Inselkampf is BROKEN

[Freiegeister]

I've been watching with amazement how a few players have been able to expand with such rapid pace, and I think I have found an exploit.

1) Build a colonyship in every harbour.
2) Create a heap of new accounts and delete them straight away.
3) Colonise the island when it becomes free.

Grover234 [Wraith] just sent an empty SW at Major's new colony.

if you got a tansport from me
im testing a new way to keep isles alive
no need to email

Either he is using a bot to scout for all the free islands, is potentially creating them in the first place, or has absolutely no life; as he has about a dozen new score 1 islands.

This is interesting, particularily Wra's observation of score 1 accounts with consecutive ids.
s13.invisionfree.com/Inselkampf_s1_forum/index.php?showtopic=209

I don't see how we can come out and accuse the top players of cheating. They could be playing in a legitimate fair way, but it is suspect.

[Natmus]

Grover234 is what I refer to as a ghoul, he is often picking up medium to high scoring isles becoming free in absolutely no time every Sunday evening (IK time).

If I should guess at what he is doing, he is trying to preserve isles from being deleted by having a mission going for each potential free isle Sunday evening at Tsunami time. Thus instead of being deleted the isle becomes free, and more isles for him to colonise.

Apart from that I agree, he must have absolutely no life outside IK. I'm up to 18 colonies (pick up four lately) and this many isles are almost too much for me to control, certainly for as long as I have to build them up.

[Freiegeister]

natmus said:

Grover234 is what I refer to as a ghoul, he is often picking up medium to high scoring isles becoming free in absolutely no time every Sunday evening (IK time).

He and cmccann, who is apparently his brother. Both of them have come from nowhere and colonised nearly 200 islands each in the last few months.

If I should guess at what he is doing, he is trying to preserve isles from being deleted by having a mission going for each potential free isle Sunday evening at Tsunami time. Thus instead of being deleted the isle becomes free, and more isles for him to colonise.

Apart from that I agree, he must have absolutely no life outside IK. I'm up to 18 colonies (pick up four lately) and this many isles are almost too much for me to control, certainly for as long as I have to build them up.

Also his preservation idea won't work. I've had an island disappear with my raiders on route.