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Well I will be the first cheater to post on this thread. I think it is important that everyone knows that the staff of Buzzerbeater is indeed working to rid of those with multiple accounts. Now while my intentions were not to swindle or cheat, I simply had an addiction to managing, I was still guilty of breaking the sites rules. I managed each of the 3 teams I owned to a promotion up to Division 3. I nearly had one that I was on the verge of getting to Division 2 up until the day I was caught late in the season. I deserved my website ban that I was given because I simply broke the rules even though I had not cheated in the sense of just passing money along to one squad to strengthen them. Rules are rules and are put there for a reason.

My only concern is that it took way too long to find out the fact that I had multiple accounts. I started on Buzzerbeater back in Season 8 as Marine Corps Bulldogs (IV.28), season 10 San Diego Buckeyes! (V.32), and lastly in season 11 Cosmo Canyon Spirit (V.118). It wasn’t until Season 19 when I made a dumb decision to make a tiny, less than 50k purchase from one team to another that all three of my accounts were banned. I went to log on and it said my account was no longer active and I received an email stating I had to serve a website suspension.

I just loved the game so much that I was willing to put my original team at risk. It was a mistake but when you have such a strong product I feel there is always going to be people out there trying to break the rules. A common thing that I did to relate my accounts was that I just scrimmaged myself to guarantee I would get my players the 48 mins necessary for training. That is a small indicator along with noticing that all of my accounts had to have had the same exact IP address.

To get my extra dose of managing and not making the same mistake twice is that I joined Crossover, which is clearly WELL behind in being a solid product in comparison to Buzzerbeater. The important thing to know is that the admins do catch people that are out there trying to cheat and I hope they have improved in their methods of finding those guilty.

Last edited by Brutus! at 9/9/2013 3:23:31 PM

In Spain we have just under 3k users. That means some users will want to train the best player possible either buying 18 year old players or just by having luck in the draft.

Lets take the example of our starting SF, Bañales. The manager wanted to make a couple a once in a generation player and he bought a very good 19 yo player:

Transfer 9/20/2009 10 Purchased from kindong hearts for $ 3 000 000

Trained him until he has 28yo, he was on track of making him the best in BB, on the way the player help him promote from Div V to Div III. But all his hopes were shattered when Bañales capped. He was a very good player, but not the best as was his goal. So demoraliced and after 20 seasons of playing the game he quit.

20 seasons of playing are a lot, that is 2007. The guy was just tired and he quit, Bañales went FA and that would have been the end of the player in your system. Why should all NT fans in Spain pay for a couple of cheaters. If you are worried about cheating talk about sabotage. I am in favour of 2x tv revenue rule to help avoid sabotage, but Free agents not allowed in NT teams is not a well thought solution as a big porcentage of the bb-players go free agent in some point of their bb-carreers.