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Multi-clienters ruining/abusing events
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He's dead serious. o_o
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/6w3g30/faq_about_playingregistering_for_online_korean/
From what I read, most Korean games and online services require a RRN to register (Korean version of SSN, also colloquially called KSSN) to comply with their Cyber Anti-Defamation laws, which forbid making anonymous comments.
Its called multiclienting on one pc.
Even if they are afking with 10 mabi open for approx 2 hour 30 min for 100 accounts that's gonna take whole day and night- although having 10 mabi open in one pc is impossible. Even if they could, having 10 mabi open 23 hours per day will destroy the botter's computer pretty fast.
But not everyone who plays Nexon NA is in America. We have our friends in Europe and Oceania. Would they have different rules for these players?
I wasn't saying that they don't have cell phones, but are there legal ramifications for a company officially collecting foreign cell phone numbers?
This question pretty much explains why am I bringing this up - I am asking how its done/is it even possible, instead of just explaining it by "botting and modding" because even with botting and modding, it just seems impossible.
Even if you have every prop either disabled or minimized having 5~10 mabi open will destroy computer. Why would anyone risk their good computer(crappy/cheap computers can't multiclient, I have old laptop and it struggles with just having 1 mabi open) to have a chance to win a virtual wing that probably costs 200~300m in game- which is nothing compared to a good computer.
+ For SIN number and phone verification ideas
The cost and effort to implement this, the risk of having it hacked just makes it not worth it. Additionally, people always find ways around it (use of family/friends phone/SIN number, fake phone number, impersonating others SIN number) so its not guaranteed that it will work.
Also....
This is how KSIN numbers are on sale for 60 cents each on Chinese websitesI also should add that some people have a -thing- for ruining stuff for others. Mabi has a history of people like that.
2nd I think they're talking about even if it was possible what they were arguing against @Opalthira was that even if it was possible to stack over 100 instances of mabi into one PC that the task of keeping head count and track of the rewards wouldnt be an easy task as in it would be time consuming.
I think @Finity was NOT condoning anything that they may be doing, your accusation that they thought it's okay for cheaters because of risk. I think they're just challenging possibility of either being able to have 100+ mabis open on one computer and/or the task of keeping an eye on all of them when things are said and done, nowhere they said it's OK for them to this.
Breif edit: it all started because one person said it was easy to run 100 accs and another person challenged the easiness of that claim
Are they guaranteed that they are going to win the wing? No.
Are they guaranteed that they are going to blow up their computer? Yes.
Would 200~300m get them a new computer? No.
This is very correct
Instead of making everything untradeable and punish people who wanna sell/buy event stuff(cuz not everyone get what they want) or missed event-although most event items are expireable and untradeable already
Instead of requiring SIN verification and put everyone's personal information at risk
Instead of requiring phone number and punish those who don't have phone
Maybe Nexon can sort out players who have 100~200 accounts logged in with single IP and most of them are named eventalt001~200
Idk. Just suggesting.
Everyone here wants a perfect solution that'll affect only the bad people, and that simply won't happen.
They can go thru and ban every account with a "suspicious name", and in the process ban probably hundreds of accounts who just named their free race card characters face rolled characters because they knew they wouldn't play them.
They could watch for multiple clients logging in enmass from single IPs, but then they'll hit family homes with casual players and entirely miss the abusers who are smart enough to change their IPs and run on VPNs.
They can make account creation a lot more strict and require secondary verification, but then you'll have a slew of people rioting on forums for that being unreasonable.
If you seriously want this to stop, you have to remove every single incentive for people to abuse the events with multiple accounts. This could be done with untradable items, but then people would never stop crying on forums. This could be done by making the events have no good rewards, but then people would never stop crying on forums. Or this could be done by making the events actually fair, but that'd require real effort on devCAT's part and let's face it that's not happening.
Also: You'd be surprised by just how wrong that statement is. No matter what server you're on.
Six?
Eight?
Eleven?
Points aside, a registered nurse who dabbles in student-level HTML is not at all going to be running more alts VS. an MSDN troll with process handling experience on the same computer with only 8 gigs of ram and a quad core
Then its gonna limit how many alts that they can use. Since afk events takes fair enough amount of time.
Also they could check which accounts had logged on a single IP, not how many were logged in at certain point of time
Even if they do less than 10 at a time, it does not change fact that they are logging on bunch of accounts on a single ip as a total
I don't like other ideas because they're asking to basically nerf event until they are not worth it or asking for something that's not going to happen.
You're right about no matter what people are going to complain. I'd like botters to be banned. But if Nexon can't do that, I'm fine with how it is now-except for server wide limited prize. When they start to change things around and hurt normal players, there'll be more complaints than there are now.