LP Concerns

[Potjeh]

Specialization should come naturally through division of labour in a village, it shouldn't be enforced by the game's mechanics. Personal beliefs are just watered down character classes.

[Tonkyhonk]

whatever a good reason there is,

I like the nature/industry slider. It's the only real choice one has to make that leads to specialization, and it still leaves many industries open.

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but indeed this is the strongest motivation for me to make an alt, to experience different aspects of the game.

[sabinati]

Why cant you do one client per ip and one char per client?

hey i know it's a strange concept, but sometimes two people in the same household both want to play.

[MagicManICT]

Why cant you do one client per ip and one char per client?

hey i know it's a strange concept, but sometimes two people in the same household both want to play.

Damn, why didn't I think of that?

There's also the issue of tracking IPs. In a world of IPv5 (v5 is current version, right?) and DHCP, the only computers with a static IP address are ISPs and major industries with dedicated network services. After all, IPv5 and previous is only a 32 bit address. Without DHCP, we'd have ran out of IP addresses a decade ago. Then, going past that, there's the issue of some players being able to access a couple dozen different IP addresses simultaneously. Why should a handful have an advantage that most players don't. As loftar or Jorb one pointed out in another thread, if a few people are going to be able to hax client, all should be allowed to do so. Same with multiple accounts.

Besides, this isn't Travian or oGame or one of dozens of other web based games where having multiple accounts can give a player massive advantages over everyone else.