I'll start by noting that it's pretty hard to "cheat" in Elvenar. Unbalanced trades and Unrequited knowledge point contributions are about it. While the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the Login Page still ban multiple account per world, the local Elvenar rules carefully avoid any prohibition regarding multiple account, so the real issue is Pushing.
I don't really care if somebody stands on their head and whistles Dixie in order to "win" but I care a LOT about game balance. The developer have spreadsheets like you would not believe that they depend on for "game balance" by which we merely mean a game that provides interesting challenges and rewards that are commiserate with your efforts.
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Your vision of "Gaming Enjoyment" is unlikely to exactly match InnoGames' vision, but they ARE the experts and they have an entire zoo of analytical tools that are used to find out what folks are "really enjoying."
In one case, the names of the two accounts were so similar, it was like they weren't even trying to hide it from Inno. This is definitely a Thing That Happens, and it would be great if there were a way to police it fairly.
Two accounts isn't really the issue. I have several accounts that I use for various experiments, and they're all standalone accounts/cities. Fudging the "Gaming Enjoyment" balance is just cheating yourself.
What exactly is a "routine unbalanced resource transfer" anyway? If someone from my fellowship is constantly putting up three star trades because they have more resources than they know what to do with, is that a routine unbalanced resource transfer? Will you ban them because they want to get rid of their resources, even though they're posting evil unbalanced trades?
Yes. Control Freaks are the worst sort of aggressors, and they drive everybody crazy. And they're "so shocked" when you tell them to butt out.
If you truly have THAT many excess resources, then the developers can and should plug the hole.
- Advanced Scouting chests prevent folks from overwhelming the opposing armies
- Chapter VIII Orcs, and hopefully a yet to be implemented similar restriction in earlier chapters, prevent folks from negotiating sectors that would be otherwise impossible to acquire
Am I not allowed to donate KP to their wonder because it's my alt city
You'll get nailed if you're blatant about contributing 24 "extra" points per day from a minimally developed city, if the favor is never returned. That's the very definition of Pushing.
I suggest that we begin to chat in a more polite and positive manner. Being helpful and informative. thanks so much for understanding.
Grrrr - Syrupy conversations drive me crazy. Engineers are prone to tromping on other people's feeling when "the facts" are being ignored, while the other 95% of the population is prone to tromping on the facts when other people's feelings are at risk.
If other people do things that give them an advantage (fair or unfair in our minds) than so be it.
Actually not. If somebody has discovered how to distort the game balance that the developers have in mind, and on their spreadsheets, the developers should plug the hole. Skill + Effort should be rewarded. That said, I'm totally OK with somebody demonstrating that the game ALLOWS wormholes, so long as they don't fuss when the developers saw off the limb "somebody" is sitting on.
I have well over 150 including boots. and I have already filled 39 bags of clothes for the donation center and have several more to go as soon as I can decide which to let go and which to keep.
We all have our weak points.
For me the important question isn't that you "have" them, but rather if you "use" them.
You can live your life by a moral conscience or not, that is your choice. I choose morality.
So did Osama bin Laden. And Torquemada. I would refer you to
http://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/warriorshtm/deacon.htm. Folks who wish to impose their own morality are just another variant on Control Freaks.
It's hard to believe that you wouldn't help your kids or wife/husband in return.
How about if it turns out that they're not interested, but you keep bugging them about logging in and contributing points. Families have Control Freaks too.
Claiming to know a person is cheating and yet doing nothing on your end to resolve the situation is arguably worse than cheating yourself.
Ummmm - not quite. Why should I be obliged to waste my time worrying about somebody who is depriving THEMSELVES of "Gaming Enjoyment?"
Just to be quite clear - there's a very fuzzy line between "cheating" and "turning the game inside out."
- Here's a way to beat the game.
- Here's a weakness in the game design, that needs to be corrected.
If you can quite clearly demonstrate that you're trying to IMPROVE the game, for future players, we'll cut you a LOT of slack.
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