Petition for Dev intervention into Multiaccounting

Snagglepuss wrote: There has to be a way to enforce it, why not shoot Tens  a few cans of Tuna, in payment for rooting out the offenders? I understand keeping the game alive, but is it really the multis buying the prestige? No offense to all of you who have posted, but the devs have kept the game going through a ton of BS through the years and I for one appreciate the fact I am still playing. That being said, I have always been of the opinion that its clearly cheating. So I go with the consensus, sort of...Enforce it, period. Please don't legalize it

My concern of multi-accts. is less to do with traditional 'game mechanics' and more to do with spys/agents provocateurs/trolls.  It is very easy to create a 5 city acct., join a military alliance, get in on the spreadsheet and wreak havoc.  Join a traditional alliance, maybe even a training alliance, convince someone you are trust worthy, get sitting rights and wreak havoc then abandon.  Have an acct. in every alliance in Illyriad...  A person can do this without buying any prestige at all. There are many problems with allowing this to continue beyond gold/resource, troop production, prestige buying. 

Sun Tzu wrote: My concern of multi-accts. is less to do with traditional 'game mechanics' and more to do with spys/agents provocateurs/trolls.  It is very easy to create a 5 city acct., join a military alliance, get in on the spreadsheet and wreak havoc.  Join a traditional alliance, maybe even a training alliance, convince someone you are trust worthy, get sitting rights and wreak havoc then abandon.  Have an acct. in every alliance in Illyriad...  A person can do this without buying any prestige at all. There are many problems with allowing this to continue beyond gold/resource, troop production, prestige buying.

I dont think the purpose of that guys post was to debate the legitimacy or morality of the infiltration tactic, but rather display how incredibly easy it is to do and how much widespread harm a single player can cause when the rules arent being enforced

i dont believe its unenforceable, or at least it is a lot more enforceable than what is being done now (nothing), the amount of identifying data about users that website operators can gain is more than enough to catch a large amount of them, i believe. there are steps to mitigate identification from the user side, but there is also a lot that the operators can do to counter those. i doubt most people multi'ing are doing anything super sophisticated so simple fingerprinting tactics can likely catch most of them.

its not just about catching people, but also deterring the act. right now the devs have shown there are 0 consequences to breaking the rules of the game, so people feel safe risking their big accounts. if real effort was made at a purge and big accounts faced the consequences, it would deter future rule breaking.