A lot of games do it but I've never heard of any game do it mid-way when there's already players with tens of accounts(like you), but that doesn't automatically make it bad.

Instead of saying my opinion, I'm going to show some pros and cons.

Good

• Lessens the gap between veterans with multiple accounts and newbies with single.

• New players have access to higher EP characters.

• Ability for players to sell accounts when they quit.

• Players are more likely to spend money on Boosters since EP becomes more valuable.

• AC has a chance to make extra money from character sales, renames and EP resets.

• Higher lifetime for content.

• Ends all sorts of dickery players do with alt characters.

• Increases interaction between players.

Bad

• Flips the current playstyles upside down.

• Players will have to be more careful about the choices they make.

• Content locked behind EP not possible alt characters.

• A lot less self-sufficiency.

• Extra work to AC for implementing the change and enforcing EULA

Some of the bad points could easily be considered good. Feel free to add. I support the change.

Should the game publisher try to limit you to using a single account to play the game? If so, how do you propose they enforce that, and who would the rule supposedly benefit? Block by IP? Now you give the advantage to the guy who can afford to pay for multiple IPs. Only allow one instance per PC? Now the guy who can afford multiple PCs or multiple Virtual Machines has the advantage. Instead of providing any measurable benefit to the casual player — who usually only has one or a couple of accounts — now the casual player is at an explicit disadvantage.

Not only that, but these restrictions would be against many of the people who are most dedicated to the game, who are in your corporation, who are also completely unwilling to lose their accounts.

Bad idea is bad.

Trouble with this is, (as far as pvp is concerned anyway) you run the risk of an "arms race" mentality. Player A has one account, player B has 4 accounts, player A goes to fight player B and obviously cant compete so player A must make a choice, get another 3 accounts and try and level the playing field, or not engage at all. This is, in effect, forcing a play style on players. Not sure that's a good thing in a sandbox MMO.

Multiboxxing hardcore (more than 2, in pvp is dangerous and VERY VERY Hard.) is a bad idea.

I don't agree that it wouldn't provide any measurable benefit.

It's additional longevity for content. The game has a handful of professions that are unlocked by the EP player accumulates. The gain of EP, and therefore content, is multiplied by the number of alts a player has. If a player has 5 specialized alts, his accumulation of operative EP is 5 times over any single-accounter.

A player having the ability to be completely independent of others around him is hindering player interaction. Once a player can personally obtain and use everything he needs, it's unlikely to see any of the goods ever change hands. We end up with demand stuck behind gimped supply since it's detrimental to sell anything as NIC has lost nearly all of it's value to these players. This has huge economical impact.

It considerably decreases the gap between veterans and newer players. It's a great deal easier to be competitive against 10 veterans with 10 accounts than 10 veterans with 50 accounts, but that's somewhat mitigated by a healthy population.

On the other hand, there's veterans that abuse alt characters to overcome game mechanic restrictions. The benefit for a 1-account rule is distinctly seen here. Alt characters are the perfect scouting tools for Betas. They can be placed to the entrance of every Beta island while being unkillable with just a mouse click away from safety. This can be accomplished by just a single dedicated player. It's less likely to regularly have multiple dedicated single-accounters observing hostile Beta islands entrances 10+ hours a day. Other noteworthy abuse, among a stinking pile of others, is the overcoming of Spark Teleportation limitations. Spark Teleportation is restricted by the number of destinations character can fit on it's 10 possible points. Since no corporation has infinite number of players, every alt character gives extra potency to it's power projection. Wherewith 1-account rule forces would have to be divided to cover equal ground, alt characters are now used instead.

All of these points not only give clear advantage to multi-accounters but also negatively affect anyone playing with just one account. This suggestion should be taken more seriously. Perpetuum is no longer a subscription-based game. Not suggesting anyone to jump on any bandwagon after just a couple of posts, but just throwing the suggestion under the bus is silly. There are clear advantages that would benefit the game in the long run, if the players are willing to make the sacrifice.

+1 to Annis post. The games not balanced around 1 account.

All valid points, well articulated and thankfully lacking the typical ugly finger pointing seen too much on the forum lately.

Even if you are completely right to point out all these Problems, I cannot agree that forcing players into one account is the Solution. Aside from being impractical it's totally unfair to those individuals who own multiple accounts.

There are countless threads out there detailing all the shortcomings of Perpetuum with regard to content, playability, competitiveness, and general fun. Rather than work through the development of all these issues you would simply short cut those problems and implement a draconian solution that would certainly eliminate the vast majority of vets. And how long before the new players, seeing the deficiencies of single account ownership, jump ship Themistocles?

Forcing one-account accessibility in the short tern is a death sentence.

Also quoting the autocorrect of the year

Unfairness is just the beginning. It's not practical. How do you even enforce it?

And what of all the unintended consequences? In order to eliminate a few unfortunate side affects of multii-accounts you would sledge hammer all the legitimate ones?

I really don't feel the need to elaborate much more on this point. I know it will NEVER happen.

I started with f2p and I never saw one restrict you to only one account. Not saying there weren't any but I never saw it. .

Forgive my ignorance on the issue, but wouldn't it be possible to limit the amount of instances being run at the same time? I don't care if they have 100 accounts, you're only able to play 1 at a time per computer? Would there be a way to limit it so that people with multiple computers can't just bypass it that way?