1 empire per account and F2P

[Brusi]

How about having to level up your first character to BR(something) before you can unlock a 2nd empire charater slot on the same account?

Premium stuff from the cash shop that is also unlockable is always nice...

[Redshift]

Originally Posted by Brusi

How about having to level up your first character to BR(something) before you can unlock a 2nd empire charater slot on the same account?

decent idea, i think i'd still go for a paid option/ membership being allowed multiple empire on 1 account, won't effect griefers/spies as said before, they'd just use a F2P account anyway

[QuiCKaNdDeaDLy]

Another Horrible Idea by SOE...

[Bags]

Just charge people to allow making a new character for teamswapping, and make it so you can't swap if the empire is >some%.

[Redshift]

Yea tbh duke you're really trying to make things too hard, it'll be a bitch to code bug free, it'll piss people off and ultimately it has little effect

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

ANY sort of IP blocking is extremely simple... I would literally volunteer sixty hours of my life to implement this. It's not difficult, it's just more work.

IP blocks can't be used on an MMO. You often have people sharing huge IP ranges. For instance, at a university campus using Wi-Fi. Seriously look how well it's worked for IRC. 90% of the time you're not blocking the person you want to you just hit someone in the cross-fire.

You're targeting the problem wrong if you have to use hardware based defenses. Think outside the box.

[Bonius]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

IP blocks can't be used on an MMO. You often have people sharing huge IP ranges. For instance, at a university campus using Wi-Fi. Seriously look how well it's worked for IRC. 90% of the time you're not blocking the person you want to you just hit someone in the cross-fire.

You're targeting the problem wrong if you have to use hardware based defenses. Think outside the box.

^This.

Any remotely competent individual will be able to bypass the IP-block anyway, rendering it completely useless - along with what Sirisian is mentioning with the "cross-fire" that is at the core of IP-blocking.

[Skitrel]

A griefers could be a player or account who does any or all of the following:[*]gathering intel for another empire, not assisting their own

I really disagree with this one, though I agree with absolutely all of your other points. Inserting spies into the enemy faction, and even enemy outfits altogether even so far as infiltrating enemy teamspeak, is all part of the meta game. Inciting doubt, distrust, spreading uncertainty, these are all very key parts of warfare and while underhanded they're perfectly legitimate tactics. It's a strategy anyone that doesn't undertake is simply failing to utilise a very important strategy.

I agree on all other points though, thankfully all of those, particularly teamkillers and griefers of that sort, are all very easy to get rid of through various penalty methods.

Tapatalk.

[Raka Maru]

Don't quite know how to do this with the FTP model, but tying an account to our very mature financial system would prevent a lot of hackers.

PayPal, credit cards, debit cards, bank accounts.

Let Johnny hacker boy get all grandma's cards banned and it's done. He can't get back in the game.

[Kilmoran]

I still don't understand how having to make another account for a game you aren't paying for is punishment. Though i do agree with 1 empire per server.

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Kilmoran

I still don't understand how having to make another account for a game you aren't paying for is punishment. Though i do agree with 1 empire per server.

I don't really care about what people do that aren't paying. If they want to manage multiple accounts to play on the same server with different empires that's fine by me. As a convenience point though I'd prefer membership accounts (or a way to purchase) convenience regarding using your character on each empire. If designed correctly it can be just that. Convenience.

[Kilmoran]

I don't see a problem with convinience. I only see a problem with demanding it for free.

[Stew]

Spy will be impossible to conter in a F2p game thats it thats all