22 replies to this topic

[Hayashi]

Any idea if there are restrictions on how many accounts you can create? On separate email addresses, of course.

This is such that I could, say, fight as House Kurita in one account, and as a mercenary in another.

[Sarah Dalrymple]

I'm fairly certain that as with most online games, the account will be tied to your IP and having multiple accounts will, in the very least be frowned upon, if not a cause for the banhammer.

[wwiiogre]

only one account per user, cannot sell them and if they catch you permanent ban according to the devs

chris

[stabwest]

So, if I play, my wife plays and my duaghter plays on different accounts, but we're all on the same network/same ip we would all get banned?

[Sarah Dalrymple]

stabwest, on 08 March 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

So, if I play, my wife plays and my duaghter plays on different accounts, but we're all on the same network/same ip we would all get banned?

Even if you are all on the same network, each computer should be assigned it's own IP address. Unless you have gone in and tweaked with your router settings?

[Ishmod]

if you are on the same network , internal IP's for the computers aren't generally recognized on the outside interwebs .. it picks the NAT ip of the router you ALL are connected to unless you are using specific IP forwarding ... if my memory serves... damn , getting old ...

[stabwest]

what if we all used the same computer just at different times?

[Risky]

Multiple accounts are not allowed.

[FinnMcKool]

can you giv us a link to where it says "no"

sorry but that dont make much sense to me??

dollars or cents.

[Guido]

I don't think having the same IP address alone will get you ban-hammered (I could be wrong, it's happened before). There are other ways to identify alternative accounts, such as the activities the account takes (i.e. constantly revenge killing, or always passing around C-bills between the accounts), possibly in conjunction with reports by other players of a player using multiple accounts, that increases the accuracy of detecting alt accounts. There are bound to be people who will play this at internet cafes or libraries. Not all of those players are broke, so whoever monitors for this issue has to either shrug and lose potential clients in order to prevent a few people from creating multiple accounts, or compensate.

[nubnub]

I don't think they will be able to stop it, except by IP (which can also be bypassed), but that will hurt people with multi-accounts on the one internet connection (they will have the same IP). Given they want their market to remain as big a possible I think they wont do the IP.

[CeeKay Boques]

Yeah its kind of a bummer that you can't. While I'll have 3 accounts because my two little boys will play... maybe as we get to know eac hother, I'll know you, you'll know me, and sometimes you'll just want to mech when nobody knows your name. It happened in MW4 leagues, there was were times when wanted to roll around silly, without anybody associating you with it... (not griefing, just silly weapons or DFA only matches)....

[stabwest]

I don't see what possible advantages multiple accounts would give to a player in this game.

[CeeKay Boques]

Well, you could attempt to set up games versus your other accounts and then rock them for cash and prizes.

[FinnMcKool]

Dont limit stuff

and I dont see any links to where it s stated no multiple accounts
so its clear they are aloud

Of course if it isnt aloud, the only people who will have them will be those
who abuse the privilege

you have to earn xp so why would having 2 or more accounts give you an advantage
if anything it would hurt you , slow down your advancement.

Just cause you dont like / have no use for something dont Hurt or limit others from
having the freedom.




we hate that which we dont understand.

[stabwest]

Technoviking, on 08 March 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

Well, you could attempt to set up games versus your other accounts and then rock them for cash and prizes.

With the mission contract system I've read about so far, I don't think you will be able to choose your opponents. At least, I believe that it would be quite easy for the developers to defeat this, also you would have to somehow set it up so that only your mechs/accounts are on the field because 1 other random player would totally screw up your system.

[CeeKay Boques]

stabwest, on 08 March 2012 - 10:24 PM, said:

With the mission contract system I've read about so far, I don't think you will be able to choose your opponents. At least, I believe that it would be quite easy for the developers to defeat this, also you would have to somehow set it up so that only your mechs/accounts are on the field because 1 other random player would totally screw up your system.

Only insane people would attempt to do to make accounts to fight themselves. But ... people are.

However, that does bring up a good point. In MW4, Units were like teams. Squaring off against that team that usually beat you was fun, and bidding them down to your liking was part of the game. I sincerely hope that we'll be able to link arms with our brothers and sisters and make sports like teams rather than it be a series of never ending "Finding opponent.... Finding opponents...." There is something very, very personal about MechWarrior, much like, again, your sports team vs theirs... I hope the players can control that in some fashion.

[Thomas Hogarth]

I set up an account for my girlfriend. Our romance involved MW4 and MegaMek. I'll be sad if we can't play together.

[stabwest]

Technoviking, on 08 March 2012 - 10:28 PM, said:

Only insane people would attempt to do to make accounts to fight themselves. But ... people are.

However, that does bring up a good point. In MW4, Units were like teams. Squaring off against that team that usually beat you was fun, and bidding them down to your liking was part of the game. I sincerely hope that we'll be able to link arms with our brothers and sisters and make sports like teams rather than it be a series of never ending "Finding opponent.... Finding opponents...." There is something very, very personal about MechWarrior, much like, again, your sports team vs theirs... I hope the players can control that in some fashion.

Of course, It has been my understanding that you will do battle as a team angainst another team, and you will be able to choose your team, but, as I understand it, the opposing team will be decided either randomly, or by some other non-random mechanic that players have no control over. Also if your team is short on players, you could pick up a random lone wolf player, or if your buddies were offline but you still wanted to play you could drop as lone wolf and be paired up with a random team.

[LordDeathStrike]

as long as you can have multiple characters on your account such that you can fight for the different factions 1 at a time i dont see why you would need more then 1 account.

as for multiple pcs in the household playing the game at the same time, the games on your pc, it can flag you based on your hardware ip np, and send that to the servers to verify, routers are too easy to spoof they stopped going by router ip years ago for anything serious about security (like if you email the president a threat, they have your computers internal information on the ip of the network card and your login name and your windows id code and they will find you and black bag over your head you to guantanamo)

as per boxxing more accounts on the same pc, alot of games wont let you run multiple instances anymore, like ff14 and swtor for examples, you cant run them more then once at all even with multiple install locations.

as per different people using different accounts at different times on the same pc, not sure, they might flag you as suspicious and watch you to make sure you arent up to trying to exploit things.