hello, the player named Vetsikas left the game after losing his army due to his own attack. it was a rated game. there is also another issue i would like to bring to your attention. in this game, Vetsikas was rated 1357, and this was only 3 days ago (june 10, 2026). today (june 13, 2026), Vetsikas is rated 1711. it appears that Vetsikas is inflating his rating by playing 1v1 matches against fake accounts (possibly bots). as you can see here, even though the game start time is 19:14, the account "muricaa234" resigned twice at 19:14. that's two wins within a single minute. In some of the chat logs (I share), he even appears to acknowledge the situation himself, implying that these accounts are bots. He also makes comments such as, "I will show up on the leaderboard, and you will look at me"  in addition, he regularly hosts rated games with the 0 minute wonder victory condition enabled. he then invites people to play 1v1 matches. since many players do not carefully check the settings, Vetsikas quickly advances to phase 3, builds a wonder, and immediately "wins" the game. when people complain, he often responds by accusing them using various manipulative arguments. i do not know whether the administration will take any action against a player who reached 1711 rating within 3 days under these circumstances. however, at the very least, people have a right to know that he is a scammer and should be aware of his behavior. thank you for your time.

hello, the player named Vetsikas left the game after losing his army due to his own attack. it was a rated game. there is also another issue i would like to bring to your attention. in this game, Vetsikas was rated 1357, and this was only 3 days ago (june 10, 2026). today (june 13, 2026), Vetsikas is rated 1711. it appears that Vetsikas is inflating his rating by playing 1v1 matches against fake accounts (possibly bots). as you can see here, even though the game start time is 19:14, the account "muricaa234" resigned twice at 19:14. that's two wins within a single minute. In some of the chat logs (I share), he even appears to acknowledge the situation himself, implying that these accounts are bots. He also makes comments such as, "I will show up on the leaderboard, and you will look at me"  in addition, he regularly hosts rated games with the 0 minute wonder victory condition enabled. he then invites people to play 1v1 matches. since many players do not carefully check the settings, Vetsikas quickly advances to phase 3, builds a wonder, and immediately "wins" the game. when people complain, he often responds by accusing them using various manipulative arguments. i do not know whether the administration will take any action against a player who reached 1711 rating within 3 days under these circumstances. however, at the very least, people have a right to know that he is a scammer and should be aware of his behavior. thank you for your time. @user1 @Chasca @Dunedan @Stan`   commands.txt metadata.json

thank you @Akentas for refining and adding some thoughts. I also think these ingame moderators should follow a clear and published Code of Conduct. And if they abuse power, there privileges should be withdrawn of course. The sanctions should have a clear response to given escalation level.  first mute.... then timeout and so on ... bans  only for repeated misbehaviour. 

Yes agreed. i can modify your idea... 1. More in game moderators pick from the regular players who spends a lot of time in the game, this way most of the time there will be someone who is playing and observing if anything bad happening. 2. They should have the power to mute form lobby, give TIMEOUT like short time 'ban' from the lobby to abusive or toxic players or alt fake accounts. But before doing that, they should always take screen shots for justification and post them in a moderator group chat. This way bias decisions or power abuse will not happen.  

i get the impression ... that without a real sanction system that works, there will not be a solution. There will always be impolite people with bad manners, toxic behaviour and threats. I like your initiative @Seleucids to call on the responsibility and morale of the players but you directly got an example in here, that this call is unfortunately maybe not working ... and i fear it won't work the game. Why? Because there is no sanction on beeing mean in the game. The maximum you get for being very offensive and unacceptable so far, is maybe a discussion on a discord server or the forums, in which the offender can make himself be seen as the victim again and so forth .. it is basically just tiring. We have 4 different chat levels in the game (main lobby, game lobby, game chat and spec chat), and the moderators only observe the main lobby. So when something bad is happening there, sometimes they react, if certain language is used, they will be removed automatically by the modbot. That is just not enough, dear community I would really like to discuss about this topic, because recently many really bad examples took place, that again lead to someone quit playing the game after beeing insulted/threatened verbally. With all the blablablamegame fllow up. I want to start to throw some thoughts in .... What about if two handfull of trusted people (elected by the moderators or so)  who are often around and actively playing are given admin rights and the privileges to kick or ban people based on the rules of the game from any of the aforementioned levels. So sanctions are immediate and directly implemented. No time lag, no discussions, no blame game .... just kick/ban, end of the story.  I am quite sure, that offenses and toxicity would drop significantly. And this would help the game on the long run. Please add some ideas ... and @Seleucids, if you think this discussion should not be takin part here, then i can also open a new thread. I don't want to say that it is useless, to call for responsibility and raise awareness... i just doubt that this is enough!