(06-11-2016, 04:14 AM)sindroms Wrote: The problem is, there are way too many loopholes. And the problem is not that such acts can be discouraged when the person is caught doing it, but rather IF they are caught. And IF the person it is used against can prove they had done so.
Imagine if every single person was able to run two or more copies of freelancer like this. Whenever something bad happened, the first question someone would ask would be "Did that level 13 near Manhattan who watched me undock and take the lane was the guy's alt?" for every single interaction.
This sort of possibility, even though it is only a possibility, would be very harmful for the way we perceive interaction on the server.
I would like to see multiboxing being a thing, but it is just not worth the problem. Not to mention not all people have strong machines, so it would discriminate people with low end systems as they would not have the ability to get the same advantages as others.
Are we pretending that the richer of the group don't have VPN servers and don't know how to change MAC addresses?
You are missing the point of that whole paragraph though.