Frotted wrote:If you play a raider alt who's IP can be traced back to your Main's IP... then you lose all defenses or offsets... you essentially assault base as NAKED... forfeiting all purity items or buffs. Sip Pots do not work and you lose biles x10 normal rate.
Yeah... I think that will get rid of 'Raider alts'...
...and if your Main doesn't have a primary IP... you be banned for 12 months for cybercrimes meant to disrupt game continuity.
I really don't want to get into why this won't work. Partly because I don't understand it well myself; I just know we can't reasonably police people based on IP.
But it doesn't matter because we don't WANT to police IPs. We don't mind if you play more than one character. There's a problem, I think, with terminology that some people use. You say 'Main', when what you mean is 'Farmer' or maybe 'Civilian'. You say 'Alt' when what you mean is 'Not the Civilian', while the word alt implies that said character is weak and undeveloped.
Back when I
was raiding, my raider was my main character. I spent a lot more time on that one than on my civilian, and when it comes to humors, even my alternate raider had more than my civilian. I understand that someone can make a thief character with very low humors and only skills enough to steal from a leanto, but realistically if you want to raid seriously, you need hundreds of humors and a reasonably varied skill set. Losing something like that is pretty bad as it is and I really don't think we need to make farmers and mayors and tailors and the like more vulnerable or try to force them to raid.