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Old 09-14-2018, 02:01 PM   #1
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I saw, in the Knowledge Base, a question about having more than one account.

Here: https://www.championsofregnum.com/su...-email-address

The answer to that question says the Terms of Use say only one account per user.

I read the terms of use, at https://www.championsofregnum.com/index.php?l=1&sec=8 (click on terms of use, it will pop up), and I do not see anywhere in there where it says only one account is allowed per user. Mind you, I'm not a lawyer, and the legalese may have skipped over my head...

I'm not considering multiple accounts, but I am wondering where that particular term of service is.

I hope this is the right forum in which to ask this question...

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Old 09-15-2018, 05:07 AM   #2
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As I understand it (Ms Leily, correct me if I'm wrong here), once upon a time, NGD did frown on having multiple accounts per user, & on multi-realming in general. Then, after multiple servers were merged, & many folk had multiple accounts without intending to do so, this 'restriction' was lifted. That said, it is still a bannable offense to be online on more than one realm at a time (aka multi-logging), but I don't really know if this policy is heavily enforced (as I never do it).
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Old 09-15-2018, 03:11 PM   #3
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As far as I know, you can have as many accounts as you wish as long as they have different e-mails, and also as long as they are all in the same realm. There are cases, however, in which one e-mail in shared due to one account created back in Game Samba, and another one in RO webpage, so when they merged, both accounts happened to have the same e-mail.
Let's wait for an official answer.
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Old 09-24-2018, 08:53 AM   #4
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As far as I know, you can have as many accounts as you wish as long as they have different e-mails, and also as long as they are all in the same realm. There are cases, however, in which one e-mail in shared due to one account created back in Game Samba, and another one in RO webpage, so when they merged, both accounts happened to have the same e-mail.
Let's wait for an official answer.
Heh. The answer at Knowledge Base post was given by a "Community Manager" on May 31, 2018. I don't suppose that's Leily?

Like the OP, I'd like to know the answer. Where is that term of service in the terms of service? I know it used to be there.
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Old 10-15-2018, 08:15 PM   #5
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People abuse this for multi-logging for dragon wishes really frequently, which just means that unfortunately NGD can't check this or do anything about this.
And I don't think NGD wants to discriminate players playing from the same IP.
The only way to detect this would be some anomaly detection system, real-time monitoring actions from the same IP. Certain patterns could indicate multi-logging, like coming with multiple accounts to wish only and rarely playing them simultaneously, also sending movement strokes either to one of characters while other remains idle, there can be plenty of good features that can be useful to detect this. One could model this using multivariate Gaussian distribution. But I guess they have more urgent matters to solve at the moment.
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Old 10-15-2018, 10:02 PM   #6
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People abuse this for multi-logging for dragon wishes really frequently, which just means that unfortunately NGD can't check this or do anything about this.
And I don't think NGD wants to discriminate players playing from the same IP.
The only way to detect this would be some anomaly detection system, real-time monitoring actions from the same IP. Certain patterns could indicate multi-logging, like coming with multiple accounts to wish only and rarely playing them simultaneously, also sending movement strokes either to one of characters while other remains idle, there can be plenty of good features that can be useful to detect this. One could model this using multivariate Gaussian distribution. But I guess they have more urgent matters to solve at the moment.
NGD has some detection capability & did put in place a 2-day no-game-rewards for realm-hoppers. That said, one can easily change their IP, & as long as players only use & verify one pc per realm, & own multiple pc's, then NGD cannot really know, & such players are free to multi-realm, multi-log, all without penalty. It is what it is, & there's nothing for it afaik...

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Old 10-23-2018, 04:26 PM   #7
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NGD has some detection capability & did put in place a 2-day no-game-rewards for realm-hoppers. That said, one can easily change their IP, & as long as players only use & verify one pc per realm, & own multiple pc's, then NGD cannot really know, & such players are free to multi-realm, multi-log, all without penalty. It is what it is, & there's nothing for it afaik...
I don't think issue is that people change their IP, but issue arises when people multi-log from the same IP, to alter the wish voting outcome, or to get more wish rewards, or to get more chances on boss. Changing IP disconnects from game anyway.
So unless you pay for multiple IPs from your ISP, than it's easier to narrow down detection criteria.
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Old 10-23-2018, 11:59 PM   #8
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I don't think issue is that people change their IP, but issue arises when people multi-log from the same IP, to alter the wish voting outcome, or to get more wish rewards, or to get more chances on boss. Changing IP disconnects from game anyway.
So unless you pay for multiple IPs from your ISP, than it's easier to narrow down detection criteria.
Way too many peeps will do whatever it takes to secretly multi-realm & multi-log, all in order to 'win'. I honestly do not know wtf NGD can ever really do about it, but going forward, I am glad they are at least trying to keep the very worst of this from occurring on Ra....

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