Multiple Clients

[Erik_the_Blue]

Having read the edit...

While I agree with you in principle, I really don't like the idea of giving certain players an advantage because of their hardware. While I doubt many would have enough computers (or desk space & KVM switches) to reasonably manage the number of alt accounts we've seen recently, even having control of two characters at the same time can put someone at a significant advantage over everyone else. I've been in a game like that, and the players with "mules" really skewed some of the end-game competitions into giant popularity contests.

[sabinati]

What 'thieves' do, is have one main account that keeps the stolen items, but use alts to do the actual stealing. You track and kill the alts, but it's really no loss to the main. On top of that, the main can use non-criminal alts as 'safes'. They put valuable items into the alts inventory before logging out and then log both off. The stolen goods in the alt's inventory are now totally inaccessible.

This would definitely help prevent alt raids. : )

one could just drop the loot into a container, log off, immediately log on with an alt and grab the stuff out of the container. they don't even need to be logged on at the same time.

[Ferinex]

one could just drop the loot into a container, log off, immediately log on with an alt and grab the stuff out of the container. they don't even need to be logged on at the same time.

I know this They would not all be able to hide on the same claim though, or ever belong to one alt-created village. On top of that, they couldn't have 3 or 4 alts raid one or more villages at the same time. Lastly, there is still that period of time between the drop and the time the alt gets there. Could be worth something.

[sabinati]

i still don't see how the multiple clients are even working. whenever i accidentally open two clients it says i'm already logged in and i can't do anything with that window.

[Ferinex]

i still don't see how the multiple clients are even working. whenever i accidentally open two clients it says i'm already logged in and i can't do anything with that window.

Two accounts.

[Erik_the_Blue]

You don't even need two e-mail addys, not that that would stop many people these days.

[Delamore]

Hurfdurf lets waste the devs time on something piss easy to bypass and anyone who wants to will bypass.

[Ferinex]

Hurfdurf lets waste the devs time on something piss easy to bypass and anyone who wants to will bypass.

Explain to me how you would bypass it, please, in detail, with the limited knowledge you have of how it works from my post and no detailed knowledge of how the devs actually go about implementing it.

[Delamore]

Hurfdurf lets waste the devs time on something piss easy to bypass and anyone who wants to will bypass.

Explain to me how you would bypass it, please, in detail, with the limited knowledge you have of how it works from my post and no detailed knowledge of how the devs actually go about implementing it.

Well shit, just google for any one of the 100s of IP and mac address spoofers, or you know just hack the client.

[Ferinex]

Hurfdurf lets waste the devs time on something piss easy to bypass and anyone who wants to will bypass.

Explain to me how you would bypass it, please, in detail, with the limited knowledge you have of how it works from my post and no detailed knowledge of how the devs actually go about implementing it.

Well shit, just google for any one of the 100s of IP and mac address spoofers, or you know just hack the client.

MAC Spoofers are typically programs used to show your MAC address to a network as being something else. Not really relevant to bypassing this sort of implementation. Especially if the server checks your MAC once in a while to make sure it hasn't changed.

Hacking the client: Easier said than done. If it was that easy, macros would be a hell of a lot more efficient and you could grind without even having the client in the foreground. Still possible, just more work than it's worth for a game.

Either way, as I said before, if they do feel like cracking it/sending false packets, more power to them : )