All of these things are considered to be cheating. You shouldn't be getting game-specific help from anyone who is not involved in the game.

Also, it'd be great if we didn't brainstorm ways to cheat in a public forum.

Since you're using a CLOT now, you actually might have the tools necessary to curb account cheating if you're able to figure out how to make people go to your CLOT site often enough. Record the IP of visiting players and set up a system to alert yourself if your record of an IP address associated with a WL account changes significantly.

Far from perfect, although you might be able to use it in conjunction with other techniques and maybe some anomaly detection algorithms (not sure what features to start with on those, though)... But Beren's right; decency will ultimately have to be left to the participants because getting away with cheating here will never be that hard.

When their is reward, People who don't have morals will cheat. Take the typical scenario, CL is pressuring for some players as your representing your clan and need to win games for your clan. Some players will cheat like the "brainstormed" ways in this chat. Cheating happens everywhere. I guarentee some form of cheating happens in every CL. "Trusting decency" that phrase always reminds me of the Olympics and Lance Armstrong. Where the cheating is so bizzare it ruins the legitmacy of the sport! Luckily WarLight is not that bad... Though even if it was, Very hard to detect so we actually don't know how "Bad" it is.

If their is any tool to detect cheating it should be highly considered and implemented. Though, Luckily WarLight is a strategy game and on high skilled games. So, Division A + B wouldn't be effected. But for Q1 Q2 Q3 there would be a considered advantage in sharing screenshots.

If it happens in ladders , Why can't it happen here?

The UK is leaving the EU, America elected it's first Orange president, and technology is getting so advanced that it's becoming somewhat scary. In a world that changes so much, let's all be glad that some things never do, such as Platinum being unable to speak even one language right.

Plat, your broken english is one of these little things that makes the world warmer. Btw, if you didn't understand not a single phrase that he wrote, don't worry, neither did I!


PS: in order to keep this jewel for the next generations, and to avoid some angry irish platatoe from hiding the truth, I have safely stored a print of it in the internet: https://i.snag.gy/SOk1aF.jpg

I'm the Sean Paul of WarLight. Will you ever come to our Skype chat? Most of the missed messages was how much of a great person *cough* Wanker *cough cough* Wow! Who said that.. Come so I can welcome you with compliments and shit.

Some of us assume that Warlight actually is that bad.

Sorry for being a pessimist.

Only because you play...






Can we just take a moment to acknowledge what I just did there? It's just the Division A effect... I'm now the A level of trash talking.

Conglatz for that, Prat! :)

So rude TeamGuns...

Games Finished:



3v3:

• Europe
  ONE! picks up a crucial win against Outlaws due to a boot(MarkusBM). The game was quite even with Outlaws enjoying an income advantage, although ONE! had good position. Outlaws will be bitterly disappointed with a boot against a direct rival. This is their second loss on EU through a boot. I thought they would be one of the most reliable clans this season. What do I know!
  
  
• Deadman's Rome
  Turtles pick up an unlikely win against ONE!. DanWL got booted on turn 5 and seems to have refused to take over. He has left the clan, and been substituted. This was a 14 turn game and Turtles remarkably pulled through with an AI! They'll be hoping for lesser drama in their remaining games in this tournament.
  

2v2:

• Final Earth
  ONE! beats Lynx to pick up their first win in this tournament. Beren and Wick defeat Arkanton and GreenTea. I'm going to count this as an upset coz I know Beren sucks! Lynx have a 1-2 record and will hope for a better showing in the remaining games.
  
  Turtles beat Blitz as USA Biches + Oh recover after their first loss to post three consecutive wins. They have a 3-1 overall record.
  

1v1:

• Volcano Island
  Masters beat Turtles with USA Biches booting on turn 3 in a game where he had an income advantage. Jz posts her first points of CL9.
  
  
• Strat Greece
  French suffer two heavy losses as Marechal Lannes doesn't join his games in the allotted three days. He has now been substituted. Lynx and Master benefit to pick up free wins.
  
  ONE! picks up a win against Blitz as PJ017 gets his first win on Greece. This game was decided on a boot as well with linberson the culprit this time. PJ017 probably had a positional advantage though.
  
  
• Guiroma
  Bananashake(Blitz) doesn't join his 2 games on time to gift Outlaws and ONE free wins.
  
  Turtles beat French as Buns picks up his first win on a short game lasting 3 turns.
  
  ONE defeat Outlaws as PJ017 picks up his second win to go 2-0.
  

Standings:



Masters pick up two fortuitous wins on 1v1s to preserve their unbeaten record this season. They occupy the first spot with a 9-0 record thus far.

Lynx have a mixed week with a 1-1 record. They're sitting comfortable in the 2nd spot. However, they'll need Masters to drop points to keep the pace.

ONE has the best week among all clans as they go 5-1 to race up to 3rd. They have a good lead on the clans in the relegation zone and may re-evaluate their goals this season.

Turtles have a good week with a 3-1 record. The boot loss was avoidable, but overall they will be pleased with the previous week as they climb up the table to 4th.

French have a bad week as they lose three 1v1s. The non-joins were unfortunate and they'll look for more reliability from their substitute. They also slip to 5th on the back of good results for their competitors.

Outlaws have a 1-2 record this week with a bad boot loss which may come back to haunt them in their fight against relegation. They need to keep pace with the pack of clans above them.

Blitz's nightmare season continues with four losses this week. They need to turn this around and the first step would be to join the games and not get booted!

Horse Race:


Edited 4/18/2017 00:07:28

I would like to substitute Bananashake on Guiroma 1v1 with Memele and on Guiroma 2v2 with (I will edit in a few min).

Bananashake	https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=4117039487
Memele 		https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=2914532409

edit: 2v2 sub = waka https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=4213603571

Edited 4/20/2017 15:23:07

Made some performance improvements to decrease the time taken by each update cycle. If you notice any problems with the CLOT, let me know.

Update #13 - April 22nd:

I'm back.

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  
  
  • French defeat Blitz. Blitz moves back again to tie with ONE! for last place.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / MASTERs: 1-0, Outlaws: 1-0 / French: 2-1 / Turtles: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-3, ONE!: 0-3
  
  
• Europe:
  
  
  • ONE! pick up their second win, beating Turtles in a rather interesting match-up. With this win, ONE! move to tie with first place courtesy of their two wins in consecutive weeks, while Turtles fall to tie with last place. Also, my OCD is very appeased as there are three clans tied for both first and last place who haven't played each other yet, while French sits at the middle with an even score of one win and one loss. Screens<span class='burning'>hot</span> it now, becuase it's not going to happen again (probably).
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 2-0, MASTERs: 2-0, ONE!: 2-0 / French: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-2, Outlaws: 0-2, Turtles: 0-2
  

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2v2 -

• China:
  
  
  • Turtles continue their <span class='burning'>hot</span> streak by defeating ONE!, displacing Masters (2-0) in first place. ONE! fall to tie with Outlaws in second-to-last place; both have a score of 1-2.
  
  Standings ~ Turtles: 3-0 / MASTERS: 2-0 / French: 1-1, Lynx: 1-1 / ONE!: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:


• Outlaws break their losing streak in Guiroma by getting a whack at the Blitz pinata. They swap places with Blitz to move to 4th place, while Blitz falls to 5th.

Standings ~ French: 3-0 / MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Lynx: 2-2 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3 / Turtles: 0-2


• Final Earth:
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 3-1 / Outlaws: 1-1 / French: 1-2, Lynx: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  
  
  • Nynwhen continues Outlaws' losing streak on Volcano Island, losing to both Master Jz of MASTERs and awesomeusername of Blitz. Jz moves to first at 2-0, while Nynwhen loses half of their 6 playable games on Volcano Island. awesomeusername has Blitz's only positive record so far.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 2-0 / Blitz: 1-0, French: 1-0 / Outlaws: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:
  
  
  • In the first major boot of the season, andy903 of Lynx forgets that he doesn't get an hour grace period after his vacation runs out, and subsequently gets booted versus zarathoustra/Clint-west-wood of Outlaws and Buns157 of Turtles. Fortunately for Andy, there is a worse record in Guiroma, so he only falls to second-to-last place with these boots.
    
  • Bananashake of Blitz fails to join another two games on time, this time against Niko of French and Buns157 of Turtles. Buns gets 2 free wins, coupled with his win last week against Niko, to sit comfortably at first place with a score of 3-0. Blitz now are an unprecedented 0-4, which has not been matched by any clan in any other tournament.
    
  • master of desaster of MASTERs beats Niko of French. Without his free win against Bananashake, Niko would be tied with Andy at 0-2.
  
  Standings ~ Turtles: 3-0 / ONE!: 2-0 / MASTERs: 1-0 / Outlaws: 2-1 / French: 1-2 / Lynx: 0-2 / Blitz: 0-4
  
  
• Strategic Greece:
  
  
  • Marechal of French is able to join his game on time after failing to join his first two games, but still isn't able to pick up a win, instead losing to Turkish of Turtles. Marechal drops to 0-3.
    
  • Turkish of Turtles also beats Krzysztof of Outlaws, increasing his score to 2-0. This is Krzysztof's first completed game.
    
  • PJ017 of ONE! picks up a critical win against Master Jz from MASTERs, also increasing his wins to two, and tying with Turkish for first place in Greece. Jz now has one win and one loss each.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 2-0, Turtles: 2-0 / Lynx: 1-0 / MASTERs: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-1, Outlaws: 0-1 / French: 0-3
  
  
• African Elitism:
  
  
  • Memele of Blitz picks up two losses, one against master of desaster of MASTERs (the creator of AE [rigged]), and the other against Muli of ONE!. Memele drops to last place with these two losses.
    
  • In the most entertaining game of the week, Hades of Lynx beats Buns157 of Turtles. Some crazy delays in this game, and all-around great moves. This is Buns' first loss in all his CL games so far, showing how good he's playing currently.
    
    Here is the link to the game for those interested: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=13295274
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 1-0, MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 0-1 / Blitz: 0-2
  
  
• Phobia:
  
  
  • Andy continues his vacation misfortune into another tournament, getting booted against both Turkish of Turtles and Master Jz of MASTERs. Jz is now in three 1v1 tournaments after she subbed out Panagiotis's Phobia slot (and she's also been very fortunate with the boots!).
    
  • On the flip side for Turtles, Turkish also loses to malakkan of ONE!, putting him at a win and a loss each this week. malakkan moves to tie with Jz in first place.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE: 1-0 / Turtles: 1-1 / Lynx: 0-2
  
  
• Strat ME:
  
  
  Strat ME started on Wednesday, April 19th. No games have been completed so far.
  
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              49          237            =
2nd          ONE!                 40          217            ▲▲▲
3rd          Lynx                 47          208            ▼
4th          Turtles              47          204            =
5th          French               41          203            ▼▼
6th          Outlaws              23          195            =
7th          Blitz                11          158            =

Masters (1) benefit further from the boots this season, picking up a free win from their former 2nd place competitor Lynx. Jz and master of desaster also contribute 6 points each by winning two games for a total of 12 additional points to Masters' TP. However (and this is the most important news of the week), they have finally been defeated! The honor goes to PJ017 for defeating Master Jz in Strategic Greece. Wowee!

ONE! (2) SHOOT up, doing astoundingly well with a 4-1 score this week and total net gain of 10 points! They pass Lynx's Points Contested Percentage, in part due to Andy's boots, to claim second place with their tremendous performance so far.

Lynx (3) suffer badly, with Andy getting booted in a total of 4 1v1 games. Hades saves Lynx's week from being a total trainwreck by picking up a win against a tough opponent in African Elitism.

Turtles (4) have a busy week, going 5-3 in total. They have a net gain of only two points even though they won two more games than they lost due to one of their losses in 3v3 Europe (the highest weighted point category). However, Turtles, as expected, are starting to pick up a lot of their points from 1v1 games - their forte - and are tied with Masters and ONE! for most 1v1 points currently.

French (5) break even at 2-2 this week, however, they also have a net gain of two points due to their win in RoR being worth 2 points more than their other completed 1v1 games.

Outlaws (6) do modestly this week, with 2 wins and three losses (all losses from 1v1 games). Despite this fact, their net point loss this week was only -2, in part due to one of their wins coming from a higher weighted 2v2 game.

Blitz (7) just keeps slipping, coming close to passing under the 150 MP mark now. They are 1-6 this week.





I will now be updating every Wednesday as well, as the pace of games continues to grow exponentially.

Also, thanks to Deadman who took care of my scorekeeping duties while I was busy failing my exams.

Edited 4/23/2017 05:31:50

Awesome update.

We have to start winning more games then losing in these upcoming weeks to shorten the gap between us and the clans above. Masters look unstoppable at the moment with a crazy start and ONE! Being 2nd is also wasn't expected.

I doubt anyone expected CL to be like this...

Wow! I am proud that I am a (not very active though :|) member of the ONE! :D
Guys, that is incredible performance so far! I guessed you will be decent in the team games, but I wouldn't have thought this awesome start in the 1vs1 tourneys :O
Keep it up! I'm very support for you guys!

Here's how much clans have been affected by boots (ignoring boots where booted team was 
at a disadvantage):

            Points Gained    Points Lost     Net
Masters           18             0           18
Turtles           17             3           14
One               11             0           11
Outlaws           10             5            5
Lynx               3            12           -9
French             3            14          -11
Blitz              0            28          -28

Masters and One doing exceptionally well and have not had a single boot (in a game they weren't 
losing already) this league. Turtles and Outlaws also not too bad with a single boot each 
(again in games they weren't already losing). 

The positions without these boots:

1 Masters    92.7%
2 Lynx       71.4%
3 French     62.3%
4 One        52.5%
5 Turtles    45.5%
6 Outlaws    24.5%
7 Blitz      15.3%

Actually quite evenly distributed there, but quite clear French have suffered the worst, 
with boots costing them a podium spot and pushing them into 5th. Lynx also has a significantly 
better point percentage without boots, but doesn't actually lose any position due to French's 
boots and the large gap between lynx and ONE. Blitz is still quite far off outlaws even without 
the boots. 

But congrats to ONE and Masters. Hopefully they can keep a clean sheet bootwise throughout the league.

Edited 4/25/2017 19:26:07

You missed the most recent bootwave by tacky :/

Edit: Nevermind then ;)

Edited 4/25/2017 19:51:58

somebody in Masters managed to get booted 8 times in 2 games last season, can you do better plebs?

Oh yeah, dammit tacky, invalidating my stats like that, not cool. I think it was just the 1 game against you MoD. The others were all team games. But Ouch.

To be fair, their was no boot to AI in EU, which has severely limited our booting capacity. Fricking rigged if you ask me.

Disappointing for us with Tacky. The clan is very disappointed with recent developments of Tacky, Gets booted in all CL games , Suddenly goes inactive puts vacation on and leaves no message.

This is how he repays me, when the guy is relied on to replace some of his fellow clan mates giving all the reasons in the world to be included.

Apologies to clans directly involved and to the CL organisers for potentially rruining a relegation fight. This will haunt me for the rest of CL and will lead to me being taking as less risk as possible.

Kids will be kids, Just kick them and move on.