SMG Studio

Team @ SMG, you may be listening but I don't see SMG doing anything about this issue.  You make good points all very obvious ones that we all know but you are dismissing the fact that this is happening. It is one thing to have alliances but there have been multiple games where it is so obvious there is one user playing two accounts.  I just finished a game with a GrandMaster and a Master (Adalbert moonborn 5 & Alford spiff 5) in which this occurred. The moment the game started this was fishy.  I immediately noticed the similarities in the names.  Both start with an A and end with a 5.  The grandmaster was hosting the game and the master was second in the lineup.  The host kept kicking novice and beginners until there were all intermediates or experts to play against.  I completely understand this as there are too many novices and beginners that dont play with strategy and bail early on.  I do the same thing as I know losing to a novice or beginner can greatly reduce your rank.  In this situation from the start of the game, both accounts starting working on attacking one player.  Reducing them down until it was just me and both masters.  They were leaving their borders open with 1 taking over the map and only focusing on me until they blocked me in.  Due to my irritation, I just kept letting time expire with my one country while they kept piling up men at my border, not attacking one another.  Then the grandmaster just stopped attacking and piling up while the master took over the whole map until me and the grandmaster only had one territory.  The grandmaster with 40+men, my 15, and the master with the whole map.  This process went on for about 20+ moves.  Finally, the master took me out.  This was an obvious rank farming process.  It is pretty sad when someone cares more about having their title than actually having skill.  I have witnessed this type of behavior quite a few times and something needs to be changed about it.  You need to at least have a way to report players like this or give us a permanent block feature them so we can remember who they are. 

On another point, i think you need to revisit the ranking system.  I have been expert (now at intermediate) at 7000+ rank and lose one game early on to a bunch of novices and see my rank drop to 20,000+ (which i think is ridiculous) then it takes forever to move back up.  On the flip side i have beaten grandmasters and masters and barely moved up in rank.  I have won games and actually lost rank as well.  Your ranking system is very flawed.

In summary, dont play with these two accounts ((Adalbert moonborn 5 & Alford spiff 5)) and its probably best to host your own game.

so is it cheating when there is a household of 6 people, of which 3 play Risk together, take down all others, then face each other at the end?

Answer: No, it isn't.

Butthurt is butthurt

UserName: Fitz Pummel 11

Clearly playing two accounts: He is EXPERT so he knows what he is doing. He kills all the troops of the other opponents except like 4. And then its his turn after and he kills all his soldiers and gets 4 cards from him

Yeah, I left a very negative review for this game on the App store.  If the developers can't fix the AI and keep people from playing multiple accounts it's not worth playing.  Every game has people using multiple accounts or cheating on rolls.  I just played a game where I had a 8-4 advantage and couldn't finish a player off....he had one man left.  OK, sometimes you have bad luck.  But the exact same thing happened to the next player.  He had a 7 to one advantage also lost.  Then a third player came along and finished the player and took his cards. 

This absolutely ruins the game.  I don't know if that's a flaw in the game itself of just hacking but it's complete crap.