Sugestion:

Proof? Everyone keeps asking for proof of foul play. This is a game, some players are always going to try to cheat. It's common sense.

Are players in this game abusing the account sitters feature? Most definitely!

Are players using hidden IPs or other tricks to get around the 2 account max rule? Most definitely!

All it takes is one cheating player to ruin a fun game. I've seen it happen too many times.

Give players the option to suspend their accounts for up to a year and limit account sitting to a max of 30 days every 6 months.

I can't imagine how anyone would be unable to find a computer within a year to keep their accounts alive. Our military has internet on frontline military bases, even our prisons have internet.

Sliveen wrote: ok great, you dont think its a problem. Shut up, move on, dont comment here. but there are tons of peopel who are fed up with a handful of players running illy politics with the massive resources of handfuls of accounts. The equalizer of only two accounts is mishandled and frankly in poor form. No respect for the rules means no respect for the Illy community. This is a simple case of ethics. Either you have it or you don't.

Interesting how you dismiss counter arguments with "Shut up, move on, dont comment here." This is a public forum, for players of Illy, which you either are not or don't care enough to be recognized. EDIT: MY MISTAKE, YOU ARE A PLAYER. I MISSPELLED. MY APOLOGIES.

The metaphorical tons of people who are fed up with Illy politics are just not trying. I doubt that is the case anyway as anyone who does not care to participate in political manuvering can sit it out, in a peaceful alliance or on their own and be none the worse for wear.

The folks who wield the power in Illy have worked to get where they are. The accusations of cheating are coming, in my opinion because it's easy to do. Smearing reputations takes little effort compared to the time and skill, and downright luck in many instances it takes to build power, political or otherwise.

I know of a few instances of sitters maintaining accounts but they are not the majority, not by a long shot. Generally, when the owner leaves and never returns the sitter is reluctant to let it go. There may be sentimental reasons but they also have a vested interest in these accounts. Sooner or later, in most cases they will give them up. If the sitter is active and a member of a vital alliance I don't see how they can keep sitting inactive accounts anyway. They usually are needed for more pressing matters.

Involved, active players who sit accounts are more likely to drop them sooner rather than later because some smaller member needs help, not to mention the fact that a growing alliance needs to cash in on those cities. Their locations and size (assuming these are large accounts we are talking about) are way more valuable for siege/capture. In an robust alliance, inactive accounts are just tools and shortly are cast out as their usefulness is fleeting.

The Illy Dev team is clearly intelligent or this game would suck. They know this is a red herring.

Edited by abstractdream - 06 May 2013 at 00:22

DeathDealer89 wrote: If someone is breaking 1 rule, they won't worry about breaking 2 rules. Its common sense.

qft

The account sitting policy probably cuts down on 90% of password sharing and full account transfers. That's a huge security headache for online games. If the remaining 10% are truly determined to break the rules, then they will immediately find a way to circumvent any new rules put in place.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that there are at least 50 perma-sitter accounts with 9 or 10 cities. By perma-sitter I mean that the original player has largely abandoned and has no intention of ever returning to Illy. Let's use 100 to keep the math simple. Using the 10 square radius, those accounts could at most maintain a zone of 300 squares around each city, for 3000 per account and 300,000 total. There are 4M squares in Illy, so you're still talking about less than 10% of all squares.

Additionally, players don't claim everything within their 10 squares. So if you settle 10 squares away, you can claim tiles 6-10 squares from their cities and still obey the rule. That would mean an effective 5 square radius around a city site of claimed squares, or 75,000 squares total (1.875% total squares).

That puts 98.125% of squares in play for active players. And that's assuming 100 perma-sitter accounts with 10 cities, which I think is a very generous assumption.

Your negativity is unwholesome . I wish I could ban you from this thread. Since I cant, I will choose to ignore from this point onwards. Continue to talk to yourself and drool as you continue to give a onesided conversation that attacks without any meaning ful presentation as to why you are so negative about the actual intent of this thread. In otherwords, GM luna please ask this troll to get off this thread!!!

This is an extremely childish back and forth calling each other trolls. Really unwelcome behavior here.

Closing thread.

Luna