Simple solution for smurfs, ranked 1v1 and 2v2!
Leavers are banned temporarly when leaving significant number of early Ranked games (isnta leave, early leave, deranking etc.).
The smurf/leaver has to play X number of Unranked games (of course not leave them) and wait Y number of hours/ days/ weeks to go back into Ranked again
Each time the smurf/leaver repeats his leaving/deranking offense, X and Y get higher obviously.
Until Z number of offenses, and the smurf/leaver gets permanent IP Bann.
I think this will make eventually the SC2 Ranked ladder experience much better.
Of course I expect a alot of backlash from smurfs on SC2 forums ( we know you are here ready to defend your smurfing activity)
Please let me know if you would agree, change some things, or have a better solution.
(PS, Comments like: it is a dead game, and no support, are not needed, finding SC2 ladder Ranked 1v1 and 2v2 games is excpetionally fast, considering it is an RTS, how old is the game, and how little this game has received attention.
Plus the game is selling skins, caster voices, campaigns etc, and new players although less,
are still coming to try the game)
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gamers shall pressure all game studios to adopt zero tolerance policy and establish an anti-smurf data base and a mechanism to report smurfs
if one get identified as a smurf in sc2, all games in all platforms should ban that scum from playing permanently
- IP ban doesnt do anything
- You had me until IP ban. Rest is fairly reasonable
So yeah no imo. You’re looking for public floggings.
Why hasn’t this been fixed? It’s the worst thing about playing SC2, and the reason I log off most often.
I’d play so much more of this game if they just fixed the smurfing
Firstly, it’s not easily fixable. There’s really no way to stop it. If there was, no RTS of any company would the have problem.
There’s been lots of ideas over the years but none have been solid ways of stopping it.
- IP bans will not stop it since IPs can be changed in the vast majority of instances. Given enough time, banned IPs would build up to a point where they’d be given to good faith players and they wouldn’t be able to play.
- Forced to play Unranked won’t work because the queue for Ranked and Unranked are the same.
- Punishing based on the number of leaves per time can be circumvented by a new account.
…and so on and so forth. That last one is the ultimate reason why it’s not fixable: any punishment no matter how severe can be dodged by endless free accounts to access a f2p ladder.
Yeah, it is insane!
At least, make it so they use phone number or something!
Or, I would actually even pay for 1v1, and 2v2!
(People will probably jump in to defend smurfing by saying it will take too much to find a game, however for me at least, I would gladly wait a few minutes extra for removing most smurfs)
And the rest is free: 3v3, 4v4, custom games and WOL campaign.
And after a big number (this has to be big enough of games, so it wouldn’t be worth it for a smurf) of 3v3 and 4v4 games, you would be allowed to play 1v1 and 2v2 for free!
Also, if you leave very early, the games (intentionally for de-ranking), you get banned for example 2 weeks, if the offense repeats, then for 2 months, 1 year etc. )
Charge $1 for a new account. Accounts are bought through the bnet app. Bnet app stores tokens of past account logins, the IP address, and a hash of the hardware configuration. Bnet app limits 1 account purchase per month. To bypass, the user would have to uninstall bnet, purge it, get a new IP address, and spoof their hardware configuration.
False positives will occur. Send them to tech support. Tech support unlocks but puts a 6 month flag on the account/ip/hardware hash.
Bnet app can also add a token to the registry that the installer reads to detect if the app has been uninstalled/reinstalled the same day (if so, limit the account to 1 account purchase per month).
Alternatively, require phone number to buy an account.
Windows apps can also read the windows product key, meaning they’d have to reinstall windows & buy a new product key. There are other methods like feeding a preset value into the dpapi & recording the result, which produces a unique identifier that corresponds with that windows user.
There are loads of ways to shut down smurfing.
You can read the serial ID of their hard drives and link that to their accounts. You can read the CPUid. You can read the mac address of their network adapter. You can read the smbios information including their motherboards serial number.
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Dude, people on these forums are so scared that SC2 would be partially pay to play!
I mean the last 3 years, every event basically was crowd founded, so real fans are still paying every day through donations and subscriptions to support their tournaments, streamers, pro players, and keeping SC2 alive!