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    I agree with you Rodri. The terms are so loose in the TOS.

    Theoretically ANY site, be it a forum site, custom made, portal, etc. violates the the part about "collect/collaborate/report that gives those users an unfair advantage". Should we all just run our alliances through in-game chat and mail only then?

    "unfair advantage" - If everyone in evony was using an alliance site, and I choose not to, is that an unfair advantage to me because I choose not to use an alliance site? Therefore because one person does not use it no one else can use it? Now brought back into context, I'm pretty sure most, if not every, forum/portal site out there offers everyone the same opportunity to signup and use their site. However just because some alliances choose not to, the ones that do have an unfair advantage? So therefore no one can use these sites?

    To be honest I believe that by trying to give everyone a "fair" chance by barring people from using 3rd party sites that give a theoretical advantage, Evony is screwing itself over. If they start banning accounts.. everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who is in an alliance that uses a 3rd party site will quit this game.

    Actually the most unfair advantage is the way the game is made. With the prestige setup, time is the biggest, most unfair advantage to users. If user A starts 1 month earlier than user B and both are active the same amount, there is no way user B EVER catches up to user A. Even if user A is pounded relentlessly and loses all but 1 city (in fact this helps user A). Why? I think this thread explains it best: http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?...light=networth

    Real "unfair advantages" - While we are on the top of unfair advantages, this is what I think an unfair advantage is (all based on other threads in general discussion): Users who are able to login and continue playing the game while others are blocked out due to Evony servers being DDOS attacked. The entrants to the queen of Evony - where Daisuke is clearly violating rules, yet because of the sex appeal Evony allowed her to use her alliance will get the bonus reward. People who have the money to afford buying items (pretty sure most 15 yr old kids can't spend $100 on buying evony cents vs a full-time income working individual). All of these are things that not everyone has the same opportunity to have - as opposed to forum/portal sites that everyone has the same opportunity to signup for.

    So my suggestion to Evony is to stop worrying about the supposed "advantage" people get outside the game (in regards to sites like forum sites, evolliance, custom-made alliance sites that aren't actually violating things like mining data etc.) and worry more about the advantages users can get within the game that Evony can change. Because ultimately it's these in game advantages that will make ppl angry and stop playing the game, not the "advantages" alliances get from using 3rd party forum/portal sites.
    Last edited by spartanzFA; 07-02-2009 at 03:00 PM.

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