Have a publicly visible multiple IP flag.
This means, if an IP address logs in to an account that has logged in to another account there will be (on the user page, in the forums, and anywhere their name would appear) a little red flag gif next to it that when you hover over shows the other accounts the player logged in to and at what time.
This should eliminate multiple account usage all together, as well as account sharing, and real life trading of accounts-all of which I presume are very much so frowned upon for either security or financial reasons.
Having this anything but publicly visible would be less than effective. While it is somewhat useful for moderators and administrators to have access to this information it usually leads to horrible moderation/administration errors as deciding whether an account is being used by one person or two people on one IP address is sometimes actually difficult to infer without sometimes incidentally banning two brothers who take turns playing this game from the same computer.
Why would it help if anyone could see it? Because we the other players may just well know the people you are potentially banning better than you, go figure.
AT NO POINT IN THIS SUGGESTION DID I STATE YOU SHOULD SHARE WITH ANYONE ANY PART OF ANOTHER USERS IP ADDRESS.
There is absolutely no reason this is not already done.
I've been here for such a short time and I'm already too aware of the "multi" word being used way too much.
Also I don't really believe that the administration of this game have a negative view of multis in the least bit, I think they actually FEAR us knowing who all is a multi because it would show the people they've been overlooking for so long just because they spend money. If the administration were even the least bit concerned this would already be implemented in some way or form... but it doesn't seem to be.
This is in no way replaced by mods/admins being able to "check" on someones IP if they are suspicious of a multi account, as the word FLAG is very important...
This means, if an IP address logs in to an account that has logged in to another account there will be (on the user page, in the forums, and anywhere their name would appear) a little red flag gif next to it that when you hover over shows the other accounts the player logged in to and at what time.
This should eliminate multiple account usage all together, as well as account sharing, and real life trading of accounts-all of which I presume are very much so frowned upon for either security or financial reasons.
Having this anything but publicly visible would be less than effective. While it is somewhat useful for moderators and administrators to have access to this information it usually leads to horrible moderation/administration errors as deciding whether an account is being used by one person or two people on one IP address is sometimes actually difficult to infer without sometimes incidentally banning two brothers who take turns playing this game from the same computer.
Why would it help if anyone could see it? Because we the other players may just well know the people you are potentially banning better than you, go figure.
AT NO POINT IN THIS SUGGESTION DID I STATE YOU SHOULD SHARE WITH ANYONE ANY PART OF ANOTHER USERS IP ADDRESS.
There is absolutely no reason this is not already done.
I've been here for such a short time and I'm already too aware of the "multi" word being used way too much.
Also I don't really believe that the administration of this game have a negative view of multis in the least bit, I think they actually FEAR us knowing who all is a multi because it would show the people they've been overlooking for so long just because they spend money. If the administration were even the least bit concerned this would already be implemented in some way or form... but it doesn't seem to be.
This is in no way replaced by mods/admins being able to "check" on someones IP if they are suspicious of a multi account, as the word FLAG is very important...
Edited by Burger Kang on Mar 16, 2012 19:15:50






























