Lord Thane
I can only imagine the significant amount of time you've had to dedicate to investigating multi-account activity. At this point, the evidence appears more than sufficient to take action — whether it's a confirmed multi or a functional equivalent, the result is the same. Feeder kingdoms should be treated as functional multis, and handled accordingly.
Rather than overanalyzing or waiting for confessions, I believe enforcement should be swift and decisive. The evidence should speak for itself — I wouldn’t expect anyone abusing multiple accounts to willingly admit to it.
For players receiving unexpected aid from unknown sources, the best course of action is transparency. Reporting it, as User-36 did, should serve as a safeguard and demonstrate good faith.
Attempting to code this out of the game becomes a never-ending game of cat and mouse. Cheaters will always find new ways to exploit the system — you close one loophole, they find another, and the cycle continues.
The risk is that in trying to code around abuse, you end up permanently altering the game and eliminating legitimate playstyles. Instead of building increasingly complex workarounds, the focus should be on faster detection and decisive enforcement.
There should always be a human review component in cases like this. Automation is useful — it reduces the time spent manually reviewing every action — but it shouldn't be the sole authority. Context matters.
Take the Dominion Vial of a Scorned Queen, for example. The most effective use is to send all your resources to a trusted ally, activate the vial, then receive the resources back. That sequence would be clearly visible in the logs. An automated system might flag it as suspicious, but a quick human check would clarify the intent.
Automation should assist the process, not replace judgment. Without human oversight, there's a risk of punishing legitimate play.
