Multipleaccounts

The Main Rule

One BGA account = One person

Playing from the same IP

This is authorized to play at the same table from the same IP (internet address).

Despite the above statement of being authorized, this an intentional irritant to goad you into paying for premium. It is obviously trivial to bypass with VPNs and the like, and obviously provides no additional value worth paying for. It instead, makes it far more tedious to introduce new players to the BGA community while physically together.

Please strongly consider only charging for actual added value; not making BGA harder and more tedious to use and then charging to remove the very obstacles you introduced.

The warning message "this player plays from the same internet address as another player" is a simple warning. It is a useful warning, because the other players have the right to know that there are players at their table that are able to discuss out of game.

If you want to play from the same internet address as another person:

• The best option is not to play at the same table, or play at a table where you know everyone.
• Please switch off ELO (table option), so you won't be accused of cheating.
• If you play with strangers, make them comfortable with the fact you are 2 (or more) different people: don't discuss about the game outside the chatroom, don't collaborate (or do kingmaking) with your partner.

When some of your opponents are playing from the same IP:

• You may politely refuse to play with them.
• You should be vigilant and check that they are not collaborating during the game.
• You don't have to report them until they are doing a concrete kingmaking action. If you report some players saying that "they are playing from the same IP" without any kingmaking proof, we will close your report.

Boosting your ELO by playing against yourself

This is the most stupid and useless thing to do on BGA.

Why? Because this is very easy to detect, and because the penalty is:

• all your secondary account are removed.
• your primary account is reset to 0 ELO for all games.

Why this is so easy to detect:

• When you start having a very good ELO, all other good players will look at you and your game history. In the game history, this is really easy to see how you manage to have a good ELO.
• In BGA, every game can be replayed. So if a game is suspect, anyone can replay it and check if this is a real game or a fake game.
• In addition to this, we are using some automatic methods and some technical information that allow us to check if "one person = one account".
• Consequently, it happens that some players manage to do ELO boosting, but at the end they are all detected and reset to 0. This is why this is a waste of time for everyone, and this is why this is useless.

If you have a lot of time to spend, please try to get better at this game and please do not try to cheat.

忙郎中文机器翻译：

主要规则 一个BGA帐户=一个人。 警告消息“这个玩家与另一名玩家在相同的网络地址”是一个简单的警告。 这是一个有用的警告，因为其他玩家有权知道有玩家在他们的桌子，可以一起讨论游戏。 如果你想从相同的网络地址和另一个人玩，最好的选择是不在同一张桌子上玩，或者玩的一张桌子上，每个人你都认识。 如果跟你玩的是陌生人，让他们确认你们是2个不同的人：不讨论游戏，不与您的合作伙伴合作。 当你的对手是来自同一个IP：你可以礼貌地拒绝和他们一起玩。 你要提高警惕，检查他们游戏中不合作。 你不需要报告他们直到他们作弊。如果你报告说“他们是在同一IP”却没有任何证明，我们将关闭你的报告。 在对提高你自己的ELO方面，这是最愚蠢和无用的东西。为什么？因为这很容易识别，而且会有刑罚： 你所有的帐户被删除。您的主帐户所有游戏分值都将被重置到0以下。 “一个人就是一个帐户”。 如果你有很多时间，请尝试在这方面做得更好的游戏，请不要试图欺骗。