HS question

[Borkeejin]

Is it possibile for a player who added me to his Kin list to create an alt and spawn at my hearthfire if i did NOT tell him my Hearthsecret?

[Marksman]

No. Kins don't know your hearthsecret until you tell about it. If someone know you HS, you can reset HS or change it.

[Tonkyhonk]

yes, if your HS is easy enough to guess.

[Marksman]

yes, if your HS is easy enough to guess.

All of your passwords is "qwerty" or equal logins/nicks?
TS mean: can his kin spawn alt at his HF without HS?

[Borkeejin]

yes, if your HS is easy enough to guess.

What do you mean sir? xD Like a password, where i should include lenght, special characters and nubers because there are ways to hack it, or like "my hearthsecret is my own nick or something like "hello""?
Marksman, the HS was the name of one of my alts, but this kin couldn't know it at all.
Thanks for your answers.

[dagrimreefah]

Yes, HS is like a password. If someone guesses it, they can spawn a new alt by your hearthfire (unless there is not enough room). It doesn't matter if you're kinned or not. If you are kinned, they still have to guess your HS. Safest bet is to not have a HS and just set it when you need it. Or put boxes around your hearthfire.

[Tonkyhonk]

there has always been idiots who set their HS like "death" or "life" or "111" or whatever you can easily think of.
and there has always been idiots who are bored enough to try guessing such idiotic HS to grief others.
besides, you dont even need to know the char name to match with each HS for griefing.

[borka]

better keep your HS cleared most of the time and only set one for the short time needed...

Update: not recommended! See following post by Sevenless

[Sevenless]

better keep your HS cleared most of the time and only set one for the short time needed...

There was an exploit at one time that allowed people to kin you if you had a blank hearth secret. In light of this, I prefer scrambled random numbers/letters.

Furthermore: It has been a fun pastime of mine and friends to enter random hearth secrets and spawn alts in random noobie villages. Sometimes they think we're a member of theirs who disappeared and we'll take on secret identities within their villages, playing occasionally until discovered or we get bored. The last hearthsecret I did that with was... hm. Girlpower I think it was. Fun times.

[MagicManICT]

Didn't someone get banned here a while back for brute-force hearth spawning like this and using it to raid villages? (Banned from the forums, anyway. Not sure if the person got booted from the game.)