Ban the Alts
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Marcus
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Ban Smurfing
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Right now high level players are openly smurfing in order to preserve their ELO. This makes the game worse for all other players.
Juliette
I wonder if part of the problem is that there is no way to play duels casually? Geoguessr is a high variance game - you can lose a lot of elo on one bad guess or wrong 50/50 if you have been matched against somebody lower than you. I can understand people might want to duel against similar level players without risking their elo.
I suspect there aren't casual duels implemented because there aren't enough people queuing but I also suspect that it's a slight vicious cycle - people aren't queuing because they don't want to risk their elo, even now it shows your peak elo.
Elijah Foster
Juliette The LAST thing we need is more splitting of the player base into different game modes imo
Isaacbloom66
smurfing should be banned because if you face a lower overall, and they end up being really good, you could be thinking am I facing a smurfer
Shakazaramesh
Day 221 of waiting for the devs to respond to this.
DaveNgure
Just this week i have played over 6 noob accounts that are beating me in masters duels in like 5 rounds guessing after 10 seconds , not cheating, but alt accounts.....they need to be limited so bad..do something please.
Shakazaramesh
Marcus So, how much longer are you planning on ignoring this for? This is getting ridiculous.
SantiPalmitas
I would appreciate if the Devs atleast addressed that its hard for them to solve this. But they are just quiet. I know its hard, BUT ATLEAST ADDRESS THE ISSUE. Almost 8 months have passed and 0 comment. embarrassing.
bagaboiebailey #deleteAVW
please do this this is bagaboiebailey and i beg of u please do this please ban the alts
Chorch_Seeker
You've obviously never played League of Legends, where it is common for some players to have multiple alts in the rankings. At one point, a single player had 4 of the top 10 accounts one season (I don't think he ended with them that way, but for a good part of the season he had around 10 total accounts in the top tier rankings.)
Personally, I don't see any issue with alt accounts, as long as they aren't cheating. It's not like you can create an infinite amount of alts, you have to actually pay for the account to be able to play. It's not a TON of money, but if someone wants to spend their money on more accounts, go for it. I really don't think alts are even that big of an issue. I think people are using confirmation bias to blow it out of proportion.
And honestly, if you lose to an alt, oh well. You should be able to make it up the next game if you are supposed to be at that elo.
Naluthor
Chorch_Seeker When alt is an exception in your journey, ok ! But when you are a Gold or M2 ( or lower ) and fighting an alt Which is M1 or Champion in reality, you will lose. If this happens once on 1000, not a problem. But if you fight an alt every 5 rounds, this is not fair because the ranking system is not respected. That is frustrating for players who are training to be good ( but in their rank ). On geoguessr, the problem is that you are meeting ALT too many times at low levels. And thus, you are not rising. Very frustrating.
Chorch_Seeker
Naluthor - I guess your experience is different than mine at G1/M2. If the people I am facing are alts, they aren't very good to begin with.
LFSMx
Commenting again as reminder to the Geoguessr staff that you've still failed to address this issue. This is clearly something that the community feels strongly on, but the staff's only contribution to the discussion so far is complete silence. If you're not willing to take action on the issue, at least release a statement explaining why Geoguessr is content with alt accounts ruining the ranked experience.
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