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Fair Play Rules

Update: Please note that this is an old version of our Fair Play Rules. To view our most recent version, please visit this page: https://smgstudio.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/11000090958-fair-play-rules


Fair Play Rules

To clear up any confusion in the community on what constitutes cheating we have the following Fair Play Rules.

  1. Hacking the game, in any way, is (considered) cheating.

  2. Using multiple accounts in the same game (to gain an advantage over other players) is (considered) cheating.

  3. Playing with someone you know in Global Domination is cheating.

  4. Abusing a bug or glitch or knowingly encouraging abuse of these is cheating.

  5. Creating a negative experience for other players, by actions such as spamming excessively, refusing to end games, intentionally disrupting gameplay, delaying gameplay (stalling), or abusing our reconnection system intentionally, is cheating.

  6. Don't play with anyone you know or have external communication with in Global Domination. Use Play Friends or risk a ban!

 


If you wish to play with people you know please use the Play with Friends mode. If you still wish to play with friends against real opponents, this must still be done via Play Friends. Please use the RISK Community's #looking_for_game feature at https://discord.gg/risk 

 

What happens when a player is reported for any of the above?

The following action will be taken if they are found to have broken these rules; 

  • If the player was (found) hacking, they will be banned from RISK entirely.

  • Although we try to warn new players who might not be aware of the rules, such a warning is not guaranteed. You might be banned by automatic or semiautomatic systems before receiving such warning.

  • Should a player be banned - Their leaderboard position and rank points are completely removed. All games they have participated in for the current season, will have game results re-ordered so that they are placed last. All of their opponents will see this minor bonus.

 

FAQ

Q: How do I report a player?

A: Report in-app by clicking on their avatar and clicking on the red triangle icon under their name in the Alliance Window. If you come across any suspected hacking - Create a support ticket at http://smgstudio.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/new with the names of the players.

 

Q: Why can't I team up with my friends in Global Domination?

A: We take a "act as you would like to be acted towards" approach here. It is unfair to team up against unsuspecting player who believe they are entering a fair “free for all” game. The ranking system is designed for “free for all” gameplay, not teams.

 

Q: Will you be adding a team mode in the future?

A: Yes it’s our goal to release a team mode that allows you to play with friends or random allies against another team. No ETA on this currently, but you can find information here http://smgstudio.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/11000009600 .

 

Q: Will more be done to prevent cheating?

A: Yes, we are currently rolling out a full suite of anti cheating features. Some have already been implemented and it’s logging play now. 


Q: What is the difference between forming alliances with stranger and forming one with friends? 

A: There is a difference between: the informal, temporary alliances forged and broken throughout the game (which, with all its betrayal, is an integral part of RISK) and starting a game with a friend or relative as well as strangers in there. This is intentional ganking and will not be tolerated. If you just want to play for the fun of it with your friends, start a "Play with Friends" game against AI opponents.

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I've won 50%of my games...was an expert well on my master.50%of my wins are against intermediate and fellow expert.....until i got discipline back down to novice. 2 days ago.....snowday today...back up to intimidate....LETS PLAY
There are not a whole lot of masters or GM out there. Right now GM rank is somewhere around the top 2000 and Master extends out to about the top 8000 (2000 to 8000 are GM) Ranks are based on points so as more players come into the game, the number of masters and grandmasters increase from sucking points away from the lower ranks that never go anywhere.

Right now, the best way to play anyone with any high rank is to create a game and just sit there and boot novices and beginners until the game fills up. A lot of times people are impatient and ditch you. I typically only play intermediate+ and I would really prefer expert+ but it's so difficult to get people to wait that long. Usually it's luck of the draw that a bunch of experts and masters join together and I think they may be related parties a lot of the time. By the way, when booting people, you need to do it when the game is full and wait a moment before opening the slot back up or it will potentially cause a server error not allowing some slots to join. I have to use my phone with another account to occasionally check the final slot if nobody joins after 10-15 seconds just to be sure it didn't get that error.

SMG really needs to make a better system than just game creation and joining. They need to at least let us name ours so I can name my game something like Expert+. But even better would be filters so game creators can just block anyone below or above a certain rank. And also for those looking through games to see only games they are allowed into. Hell, even make categories where you list your games that can be based on rank. They could also create an auto-join function that matches up similarly ranked people but I don't have my hopes up for them to do anything complicated like that. And during dead times we may never get games going that way. It really is difficult because there's so many options with turn time, manual/auto, maps, number of players... Their current auto function just throws you into a random game. Anytime I've ever used that I find myself in a game with 3 players and the other 2 are the same guy ganging on me.

If you don't care about your rank, you should still care about playing people of similar skill. This game really sucks when you play novices. They do the dumbest things, which usually mean an easy win and thus a boring game or they stupid attack you and cause you and them to lose due to a no logic approach. I'll admit that sometimes I just felt like pissing people off, made a novice account and went and picked on the highest ranked player in the game. Another way to figure out cheaters is when you have 0 cards and everyone but the one you're picking on destroys you lol

 

Just got back to intimidate...but if u would play.....like to get a try at a grandmaster...... or atleast play with one manual/progress/3min?
Im Grandmaster and its so many bad players with high rank teaming against me. 1 attacks me all the time while the other getting more troops to win. Its hard to attack the guy with most troops when the other idiot is attacking me all the time.
Just out of asking..i have played 40 games and have yet to see a master or grandmater....when and where do they play? I would like to play them
I had one with one turn in and got 100 men.......and was wiped off the board... No biggie....just went on to another game......this ranking thing is not a big thing to me .....its not like money or fame is involved ....snd ur right....cards/dice go the wrong way even the greatest will lose......

 I also think SMG should send a message to the player if they do catch you cheating. It might have more significance in making sure they won't do it again. "Your rank has been reset due to cheating. One more offense and you will be banned forever."


you know what would be cool? If they access the device's camera and take photos of you or show live video during the game. It'd give me a lot of confidence in knowing at least it's not the same guy using two suspicious players. But you wouldn't want to see me. I'm usually naked in my hot tub when I play haha.

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I have yet to experience someone making a complaint about cheating with me / SMG actually acting on it. and I've been in some scenarios where another player mysteriously does things that really help me out where I would have thought it's cheating if I wasn't me. But some players are just stupid. Or they take alliances too seriously. All my alliances mean is don't kill my troops and I will get out of your way. I let people sit on continents and do whatever the hell they want. I'm sure someone has reported before but I am 100% confident that nobody would ever find an issue with me. I don't know what SMG saw you involved in but maybe you've been playing with the same person too much and it looked bad.

 

Oh in back down to beginner (did win two this morning)...but rank doesn't mean that much to me I just love the game and have been playing it for 30 yrs....i feel bad 4 the lady who won't let me into her games anymore.....and manual/precession games are hard to come across.....think the game should give her back her status and I will just start at bottom and work back up.....and I was expert.....now playing novice and beginners .....im good...wonder how long it will take for complaint about cheating because I'm a expert but have a beginner tag.......at least when I had ranking....they knew I was good and it was up to them to play
That reminds me. I have 2 sets of players to report. I still won the games though haha.

Risk does have some form of luck involved. If you get screwed by having the last position and you don't get cards, kiss yourself goodbye. The only way to win at the last position is to not die and hope others kill each other. Easy when there's beginners because everyone is killing each other over Australia. But once you're playing masters, the game is extremely defensive and everyone is just waiting to kill you in one sweep. One of the games I was in, one idiot decided to skip a card so he'd become last. But he was in the number 3 slot. What happened? number 4 and number 5 also deferred. That left me in the number one slot to trade first of course and on my next turn I had cards again. All 3 sitting there with 5 cards were destroyed and one other only had 3. The remaining guy was dead meat. Newbies haha.

4 player games are different though. It's more political. You need to generate troops but not appear too strong. And be friends with everyone. Taking cards has less value early in the game so you need to lurk around and wait and hope others will beat each other up. That's not required in 5 and especially 6 player games because the rapid progression of troop gain from cards completely obliterates any benefit to fighting for a continent.

So yeah, I catch people cheating a lot. But that doesn't mean they win. It's usually the unskilled who cheat. And I do not pity them for fueling my victory by not killing each other to become stronger.

 

Well do of none of that.....wprked hard to get to intimidate only to busted down to novice...and u must know it's hard to win.....if the cards don't get u...the dice will....one game I'm a intimidate next morning in a novice....only thing I did was be betrayed by my Alliance red and bypassed purple on all out blitz.....oh and after removing red i crushed purple with turn in and won game....im assuming red was sore loser and complaned.....i just wanted my day on court....i was never asked about it and to beat all....purple who is a stunning lady got the same punishment (I looked at her record...beginner down to novice)and i dont know her...just look at profile pic...and u too would be easy on her
Matt- Your talk of playing with ‘emotion’ Seems disingenuous and has nothing to do with what we’re talking about. Cheaters are either one person playing multiple Players or different players coming into a game pre-planned to get rid of anyone else. And even more insidious aspect of this game are usually masters or grandmasters who know how to freeze the game and hack into it so that when they are losing they are able to cancel the game out for everyone. That my friend is cheating and if you’re doing that,you would be a cheater
But I can see... your point guy... I do play a lot with a purple she makes games where is manual placement Progressive which is not a common game in your game... And I'm a guy and purple is a girl so maybe I have been guilty of let us say flirting for lack of a better word... so I can see how me taking it easy on her at times can be construed as cheating... Your comment has been taken under advisement and I will be making the appropriate adjustments although I can't change the way I play with the emotion.... may take a little time and adjustment of controlling my love of Revenge of an alliance who stabs me in the back
True my friend but In the Heat of the game ...... unfortunately I play with emotion in the game... It get down to the nitty-gritty and you attack me and piss me off I'm coming at you full force and I'm going to take you out or lose the game.... Don't care who's left on the board but if red comes in and breaks up my content of the critical part of the game when he's my Alliance...... I will remember it and when the time comes and I have enough on Men he is going to go down regardless who's on the board.... PS... Love the game don't really care about ranking..winning/losing... I just play to enjoy and have funit
During a game, I think it becomes pretty obvious when two players are not in a legitimate alliance but instead are cheating. In a proper alliance, each player is still trying to win the game. The alliance will break down as soon as one member of the alliance fears the other member is getting too strong to be beaten. If, on the other hand, one member of an alliance is making no effort to win, but instead sacrificing himself/herself so the other member will win, that is clear cheating. This is somewhat off topic, but I think SMG should also consider changing the ranking system so that winning is the only thing that matters. In other words, someone who is last to be eliminated should be treated by the ranking system the same way as the first player eliminated. This would help reduce the phenomenon that happens in a lot of games where a player makes no effort to attack the strongest player and is instead content to try to outlast the other weak players and finish “second.” So, I suggest that the scoring system be adjusted so all non-winning players are treated the same, regardless of how long they lasted. You are either the winner, or you are not.
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