EVE General Discussion

SERENITY already have this.

http://i.imgur.com/WjvvO.png

And Horace said Tranquility will have "soon".(I don't have the link because i don't have the microblog account.)

「回复@薛定谔的猫耳朵:1. 欧服会立即启用和国服一样的登陆器，这将是EVE全球统一的登录方式，只不过先在国服上线了；2. 验证码的体验我们近期会修复和优化。」

I have ask Hilmar about this on twitter,still waiting for his response.
https://twitter.com/Finde_learth/status/224528638836604928

Using two part authentication works really well in Blizzard's line of games. No one that uses an authenticator has been publicly proven to have had their accounts compromised (lots of folks that have lied about having one though and have been hilariously called out by Blizzard GMs after claiming to be hacked). Of course with nearly ten million subscribers to World of Warcraft and several million other players in Diablo 3 there is a huge market for currency and items sourced from stolen accounts. I wonder how large an issue this is in Eve Online.

Either way as a user of an authenticator in my Blizzard games I'd happily support two part authentication in Eve Online, even if it was a just a simple E-Mail code sent to you when you try to log-in through an unfamiliar IP Address and such.

Edit: In before everyone who's afraid of change.

Is it really necessary?

I'd have no problem with it.

Its not like it would make our lives a frustrating nightmare like the captcha suggestions.

As for when, when CCP thinks it is needed.

About to leave work, will translate when I get home.

~an hour.

Reserving post, obviously.

Update:

Eh, actually it pretty much just says what OP said. European client will soon use same login system Serenity does, as soon as it's tested and ready for launch.

和国服 - Serenity server/client. @ OP: I'm curious how you would translate Guofu. Or do I have it wrong, is it Heguo meaning serenity server and fu means edition?

Mostly---I'm unfamiliar with the use of Guo in this case.

I lost my Blizzard authenticator, and found it again after about 2 years of playing EVE.

I can vouch that an authenticator is a great way to prevent account access

It is probably 3-5 years old and still works. Good battery.

Not a crack per se, but a man-in-the-middle attack when using a trojan infected key-logging computer, and with a 30 second vulnerability window.

I wonder about people that run random executables, or click on questionable links, or surf without script and pop-up protection, etc.

I think some sorta captcha thing for EVE would be bad and completely unneccessary.

I think an authenticator type deal would be kinda nifty. though realistically, a bit excessive.

if it could be made into a cool keychain though, and no more expensive than the Blizz ones, might be totally worth it.

I mean ultimately there's a lot more at stake in an EVE account than in a WOW account. so it makes a certain amount of sense.

Um, CCP wants to push the login process to the launcher and make the client only character select.

This being a normal thing is a possibility. But I only see it as a bot deterrent for bots that run completely on their own through downtimes too.

The bot users would simply just login manually and let the bot take over form there. It has been said that the Serenity server is over run with bots cause....well we all know the Chinese gold farmer stereotype :3

A feature like this would only harm the normal player.

Bots will simply use a captcha solving service (deathbycaptcha.com for example).