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Multiple accounts or avatars

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:36 PM

  renniw52:

  To the ones with multiple accounts I hope the fleas of a thousand camels infest your pubic hair and then you have to slide down a razor blade into a pool of salt water to rid yourself of them.

  I'm laughing so hard....I don't think I'll hit the ding all night.

  tbe

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Jun 21 2011 4:50 PM

  The whole thing is goofy. I quit improving long ago. I hit almost every fairway, most of the greens, with a short game to die for, and I make no putts. If I started over, what would change?

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Fri, Jun 24 2011 8:48 AM

  Even with CC registration, many people have multiple CCs, ergo option to create multiple accounts.

  SweetiePie:

  with a short game to die for, and I make no putts. If I started over, what would change?

  Well, you'd be doing it against hacks and amateurs that also can't putt.

  Yeah, discovery and proof is the hang up.  And the staff says "If you think someone is cheating, send us a screen shot."  What am I supposed to screen shot?  The scorecard that shows he shot a 30 at BPB the day he joined?  The screen that shows that after 5 days here he is carrying a 60 average?

  I know this is not a new player.  You know this is not a new player.  WGT knows this is not a new player.  But no one can prove it.  Even if it had the same IP and same CC paying for it... "It's my son's account.  I pay for it.  Different e-mail address."  There is no way to prove it.

  My solution would be to include MPCs in total winnings, and have a function where players would tier up based on winnings and/or average.  Once you win, say hypothetically 300c as a hack, you automatically tier to amateur, regardless of average.  The alternative being tier based ceilings to winnings.  You can only win x at this tier before you can no longer enter credit tourneys "You have used your allotted credit-prize tournaments for your tier.  To play more, move up to the next tier."  Either way, MPCs need to start being part of total winnings.

• BustaSpliff 417 Posts

  Fri, Jun 24 2011 8:59 AM

  I Played a Hack yesterday  he has been playing 3  months and hes on level  72!! is this  possible?

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Fri, Jun 24 2011 10:55 AM

  There was a hack on the community spotlight just now.  Started June 13th.  11 days ago.  Now level 40.  Three days after he started, he shot 32 in a credit winning tourney.  Has never shot above par, recently shot a 58 at Kiawah.

  11 days ago... 58 at Kiawah.  And WGT can do nothing?

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Fri, Jun 24 2011 3:14 PM

  JaLaBar:

  11 days ago... 58 at Kiawah.  And WGT will do nothing.

  There ya go, JLB.. Fixed it for you.

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Fri, Jun 24 2011 3:52 PM

  JimmyS3:

  Thre are masters and legends competing as amateurs and pros with the best equipment

   

  You found out my secret, but you have it reveresed.

   

  I'm  legend playing like a Am. 

• TarheelsRule 5,560 Posts

  Mon, Jun 27 2011 10:07 AM

  Regarding Avatars comments about WGT's motives, he is on target.  Having worked for a very large Fortune 100 company in the front of many acquisitions and a few partial dispositions as well, I can say that customer base is very important and it is looked at long and hard.  You might have 1 million customers but all that matters is the active ones and what their volume is.  Since WGT never clears it's customer base by deleting inactive accounts, you get a sense of many more players but anyone who was interesting in buying and / or investing in WGT would see that very quickly.  WGT has no real incentive to clean up these accounts since they don't really hurt and if that player comes back it is good not to have to go through the set up again.

  Not much that can or will be done about multiple accounts.  The only restriction at this point is an email address and that takes a few minutes to create.  

• Chizzleface 3 Posts

  Tue, Jun 28 2011 7:41 AM

  The easiest way to stop the cheating is to stop the competing for credits aspect of the game. If the cheaters can't scam credits off people then there's no point in them setting up new accounts.

• KENNY2534 10 Posts

  Tue, Apr 28 2020 2:28 PM

  Thanks for the information regarding cheaters and the lack of wgt to deal with it .

  if its about money...................................well........u won't get mine