EVE New Citizens Q&A

And if you would have read the EULA.

It clearly states that account sharing is strictly forbidden and a ban able offense.

Seriously, just put in a 2+ week skill and go have your holiday, when you come back that skill will (almost) be trained.

http://community.eveonline.com/pnp/eula.asp

Section 3...1st line.



EDIT:

Given that you just posted this on the forum which is monitored by CCP...

Great job, they can easily back trace what your alt account is and monitor the logs.

He was asking if he could , Dont be a cointy punt now

And as ALL rules are always listed in the EULA and ToS he could also have pulled it up himself and actually read it.

Yeah if he read it he could of found it, But atleast he asked ? Most the stuff on this forum can be googled....

Any form of account sharing is prohibited and will result in a very quick and heavy strike of the ban-hammer.

The part about parents owning an account that they allow their kids to play is a common one, but most MMO's state that if a parent and child both play the game, then they each need to pay their own subscription. The husband/wife shared industrial account is a bit more murky, since married couples tend to share everything anyway,and they each have their own primary accounts (at least in your example).

But I would have no qualms about allowing a friend to come over and give EVE a try on my account. Sure, that's what the free two-week trials are for, but there are still some aspects you can't really get a feel for with just two weeks of skill points. If he wants to see what driving a battleship is like, I'd let him.

Actually, the husband/wife thing matches my own situation more closely than I might like to admit. Our corporation has several members, but it's primarily shared between me and my friend. We've worked together for a while, so the assets on the alt account are as much his as mine.

Logging into someone else's account or giving someone else access to your account is in violation of section 2 B of the End Users License Agreement. I would advise against putting that to the test. People put a lot of work into their EVE accounts and having it compromised or banned is generally not an entertaining situation.

If you have any further questions about this, your account or our policies then please file a petition and we'll be happy to answer and advise you in detail regarding your situation.

It's a case of "don't ask, don't tell", what you have to understand is that CCP isn't being a party pooper because they want to but because there's such a mess for the GM's to clean up after account sharing (of any kind) if it goes wrong. So instead of trying to figure out the "he said, she said" and having to back trace all the transactions logs they can now go "banned lol" and use their time for more important stuff, like actual problems.

So if you ask them they'll give you the official answer, just don't ask but also IF it goes wrong don't petition.

The thing is, there's a much neater (at least from my perspective - probably not a lawyer's) solution - state that players do so at their own risk, and that any action taken by the account is considered to be taken by the account holder. You wouldn't be able to petition for lost stuff, or claim that any bad behavior was someone else.

Wouldn't it be much easier if, instead of this unspoken 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, they simply said it was okay if you realise you're taking a massive risk to your account doing so.

I really think that this policy is probably also affected by account-selling. If they allow account borrowing, perhaps it opens them up legally to account selling?

Yes, with such a policy, an RMTer could simply say that their friend did it not them, and that the account should not be banned. With a punishment of banning for both crimes, "it was my mate not me" it is moot defence.