Captain Santos
Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere Exec Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2013.09.11 18:30:00 -
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GM Karidor wrote: What needs to be kept in mind regarding impersonations is that all characters involved are seen as their own, independent entity, which effectively means it's quite possible that a situation may appear where a player impersonates his trustworthy main character using an alt character located on the same account. As there is no in-game way to verify whether or not certain characters are located on the same account (the API needs the key and external tools to be read properly, so that one doesn't count here), this case would be handled the very same way as the impersonator character being owned by another player.
Hi, I'm Mr Omniblivion.
This is stupid. The in-game way to verify whether or not I'm actually Mr Omniblivion is to invite Mr Omniblivion into the conversation to confirm. Or to check my alliance title that says I'm Mr Omniblivion (via the Exec Corp of the Alliance). Or to check the alliance Description that shows that I (and Mr Omniblivion) are both characters to contact to rent. Or by checking either one of our in game profiles where we link the other character stating that they are alts.
There are plenty of ways to verify authenticity- if someone is too lazy to do any research whatsoever, how can you hold the other party at fault?
How could this be a serious rule - about all characters are seen as their own, independent entity - yet you can suicide gank in empire down to -10.0, and then after a few hours of ratting in null be friendly again with CONCORD. I mean c'mon, if we're not allowed to say we are are own alts and there is "no in-game way to verify", then how can such an un-realistic mechanic be allowed to exist? We're going for realism here, right? Each character is an individual that has their own independent interests, right?
I think this is just poor explanation of the rules. GMs say that it doesn't affect scamming, but then the "definition" clearly bans pretty much every type of scamming. Then to expand that to honest representation (for those of us that don't scam)- that's ridiculous. |