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    I am still not quite up to date on this subject.

    Here is the situation. I have been given an account by a member of my alliance. He is in Canada, I am in the USA. We are both in the same time zone. I have his account name and password. He has asked me to look in from time to time to build and only build what I think would help him. We talked about it alot. We agreed that if I get on his account then I only build or set in motion an academy or put resources up for sell. I am not allowed to send an attack at anything regardless of what it is. Nor am I allowed to send resources to myself or anyone else unless he says it is ok ahead of time.

    While I still can not send any to myself, I am able to help others in the alliance. And the same goes for him on my account, but with mine he is to use it as an example of what he can do to help him get to be a better player. I did encourage him to attack NPCs only though to get a better feel of the game. We have done this once or twice, that is about all.

    It was after we read the whole thing over again that we decieded to stop doing it because we where not clear on the subject. I know we only get on when the other is off or at work and only for like 30 mins or so. Just enough time to see what needs to be done and write it in mail form and send it to them. Another reason we stopped is because we felt that if we where viloateing the rules we would lose our accounts to a misunderstanding. We are not wanting to cheat in anyway and are just looking for clearfication as to the subject.

    Is what we where doing ok or was it in violation of the rules? We have not done any sitting in over a month, because neither of us got a response from Evony. I just wanted to ask if it is ok that we may continue doing it ONLY IF it does not violate any rules. If it does then we will not start it up again.

    I am glad that I can send this to you or any other admin or rep to help me on this. And I also felt that puttint on the Forum would be in bad taste. I like the game and want to respect the rules of it. Thank you for your time and patience in this matter.

    Foresster

    I sent this to Dawnseeker about 2 or 3 days ago. I understand The admins are busy. This is why I put this on the forum. This is not an attack on any admin or Evony itself, so anyone that might think it is GO SUCK AN EGG THROUGH AN EXHAUST PIPE. Have a nice day.

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    What you are describing is multi accounting which is against the rules and gets you both banned.
    The only situation where logging into another persons account is justified is account sitting, this is when a person is away and cannot look after their own account during this time.
    When this happens you are allowed to keep their account going, however this is only within the rules if you send a PM to one of the reps explaining the reason you are account sitting, your account email and the email of your friend, NOT THE PASSWORDS, also a set date where you will be account sitting.

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    Even though I'm slightly nauseous after the suck an egg comment - (really not needed) Please read this thread - it's very well written: http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=4746 about account rules. (scroll down to second post for your situation)
    Last edited by Amikee; 04-06-2010 at 11:47 AM. Reason: clarification
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    I thought the egg thing was actually quite funny.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alusair View Post
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    I agree with TCWNME. The rule is there to encourage fairness and to increase everyone's activity to the max, quite clearly. If your friend wants to fast-track his building and research, he needs to be active and online personally to do so. If he cannot be, then he either needs to buy speed-ups or resign himself to slower progression than what is possible if he permits you (and quite possibly others) to log in to advance his account.

    Likewise, none of my friends have advanced their knowledge by logging in to my account. They learn by discussion with me, and other players, on how to farm, battle, battle mechanics, strategies, tips and tricks (tricks, not glitches or exploits). That is how to help improve your friend's ability, not by him seeing the inside of others' accounts.

    I appreciate you have halted your practice while seeking out the views of others. I think TCWNME's words will mirror most you'll receive.


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    Cool now I understand. If a player tells people he/she is going on vaction and will not be able to play at all, asks someone to watch their account that is ok. But if they ask for advice then that is account shareing. Oh thank you. As long as we tell evony that we are going on vaction and who is sitting for us.

    Amikee your right it may not have been needed, but even you have to see that people would use this as a flame session and that is not what it is for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foresster View Post
    Cool now I understand. If a player tells people he/she is going on vaction and will not be able to play at all, asks someone to watch their account that is ok. But if they ask for advice then that is account shareing. Oh thank you. As long as we tell evony that we are going on vaction and who is sitting for us.

    Amikee your right it may not have been needed, but even you have to see that people would use this as a flame session and that is not what it is for.
    Asking for advise isn't account sharing, just logging into someone else's account is unless you are account sitting which is different.

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    Probably more to the point would be to define account sitting. Does that include NPC farming to feed troops? If not then how are you supposed to maintain the account?

    If you log in to farm NPCs and the account is under attack can you defend it? Or is that not considered account sitting?

    The issue here is there is a lot of gray area in the account sitting rule because account sitting is not well defined, many have concluded it is to keep the account as is, prevent it from degrading but also not advance it, would that be more accurate?

    If so that would include defense, but not re-reinforcing or attack. Farming NPCs, but not building more troops than were there before or advancing research or buildings.

    Now note as time goes on the troops you need to defend need to increase for the same amount of risk, and to make them you need to upgrade raxx and heroes, where is the line?

    Capella

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    Quote Originally Posted by Capella View Post
    Probably more to the point would be to define account sitting. Does that include NPC farming to feed troops? If not then how are you supposed to maintain the account?

    If you log in to farm NPCs and the account is under attack can you defend it? Or is that not considered account sitting?

    The issue here is there is a lot of gray area in the account sitting rule because account sitting is not well defined, many have concluded it is to keep the account as is, prevent it from degrading but also not advance it, would that be more accurate?

    If so that would include defense, but not re-reinforcing or attack. Farming NPCs, but not building more troops than were there before or advancing research or buildings.

    Now note as time goes on the troops you need to defend need to increase for the same amount of risk, and to make them you need to upgrade raxx and heroes, where is the line?

    Capella
    Thank you Capella. That is exactly what I was going for.

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    The rules for account sitting are, at best, ambiguous. Just make sure a rep knows about it to CYA and don't log into both accounts at the same time to further CYA They really have a lot bigger fish to fry right now and it would be nearly impossible to check and see who was exploiting it and who wasn't. My guess is, anything is pretty much fair game while account sitting as long as you don't have both accounts open simultaneously.

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