Multiaccounting now part of the game?!?

Multi accounting has been common for years and discussed many times. The practical part of the issue is how do you prevent it? No acceptable solution has been found as, unlike many EA games, you don’t need to purchase the game to play.

I have 4 accounts that I play. They are all my accounts, yet, the difficulties I have logging on to each account has cost me more time and financial losses than I care to discuss. If EA wants to roll all those account funds into one single account, talk to me, I'd be happy to fund only a single account, it would make the mrs happy and EA not so happy but I'm all for it. 1st, someone explain to me how having multiple accounts is harmful, then explain how I can use them to feed my main account? If there's an exploit out there and you know about it, do share. If your referring to moving accounts around from alliance to alliance to grow them, well, if you can manage it, so be it. What I'd like to see is the alliances that succeed at hitting the fortress being forced to leave the server after they've accomplished their mission, not the alliance per se, the players in that alliance. That mission being the destruction of the fortress, therein lies the problem. The 1st team that destroys the fortress takes control of the server and decides who goes next and so on and on and on etc., blah, blah, blah. The reason they don't abandon the server voluntarily is due to once their alliance disappears, so does the fortress stat info. If a team takes the fort as the # 1 team, they should remain in the "hall of fame" for all eternity. Every alliance should have to "earn" their badge on their own and not be subjected to an "fort team" that dictates who gets a badge and who doesn't. That's not what I spend $$$ for and I'm sure many others can relate, through battle, diplomacy, treachery and players should NOT be punished for fulfilling the games intended purpose. You already took away most incentives for PvP. This is a beefed up version of farm-ville (sorry, never played farmville and never will). Why not give ... and I'm gonna hate myself in the morning for even suggesting it ...if and alliance is drawn into PvP, doesn't matter who or what initiated it, if I'm attacking an enemy base and I can destroy it, why not offer up the option to "capture" the base instead of destroying it. I get to keep it for 24 or 48 hrs depending on the capture time and yes, that creates another exploit opportunity so work out the mechanics/glitches and let the rewards of the base resource production go to the battle victor and STOP punishing players for fulfilling the games purpose.
FYI, the game is not dying because of cheaters, the game is dying because of ..well, at the risk of being tossed back in EA/Envision Jail ...GREED ...by EA and the developers including Envision, I've lost more TA funds than a little bit due to all of these "server" maintenance and "patch" issues that have resulted in days upon days of down-time, I buy blocks of CP/RT and resources on 30 day cycles, not 29, not 28, not 25...I think you get the picture...those pennies add up to millions of dollars in someones pocket and I end up losing a lot of resources, not to mention servers and "the pursuit of happyness". Further, EA/Envision employees/executives/developers have the "perk" of being allowed to play the game, why? and how can you possibly convince me that that is in any way, shape or form fair? Your starting out with a 100,000 CP/RT advantage or more.

This is a funny thread.

First of all let's make one thing clear: Please EA make multiaccounting impossible and save me tens of hours a week - my wife would appreciate it :)

Regarding the conversation of allowing 1 alt but no more: In my opinion it doesn't matter if you have 1 or 100, the only difference is time, effort & money you need to invest to the game. Should we also propose that stealing under 10€ worth is OK but >10€ is not? Sounds a lot like your not able to spend either the cash or the time to perform in top5... or you don't have the will... or as in most cases; the skill.

Please EA, If you ban multiaccounting do it well. We have seen enough of you guys fucking things up in the past years of the game. I would personally expect something like: NO alts (including any territory holders, POI holders etc.) While your at it, also start to ban players sharing login details (FYI: that's against the current rules).

I don't see how multiaccounting could be banned. Yes the dynamics can be changed to make it less lucrative but I'll leave that to EA.

Btw, should EA like to make this game fair for everyone, there wouldn't be a funds factor either.

-Hessu

ps. please keep whining about these matters also in the future, it's good fun for everyone of us not expecting life to be fair :)

It's getting ridiculous, i was playing in 2014. Coming back now because i have a lot of free times. This multi-accounting is just totally annoying.

A lot of "free to play games" are just "pay to play". C&C Tiberium is ok about that, with just a bit of fundings and a good strategy you can compet the best.

But this multi-account is totally killing the game... People are using 3 Alts for feeding the main account...

"frederick776;c-2030823" wrote:
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The reason it works is that it makes it much more difficult to multi-account, the only way around will be VPN so it will eliminate the vast majority of casual cheaters.

Casual cheaters aren't the problem, the serious cheaters are! (Or you could argue the lack of action is the main problem.)

"frederick776;c-2030925" wrote:

"RAYMONDRONALD;c-2030909" wrote:
Ok you ban more than 1 account on a ISP address
SO WHAT HAPPENS to a Husband and Wife who both play or Dad and Son

We are getting like the PC Correct, School sports Day, no one must come First all are to come Second as it could up set the Snow flakes who can not stand competition.
GROW UP act your age not your Shoe Size

that is some odd family. In any case, at the very least they should not be hitting the same bases so they could do a smart application of the duplicate address solution. Lets see what the Devs have come up with in January..

I have been on many servers with father/son groups. Often it is father helping son along by starting off a base etc and letting the son have the kill. Man/partner combos are also around. I don’t find that strange!

"gamerdruid;c-2021015" wrote:
Multi accounting has been common for years and discussed many times. The practical part of the issue is how do you prevent it? No acceptable solution has been found as, unlike many EA games, you don’t need to purchase the game to play.

i agree that it is hard to have an automatic recognizing. and you cant have people 24h watching the server.
but some are very obvious, i mean with manual check.
i am not talking about small guys having an unfunded alt to help themselves a bit (even that is not ok). I am talking about guys having shitloads of base kills feed by multi accounts. even without having access to the system (like an admin) this can be seen by normal players.

it must be in the interest of the developers that there is a stop for that.

We are aware that there are players who are currently exploiting the game design in ways unintended by us. We are currently looking into ways to fix this.

"EE_Elephterion;c-2021705" wrote:
We are aware that there are players who are currently exploiting the game design in ways unintended by us. We are currently looking into ways to fix this.

hello EE,

thanks for your feedback. that is letting me looking forward positive.
to annoy a bit, do you have a time line? :)

"reinemachfrau;c-2021726" wrote:
hello EE,

thanks for your feedback. that is letting me looking forward positive.
to annoy a bit, do you have a time line? :)

I know everyone is hoping for good news, but no I don't. Sorry.