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It would be naive to think CF could survive on box sales alone. Every game in existence has some sort of VIP/Premium solution to get a steady income every month to cover salaries, office/server rent etc. Giving players a small incentive to buy VIP is fine, its not P2W as some people have been complaining about. If you have a standard phone timer, you can easily keep up with a VIP player. P2W would be giving VIP players a clear advantage that a non-vip player could not get.

I'm fine with this.

A F2A perk? Such as being able to accept gifts and have a much more secure account?

Its always nice to revisit old topics again, since we might get a new viewpoint on an issue. Its only nice to pad our postcount a bit on reposts since without them, the forum would be pretty dead. We just need a proper VIP option, and people will stop using multiple accounts.

No, the EK's will not offer any resources, but ACE has stated that you could technically stay in your EK forever as long as you offer your skills as a crafter for example to people that leave campaigns with goods. So a person leaving the Dregs with some legendary Ore can pay you to make him a Legendary Sword. This means you can have Crafters staying in their EK never participating in Campaigns. Thats what I mean by PvE server.

EK's?

Right now, theres no point in actually going into the PvP servers solo and just roam, as you'll never find lone crafters/harvesters. Most of the time its guilds in parties looking for PvP, which is fine, but I've ran around in previous tests for hours without finding anyone at all. This is not gonna happen at launch, so we need to chill a bit before panicking. At launch the harder campaigns will have better resources and if Crafters want to craft the legendary stuff, they'll either have to trade with people doing these hard campaigns, or they'll have to join themselves.

So Obsidian is basically what you are describing, a pretty big guild on the US side of things. @scree is their leader.

They are usually the same people that will quit when they get pwned by multiboxers and Guilds with 3-5 Alt Accounts per member anyways.

Cant report something that is not a bannable offense. And multiple Crows on one account would not stop people from still having more accounts, since you can still only train 1 General skill on one account.

Sure, I agree. Now find a way for ACE to determine that I am relogging to a different account on my computer, without having insane backdoor scanning going on and tying my account to the client? Its either spy on your costumers by using software that tracks your computer, which will most often then not be detected and auto deleted by an anti-virus. Or give an incentive for people to not multibox, either by VIP or some other means. Stopping people from logging into a different account than your main is almost impossible and more trouble than its worth.

yep, I dislike when people slap the cheater label at anything they don't like. Going against the intentions of the designers is also a stretch.. People have been playing with multiple accounts since MMO's were invented. People multiboxed Lineage 1 back in 1999. Its like @VIKINGNAIL said, the only way to stop people buying multiple accounts is to give an incentive for them buying VIP instead. Right now there isnt.

So its not cheating then.

People will complain about anything these days. Thats the problem. If ACE had come out with a generic Assassin, people would have complained. A Edgelord black demon assassin, complaints. A Ninja class, complaints. You see where I am going with this.. Its a lose lose situation for ACE.

Where in the TOS does ACE say having an Alt account is cheating btw? just curious since you seem so adamant that we are cheating.