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Last edited by Magaw; 10-25-2010 at 08:41 PM.
I've seen this tactic. It appeared for a while on 127 when flats were in very short supply. I found it to be stupid, but at the same time it actually added some excitement, watching the dummy accounts. Rarely was it used to any real effect. A couple of times I was able to quickly cap the flat using scouts while the switch was being attempted, and that was priceless.The problem went away when the server maint ppl started freeing up tons of flats. Looks like going forward this freeing of flats will be more or less continuous. I appreciate it, it really loosens up the game.
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what if we had screen shoots of a person sending out mails to there alliance with a list of avil flats this list BTW is 3 mails long and when you go to said "flat" it was one of these ghost acnts would that be enough proof or do we need more then that
kind of like this
take note of the high lighted cord
oh look not a flat but a noob city please take note of the flag on the city
another mail telling who to get a hold of to have them removed for you and admiting that they are "place holder acnt"
these same screen shoots with out the editing were sent to Evony via a report rule violation let hope that something is done
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I still say a simple email verification system when registering a new account will help tremendously. As it is now, it takes 1 sec to just fill in a totally fake email address and you are in. With email verification a person would have to go get an email account, then register with evony, then wait for verification email with click here to confirm this account. Then they could go log in. It would take time, especially if evony put a 15 min delay on sending the verification email. This would mean a great deal of effort to people creating fake accounts, but still allow new players to join the servers. - I know, some people will still do it, but instead of creating 100 accounts in 30 seconds, it would take 15 minutes and some effort to create one account.
And, I am just wondering but how come I have not seen any response from Evony staff on this issue? All they have to do is scroll around the map of any of these servers, including s84, to see how bad the problem is. Come on Evony! Please atleast address the issue!
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Ok...making a bunch of dummy accounts is stupid...evony already deletes inactive periodically, because they are doing it on s136.
But honestly, this thread is for cry babys.
1st rule ...fill your flats so no one can tele to you. This is done on all servers. Some alliance do it better then others.
BUt if your an advanced player, it won't matter if they do fill 100% of all open flats with npc's...I'll just conquer and port that npc 1 mile from your city, even if there is an open flat 5 miles away. I rather attack you from 1 mile.
Most people are going to have there city surrounded with npc's, not empty dead fake player accounts. So....even if you fill all the flats 20+ miles away with fake accounts...it will not effect my game 1 little bit, because I am still going to conquer your favorite npc 1 mile away from you, and you'll have 24 hrs to contemplate your imminent demise.
so while they are busy making those fakes..YOU should be busy making troops, and conquering and moving npc's and kickin there tails. Not crying in forums about what evony can do for you.
And especially not trying to take away the noobie stuff....thats really selfish of you to suggest that. Evony wants to attract new players, not run them off.
Having massive prestige generally means you are a great farmer with lots of troops but doesn't mean they know how to use them.
Seeing as you posted a reply here could you not have at least posted or copied and posted a response other than this non-response?
Would that not be good customer service? I work in customer service and as much as a loathe people that won't help themselves I still give them at least a quasi satisfactory response. It help to keep them from loathing me.
And the solution, to me appears, easy.
Detailed log analysis can easily turn up someone logging into accounts sequentially from the same computer. Further confirmation can be had by use of browser cookies.
Setup a script that scans the logs every hour, and automatically deletes the accounts that are doing this.
Problem solved.
I've got a trouble ticket in on this problem and a PM to Dawnseeker, but from the looks of the thread I'm wondering if I'll get a response....
It's really disappointing to be the chump "playing by the rules" getting swamped by some dishonest person with no honor who's using multiple accounts when making war on you, to find that the people who setup this great game that I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate, don't have the will to enforce the terms of service that I've been living by.
4 months of hard, honest, game play, for nothing?
Kinda makes you, I dunno, want to find a different game to play entirely, and walk away from Evony all together.
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