Acct sharing legal?

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Using any program to control someone else's computer remotely is not allowed. Please post information of those doing that in the petition forum or PM a staff member privately.

I'm genuinely curious what rule applies to this. I wouldn't have thought any of the ones in https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2651, for example, did.

[cd288]

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

You are taking a risk sharing your account information with anyone. There's a possibility that if you get stripped you won't get your gear restored. It can take several months to get a character restored as well.


Using any program to control someone else's computer remotely is not allowed. Please post information of those doing that in the petition forum or PM a staff member privately.

Out of curiosity, why is that not allowed? What's the benefit that they gain from controlling the computer remotely instead of just logging into the account?

[Tecmos Deception]

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

But should the camps be so long that people can't be expected to do them and thus are dropping like flies?

Are some camps and drops correctly classic such that a player isn't guaranteed to sit down for X number of minutes/hours and walk away with his item?

I hope you know the answer to that already.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Out of curiosity, why is that not allowed? What's the benefit that they gain from controlling the computer remotely instead of just logging into the account?

The benefit is that the account is always logged in, and it's just who is controlling it at any given moment that changes. It may not be a huge deal, but it's a difference. You also could allow someone access to play a character but without giving them the account info itself, fwiw.

But yeah. I'm curious to see what rule forbids remotely controlling a client. It certainly isn't any of the ones I'm familiar with, which all just cover multiple clients per player, automated inputs, or altering of the client. Remote control is 1:1, manual control without altering the client. It's no different in kind than using a wireless keyboard and mouse to play from 15 feet away instead of a wired keyboard and mouse to play from 2 feet away.

I'm getting an erection at the thought of being able to control p99 on my desktop via my phone when I'm in the line at the grocery store.

[zodium]

it's the same unwritten rule that says log parsers are okay because they don't interact with the client, which a remote desktop app necessarily would do

which is totally academic since it is not actually enforceable

[Tecmos Deception]

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

it's the same unwritten rule that says log parsers are okay because they don't interact with the client, which a remote desktop app necessarily would do

which is totally academic since it is not actually enforceable

That's like saying my mouse driver is a third party program because it's not my finger that actually moves the cursor through direct physical manipulation. Lol.

[zodium]

how would that even work

edit: back in the 90s i taught old people to use computers and one of them, swear to satan, when I told him to move his mouse to the other side of the screen tried to pick up his physical mouse in order to move it to the left side of the keyboard

[Jubal]

Account sharing is not just legal and encouraged by the ruleset and /lists, you're at a massive disadvantage if you don't account share.

[Tiger_King]

it's pretty clear from just 5 mins of thought that remotely controlling a client from a separate computer is easily bannable because it allows 1 person to control 2 or more simultaneous logins on the same server at once... Which is the definition of boxing and strictly forbidden.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

it's pretty clear from just 5 mins of thought that remotely controlling a client from a separate computer is easily bannable because it allows 1 person to control 2 or more simultaneous logins on the same server at once... Which is the definition of boxing and strictly forbidden.

This is a logic fail.