Account Sitting

liberty6 wrote: from my reading it seems everybody is interpreting the issue differently and some have no idea what they are talking about.... now the system has some safe guards ie cannot permanently babysit the account. also you can only sit 2 accounts and you can appoint 2 sitters that in of itself can prevent abuse as appoint 2 sitters and give them the same set of instructions. many of the vets in the game know about sitting and the risks if you appoint someone and they screw your account up its your fault as it makes it clear what your getting into.

from my reading it seems everybody is interpreting the issue differently and some have no idea what they are talking about.... now the system has some safe guards ie cannot permanently babysit the account. also you can only sit 2 accounts and you can appoint 2 sitters that in of itself can prevent abuse as appoint 2 sitters and give them the same set of instructions.

As a newbie in here I am looking in from outside I guess but what Whitebeard said seems to make a lot of sense and nullifies most of the concerns expressed - several years ago in another similar game, after a long illness I found I had almost lost everything I had ever built up so reluctantly abandoned it all and never returned. 

Very true Rill but the way that is now, it can easily be argued against.  The whole "If we provide you with a user ID and password" sounds like they were just referring to the website when they wrote that, if they wrote it.

To me it just sounds like the login info to the Illyriad main website. Not to the game itself. But I could be wrong, but it does not sound like it was written to include the game. Guess "other content or services" could mean the game but oh well.  Not really the place to discuss this.

I still believe the sitting should be changed and I'm glad it is still on the table. Though I do hope stuff like this does not stop other things from being brought forward with.

Edit: So we don't end up hijacking this topic I sent a message asking GM Luna. I'll post back here if/when she responds. If the response is not made public.


Edited by Quackers - 01 Jan 2012 at 02:33

Rill wrote: I suppose if account sitting weren't allowed, people would be tempted to violate the Terms of Service by sharing password information.  Perhaps that would cause more problems than eliminating account sitting would solve?

There is nothing in the rules or Terms of Service against sharing passwords or accounts. I have read through both and did not see anything, I also searched for key words like account and password and found nothing that says you cannot share accounts.

If your going to be away from the game for a very long period of time then I would see why sitting or even account sharing would be useful.

But I do believe that an account that has not been logged into by a player in over 3/6 months should be suspended or locked until the player logs onto the account. Locked meaning that a sitter cannot log onto the account but the account is not fully suspended yet, and can be unlocked by logging onto the account directly.

Something to that effect might solve the problem more the anything. Since this is the suggestions page I would just like to add in my suggestion. Though I should have just made a new topic, sorry for posting here. 


Edited by Quackers - 01 Jan 2012 at 01:29