
Originally Posted by
frogburger
Well, they said, in this thread, that they are implementing account limiting measures to individual systems, not IP addresses:
"This change will not affect players who use the same IP or network." - Dawnseeker
So I don't understand your first point.
As for your second point, how is the game free forever if it costs you more than any other game in order to advance? I have no idea how this could be true without making the price for additional accounts completely negligible in the face of these other costs you speak of.
I'm proposing a business-minded solution to a problem that deals with game fairness, under the assumption that the technology to implement it exists. The main problem with this idea would revolve around how exactly they keep track of individual systems instead of IPs. What do you do if the user reformats, changes network cards, etc? This is a problem that has to be addressed for their multiple accounts policy anyway, but would become critically important if real world money was involved.
As for MAC address identification... pretty sure that you can only detect the MAC of a router from outside the network, and not the systems behind it. Otherwise, you'd have the least secure network on the planet. But, that was still a good guess!
I was responding to skanktyme's comment.
Yes, I'm well aware of the fact that this game really isn't "free forever". Please read my reponse a bit more carefully.

Originally Posted by
skanktyme
ok so some people murder other people so lets just lock everyoine up in jail. after all, that is the only way to stop murders from murdering isnt it?
To this, I can only blink and stare.
The issue here is, How does Evony curtail multi cheating, while still allowing those on a shared-IP network to play. What you seem to be advocating is to allow the cheaters to continue playing, because "Hey, we'd have to lock them all out of the game...both the cheating and the non-cheating same-IP users."
U noć idem, sjećanje jedan trn od zalosne, dalje prema smrti.
Into the night I go, memory a thorn of sorrow, onward toward death.
Death feels like the butterfly, can't escape the scarred lie
~Skinny Puppy: haZe~
So, drifting through the dark
The sympathy of night's mercy inside my heart
Is your life the same? Do ghosts cry tears? Do they feel years?
As time just goes on and on and on
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