
Originally Posted by
Dawnseeker
Our goal is not to make it impossible for people to cheat, because that would make it impossible for anyone to play the game at all. What we want to do is make rules which discourage cheating and make it difficult, while having the smallest impact possible on the honest gamer, who just wants to log in and have some fun. Its a balancing act.
The suggestion that resources and troops should not be shared among accounts with the same IP would indeed make it more difficult for a single player to use multiple accounts, but it would also make it more difficult for families and friends to play together.
In this situation, we want to use a less restrictive method.
Forgive me for being blunt for a moment, but basically, what this tells the One Computer Households is this:
"If you are too poor to buy a second computer, then you are too poor to be considered worthwhile to our game; Therefore, we are simply going to now make you choose one player among your family who can stay, and the rest are SOL. Sorry, but...at least with only one player, maybe now you can afford to buy our stuff."
Families and friends can still play together if they have more than one comp...they just can't send each other stuff from the same network now...and several people in this very situation have already said they'd prefer that situation over not being able to play at all...but what this does is literally shuts out players who may have worked hard on their accounts, but have the "bad luck" of being too poor to be able to buy another computer...and now only ONE family member can stay.
How is that the fairer option here?
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
~TransSiberian Orchestra: Back to a Reason, pt2~
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