EVE General Discussion

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Doesn't mean some idiot isn't going to try to skirt the rule anyway.

Nothing is prohibiting you to try it and report here.

I was under the impression that it is OK on different PCs, alpha account or not.
good luck though trying to prove that your "other notebook" is not a virtual machine box.

Dude with roommate reporting in.

I asked this question in the EULA update thread, since the EULA update dealt with precisely this sort of thing. I never got a response - probably because the thread was overrun with discussion about gambling as if it were the be-all end-all of EvE. So, I don't know if Devs even saw the question amidst the chaos. My inclination is that the answer is going to be "no", so I told my roommate not to bother. To be honest I doubt he'd enjoy the game enough to subscribe anyway, so there's no real loss at least in my case.

That said, this IS a serious issue for other people than me. CEO of a corp I'm in plays Omega of course, and he has a son who also plays sometimes (son confirmed, was in comms). Now if I understand the situation correctly, the son plays sporadically when time allows from school (so during summer, spring, winter break). Alphas give him the option to putz around a bit if only for just a weekend during school without having to subscribe for full Omega status, so this will eventually demand a direct and clear answer.

That situation is a bit different than the OP's question I know, but it's the same premise. The EULA says you can't have Alphas and Omegas from the same source (along with a restriction of *one* alpha per source), so it still needs to be addressed eventually.

the burden of proof is on you. that is if you are even lucky that they even consider your proof.

I live in a dormitory, around 450 students use the same IP as me.
At home, i live in an apartment building, 21 people use the same IP as me.
A fellow EVE player lives in an university campus. Around 300 people use his IP.
VPN users ...

Shared IPs are quite common, limiting Alphas to 1 per IP would lock out many players.

A lot of people are doing it already ... I was planning to do it too: Trying out new activites like faction warfare with an Alpha while doing AFKable activites like hauling, PI, etc on my Omegas.

It will be interesting to see how CCP handles this. A lot people are not aware of this, for example during a popular EVE stream yesterday we talked about this and came to the conclusion that this ok if you use different computers. No one reads the EULA^^

Like anything with technology, there are probably multiple things they do to try to detect it, and there are probably multiple ways to get around it. Which is why they have an EULA, to state clearly to not do it, and when their detection methods uncover the security hole you're exploiting, expect to get permabanned.

So CCP has stated that a person cannot play more than 1 Alpha account, even on different computers.

Also, per the EULA, account sharing is not allowed, even between family members. Your GF, BF, wife, husband, kids, etc., must have accounts registered in their name, not yours. Except for minors, which require a parent or adult to open the account / supervise the account.

And finally, discussing CCP's detection methods is against the forum rules.

So, given all this, it would make sense to me that, if you have multiple family members wanting to play as Alphas, make sure that they register their own accounts, with separate emails, so when CCP detects multiple Alphas coming from the same IP, they check and see that it's legitimately different people.

EDIT: As for the OP's situation, you need to get 19 wives / live-in girlfriends, or convince your wife/GF to have 18 kids, or a mix of the two.

I've not quite got their thinking based on the fact that a game like eve thrives and stays alive on activity - the more accounts logged in the better - the higher chance players will encounter things to do, the more alive the game feels, etc. etc. and it does nothing to stop someone who is really determined to wreak havoc i.e. I've 2x home broadband connections, 3x public wifi and 2x 4G connections accessible at home along with half a dozen PCs or laptops, etc. etc.