Conquer Club

Accused:

fra.marchini

The accused are suspected of:

Other: Blatant, premeditated suicide and vindictive motives

Game number(s):

Game 15565160
https://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=15565160

Comments: We started this game in April and early on (6th round), fra.marchini made an aggressive move that scored him a massive bonus, which nearly handed him the game. It was a good move and I tried to break his bonus but was nowhere near capable, so I appealed to the group that this was it if we didn't check him.

For the next few rounds, he went after me as hard as he could and after not long, I was able to get the upper hand. After that, fra.marchini cooled off a little bit but it was clear that he was just waiting for an opportunity to hammer me and I even mentioned it in chat when another player asked for help around the 15th round.

So, I just stacked up on my jumpgate as hard as I could for the next 30 rounds and he followed suit while I outdeployed him by a few troops every round. In the attached screenshot, you can see that I have 266 troops on my jumpgate while fra.marchini has 213 and he's deploying 12 per round, plus spoils but nowhere near my stack.

Both the other two remaining players were more than 100 troops behind both of us a that point and were battling to the death. At that point, I'm fairly certain I had more troops than both of the other two players combined.

Then, nearly two months later, in round 39 (see attached) I go to take my turn and see that fra.marchini had blown everything he had in attacking me, destroying us both and handing red the game within one round.

One game can be excused, but if you look at his ratings, every so often he gets something like: vindictive - suicidal - coward - irrational - cheap tactics - backstabber (pulled directly from his ratings). It's ridiculous that four people can play one game for that long, only for some unstable moron to ruin it for everybody by going suicidal as retribution for a perceived slight from a month earlier.

This was too egregious. Foed just doesn't do it justice.

It sucks but it happens all the time. You play long enough you'll have this happen more then once.

That douchebag screwed me in this game in round 100..... all that work to be screwed so a guy could save a few points.
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But, its within the rules....

I think everyone should foe him

Regarding whether or not its within the rules, I will have to respectfully disagree BGtheBrain. I'm not sure if everyone translates this to mean the same thing but the following is quoted directly from the rules:

"Obviously any gross abuse of the game is forbidden. This includes but is not limited to: throwing games"

I understand that people suicide all the time, but this was just ridiculous. Said douchebag is not reacting out of frustration or a moment of anger, he waited 30 rounds just to screw me over with very little reason. He obviously planned it. We were both leading the game by far and I hadn't said anything to him or attacked him that entire time, other than the card spot that every one us shared. Nothing but silence for 6 weeks and then out of the blue he throws the game.

I'm not a moderator so I'm not going to suggest that he be banned or anything but this is worse than your common bs. This guy is unstable and he needs to at least be given a warning. Not to get all high and mighty but I pay for my membership and I feel like we should have at least some expectation that some action is taken to deter jerks like this from committing severe abuses of the game.

dICE man wrote:Said douchebag...

sorry... you lost me right there... well within the rules... you would have to prove that the user has done this across a multitude of games vs. many different opponents... until you do that, "suck it up, cupcake." i don't think flaming a user in the C&A forum is the way to go about this. i doubt you even notified the user that you place him within this forum... sorry, you have not shown a "GROSS ABUSE"... good luck with this... my guess, "FOE AND MOVE ON," that is all they are going to tell you to do...-Jésus noir

I'm confused, is Black Jesus on the Cheating/Abuse team or is he just serving as an omniscient consultant?

dICE man wrote:I'm confused, is Black Jesus on the Cheating/Abuse team or is he just serving as an omniscient consultant?

He is not on the team, but he is the unofficial spiritual advisor

dICE man wrote:I'm confused, is Black Jesus on the Cheating/Abuse team or is he just serving as an omniscient consultant?

just like every other active user that knows the rules well, and those that don't, i weigh in on accusations here... this is going anywhere, as i stated before...
and sorry if i come off as an authoritative über lord, i am far from it. as the most banned player on the site, i am well versed in the rules and am generally
spot on when it comes to the C&A forums... foe and move on, nothing to see here...-Jésus noir

El Jesus is here to lend a modicum of awe to an otherwise dreary, mundane world. He's also called on from time to time when divine intervention is required. He's the man to talk to when the intensity cubes come up 1s and 2s too often.

As much as it PAINS me to admit it, Owen is correct. This is a case of foe and move on if you do not like his play.

Closed.