[Ranylyn]

The thing is, we're all basically already saying that. If we trust someone and they screw up, we deserve to be punished for placing our trust in them in the first place. Much like Dev, I've heard every excuse in the book (I used to mod forums, chat rooms, and small gaming communities) and screw the people who simply try to pin it on someone else. Bring down the punishments. Do it. Make people take accountability. I fail to see how this can be seen as a bad thing.

Let me give just two more scenarios of times account sharing can be helpful.

1) I no longer have a grind mage (guy got deleted for RP purposes - ran afoul of some renegade vamp hunters after being exposed while trying to get other vamps to stop making themselves such blatantly obvious targets, even if they're technically considered citizens and protected by law) and let's say someone on my Skype wants to make a noncombat character and asks me to help grind them to 60 for Al Abel and material collection and all that. If they trusted me enough to help them grind by using their own Grindmage, why should this be an issue?

2) As another example, two of my own characters know each other and go way back, tied into a singular, pronged backstory. Yet... they can never, ever team up? While I have a good RP reason to delibertely try to avoid working together when possible (That being the memories of the last time they did so - it wasn't pretty) there's no valid reason for them to, say, not work together to save their own necks if in Dormeho during a beast raid. Why should I not allow a friend wh understands them well enough to play one so they can actually party up in scenarios like this?


It's the internet. People will try to shirk responsibility and dodge accountability everywhere you go. Just make it clear in the rules that the account in question is what gets punished, not the player. "Baaaw, but I didn't read the rules!" Congratulations, you ignored the link to the rules during the tutorial you need to complete for every single character you create, get the heck out of here, you chose to be an ignorant fool so it's your own damn fault.

Yes. I'm saying "be ruthless with rule enforcement." People deserve it. But I'm also saying "restricting account sharing shoud not be a rule."