EVE General Discussion

Rofl Type40 got owned.

CCP Eterne ftw.

I wish would be that easy.
No, not everyone can choose or have a word on this matter.
In some places you have to go, or ... go to jail... or worst.

I always though that account sharing was one of these "don't get caught" things. You know you shouldn't, you know it's a huge security risk. But also there are people you trust, and certain situations where it's necessary...(in the hospital and POS running out of fuel, etc). I was unaware that CCP was actively policing this and if they were- how can they? By IP? What about people who travel? By GUID? What about people with more than one computer? There's no way to prove categorically that I am NOT logged in to my account.

On the other hand if your account gets hijacked, well, tough luck.

So what you are saying is that account sharing is g^H^H oops don't want to get the thread locked again!

Also, what if someone is totally sick of the sado-masochistic nature of the game, hate where CCP is taking it but have a kickass character with lots of SP and want to let someone else (who is into S&M) enjoy it?

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But whips and cuffs excite me!

I dare say it's been more than the past 10 years.

Gentlemen, these are the most ignorant statements I have seen either one of you make since you began posting on this board.

Both of you are far more intelligent than this.

Furthermore I don't believe the OP said anything about only the US military. Many countries actually respect the people that risk their lives and futures for the sake of others (whom often are not citizens of the country the soldier represents). Perhaps Americans have been secure from outside threat for so long that they are more prone than others to taking for granted (and disrespecting) the very people that have dedicated their lives to protecting them from harm.

Regardless, it would probably be best for us all to focus on the topic at hand.

As to the original topic, people in this game get far too fixated on accumulating skill points... when they should be focused on utilizing the skill points (and personal skills) they already possess to their maximum potential for generating fun.

Enjoyment is the point to this game, not being in a mad rush to accumulate skill points.

Full rights and privileges account sharing should probably not be allowed HOWEVER a "sitter" status should be grantable to any number of characters.
Appointing "sitters" should have rights management systems vaguely similar to corp rights management systems, wherein you grant access to certain parts of your own rights to different CHARACTERS.

Possible grantable rights to a sitter (each subright being an individual checkbox, and some also containing input boxes):
- add, ppend, insert, delete and/or push out skills to/from queue
- local / homebase / general personal hangar access and/or container access
- wallet access, with optional max allowed transfer limit
- modify / cancel / place market orders and/or contracts (requires wallet access with enough to the wallet limit, and some hangar access for new order placement)

You don't actually LOG IN to a "sat" character, you access it via an interface in your own account, and the stuff you can do is limited to what the target character can do at his location, and is limited to what COULD THEORETICALLY BE DONE VIA TEXT MODE ONLY (i.e. web page access).
And while we're at it, please give full access to all of the above to oneself VIA EVEGATE

Accessing an account could be doable in one (or both) of two ways:
- a new tab (probably under char management) with a list of accounts that have appointed you as sitter
- from the target character showinfo, a new "you are a sittter to this character" button

You can decline and block the appointment as sitter to any character, or you can set a "automatically reject sitter appointments" status (for all people, or just for people not in your contact list -> this later one would be the default).

You could probably even add a "allow any sitter for skillqueue appends" option -> ANYBODY in the game, when viewing your character profile, if you have any free space in your skillqueue, they can add any skill at the very end (but can't insert, push out, nor delete anything from the queue).
This would also mean you allow all people to see your exact skill list. This would obviously be disabled by default.

Optionally, all of the above could be made to be accessible via EVEGATE too.