Multiple Freelancers

[Agmen of Eladesor]

IPs are generally unique to a single router (NOT a single computer or person), so an IP alone isn't good enough to decide whether someone is multiboxing or not.

It's amazing how someone knowing so much can know so little - about how things actually work. How many times has it been said on here that just being on a single IP is NOT proof that someone is multi-boxing? More than once, right?

After all, if you happen to have a LAN party, or more than once person living in a house that runs Freelancer, you'd ALL have the same IP - as seen from the outside. Sure, your ROUTER will assign all of your individual computers different IP's on your subnet, but from outside - it's all the same IP.

That would tend to indicate that perhaps the admins have ways of tracking things past the IP, wouldn't it? Otherwise everyone who's had their little brother playing at the same time would be banned - and we know that hasn't happened.

And lo, I can state with complete assurance that my knowledge is correct that admins DO have additional ways of tracking what happens when you play Discovery. Not going to say what they are - but tracking the IP is only a small part of it. However, leaving it up would make it even easier to track and detect multi-boxing...

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.