Flag Double Accounts

[Getback]

I'd like to see those with double accounts flagged with a hypenated 1 or 2.

Of course you have tunes with Tunes1, Tunes2, and Tunes3. LOL. Hey I admire the guy's honesty.

[Denholm]

Although this is helpful in some respect, CT is being launched with the idea that you can make multiple accounts. I think making this would be unfair to HTC because they would have to re-write part of the CT code to make it work in all arenas.

[hubsonfire]

In what way could this possibly be helpful?

[Latrobe]

Originally posted by Getback
I'd like to see those with double accounts flagged with a hypenated 1 or 2.

Of course you have tunes with Tunes1, Tunes2, and Tunes3. LOL. Hey I admire the guy's honesty.

I've seen a tunes4 on sometimes .

[Getback]

Tunes4 LOL.

The only thing it would help is if you knew the player had multiple accounts you could look at them as a potential spy. However, they may not be spying at all.

As far as helping Hitech, I don't believe it would. As far as I am concerned, being business minded, have all the accounts you can afford.

As the category is Wish List. Hey why not throw it out there.

[Denholm]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
In what way could this possibly be helpful?

It would cut down on some degree of shades.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Denholm
It would cut down on some degree of shades.

And what would that accomplish ?

If you were HT and I was paying each month for 5 accounts ... why would you care ?

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Getback
I'd like to see those with double accounts flagged with a hypenated 1 or 2.

Of course you have tunes with Tunes1, Tunes2, and Tunes3. LOL. Hey I admire the guy's honesty.

And that would ONLY work if I tried to create each account with the SAME name.

In theory I could create ... SlapShot ... HckyStik ... Puck ... Skates ... so how would the "create account" software know to start assigning hyphenated suffixes ?

[Denholm]

Originally posted by SlapShot
And what would that accomplish ?

If you were HT and I was paying each month for 5 accounts ... why would you care ?

Very true, that's why I figured it would be the only advantage, and to players only.

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by SlapShot
In theory I could create ... SlapShot ... HckyStik ... Puck ... Skates ... so how would the "create account" software know to start assigning hyphenated suffixes ?

I think Puck's already in use  

But that raises the question; what stops any player from duplicating another player's name?  I could create Getback2 and Getback3.  How does that help anything... especially you?

[hubsonfire]

There is still email, the bbs, PMs, in game chat, cell phones, text messaging, land lines, etc etc etc. You cannot limit or eliminate spying within the game, and even pretending that you can is absurd. Preventing people from maintaining multiple accounts only costs HTC income and customers.

And of course, there is no way for you guys to prove anyone is using these second accounts to spy in the first place, which means HTC would be changing their business practices solely because of the paranoid tendencies of a few customers. Not a good idea.

It doesn't help the players at all. All it would do is create a false sense of  security among a group that has more than enough delusions already.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
It doesn't help the players at all. All it would do is create a false sense of  security among a group that has more than enough delusions already.

Ain't that the truth.

I got accused of cheating the other night buy Lykiss.

He said that I glided my dead stick F6F for 20 minutes to land safely ... he timed it ...  

[Scca]

Though indirectly related, I would add that sometimes 2 accounts are to blame for the bull that was going on in LWB last night.  

The nits had an air base near an mne port (bish I think).  The nits were putting on a herculean effort to defend the base against a CV attack, I was there helping.  At one point, I realized the CV must be in range of one of the 8” base guns as it was within tank shot range of the town.  Since there was no shots coming from the gun, I tried to get into the gun, and noticed it was occupied.  Until we sank the CV via other means the gun was occupied and silent.   Strangely enough, at about the time the CV respawned at the port, the gun was available.  

This could have been a second account with a weak minded player holding up our defense of the base by gaming the game.  

I am thinking about getting a second account just so I could have sat in that gun until the CV returned, ruining the cheap tactics of a individual/squad/chess peice that can’t win any other way.    

Btw it did happen again. Just about the time the CV was near the base, I couldn’t get into the gun, and it wasn't firing.  I logged in frustration.

If that map comes back (it changed sometime overnight).  I will lead a mission to take the base, and sit in that gun all night if I have to.

There are lots of ways to game the game, but only those who are childish use them.  Winning with those tactics proves you are only smarter than the game, not the better player.  Imagine if you will, just how good this game could be if the designers could focus their time on improvements, instead of closing gaps because people can't play within the spirit of the rules.

Yes, I am bitter.  It's unaddressed issues like this that will cause people to leave the game, then there will be no game.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Scca
Though indirectly related, I would add that sometimes 2 accounts are to blame for the bull that was going on in LWB last night.  

The nits had an air base near an mne port (bish I think).  The nits were putting on a herculean effort to defend the base against a CV attack, I was there helping.  At one point, I realized the CV must be in range of one of the 8” base guns as it was within tank shot range of the town.  Since there was no shots coming from the gun, I tried to get into the gun, and noticed it was occupied.  Until we sank the CV via other means the gun was occupied and silent.   Strangely enough, at about the time the CV respawned at the port, the gun was available.  
 

But it also could have been that the second 8" simply did not have enemy CV in it's gun arc. And the player was just waiting for being able to shoot at the enemy?

There was a similar event yesterday. Bish were attacking our port. One 8" was firing at CV, one was dead silent but manned - by me! I couldn't shoot at CV, but I didn't leave the gun as long as there were any enemies around. I had the gun pointing at maproom all the time...

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by Scca
...ruining the cheap tactics of a individual/squad/chess peice that can’t win any other way.

I can see pointing at an individual, and maybe even a squad, but I think that implicating 1/3 of the player base is taking your frustration a bit too far.

I find it offensive that you imply, with your broad-brush, that I and other respected members (I'm not one of them) of the Bish nation can't win any other way than by the tactics you decribed.