Shared connection
Do you play from the same house, network, or device as someone else (siblings, your partner, the same job, an internet café)? Declaring it is transparent and protects you: the anti-fraud system flags accounts that share a connection, and a good-faith heads-up keeps your interactions from being mistaken for multi-accounting. When we detect that you might be sharing a connection with someone, we offer it to you with a banner — no strings attached.
What it is
Two accounts share a connection when they log in from the same network (IP) or the same device. It’s the most normal thing in the world among people who live together: siblings under one roof, a couple, coworkers, or an internet café. The anti-fraud system logs these signals to catch multi-accounting (one person running several accounts to cheat). The catch is that a legitimate shared connection looks, from the outside, exactly like multi-accounting. That’s why the declaration exists: so the team knows you spoke up.
What it’s for (perks)
- It heads off false positives: declaring cuts the “risk” of the link between the two accounts in half, so your signals don’t get lumped in with a cheater’s.
- It moves you up the line: alerts from a declared pair sit lower in the team’s review queue. You spoke up: it shows.
- Good faith and transparency: you show you’ve got nothing to hide. If something ever needs a second look, you’re ahead for having flagged it up front.
What it does NOT do (important)
Declaring is a gesture of transparency, not a free pass. Concretely:
- It doesn’t exempt you from review. The team will look at the alerts all the same; it just knows you spoke up.
- It doesn’t green-light cheating. Funneling resources one way (“pushing”), gifting lopsided trades, or coordinating attacks between the two accounts still gets caught and sanctioned, declared or not.
- It doesn’t change the game. It blocks and limits nothing: you can keep playing normally, run ops, trade, and be in the same coalition or different ones. It only changes how the anti-fraud system reads your signals.
How to declare it
- From the banner: if we detect you might be sharing a connection, both people get a notice on the main screen with a button to declare it in one tap. It’s not pushy: you can dismiss it with “No, thanks” and it won’t come back. If the other person already declared you, the same banner lets you Accept or Decline right there.
- By hand: anytime, from Settings → Shared connection, by typing the other person’s username (with an optional note, e.g.: “we’re siblings”).
- It’s MUTUAL: one person proposes it and the other has to accept. Until they do, it stays pending. Both get a heads-up at every step.
How to cancel it
Either person can revoke a declaration whenever they want, from Settings → Shared connection. If you’ve stopped sharing a connection (you moved, switched networks), canceling it puts everything back the way it was. You can also decline a declaration that came your way if it doesn’t apply.
Privacy
We look after both sides’ information. We only offer the declaration when the signal is strong: the same device, or the same network over several days (not a one-day fluke on public Wi-Fi). We never show you the other person’s IP or device: the banner only tells you who you seem to be sharing a connection with, so you can decide. And you can always ignore it.
Questions about what counts as cheating? Check out the game rules.