Sep 2nd 2018, 22:07:29
I don't know if #24 was coordinating. I hit a guy 1 time and he went full on war with me. I smashed him and I was at the end of a kill run and I miss calculated by 10 turns. In the hour I was waiting, #24 swooped in and scooped up the kill. He deprived me of the satisfaction of killing my enemy, but I never sent a message to him or anything. I did a search on #24 and he had 5 kills (pretty impressive if they were clean kills, like the one he sniped from me). Never spoken a word ever to that guy (or gal). No idea who they are. He may or may not have done the same in other instances.
I've only done 3 runs this past month since retiring from the game 20 years ago. I was on the business end of what I suspected was Ratski multi-account attack. I didn't have anything solid so I didn't report it at the time, but it was suspicious and reading this thread solidifies this in my mind.
It's obviously a tough job for the moderators. It would be difficult to definitively prove anything and I feel for them. This leads me to the conclusion that there has to be some self policing by the community.
This is a heads up for the moderators. I am going to be trolling the news, looking for people who are being jerks (i.e. full on, multi-hit retaliation for 1 time attacks), and if its obvious, I'm going to join the fight against these coordinated attacks. There ain't going to be any "collusion" on my end on behalf of the aggrieved. I'm just going to do it when I see it. Don't be a jerk, don't coordinate, and there won't be any interventions from me.