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    Quote Originally Posted by thorvinrhuebarb View Post
    I completely agree with your assessment of the motivation of evony being Money, what surprises me constantly is that others are surprised by this, did they expect a charity?

    With that in mind I suspect you hit on one of the key problems with this "rule". The number one source of players who play for any length of time is going to be word of mouth. Web adds are great but they generate tons of "pay for 20 minutes and quit" players whereas almost all word of mouth generated players will stick around for a lot longer since they know what evony was before they started.

    Enforcing this rule would directly and adversely affect their revenue stream.


    With that aside I am not really convinced that multiaccounting is all that much of a power gain as Sekai seems to believe. Once you pass a certain point in the game I think that 4 decent players can take out one 4 account player every time. If they plan and coordinate well. *shrug* other than espionage I have found that focused single account players tend to do better long term.
    That's kind of the point, if one multiaccounter is equivalent to or even close to four decent players in this type of situation, that's a bit off. On my server I am being attacked currently by two multiaccounters with at LEAST 11 accounts between them. They aren't that bright and I have killed upwards of 5 million troops between them while losing about 800k of my own in the process. Despite that, I am out an army and they crank out 2 million archers a day. Neither of these people would have a chance in hell with a single account. In addition to that, the people doing it share account info with their alliance, such that at least one person is available to monitor all of said accounts literally 24/7, and their cities cannot be captured, period. On top of that, there are severe, game-breaking exploits available only to multi-accounters, I will not describe them here for obvious reasons, but suffice it to say the impact this has on the game is incomparably greater than the restrictions on multiple people connecting from the same IP. As far as monitoring kids, no offense, but evony, or just about any MMO for that matter, are not places I would let any children young enough to require monitoring, near to begin with.

    Quote Originally Posted by Myle View Post
    Considering that I could pool ALL THE RESOURSES from my kids accounts, and my roommate and her kids accounts and I am certain that ALL OF IT TOGETHER would add up to less than I have in my own capital city.

    In fact, just the effort needed to build and move those goods would be self-defeating. Raiding a bunch of L2 Barb's would be more profitable and infinitely easier to orderly maintain.
    Edit - this may be the case with you personally, but any hardcore player who does it can easily produce 5 or 10 times the resources, and more importantly, armies of any single account player. No one's accusing you of abusing the system, but action needs to be taken against those who are.



    And once again the whole purpose of this thread is to get a statement from an Evony staff member as to whether or not the existing rule will be enforced, at least with regard to people who have been reported as abusers. What the rules should be are anyone's opinion, what they are is a fact, and whether or not they will be enforced and to what extent is something that we all need to know.
    Last edited by Sekai; 08-26-2009 at 05:24 PM.

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