User blog comment:Crazy teitoku/Partnerships - an out-of-the-box approach to strategically playing the game/@comment-749631-20151220154325/@comment-26486243-20151221031314

Usage of VPNs would also result in flagging if that was the case. My login IP/location changes between Japan and Singapore quite often.

Time brackets is also hard to say since certain unemployed people can play through multiple timezones as well.

We've even had instances in some servers where positions #2-5 on a ranking chart post a coordinated ranking message with #1, suggesting #1 is actually played by all of them.

Ultimately while cooperative playing like this isn't something KDKW likes, it isn't something they've ever been known to take action against. The risk of account infraction from this is as high as that of using a viewer like KC3Kai or KCV - ergo, it exists, but it's so insignificant that you won't really get a different result from assuming it doesn't exist.