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Fake accs in Rookie League

I have a league and my Rookie championship gets full of fake accounts (with 0 races, no car design or team name) in minutes!
It doesn't matter if i kick them all, the slots won't be there for more than 30 minutes. 
What is happening? Is this normal? Is there anything i can do to protect my league against this fakes?

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Which accounts look fake?

A lot of accounts! I never know if they are fakes (robots maybe) or just new players that don't know much about the game. But theses teams are always joining my league and making the race setup for the first race, but never answer the game e-mails, never show up at the races and they didn't ever create a design for the car, hire team members or participate in the pratice. 

It's about 40 different teams that i already kicked from my league for inativity and, to be true, they never logged in anymore.
That's awful because when new good member try to join the Rookie league they don't have slots for it.

 

The last four (in the red rectangle) will be kicked right now (17/01 10:54). I'll let you know when the league gets full again.

Update 17/01 11:09: Rookie is full again with another 4 managers with 0 races, no car design and standard employees

Victor,

No fake accounts, but it does appear that someone is using your 'Rookie' league as a 'training' ground for their alt accounts.

7 of the accounts are F1 team bosses, joined at the same time, and have done a similar ammount of races in the 'Fórmula 1 2018' private league. Think the league name is Spanish.

Good luck in resolving this issue :)

Yeah, these teams are mine, no problems with them. I'm using them to activate the promotion in my league! The ! "Fórmula 1 2018" was one i created to train them, since i was planning to create this new Royal Ranch Brasil. There are 2 other teams in the Pro, being used for the same reason.

No worries about them, but about the other 4 teams under them (12º to 16º)

Nevertheless, thanks for doing this research in my league! 

There are a bunch of players joining the game all the time and when they're going through the tutorial, they usually don't choose to change their team name. They're also required to join a league to see all the other aspects of the game. They are probably seeing your league first and choose to join it.

You can expect new players who sign up to forget to keep playing and will never be seen again. Some manage to remember and stick around, like you :)

Yeah, okay, but... it seems really strange that it happened to the first 40 new managers that joined the league :( No one really played the game!
Can i exclude my league from the tutorial list so only managers with at least 1 race would join? hahaha

I don't know what else to do unless keep kicking them all every race and hoping that a new true manager replace them on the next IGP.

No, that is not possible. I recommend you try to keep new players for at least one race to see if they manage the race or are active around the time of the race (before, during, or after). You can see when they were last active in the league's settings.

Yeah, i'm doing this. Unfortunely, they are always completely inactive before the first car setup. At least they provide a "great" challenge for my Rookies because they do the setup for 1 race.

I'll just keep trying then. Thanks!

Victor, you can always make your league password secured. That should resolve this issue..

I thought about that. The problem is it wouldn't prevent only these "fake" teams to join, but also the true managers. I was looking for a solution where active managers could join, but i seems not to be possible.

Its not long since host's were complaining that no one was joining leagues how much time do you give them before deciding that they are fake and want to kick them out or is the problem these teams are low levels and you want a high level team to increase your teams levels faster

What about a password for your league. That should prevent unwanted players from getting in. 😉😉

Ben Cabral 

No no no, i really don't care about managers' level if they really play the game. I just don't want teams that never make a car setup or watch a race or the ones who don't do anything different than my fake teams. I want active players, no matter from which level.


I'm sending a message for them all the minute they join the league and i'm waiting until the next race. If they don't have any race at all, didn't aswer my message and didn't even log in since last night (and they are all doing this), i'm kicking.

Sorry Victor, I think you're being unreasonable if not inpatient. If I was one of those players you kicked out I wouldn't try to return to yours or any other league for that matter. 
One race is a bit harsh to judge how active they are or to be classify as fake accounts. Chances are they're busy searching for information on how to go about playing the game. 
Set reasonable expectations and accept not every player is going to be 100% active.

If you still insist in sticking to your guns, then set a password and move on with it. A password is the only step you can take to address your dilemma. 

Had them in my league as well and it's either alt accounts or new players. Sometimes new players join and see what's involved and then simply don't bother coming back. If the tutorial, or new manager login included something like "Hey good to see that you joined iGP! Once you get settled and then decide that the game is not for you then can you please remove your account from any league you have joined" otherwise what i did was to post league on forums as normal and add "Any new manager joining that can't get in message (me) league host" and then i would remove an inactive for them.  

Look, i got some stats from the managers i already kicked:

- 51 managers had no races and never joined other league after that
- 01 manager already had 25 races, but never joined other league after that
- 05 managers joined other league after that (but apparently not competitive ones, because almost all the managers has the team name like "846937493592"), and still no messages in my e-mail or in their new league's chat from them.

I really like having new players in my league, i like doing the "training a new player" job. We have a whatsapp group where many players that started IGP about 1 month or less are always asking for help and we are always answering them. I worry about kicking these ones but i i'm also afraid they can never join the league because it's full. I'd never had these 05 possibly true managers if i kept the first ones. I promise i'm not trying to be harsh with anyone, i'm just trying to protect my league from bots, alt acc that joined only to get exp and players who will never log in anymore.

I'm sorry if i'm looking insensitive or maybe agressive here, i'm trying no to be. The true is i'm struggling to speak english with you guys, my native language is portuguese.



I would like the tutorial not to put them at any league at all, and maybe they'll join when they figure out how it works - or maybe the last thing of the tutorial could be this.

I'm sending messages for these "new players" welcoming them to the league, telling about our whatsapp and that if they want any help about the game they can count on us for it and asking for "pleeease aswer the message so we know you are a real player because we don't wanna kick you if you are really starting this game now".

I'm also sending messages for true rookie players inviting them for the league and saying "hey, you wanna a slot? Just tell me and i'll create one for you from these inactive players or from the teams we created to fulfill the league".

Maybe i can just give up about finding new players from nowere - i'm not being sucessful anyway - and wait until someone asks for a slot, like you suggested.