Bannable, TOS violation, or just plain lack of integrity/greed?
Seeking some clarification as this has led to some heated discussion amongst some players.
Many are playing the recent invasions at a chance of grabbing the high end spellbooks. Given it appears the mage NPCs only drop 3 books, this has lead to some "interesting" behavior in the game. One such case involves single persons using multiple chars (concurrently) spanning several accounts to try and monopolize the mage book drops.
A simple example of this is a heavy damage dealing sampire character engaging a mage NPC, and then same human switching to control another tamer character to command a Cu Sid to attack the same mage. Both in-game characters "owned" by one human are now simultaneously dealing damage. At the end, there is a high chance the one person controlling the two chars walks away with two books (there is usually bragging to this end in game chat, further taunting the players that may have been engaged attacking that NPC).
Perhaps this is the boy scout in me, or is the multi-char nature of this really perfectly kosher?
Many are playing the recent invasions at a chance of grabbing the high end spellbooks. Given it appears the mage NPCs only drop 3 books, this has lead to some "interesting" behavior in the game. One such case involves single persons using multiple chars (concurrently) spanning several accounts to try and monopolize the mage book drops.
A simple example of this is a heavy damage dealing sampire character engaging a mage NPC, and then same human switching to control another tamer character to command a Cu Sid to attack the same mage. Both in-game characters "owned" by one human are now simultaneously dealing damage. At the end, there is a high chance the one person controlling the two chars walks away with two books (there is usually bragging to this end in game chat, further taunting the players that may have been engaged attacking that NPC).
Perhaps this is the boy scout in me, or is the multi-char nature of this really perfectly kosher?
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If they want to pay for 10 accounts, why cant they use them.
A NOOB returner got 2 50 SDI books today on LS. And we have at least 20 going to invasions and some call out the locations of mages in chat to harass the very people you think are harrassing.
This is quite normal PvM behaviour to be fair.
If they are paying for the accounts, and they are playing them attended, then they are not really breaking anything. Most top end PvMers play like this these days in everyday hunt scenarios.
I'm one of the few, who only has 1 account, and I just accept it tbh, they are paying for it, and I question if they can be as efficient on 2 accounts, as I can be on 1, but it's one of those things.
People even try this in PvP, that's when it gets funnier.
It'd be great to get an official confirmation of stance on this, it can be distilled down to whether it's ok to have multiple chars (controlled by the same person) simultaneously engaged in combat against the same target.
I have two complete computers so I am attended on both. Sorry.
Or I could say my wife is on the other account.
Or how would anyone know I own them both.
My other guy is sitting in Luna. you can ban him. he not attended.
I’m pretty sure it’s allowed
there are a few times I’ve had two accounts running mostly to Rez my main one other time I used a second account to help kill Plunderbeacons that I’ve only ever soloed
I don’t have any characters strong enough or equipped enough to really engage high end mobs
but I think it’s completely “legal” game play if people do as long as each character is being controlled independently and not with 3rd party programs
Take the OP contention... that someone controlling multiple characters is attacking the mage generals to get multiple books... Like it’s just a walk in the park to stroll into the city at the beginning of the invasion, locate the specific general they want who would obviously be all alone with no other spawn around it and kill it.
Other situations don't matter as much, but still think it is negative to the overall health of the game.
Very difficult to get 2 accounts on a target in Yew and Minoc. The book droppers are always in a crowd. Since they are only at the beginning there are a bunch of hungry Mobs targeting you.
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Bannable, TOS violation, or just plain lack of integrity/greed?
How about a 4th option? No need to have all of your options be "negative". As long as they are not multiboxxing, Just call it what it is, playing smart. If they can keep 2 or 3 characters alive in the spawn, as long as the are playing "legally", more power to them. Everyone can do it. FYI, it's completely legal as long as they have to switch screens to command pets, or move a player.