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Linking smurf accounts.

McGurgles·9/12/2014, 5:03:22 PM·6 votes·2,261 views

Not for nothing and i know this is a long shot of a question, but i am tired of the amount of trolls in ranked that say "Go ahead report me this is my smurf idgaf" and then end up purposely feeding a lane. Now i Understand some people just are not good and there isn't really a reason to report them (most people do it just from frustration because they aren't that good). I wish there was a way that you could link someone's main account to their smurf account, so lets say the smurf accounts banned the main account also gets some type of punishment. I'm just saying I am EXTREMELY tired and fed up of losing games because of people on smurf accounts that just want to make ranked even more hell. Especially in Bronze-Silver. Some of the people reading this will look up my account and laugh that I'm bronze 1, but its an overall issue that should potentially be fixed like before his nerf, somehow even if its something as simple as getting the users Ip address and what accounts linked to that ip address.

19 Comments

Lumus Avatar9/12/2014, 5:28:30 PM2 votes

I agree that Accounts should be linked somehow. But if you use IP, how would you handle multiple users in one household, ergo one IP

GundayMonday9/12/2014, 7:20:53 PM2 votes

Honestly, just report your "smurf". I don't know if you know this, but people on the internet aren't often truthful with what they say (kappa). I'd wager that more often than not, your "smurf" account is a real account. And even if it is a smurf, it takes A LONG TIME to level up a new account, so getting their side account banned is still a big inconvenience to the "smurf" in question. Use those report buttons and the player behavior team will take care of the rest!

Zarkkast9/12/2014, 8:21:13 PM2 votes

I don't think there's a way to do this without doing a disservice to people that play fair or don't even have smurfs.

Even if there was a way to trace it back to one exact computer (it's possible for MACs), what if more than one person uses that computer? One can never know that.

This would be a really awesome thing, but I don't think it's possible to do.

Kao Atlantis9/13/2014, 6:56:06 AM1 votes

Lyte has mentioned in a lot of posts that they can already tell who someone's smurf accounts are by how the act in game and what location / IP address they are playing from. If you follow his posts, you'll see he occasionally bans people's smurf accounts as well as their mains when reviewing their accounts in General Discussion.

Feelblitz10/20/2014, 1:33:16 AM1 votes

I am a plat 5 who constantly smurfs, but I always take a very fair approach to it, I don't snowball for my team and wreck the enemy team, and I don't feed and troll my own, I typically take champs I can play but are not my best. I think there are a lot of smurfs who just play to have fun and do stuff they couldn't do in their own elo. If they start doing like adc zac or jungle tristana than I admit that's a bit dumb.