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CCP - one way to stop isk spammers, hackers, dead trial accounts
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WhyTry1
Comply Or Die
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2011-12-20 15:17:52 UTC
Stop allowing multiple accounts linked to the same email address!
Many online game accounts do not allow this, infact many online accounts full stop don't all this for the exact same reason.
So why do you? There are many ways to stop all this but for some reason CCP fails to implement such security features..
Lexmana
#2 - 2011-12-20 15:21:09 UTC
I think CCP does not mind you having alt accounts ...
Moria
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-12-20 15:23:16 UTC
so what you are saying then alts are fine just as long as not on same email you sir make no sense here.
Zagam
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-12-20 15:23:35 UTC
As supercaps can't dock, having a holding account is very necessary if you ever want to fly SC.

Also, CCP has never had an issue with a single person having more than one account.
Zagam
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-12-20 15:24:30 UTC
Moria wrote:
so what you are saying then alts are fine just as long as not on same email you sir make no sense here.


You are exactly right.

OP's logic is what happens when you post from a forum alt, instead of your main.
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#6 - 2011-12-20 15:36:27 UTC
Own a domain and have it set up to catch all= unlimted accounts

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Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#7 - 2011-12-20 15:37:25 UTC
Lol, out of all terrible ideas you had to pick this one?
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#8 - 2011-12-20 15:48:36 UTC
WhyTry1 wrote:
Stop allowing multiple accounts linked to the same email address!
Many online game accounts do not allow this, infact many online accounts full stop don't all this for the exact same reason.
So why do you? There are many ways to stop all this but for some reason CCP fails to implement such security features..


All my accounts point to different email addresses. All those addresses dump to the same inbox. (anything)@myname.com gets dumps to my main email address.

IF I wanted to easily keep bannable accts separated (while having all mails dump to the same place), I'd register guMail.com or some other website that sounds like an free email site.
IF I wanted to put a little more effort in order to keep them separated better, I'd use Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Whatever.

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J Kunjeh
#9 - 2011-12-20 15:52:13 UTC
Dude, totally foolproof plan...cause like, it's totally impossible to sign up for 100 free email accounts in an hour and use those instead...lol.

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Morganta
The Greater Goon
#10 - 2011-12-20 16:00:28 UTC
really, its not like people can have several email accounts

letsee....

hotmail
yahoo
google
isp email
work email
website email (with 10,000 aliases)
corp email

er... oh, sorry OP you were saying?
Kilrayn
Caldari Provisions
#11 - 2011-12-20 16:07:26 UTC
WhyTry1 wrote:
Stop allowing multiple accounts linked to the same email address!
Many online game accounts do not allow this, infact many online accounts full stop don't all this for the exact same reason.
So why do you? There are many ways to stop all this but for some reason CCP fails to implement such security features..

Although this seems to already have been handled appropriately, I see no reason to stop now.

Glad to know you'd be the first to follow when all the retards are jumping off that bridge, no reason to think for yourself. Cool

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Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#12 - 2011-12-20 16:17:09 UTC
much butthurt i see from the OP


I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
Steven Fonulique
SF Incorporated
#13 - 2011-12-20 16:19:11 UTC
WhyTry1 wrote:
such security features..


Made me chuckle. ^^
Borisaurus
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#14 - 2011-12-20 16:22:44 UTC
Adding a period arbitrarily in a gmail account will make services believe it to be a different email, though it will still direct correctly.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#15 - 2011-12-20 16:28:18 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
A few dollars a month gets you a domain name and an e-mail server. It's a simple configuration switch to have all mail for all unused addresses go to one mailbox. Then you can have millions of accounts because your e-mail addresses are different!

Why do some people seem to think that it's hard to use more than one e-mail address?

edit: this would just be a ban on the people too stupid to figure out multiple e-mails. I want more of those idiots in Eve, they're easy to scam.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#16 - 2011-12-21 06:27:48 UTC
You need to download one of 500 other MMOs out there. ISK Spam in EVE is at around .001% of what gold spamming/ Currency spamming is in any other game.

You really have a solution for a problem that isnt there.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#17 - 2011-12-21 11:09:09 UTC
only one email per domain would work? Big smileLolRoll

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Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2011-12-21 11:10:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaroslav Unwanted
why not go futher

account only if you come personally to Iceland and provide all credentials, include ID card, birth certificate, bank accounts, etc. Big smile

In the end its the game, how far you people are willing to sacrifice your liberty to get some kind of imaginary "safety" in game ??Shocked
Hauling Hal
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2011-12-21 11:17:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Hauling Hal
WhyTry1 wrote:
Stop allowing multiple accounts linked to the same email address!
Many online game accounts do not allow this, infact many online accounts full stop don't all this for the exact same reason.
So why do you? There are many ways to stop all this but for some reason CCP fails to implement such security features..


Great idea. Isk spammers and botters could then just use a single email domain and create a new email address for each account, whilst my family would all lose their accounts. I'm glad you thought this through before posting. It was really worth it.