2-boxing penalty

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Originally Posted by Amelinda [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Comment to the individual who feels it's not fair to the person who shares his account info and gets his account banned.

When I was a player I was friends with 2 guys on the blue server. We all had each other's info. Till the day i saw one of the guys boxing our druid friend's account. I called our druid friend and his PW and my pw changed that night.

When you give your password to someone that makes you ultimately responsible for their actions while using your character. So that means if you share your info with someone and he ninja loots a corpse. Your character will probably eat a ban on your account and the person who was playing the character will eat a ban on their main.

So if you give your password to Nirgon and he chooses to 2-box your character then i catch him....i'm going to ban both accounts. and I hear it all. believe me. "But it wasn't my choice to 2-box. I did not CHOOSE to do this." You made your choice. You gave your account information to someone and s/he fucked you over.

I can tell you that nirgon is right. 100%. Each IP exemption takes me probably 3 minutes of time to do (Or more. Depending on how many accounts I am looking at) So I did 200 IP exemptions last week over the course of 2 evenings. Inevitably at least 2 of those accounts are going to show up being boxed. Because people as a rule are greedy and they think i'm stupid.

When you 2-box I see it as an incredible slap to the face anyway. But if you 2-box on an ip-exemption that *I* Granted then I see it as you basically spitting in my face then back handing me. I take it as a serious sign of lack of respect for the server staff and the work that we do here. If you 2-box on an ip exemption here then I feel that you obviously do not respect me, the server rules or the time and effort that we put forth to bring you the server.

That is exactly how i see it.

Some people feel this is too harsh. I think honestly the ones who feel it is too harsh are the ones who either (A) want to 2-box, (B) already secretly 2-box and haven't been caught yet or (C) have been busted 2-boxing.

and yes. I am this harsh on MQ and exploiting. but that's not what this thread is about.

seems to me that the majority of the people that voted think the penalty on a first time offense is too harsh, but amelinda has clearly made her feelings clear on this thread several times, so the purpose of the poll is over my head since her feelings are the only one that counts as the server admin?

i seen stories in this thread about people being banned for 2 years for boxing but on various instances seen multiple players caught for exploiting and other cheats unbanned or slapped on the wrist with a suspension. clearly both are not treated the same.

confused. integrity of the server is important, but there seems to be quite a range of punishment here. there is no scaling, its either you get suspended for a week, or you get perma banned instantly without a suspension. perma banning accounts that have never been suspended is ludicrous, especially considering the dwindling population on this server.