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Multiple People on an Account
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: CityRPG on January 30, 2012, 09:52:37 PM ---He doesn't have to. Every time you sign into the game and every 15 minutes after that you authenticate to the Master Server, which records your IP address, time, and other information. It then cross-checks this information with any other instances of that BL_ID on different IP addresses and if there appears to be a discrepancy, it kicks both players. You'll sometimes see players being booted off servers for an error along the lines of "Failing to authenticate with the master server."
This also probably sends up a red flag for Badspot. He'll sign on to his system and get an overview of suspicious activity. If the keys have a history of being in two places at once, he'll deactivate the key for being shared.
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F--! Badspot knows where I live! D:
Freeze:
--- Quote from: FadedGlory on January 30, 2012, 04:32:04 PM ---Well, my bro lives with me. My cousin lives 30 miles away.
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Your cousin won't be able to use the key, but your brother will.
(use clan tags to distinguish between you and your brother btw)
CityRPG:
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on January 31, 2012, 07:59:15 AM ---My IP switched back and forth between Sweden and Egypt fairly often when I was on vacation there for a week because of unstable VPN connections back home.
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Yeah, but Sweden and Egypt are how far apart? If there's a pattern of one key being used in one place every week, then a few days later it's used in another place for another week, that isn't suspicious. You are actually physically moving to that location and that takes time.
If your friend in Egypt was signing on with the key at the same time you were, the IP would change between Sweden every few minutes, not every few weeks. There's a massive cognitive gap between the two scenarios.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: CityRPG on January 31, 2012, 12:54:12 PM ---Yeah, but Sweden and Egypt are how far apart? If there's a pattern of one key being used in one place every week, then a few days later it's used in another place for another week, that isn't suspicious. You are actually physically moving to that location and that takes time.
If your friend in Egypt was signing on with the key at the same time you were, the IP would change between Sweden every few minutes, not every few weeks. There's a massive cognitive gap between the two scenarios.
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It did change every few hours because the VPN back home to my home server decided to turn off at times because the internet connection was so awful.
sir dooble:
As said above, I wouldn't really see too much of a problem with your cousin using it too, but you won't or atleast shouldn't play on the same server as him at the same time on the same account.
You'll get authentication errors.
Key-sharing within the household is perfectly acceptable.
Just don't let your key get shared to other people, particularly people who aren't friends or necesarilly trustworthy.
If the key gets shared between a large amount of people at different IP's and is switched constantly, as in lots of them using it around the same time, it'll get de-activated.