Admin Notice: Rule changes regarding cheating + Clarification on CDing cloaked ships

[Etaphreven]

The reason the multiboxing rule exists is to prevent players from gaining unfair economic advantage over other players. Sadly, the most common excuse from confirmed cases of multiboxing we see are people stating that their family members play with them, only for us to see that the money generated by doing so is used only by one account. As such, this rule adjustment was needed. Play with your girlfiend all you want, but if either one of you are on a transport, the other should be on something else.

While I see where you're coming from, you have to understand that it's not always an excuse. Mining is one of her favorite activities. Second is transporting people (diplomats, vacationers, etc). My main is a Freelancer trader. So by implementing this you're making it unable for me to play with her. You're limiting our gameplay severely. Sure, we could go pirating together or something, but if that's not what we feel like doing, if it's not something we'd enjoy at a certain point, then the only option we have left is to NOT play.

It's also pointless since I can trade or mine with her if she's somewhere else, and we could theoretically do what you said all the same, only difference is we're not playing in the same house.

Point is, if people want to do what you said, they can do it anyway, even if they're in different houses. The only thing it achieves is separating people, thus driving them away. And I don't think that's the point of the rules. Seeing as how the player pop is dying, the main goal should be player retention, not finding more ways for people to not be able to play.