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229! It takes me long enough with just one to think about.
I've had a lot of fun playing this game these past few years and been happy to pay in recent times, but I'm probably now going to stop and not renew given this glitch that makes a nonsense of the game.
It's being fixed by Dave, so don't worry.
Since all this came to light he has not been on once to comment on anything. I wonder if Dave has "muted" him as punishment
I know the teams should be gone after the update tomorrow
i haven't muted him. he seems to have muted himself on this thread...
Green arrows for everyone tmw then!!!
so far he seems to have removed 39 teams, leaving just 190
Unbelievable!
But how many more players are entering multiple teams?
This is spoiling what was, if not quite beautiful, a very good game!
Ha ha ha.
Dave, is it worth having something in the Ts & Cs about multiple teams i.e. anyone found with multiple teams will forfeit the right to win any prizes for that particular season or something?
Sounds good! But I would go further and disqualify the culprit from everything!
But then I am not particularly computer savvy and don't know how easy it is to police this issue!
Enrique has in the past been a pain in the rear however some ppl on this forum won't even give him the time of day even though he can be quite funny and has some great insights at times is it no wonder he has decided to pull this stunt?
Anyway as I said if he is taking that much time to create teams and changes I'll give him a clap , and for what it's worth I still don't think it's ruining the game ppl are just a bit prissy because he is doing better than most with a lot of his team's
Because he has picked 229 different team variations!
So of course he will do better!
down to 173 now
Only 172 to go!
Only 173 to go
He's allowed his normal team i.e. Team Don Q
That is his main team
Personally think that he should be excluded from the game permanently..... With people like Enrique there will be something else around the corner... Its not exactly his first attempt to disrupt the game is it....
Which somehow was his best performing team? Go figure that one out?
TBH I have no problem with Enrique on the forum. Yes, he's a bit off-the-wall at times but where he, er, occasionally labours the point I usually just ignore it. Like the proverbial stopped clock he is sometimes right about things and he certainly has a passion for bike racing.
Entering multiple teams is, however, not really acceptable; certainly not on that kind of scale. While I'd turn a blind eye to it ordinarily (not least because of the practicalities of it - more than one user can choose a team from a single machine of course) where it is flagrant and extensive the player should be given a set amount of tine, say a week, to close them down - or be kicked off (premium or no premium).
So, to make an Enrique-style suggestion for improvement, how about codifying that in the rules of the game for next year?
In all fairness he is removing them
however I can't find anywhere in the rules where it states you can't have multiple users names and therefore teams.....which if correct, he is well within his rights to do be it within the ethic of the game or not
Alls I will say from conversations with Enrique, is regardless of the rights or wrongs of having multiple teams in the first place, I don't believe he did it disrupt the game as in cheat to try and win prizes.
Everyone is allowed there opinion on the matter and thats fair enough, and you could say having multiple teams in the first place could be cheating, but like I say I don't believe he did it to cheat in the conventional meaning.
Im not going to say anything else beyond that, and if enrique wishes to explain to others his motives, thats up to him
He has emailed me and explained, as like TER i will say no more other than his apology has been accepted.
Yeah, that's why I'm saying put it in the rules, e.g. "Anybody discovered to be entering multiple teams will be asked to remove duplicate accounts and associated teams; road.cc reserve the right to suspend or ban any player who it has reasonable cause to believe is entering multiple teams and fails to remove them on request within a given timeframe."
Or words to that effect, something broad-brush.
What's the teamcount looking like these days?
Disclosure:
I have multiple teams, have done for several years, I have made no attempt to disguise this and have openly talked about my daughters teams in the forums and entered them in Forum competitions. No one has ever suggested I have done anything wrong. I only run one premium team and it usually does best in the non premium competitions. Although 229 teams would seem to be against the spirit of fair competition, I know how much time it takes up just running 4 teams and therefore if Enrique can be bothered I really have to say Chapeau!
I would think that if Enrique's prime team is his highest scoring team that he is attempting some kind of automated scoring mechanism to find the best team, and it seems to be working. Chapeau again.
I just wonder if it wasn't Enrique whether anyone would really be that worried about it or even have noticed?
Disclosure:
I have multiple teams, have done for several years, I have made no attempt to disguise this and have openly talked about my daughters teams in the forums and entered them in Forum competitions. No one has ever suggested I have done anything wrong. I only run one premium team and it usually does best in the non premium competitions. Although 229 teams would seem to be against the spirit of fair competition, I know how much time it takes up just running 4 teams and therefore if Enrique can be bothered I really have to say Chapeau!
I would think that if Enrique's prime team is his highest scoring team that he is attempting some kind of automated scoring mechanism to find the best team, and it seems to be working. Chapeau again.
I just wonder if it wasn't Enrique whether anyone would really be that worried about it or even have noticed?
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