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2012-03-25, 06:05 AM | [Ignore Me] #1 | ||
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I'm making this thread hoping that Higby will drop by and say something but moreover i'd just like to share an issue i forsee
We've been told that you can only have 1 empire on a server from each account. Higby has also stated he expects people to have more than one account to play all three empires. To start with this obviously has nothing to do with empire loyalty, PS1 you payed for the game you were locked to one empire, PS2 being F2P it's impossible to force people onto one empire. In actual fact it may hurt PS2 balance trying to force one empire, higby has been talking about empire incentives to balance the numbers, but ultimately if i've payed for gear on one account i'm not likely to swap for a small exp boost. I can see only one benefit of this idea, and it's SOE hoping that people will pay for cash shop items more than once if they're on different accounts, i don't really have a problem with this as SOE needs to make money, even if this is a bit of a cynical way of doing it. What i do have a problem with is the inconvenience of having 3 accounts to manage. I'm pretty sure we could get around this by allowing multiple empire per account and just making some bits of the cash shop empire specific. What do you lot think about it?
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2012-03-25, 06:41 AM | [Ignore Me] #4 | |||
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The best defence against spies is vigilance. On all sides. |
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2012-03-25, 06:49 AM | [Ignore Me] #5 | ||
have you read his last 7 words?
i don´t think locking an account to one empire is necessary. just make sure the cash shop is not accountwide, but locked to the char. so you make 2 chars but have to buy things seperately for each char. having to create 3 accounts just to try the other empires sucks. the spys will spy, no matter how inconvenient it will be, so don´t punish the guys who want to test out all 3 empires before they choose for which faction they are going to buy stuff. after the servermerges of ps1 i was happy to finally being able to try the other factions, but i only tried them for a short time and went back to the real faction and the char with high br/cr. and i guess most people did it that way. let there be 3 chars per account and set up a timer so you cannot change empires more than 2 times per day. this way the spies would be forced to create fake accounts and have their inconvenience to spy effectively, while the players who just want the option to play the other empire for a day can do it easy. edit: damn i write too slow ;-) kipper read my mind but typed faster
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2012-03-25, 06:57 AM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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He also used correct grammar and spelling...
If all empires are allowed to be created on the same account, then the original 24 hour lockout timer should be used - which would be pointless as it's just far more easier to create a new "free" account and switch that way. |
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2012-03-25, 07:06 AM | [Ignore Me] #10 | |||
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2012-03-25, 07:13 AM | [Ignore Me] #11 | ||
Making it slightly more inconvenient (reqiring new email accout, new SOE account) will definitely reduce the amount of griefers/spies...
You will never stamp it out, just the way having hack protection will never stamp out hackers. You just need to manage the problem, not solve it |
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2012-03-25, 07:31 AM | [Ignore Me] #12 | |||
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2012-03-25, 07:53 AM | [Ignore Me] #15 | ||
by forcing them to make additional accounts to try out other empires.
the spys will do it anyways. so why force the other players to do so as well? it has no benefit at all the 24 hours lockdown will be enough to keep normal players from hopping too much. spys will use seperate accounts anyway, so restricting the account to 1 faction does no good
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