Acct sharing legal?

[cd288]

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

Let me break this down for you since you cannot seem to process what I said: remotely controlling a client from a is easily bannable as you are violating the ability for mods to verify that you are not playing on 2 characters or not.

This isn't to say you only control 1 doing it this way BUT for the mere fact that it's not verifiable leads to the bannable action.

There's no reason for mods/GM's to tolerate or even entertain dialog like "I told you I'm being honest mod and only playing 1 char you can't banz me!" Therefore, it is much easier to presume remotely controlling a client is for bad rather than the good. The bad (simplistically described) is that the only reason to remotely access to play is to multi-box weather you do or not!

I see where you're trying to go with this, but I have to agree with Tecmos that it doesn't seem like this would be enough for them to ban remote access and, if it is, it's somewhat odd. There are other ways to "violate the ability for mods to verify that you are not playing 2 characters" at once, but they're still legal. How is someone using a VPN on their second computer not violating the mods' ability in the same way? The answer is that it is, which is of course why they have the GM tests that are almost impossible to pass if you're boxing.

So why is remote access treated differently?

Also, I don't get why you came into this thread and immediately started being a condescending dick without anyone even having said anything to you.

[Tecmos Deception]

Ignoring the fact that you're getting snippy with me because you didn't actually say originally what you're trying to "break down" in your second post...

Lol. If everything that made boxing unverifiable without direct observation were bannable, we'd be banned from p99 for owning PCs.

[Tiger_King]

you just don't get it, and that's fine. Maybe if you think on it a bit more broadly in application what you're asking for then you'll understand.

[Smellybuttface]

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

you just don't get it, and that's fine. Maybe if you think on it a bit more broadly in application what you're asking for then you'll understand.

How does remotely accessing a PC result in two simultaneous logins? You’re still only logging in via one account, albeit from a different modality than being actually at your physical desktop. This doesn’t in any way infer that the user is using two separate logins, though.

[Izmael]

Staff probably isn't too happy with account sharing but as someone stated, there's no even remotely viable way to enforce otherwise. The false positives would be a CS nightmare.

[Benanov]

My concern with more aggressive "remote desktop" detection is that two things will happen:

1) time and resources are devoted to "anti-cheating" instead of making the game better and enjoying the hobby. Sure, sometimes that's needed - but it's easy to get rabbit-holed for months.

2) WINE users tend to get caught up in the detection routines.

[drdrakes]

P99 exists for RMT, otherwise things would be different. It's just that simple.

[zodium]

is it really an unfair advantage since everyone can just make some friends to--oh i see

[Videri]

Account sharing is the best. Back before Green Day, I was playing my wizard on Blue, and I asked in Discord if anyone would let me use their druid for buffing and PLing. One of my closer compadres sent me the info to his 57 druid. I got people dozens of levels in a few hours without having to spend a year leveling a freaking druid to 57. I also gave his druid some gear as a thank-you. Win/win.

Why make 100 people level druids when 50 of them can share with one partner? And COTH mages, and bards for PLing, and wizards for Hate and Sky ports, and so on. Imagine having to level up five characters to be able to accomplish those valuable things.

And anyone can accomplish account sharing.

Change your password every week or month if you want.

[cd288]

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

Account sharing is the best. Back before Green Day, I was playing my wizard on Blue, and I asked in Discord if anyone would let me use their druid for buffing and PLing. One of my closer compadres sent me the info to his 57 druid. I got people dozens of levels in a few hours without having to spend a year leveling a freaking druid to 57. I also gave his druid some gear as a thank-you. Win/win.

Why make 100 people level druids when 50 of them can share with one partner? And COTH mages, and bards for PLing, and wizards for Hate and Sky ports, and so on. Imagine having to level up five characters to be able to accomplish those valuable things.

And anyone can accomplish account sharing.

Change your password every week or month if you want.

Why would you give someone gear as a thank you for letting them use your Druid to powerlevel other people? This statement causes my eyebrows to raise since it seems like in reality you may have been using the Druid to powerlevel your own characters and therefore the thank you was warranted due to your personal enrichment. Why would you give gear in return for getting to use a Druid to PL random players?