Time to End Account Buying/Selling?

[Pringles]

Can we stop with the whole "its not classic" arguement? Hate to burst your bubble, but this server is not classic. Its the best "classic" EMU server we have, but its not classic.

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[Nihilist_santa]

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

As if your poll matters.

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Originally Posted by rahmani
Although nobody is willing to see this as a problem, the biggest problem is trading accounts.

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I do. Coming soon.™

[Thulack]

That much dead horse beating i think is animal abuse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Vega]

Originally Posted by OMGWTF420 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just an idea but couldn't they tie accounts to the IP address you used to create the account and only allow accounts to log in from said IP, require petitions to change your IP.... like if you move or something. not sure how well that would work and i really dont know shit about shit when it comes to these kinds of things but it seems like if they could put IP blocks up to prevent boxing they could do it for account traders

They couldn't use IPs, but they could use hardware IDs:

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

Other than that, the only information that is sent on a regular basis would be hardware ID's that we can use to distinguish your computer from anyone else's. This helps us deter two boxing and track down hackers, dupers, RMT, and etc even if they change their external IP address, which is a common occurance. These ID's are arbitrary and do not personally identify you in any way.

Atleast, I think they could based on what Rogean is saying is in the DLL. However, I am confused why they don't do this to enforce perma-bans. Perhaps there is a hangup with it.

[Dazen]

Should have done this from the start!!

[Dirtnap]

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

Can we stop with the whole "its not classic" arguement? Hate to burst your bubble, but this server is not classic. Its the best "classic" EMU server we have, but its not classic.

So the server should just stop becoming more and more classic, and just become custom.

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by xCry0x [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have no dreams of being on top of plat mountain when i come to a server 4 years in or however long this has been up and running.

My issue is that just like people said there is no reason to KEEP account selling in I do not see what is fixed from removing it.

I am sure bards & druids will be more than happy if account selling stops because the demand to skip level 1-50 will still be there and people will just flock to pl in masses. This will result in all the noob areas being flooded with bards/druids stealing everything for plvl. Been to unrest lately? It blows 50% of the time because a single druid plvling walks in and pulls the entire house/basement.

It is not like if you remove account selling everyone will just magically start rolling untwinked alts and leveling them the old fashion way.

Well said

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by xCry0x [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have no dreams of being on top of plat mountain when i come to a server 4 years in or however long this has been up and running.

My issue is that just like people said there is no reason to KEEP account selling in I do not see what is fixed from removing it.

I am sure bards & druids will be more than happy if account selling stops because the demand to skip level 1-50 will still be there and people will just flock to pl in masses. This will result in all the noob areas being flooded with bards/druids stealing everything for plvl. Been to unrest lately? It blows 50% of the time because a single druid plvling walks in and pulls the entire house/basement.

It is not like if you remove account selling everyone will just magically start rolling untwinked alts and leveling them the old fashion way.

Ok so people use one zone to pl in and suddenly Norrath becomes nothing but bards and druids taking every mob in every noob zone? Give me a break talk about grasping at straws. It sounds to me like the only people in support of account trades and sales are people who don't want to play the game (level up a character). At least PL services are a legitimate and classic use of game time and plat unlike selling accounts. Also have you considered those getting PL in unrest might be doing so to profit from account sales?

[SirAlvarex]

I'm against account selling, if only because it's annoying to come back from a 3 month break and have half the "Welcome back!" conversations start with "Is this the real Muteki?" I mean it's gotten to the point where you can't associate a characters name to the person behind the monitor. And that kills the "classic" feel for me atleast.

I don't really care about the PL'ing nonsense. You wouldn't see that much more powerleveling honestly. Right now you can buy a level 50+ for 60k+ and "have it ready to go, just need gear". If it weren't possible to buy the toons, they'd just buy the gear and level him twink style either soloing or grouping. With some PL'ing thrown in for good measure I'm sure.

But it's not like every zone all of a sudden has 20 twinks with a Druid on a Leash.