Second accounts.

IMO (didn't discuss this with anyone else atm) bots/chix is OK by definition since it's vs. AI and not vs. players.
FFA however affects Elo etc. so I think it's an issue.

I don't want any second accounts for players. Give me a valid use-case.

need secondary acc to maintain room for tournament

I use my smurf to read chat while I'm not at my personal computer. This way I'm certain I won't pass any conversation since the chat history would not be avaible on another machine. I also used to use it for another lobby to play other games (like evo for example).

* Hosting (multiple) rooms
* Running AIs on dedicated machines
* Testing multiplayer mechanics on your own (that can't be replicated using godmode)

Most of the responses aren't talking about players. They are talking about developers or tournament organisers.

quote: Anonymity towards players.

Why?

quote: More accurate elo in the case of one account per mood/state of tiredness/playstyle/teamsize/gamemode.

I think the effect is irrelevant enough to not warrant self-medication in the case of tiredness. For playstyle do you mean trolling? Weird gamemodes can use noelo if you want.

quote: I use my smurf to read chat while I'm not at my personal computer.

Yes, this is unfortunate. Needs infrastructure improvement to resend or browse logs online.

quote: quote: I don't want any second accounts for players. You won't be able to prevent them in a F2P game. If you really don't want them, you need to think of a (really) good way to prevent them, because they will and do happen.

I'm not going to get what I want. Is this thread about asking what I'd like or what you could technically get away with to annoy me?

Just give the options to set entry level for rooms. I know this may collides a bit with: "let newbies play everywhere", but they could see it as a goal and play so long in "normal room". Smurfs won't have much fun to play with newbies only (yes I know from what I am talking.)