Dallane wrote:Taipion wrote:Dallane wrote:Also whats to stop people from changing their IPs? Or even Macs for that matter.Taipion wrote:A professional approach would be, to group accounts by IP or mac adress or whatever, whereas you dont even need super smart algorithms to merge/evaluate data over long time and prevent (incredibly unlikely) false positives.
I know this can be evaded, but the effort needed to do so in larger quantity ...I'd say who'd does that deserves a present or two more.
Yes, I'm aware of what you typed. I should of quoted you instead of going with the flow of a conversation since it was mostly a response to you. Changing your IP/MAC isn't anything special and would happen if they used your idea. There is ZERO effort in this. Essentially you just re-created the same problem and taught a few people how to be a script kiddie. If he did go with that idea then he shouldn't of announced it as people wouldn't be aware of how rewards were being given out and this would be much more successful.
Therefore I would prefer more sophisticated means of identifying one PC, there is a ton of information that can do that, yet this can be all evaded as well. (with more effort though)
I dare to say the vast majority of players does not care enough or is generally unable to dodge this, and whoever takes this extra effort just to get an additional gift that is not really thaaat important, he or she should get it.
Mind you, you'd need to do the extra work every time or it would fail.