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Old 05-15-2021, 01:42 AM
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Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
p99 should take a page out of the private DAOC Phoenix server's way of handling/preventing boxing.

Phoenix prevents boxing using VPNs across multiple VMs/Docker images by requiring using a custom launcher to get into the game - that launcher runs checks across common files these virtualization solutions typically have (down in driver files etc. for them).

On host machine, it associates hardware info (hard drive serial id, mac address on NIC etc.) with an account, to prevent account sharing (after a hardware fingerprint is registered with an account, that hardware cannot run any other accounts).

Still can't prevent it entirely though - if people have 3 distinct hardware machines and 3 VPNs, and play in a way where they don't interact with their boxed accounts, nothing can really be done about them tripling their solo camps or group play.
Literally the last paragraph of your post is allegedly how most people box on P99 so you essentially just wrote a whole post about something that P99 should do and then said that it’s not possible for P99 to prevent anything