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[SS4GOGETA]

Hi there I am interested in creating a new account for this game to try out different mechs coompared to my main account. So my question is, I know this company is childish with their rule and TOS (name and shame etc.) so is creating an alternate account against their rules? Could there be any problems and/or disciplinary action against my main account? And also would creating a different profile affect cockpit items, weapon groups setups and loadouts on my main. Would it change them and overwrite them?

If anyone has any answers to any of these questions your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

[C E Dwyer]

Nope not against the rules, you will need to use a separate e-mail address though.

Only time it would be against rules is if you created it to circumvent a perma or temp ban.

Edited by Cathy, 26 June 2016 - 10:07 AM.

[Mystere]

Alternate accounts are fine. In fact, some players have separate Clans and IS accounts.

[SS4GOGETA]

Ok thank you both for your replies, so hopefully you see this again. But will it affect weapon group setups on my main. LRG Pulse on Mouse 1 Etc? Will it reset it, will it remove cockpit items so I'll have to reapply them?

[Onyxian]

It won't have any effect on anything on your main account. Not sure about graphic or game settings, or key bindings though.

[Spheroid]

There is really no reason to do this unless you are big into faction warfare. You can't share parts and you can't share paint or camo.

Did you run out of mech bays or something?

Edited by Spheroid, 26 June 2016 - 10:55 AM.

[Scout Derek]

Onyxian, on 26 June 2016 - 10:40 AM, said:

It won't have any effect on anything on your main account. Not sure about graphic or game settings, or key bindings though.

Everyone is default when making new account.

However if you have different settings for each account they will stay once changed and saved.

[Mystere]

Tristan Winter, on 26 June 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

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Be careful. Just in case you haven't noticed it yet, they have taken over. Many people here probably work for one.

Heck, I have heard enough anecdotes of former "jocks" now working as "drones" or worse "sanitation officers" in companies owned by the "nerds" they used to bully in school.

Vengeance is sweet.

Edited by Tina Benoit, 12 July 2016 - 10:42 AM.

[Scout Derek]

Tristan Winter, on 26 June 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

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Says the guy WITH alt accounts....

[Coolant]

SS4GOGETA, on 26 June 2016 - 10:03 AM, said:

I know this company is childish with their rule and TOS (name and shame etc.)

How can you "know"...what is your proof?

[DarthHias]

Tristan Winter, on 26 June 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

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Liking with his own alt account. Shameless. How many of your likes come from your alts respectively?
HOW MANY??? I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!

[Moldur]

Tristan Winter, on 26 June 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

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I believe this is called "tongue-in-cheek"

[Tristan Winter]

Procurator Derek, on 26 June 2016 - 11:30 AM, said:

Says the guy WITH alt accounts....

Derek, I love you, but we really need to work on how to respond to subtle jokes. This one wasn't even that subtle

Moldur, on 26 June 2016 - 12:00 PM, said:

I believe this is called "tongue-in-cheek"

This kind of humour is always risky on the MWO forums, but makes me feel closer to the 5 or 6 people who get it

[Metus regem]

Tristan Winter, on 26 June 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

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Says the person using a message board for a video game about giant stompy robots....

[Tina Benoit]

Making an Alt account to play MWO is not against CoC.
However posting on the forums with more than 1 account is.
There's several reasons why posting with 2 accounts can cause conflicts.

[Bishop Steiner]

SS4GOGETA, on 26 June 2016 - 10:03 AM, said:

I know this company is childish with their rule and TOS (name and shame etc.)

So ka? Do illuminate us?

In my experience, the only ones who complain about the rules tend to be the ones who childishly bend or break them "cuz individuality". So I'm genuinely curious what "childish" rules PGI has?

(PGI does a lot I disagree with, but this is news to me)

[Scout Derek]

Tina Benoit, on 12 July 2016 - 10:46 AM, said:

Making an Alt account to play MWO is not against CoC.
However posting on the forums with more than 1 account is.
There's several reasons why posting with 2 accounts can cause conflicts.

Tina D:

why you necroing.

D;

[Dread Render]

Tina Benoit, on 12 July 2016 - 10:46 AM, said:

Making an Alt account to play MWO is not against CoC.
However posting on the forums with more than 1 account is.
There's several reasons why posting with 2 accounts can cause conflicts.

dooh... i did not know this. I tend to log in to this forum as whichever of my two accounts a have been playing at the time.
I switch back and forth every few months.
I know it does not make any sense but one account is almost all Heavy and the other almost all Assault mechs.
...better to find out late than not until your in trouble. ;-)

[Alistair Winter]

[Scout Derek]

Alistair Winter, on 12 July 2016 - 11:26 AM, said:

Don't you facepalm. you're guilty of it too.