined when the game started, missed the first turn, expected everyone to cancel or draw - as is etiquette in such situations - but expected in vain and decided to just withdraw from the game as quickly as possible to continue with my studies. I was very disappointed with that game and based on the poor etiquette it doesn't surprise me to see this sort of behaviour as well.

Please discontinue the cheating accusation on these forums.

i complained about dimitar and falcon before and no one got back to me

defo something wrong there

I love the Tri->Syr convoy in Spring 1907. Diplomacy at it's best.

falcon has played 31 games and in 10... thats 1 in 3 of them, dimitar was playing as well

bit of a coincidence?

look at the recent games as well-

STOP MAKING CHEATING ACCUSATIONS IN THE FORUM.

where are the mods- they have been really absent lately.... ive seen a few games ive emailed them about and ive got nothing back

The mods are unpaid volunteers. You need to give them time to investigate. If you haven't had any response to a complaint within 4-5 days, by all means email again with a reminder - but you can't expect a same-day response to every single email.

stop cheating Jamiet

*Im not making a cheating accusation, I just enjoyed looking at the game* disclaimer ;) :I took a look at the gunboat game you guys were talking about, wow.. Entertaining piece of gunboat, LMAO.

I'm also quite new to the site and i wanted to join that same game you referenced last night, but I didnt because a week ago I was also in a live game that is still under investigation. So I thought I'm not gonna risk my points in another possible fix, I'm glad I didnt. I guess its just impossible to play live gunboat at these low point stakes, without being suspicious of unfair interference, its really a pity.

What I dont get though is that when the mods found a game to be subject of cheating they dont delete it and give the points back. Maybe a more veteran player can tell me why? Is that too much programming/maintenance work for them? Or is the site unable to process that? Any other reason?

I guess the solution is that we should make live games with passwords to check who joins..

The mod powers don't include the ability to cancel a game after the fact, and all programming and moderation on this site is purely done on a volunteer basis. No one is getting compensated, not even Kestas. Our donations all go to paying for the hosting servers. So unless you are a programmer and want to make those mod powers a priority, I'm afraid it will have to wait until someone else does.

Ok.. I was just curious. I thought maybe there was another reason than just a practical one.

I know the Mods and the creator of the site are all volunteers. Pretty awesome volunteering!

BTW: I was wondering how you can donate? I havent come across it on the site. I'd be def willing to, considering the good time this site has brought me so far.

found it!

OK, folks.
First, as said by others, please do NOT make cheating accusations in the forum.
Second, we are volunteers. We work when we have free time. Investigating meta and multi isn't something we can do in a couple minutes. It requires an investigation, and sometimes communication back and forth between mods.
Third, we aren't required to tell the accusers everything that is going on. I, personally, usually send an email saying I'm looking into it and that's it. Decisions and such that are made are done to the accused players. I don't try to go back and let the original accuser know what the punishment is if there is one. The last thing I want is people saying "I've accused 15 people, and all were found guilty" or some gaming of the system/status symbol. We try to even things out, but we can't always do it perfectly.

If you think this is simple or cut and dry, you are mistaken. If there is cheating and it isn't blatantly obvious from all the things we check, odds are, the person won't be punished until after the game in which he/she is accused. Like I said: It takes time.

Please be patient. We'll get to it. Don't expect it to be a quick process. We get a dozen accusations a day and at least 60-75% of them are strong enough to warrant an investigation... which takes days. So it can be a slow process, but we'll get to your issue.

^
I also feel people need to learn to shrug and move on sometimes. Shit happens.

fortknox-

how many mods are there in total?

is there anything we can do to increase numbers or just help?

Apologies for starting this thread in the forum but I'm new to the site and could find no way of contacting a moderator. The forum was my last port of call and I didnt mention any names!

Cockney, we just added mods, but thanks anyway.

FK +1.

In fact I +1'd like 10 posts in this thread lmao.

how many mods are there then? (out of interest)