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On 2017-03-06 09:05:14Show All PostsDescending Order
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I think people having multiple accounts needs to be discussed. As much as I like having a second account, it's easy to cheat the game with them. Now with plundering, people create smurf groups or put their smurfs into other groups and use them to plunder for free coupons. Flowers are another thing as well, but that's not as big of a deal. From GNW to Sage to Arena, smurfs are now being used to the players' advantage to cheat the game. I think we need to take a step back and look if this is an okay thing to do and if the devs are okay with us doing it.

I do hate to bring it up because that means our group will be plundered to bits as we are the weak group, but I think it's just not right. And what I've read about the rules, alternate accounts aren't mentioned. Not only that, but inactive people handing their accounts to another person in game (not buying or selling, just for free because I know that it isn't allowed) so that they can continue to get the dailys and be used in war and such.

To be fair, this game is dying. Multiple people are getting bored with it, including myself, and so alternate accounts lets the game continue to be playable for the people who still want to play. I mean, over half our server is smurf accounts or people using another person's account.

I don't know, I just thought it needed to be brought up and discussed because it is being abused to cheat the game, but is it necessary due to the lack of people playing? There's a lot of pros and cons on the table here.
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On 2017-03-06 11:14:16Show All Posts
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  • Niji On 2017-03-06 11:02:44
  • Not sure why having multiple accounts would be a problem as it's one of the things contributing to keeping this game alive.
Yeah I know but isn't that sad? The fact the only thing keeping this game alive is people making multiple accounts? Literally the only thing. The fact we have to use our alts to be able to do nine tails, sage, gnw, etc is because everyone has at least 2 accounts?
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On 2017-03-06 11:25:44Show All Posts
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Maybe I was a bit naïve thinking that the devs would actually care if people were cheapening the game experience......
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On 2017-03-06 11:32:29Show All Posts
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  • Niji On 2017-03-06 11:25:27
  • I suppose it is sad. But it makes sense why so many people lose interest in the game. It's very repetitious, which many find boring after a while and the timed events cut into a lot of people's free time.

    If you don't do things on the game every day, you can fall behind pretty quickly, which would discourage anyone that's spent money or time into the game.
And the fact that people who are f2p get frustrated at people who pour money into this game. Seen a lot of f2p people snap because some guy with $5,000 one hit killed them lol. Not gonna go on a huge tangent about f2p and p2p because there is really no point
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On 2017-03-06 12:31:13Show All Posts
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  • Niji On 2017-03-06 12:01:02
  • The people in my server are the opposite. xD We had a lot of pay to win players that would get angry because free players beat them in some way or another.

    But yeah. We just recently had one of our heavy pay to win players quit - not sure the reason since he's not in my group.
Seeing it here too. Although our top p2w is still kicking. The second best one I'm friends with and he's tired of the game.
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On 2017-03-06 12:32:18Show All Posts
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  • Watanuki13 On 2017-03-06 12:13:10
  • First of all, thank you for the idea. Now I can plunder guilt-free. ;P

    Second of all, is there a mmorpg without any alts?

    It's true, using alts could help you farm certain things in the game (Arena pre-2.0 comes to mind). But I don't see why receiving acount from people who quit playing is so bad though. I mean, they quit; and so long as you aren't scamming the system or others players with it, then it shouldnt be a problem, right?

    i don't mind the alts on my server. Arena and Matsuri are cross-servered now. Alts in Sage are pretty fun; because free wins, plus they guarantee Sage in quiter server. Veteran group leaders know how to identify spies, plus there's the Whte List, so alts's advantage for GNW is pretty moot. As for plundering alts, that only applies for dead servers; in normal server that alts would be torn to shreds convoying even before you could hit "refresh". :).

    So, all in all, it's fine.
I don't mind it either, but it seriously feels like cheating imo. I can't believe so many people didn't think of the smurf group idea o-o
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On 2017-03-06 13:54:32Show All Posts
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  • dlp2323 On 2017-03-06 13:15:24
  • Alternate accounts are technically not allowed, although it isn't stated in the rules, multiple mods have posted in threads before saying it isn't allowed. However the rules on it are not heavily enforced, thats why people with alternate accounts don't get punished. If alternate accounts do ever somehow become a huge problem, I believe the Mods would deal with it then, but at this point the only advantage alts give is really just free plunders, and free wins in sage war, which isn't even many wins due to the morale system, they'd get kicked out after 3 losses.

    Game is dying, and I myself am going bored of it. I literally log on just to do dailies, which isn't even hard since I can instant complete them, sweep with my stamina, and then sit in hot springs for 2hours as I do other things. I've spent a lot of money on this game and I can't nor will I quit because of that reason. If I had not spent as much money as I did, I would be gone already honestly. You're on same server as I am, so you know the top 2 (Drin and I) aren't nearly online as much as before. Just come on for dailies, or GNW. Heck, we hardly do Sage anymore either, just mainly GNW. I don't even convoy or plunder. This post was last edited by StrikeExia at 2017-3-6 13:19
Is Drin even on anymore? Like you and Hiroto are it and then all the Clan that went to Anbu since you guys have group skills one level higher th*. This game is pointless to spend money on. Wish I woulda known that 6 months ago :/
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On 2017-03-07 04:10:24Show All Posts
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  • PoisonScrub On 2017-03-06 23:04:31
  • ^This. I believe mods have repeatedly said that people with alts would have action taken on them when they are reported to the mods. However, I believe that many people (including people in this thread) are guilty of owning alt accounts to plunder and get coupons.

    With so many prominent members (people who play the game regularly) of this game owning alternate accounts, I doubt real actions would be taken and for the rule to be reinforced. Personally I do see it as unfair too; if you can't spend 3 hours waiting for plunders, go convoy for goodness sake. The daily 150 coupons added up would give such a massive power boost - not that it is a bad thing, but it is forced and repetitive and really *s the fun out of the whole event in the first place.

    Even if you don't plunder the weaker members of the server, someone else is bound to. Even if no one eventually plunders them, what is their 30 coupons compared to the 150 you get for virtually free? It just seems like an exploit to the whole system that shouldn't have or meant to have existed.
Excellent point. Yeah now I really see that even if it's considered cheating, it is the only reason most servers are still active. At this point, until they fix the whole "servers are ****ING DYING" problem, this is the only solution.
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