These two are suspected Secret Alliance, Conspirors and Cheats.
Suspect users: Dixie & Fireside Poet
Game number: http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=1433335
Comments: Its been a long time since I posted one of these. I used to have a good eye for multis, before CC got so big and found itself with proper multi/cheat hunters. anyway ...
Yes Dixie & Fireside Poet are vets. So am I. The game listed started in good faith. However it quickly became apparent to me that Dixie & Fireside were going very easy on each other. The only countrys they took were so they could get complete continents or bonus up. Not once in the whole game have they even made attempts to look like they were threatening each others borders.
I put this to them early on in the game chat. Obviously they denied it. "Look at my games...look at my feedback, never been accused etc etc" After this they backed off me a little and took a couple of non-meaning countrys off one another.
I left it, said I wouldn't flame them.
However, I have to go back on that im afraid as the conspiring has been so blatant. Fireside got himself europe and dixie had been in South America. Me in Aus and DC in Africa.
Now for the whole time Dixie had South America, she has had no more than 2 armys on central america. and lots of singles in america. (at one stage earlier fireside had 15 armys on southern europe. north africa had 1 on it and dixie was down to 2 or 3 on brazil. no attacks.)
Given Firesides position as the strongest later on i have to question why he hasnt took the 1r's in america for more bonus. why, even when i didnt deploy on ural bordering ukraine, why did fireside deploy on uklraine and threaten me instead of making any approach on dixie and the single countrys in america?
this allowed dixie to put all her armys on brazil and also constantly attack DC. which suited fireside just fine. now if they were doing this , they could at least announce there 'silent' alliance in game chat.
However, final confirmation came for me when i had 2 armys on kamchatka. dixie had 5 on alaska. i didnt deploy any there. thinking maybe she'll concentrate on the biggest player, Fireside, he's getting a bonus of 8, 2 more than any of the rest of us.
But no she deploys all on alaska and takes out three countrys in russia from me. on the same round Fireside then deploys on ukraine and hits all the armys i had ural. now they were bordering him but were less than what he had and he must have know id have used them to take back the countrys dixie just took.
why would you do that? to help dixie thats why. i now have nothing to attack either fireside or dixie and they can turn attention to DC. they both border him with large armys ... but they ignore each other still.
dixie had just increased her bonus..mine had gone down...fireside faced 4 armys (a 1, a 2 and a 1) to walk into South america and break Dixie if you wanted to from greenland. you could have had 15 to do it with. but you didnt.
this is when i knew you two were at it again.
now some people will say, there's no real way you can prove secret allicances etc. that's true i guess. but i know whats been going on in this game. you two know it aswell. so though you'll get away with it and deny it verily in here denouncing me as a bad loser or whatever, i have to do the one thing i can do - inform the community of your corruption.
ive now taken myself out of the game. after this round i forted nearly all my armys to yakutsk to attack dixie. i left 3 on india and 6 on siam i think. surprisingly (sarcasm on) dixie attacked my 19 on yakutsk and fireside tried to bust me in Aus!! so my 9 to Aus looks plausible to bust, but not the 4 to South America eh Fireside?? haha, pathetic. I used all my army to try to break dixie ... unfortunately i had 14 vs 2 on northwest territory and lost them all!
so poor DC now has to face the two cheats alone. but im sick of it. i coulda went on for bit longer , but id sooner spend time on here playing decent people.
both are now on my very very short ignore list. i would never play against them again. and i would advise others to be wary of playing them in singles games. they will team up against you.
Hairingtons
It should be that you can play with whomever you want, whenever you want, regardless of partners or clansmen. I don't buy the "won't even realize it" spiel. We're grown up enough to know better.