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is there anyway that i can login with my character from another computor, as i go to my friends house sometimes and i want to show him stuff but i cant use my username and pass to login, am i doing something wrong?

any help would be appreciated :) :twisted: :D
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shouldnt be a problem if you use exactly the same username and password - unless your friend has an account already created too.. in that case you'll have to just use your friend's account.
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ok ty and i got another question, my friend has 2 computors and he made an account on one of them, if i go into my account on the other will that be a multi? or its ok as long as i dont talk to him or something like that?
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ok ty :)
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Post by Ydle »

Hum.. How about this scenario ..

1 person has 2 accounts .. one on one pc and another on a 2nd pc... and say they go to a 'team' based world like, Roja perhaps, with one account on say team 1 .. and the other on say team 3.. and then they play both teams .. maybe even cap thier own bldgs.. or let a friend cap them if was an IP check.. and sell stuff for lots of S or something? Maybe they could even like change their nick along the way so they could deny they been on or using the 2nd account if they needed to.

Would that be like cheating or something?
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Ydle wrote:Hum.. How about this scenario ..

1 person has 2 accounts .. one on one pc and another on a 2nd pc... and say they go to a 'team' based world like, Roja perhaps, with one account on say team 1 .. and the other on say team 3.. and then they play both teams .. maybe even cap thier own bldgs.. or let a friend cap them if was an IP check.. and sell stuff for lots of S or something? Maybe they could even like change their nick along the way so they could deny they been on or using the 2nd account if they needed to.

Would that be like cheating or something?
You brought up a good point. Yes , this would be cheating. I don't know how The Univesal "Autheticates" one player from another. (Telling it might start an exploitation of sorts) I've got a feeling that it has to do with the tractor.cfx file.
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1 person has 2 accounts .. one on one pc and another on a 2nd pc...
The game has various checks based on IP ranges as well the ID of the pc, so assuming they're on the same net connection most cheats like that are locked out from trading with each other at least. With 2 net connections its obviously not hard to get round, and theres limits to what we can do to completely counter that.

Sometimes its recognisable from the server logs when people are doing dodgy trades etc, so a good world owner will keep an eye on suspicious players like that. Various other bits of log information can help track a players true identity if neccessary.

Primarily though, for a world to be as secure as possible against abuse, the owner must take these limitations into account when designing & building their world.
Places with low or zero start cash will generally be less susceptible to this sort of abuse and the use or non-use of various world settings can help make a place more or less secure.
Using similar principles, the setup for the gal economy is done in a way that limits the potential for abuse by creating multiple characters.
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ok but im not trying to cheat the game , im just trying to help my friend out and we do have the same internet connexion thing so i think its the same ip adress well anyways i dont think i could give him stuff even if i wanted to
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Er . sorry Bijou .. the situation I mentioned was something another person is doing. Was just a similar situation and I wondererd if it was proper for them to do so.

Meh bad .. if ya felt i meant you. :lol:
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hmm, mind telling us more info ydle :P
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Could but according to GK im an idiot so meh 8)
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peh :P GK can be an idiot sometimes... :P yes.. "sometimes"
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Ydle wrote:Er . sorry Bijou .. the situation I mentioned was something another person is doing. Was just a similar situation and I wondererd if it was proper for them to do so.

Meh bad .. if ya felt i meant you.
no i did not think that you were saying it was me cheating i just said it so people dont think im cheating :)
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ok ok YDLE u win i confess see i have 2 pc's 2 accounts but it still dont let me cap boom's things so plz leave me alone it said consult a god dude meh anyways im sorry if i caused anny trouble plz dont ban me from the game i really like it mit im sorry.
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Ok ok YDLE u win i confess see i have 2 pc's 2 accounts but it still dont let me cap boom's things so plz leave me alone it said consult a god dude. Im sorry if i caused anny trouble plz dont ban me from the game i really like it. Mit im sorry. i was just trying to help out team one cuz they needed it so i made the second account to help em.
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ydle? whats that mean?

thats nothing new. 90% of people whop have a "brother that plays" is lying about it and its really thier multi.

as for not being able to combine the stuff, thats good.
that means the games multi abuse security is working greatly.
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ok..

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well if sum1 with a multi cant do anything to give themselves an advantage whats the use of having a multi??
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Post by christheunknown »

zaroba Ydle is a player who keeps bugging me about cheating wene all i do is play opn diff comp wene this one is beying used.
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yea, i noticed it was a person here when looking at the first page of the topic :P
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