I don't know that 2 (possibly 3) games out of 4 is the same as "CONSTANTLY". The game you're in them with now Braddles is the only time you've ever played either of them and it's only in the 1st year of the game.

If you think there's something fishy going on send an email to kestas and ask him to check it out.

lol i find this amusing. CHECK ME! OMG!!!!!!!!

i agree with dangermouse braddles. they ARE italy and germany...classic allies.... what were you expecting? full out war on the first turn? this IS after a game called diplomacy. not warcraft.

I was in a game with Jahasofat in which they had a premade alliance with somebody they knew. I forget who the other person was. Jahasofat even told me.

I just checked. The other person was ChineseCommy. Jahasofat told me they were friends working together. If you will look you will notice every single game ChineseCommy has played has had Jahasofat in it.

Nevermind I must've clicked on Backstab. Baah I must look like an idiot. But I was still told by Jahosafat that ChineseCommy was his friend and that they working together.

I've never known someone be such a screaming hypocrit!!!

Who are you today Braddles31? Bradler, Gisset75, Baradler, Noonan - just to name a few? You really shouldn't throw stones if you own a glass house.

I've played with Experienced alone (without jahasofat) and he's always seemed like a legitimate player - although I'll openly admit I haven't looked into his playing history or his games played with the same people.

You however are the worst case of multi-accounting I have come across on this site, so why not follow a touch of your own advice and stop cheating yourself?

LOL gisset75's email is [email protected] .... braddles you fucking hypocrite. oh snap! its you with two accounts in the game. well whadya kno.

its actually without a doubt that you're cheating braddles. [email protected] - braddles
[email protected] - gisset 75
.... if you're gonna cheat at least be smart about it. god.

Cheaters naming cheaters while saying the site sucks. I mean, seriously braddles31, you say this site sucks, while you have playing on it since March, are cheating on it with multiple accouts, and at the same time complaining about people in inseparable alliances and that the site doesn't have IP checks. No offense, but this is kinda funny actually.

For the record - he also plays as:

Bradster - [email protected]
Noonan - although I think Kestas has now cancelled this account

and I THINK a user called "Baradler" too.

As useful as it is to point out these multi-accounts - unfortunately he's obviously a dedicated cheater, therefore I can only see him creating another number of new accounts now where he doesn't include the email address... :(

Just a bump to remind people of multi-accounters they may be unfortunate enough to be sharing games with...

IMHO this is a first rate site with one or two decidedly 2nd rate people on it!

Here here!

I've had a great time on this site as well. I don't get why people make duplicate accounts as it ruins the game play for EVERYONE. I've been lucky to only have been in one game that it was obvious that one person (claimed his brother) was playing two countries. I'm in a game with Gisset75 and two players dropped to CD after doing some very nice things for him, but I think he's got a problem now that both countries have new management. Of course now that I look for new games I check rep of those playing... here is another example of 1 player playing two accounts - willv2011 & cronos101 (check e-mail for cronus). Why why why do people do this?

I agree it is very frustrating. I joined the open game "Freedom?" after looking into the other players' history and finding no red flags. My impression was that Gissett was an established/solid player. As it turned out, he is a solid player, but he is also a cheater.

That game taught me the lesson once again of only playing password protected games. If James or any other honest player wants a game without having to put up with that bs or without being at risk of that bs, I suggest you recruit players on the Forum. I would be happy to verify based on my own knowledge whether the prospective players are straight-up, and perhaps others would be willing to vouch as well.

I only suggest this because there is a clear reluctance to create an actual list of trustworthy players.

I am very skeptical of Backstab and Jahosafat. In this game Italy is clearing using their units to help Austria instead of themselves. http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=1511

I will from now on only be participating in Password-protected games, as I'm becoming increasingly infuriated at blatant multi-accounting.

I love this game and site (Kestas has done brilliantly), but unless it becomes 1 IP per account, then I'm afraid it will always be open to abuse :(

I'm think this is a bit harsh, but get used to it. There are cheaters, hackers, and scammers in literally every single fun game on the internet. You'll get the same thing anywhere else, but currently we need at least some method of doing something about them.

Looks like braddles31 and Gisset75 are getting along famously in WAR!!!...

braddles and Gisset are the perfect example of why I can't just log IP addresses and ban every pair of accounts that has used the same IP.
I also can't ban based on cooperation, because some people might be friends outside of phpdiplomacy.net or might have developed mutual trust, and there's nothing too damaging about that.

I think the points system, and perhaps something that logs a range of things like cookies, user agents, logon times, IPs, etc, and combines them all to let me know when two accounts are suspiciously similar, would make having more than one account too difficult to be worthwhile.

I expected I'd have a new release out by now, but trust me no-one regrets having no free time over the holidays to work on my own projects more than I do. Hopefully over the longer holidays coming up in 14 weeks I'll be able to get some serious work into phpDip, perhaps with a few small features trickling in before then.

If the alleged multi-accounts make things unbearable you can join only organized password protected games, write some good code that logs various browser details and highlights suspicious stuff, or subscribe to the mailing list here [ http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=125692 ] to be notified when 0.8 is out.

As always, fastspawn is here to advocate the "cannot join a game where there is an opponent you are already playing against" policy.

fastspawn, that might be able to work now that there are so many people here.

I have taken a number of CD positions lately and playing them out for fun (Usually hurting the leader as much as I can). This is one thing anyone can do to discourage foul play and improve the game for others.

Some of these CDs are very winnable, even when another player appears unstoppable!

two words: DIPBOUNCED SUCKS.

Willigogs: no, remember i once mentioned someone who created 7 accounts just to play with themselves?

fastspawn: as always, aoe3rules is here to advocate the "cannot join a game where there is an opponent you are already playing with in 3 games" policy.

TheMahatma: clear reluctance? watch me.

I am only new on this site, but you always feel cheated in diplomacy when two form a strong alliance to win, its just part of the game, and I think people often get bitter and try to find answers.....

Saying that, I'm sure there still is some underhanded shennanigans on here as well. But also I think that if you have had a sucessful alliance with a player in one game, it would be hard to resist and alliance with them again in any future game!!

Really....
All this talk about cheating- i mean get over it.
It was said before- there is always that sort of thing so just let it be unless this site can fix it.
I know of other sites that have no issue and they are FREE sites too, so cost is not an issue or an excuse.
Anyway, when can these threads be stopped. I find the forum more of a tv soapie- in other words a repeat of the same accusations and questions, i mean- really!

@ tiger: All this talk about cheating- i mean get over it.
It was said before- there is always that sort of thing so just let it be unless this site can fix it.

In case you haven't noticed, we're trying to fix it right now!!! I know I said all that stuff about getting used to cheaters, but that's because some of them will always be able to sneak past security. Right now though, all of them get past security because there literally is no security. So, tiger, if you don't want this site to have some good anti-cheater security, suit yourself.