We do have a vet system in place on the games, players are welcome to apply as vets if they want to work with other vets and GMs to improve the game for players.

The concern I have with the suggestion, is that there is no way to monitor that its a effective working system. It does allow players to create alts with the intention of advancing their main and that is really of no benefit to the game or the players.

I have forwarded your suggestion for consideration

I think encouraging experienced players to help new(er) player would do more good then bad, wile there is the potential for the system to be abused, I still think the benefit could potentially outweigh that risk.

I myself would have quit were it not for an experienced player taking me under his wing so to speak and teaching me how to play the game, I had struggled for 2 days trying to figure everything out on my own and I didn't see any of the vets until my 5th day playing, by which time I was fairly well versed in the game thanks to said experienced player.

The point is, wile the vets are helpful to a degree, they are not around enough, now be that due to there not being enough of them to handle the amount of servers or something that would be understandable however, regardless it is players assisting each other that helps the most and I think encouraging them to do so is a good idea.

Yeah I agree with you that experienced players can be helpful...... but no I do not agree with the rewards system

in simple terms, your suggestion, while a good one, is simply too flawed because there is no way to limit the abuse and the benefits to the game and server are minimal, the biggest benefits are to the players that are mentors to other players ( 15% ) and alts ( 85 % ) and to give you a example, S48 just opened a couple of days ago.... 90% of the characters on the server are from S47 and non cashing alt accounts.... and you have to ask yourself why oceanic players would go to a US east server and how could they do well on a server that does not match their time zone.... the answer is in the more than 50 accounts that are account sharing and being piloted on the new server.....

Yes we could limit it to vip 4 and higher as most alts do not recharge on servers.... but that is not fair to the real players that play by the rules and can not recharge but would benefit from the bonuses........

so the biggest flaw with your suggestion is that there really is no way to be sure that its working correctly and as intended, instead of being abused as a alt and account sharing system to get extra benefits to main accounts....

As far as the players creating alt accounts goes, is it possible to have the servers check the IP Addresses of all players when they connect to them and then have them check that IP against the IP Addresses of the players already registered on them?

If so, then you could have it report the players with the duplicate IP Addresses to someone for review and then they can be warned/suspended/banned as necessary if they are found to be using alts.

Although that wouldn't do much good against using the same account to make a new character on a new server, perhaps just make it so that each account can only have 1 character per server (if it's not already like that) and no more than 2 or 3 characters per account across all servers or something.

Just an idea.

Also, the IP idea was to combat players using multiple accounts as alts (I assume that is against the ToS?) and you are correct that IPs would not work as you said, and I assume there is no way to do what I said for IPs with MAC Addresses as I don't think there is a way the server can lookup the MAC of the PC that is connecting to it, or am I wrong?

If it can then what I said could work I think as to the best of my knowledge there is no way to alter or mask a MAC Address, then again I could be wrong.

Anyways, if creating a character/alt on each server is not against the ToS but has become an issue then what I said about limiting the max number of characters per account is still a reasonable idea in my opinion, I doubt many legit players would complain to much.

The server does not track players by MAC address.... but even doing that would affect players that use a cybercafe which is the way that most of the players creating fake accounts, tend to do. It would also affect families that share a computer.

We have players with alt accounts that have never broke a rule. The alts are using to help and assist players on the server without bias, meaning that they will run TDs with any player that wants to run TDS, regardless of guild because it benefits the game and the server.

So we will continue to remove fake accounts and alts that breach the rules and yes that will limit updates for the game that players suggest like trade systems or mentor systems ( they may be added but you will not see the suggested bonuses ). It is something that is not easily solved, even the bigger games like WoW, diablo, wizard101 and others deal with the same issue and ban accounts in the 10ks..... as there is no other option