Smurf Detector

[HogeJoke]

I have several Computers at my house.
Almost every week i have several guests here who play on my computers.
Everytime they are at different PC´s.
How can i use them still with the FAF-Lobby?
Cause sometimes we play for example 4 players here against 4 players from FAF-Lobby.

[Ze_PilOt]

Not a problem right now : if you use your account on another computer, that computer will be "enabled" with your account and the others disabled.

The risk is to forget to swap two accounts, leading to one of them deleted :

- computers A B C D.
- Accounts 1 2 3 4.

first login :
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4.

Now, if 4 want to play on B, B will be registered in the DB instead of D.
But if 2 try to log again on B, the account 4 will be desactivated.

So you need to be sure that 4 log again on D before, or 2 must log in D.

That's the process for now.

Of course, that's mean that anybody can log on another computer and bring back that account on their main. As long as they carefully swaps the accounts, they can freely smurf. Of course, there is the danger of forgetting to swap correctly and badaboom.

- I can limit the numbers of changes per account (my idea was 2 changes before requesting a manual reset)
That will be a problem in your case.

If anyone has a better idea that can solve this special case...
- Maybe reset the changes over time ? What is the frequency of these accounts swap ?
- Or, maybe a better solution, if you are over your changes count, I can disable global ranking for that account when it's not used in his "main" computer ?
Maybe a combinaison of these two solutions...

[HogeJoke]

well,
to be more precise,
i have right now 8 gaming Computers and 2 Laptops. (plus some Work PCs)
I have about once a week guests, but sometimes twice a week and sometimes none.
Some of the guests have their own accounts, some use my own additional "Smurf Accounts" just for this day. (i bought the game several times...)

Would it be possible to create 2 kinds of accounts?
For example:
1. Normal account as right now with ranking and smurf detection
2. Guest account without ranking, but online gaming ability and chat. (for those accounts could be used a standard prefix like "GUEST") Or will this lead to ranking problems if a guest account plays versus a normal one? In this case could the ranking for these games disabled.

[Ze_PilOt]

Hm, then I will try to limit the changes, reset them over time, and disable the rating if you reach your maximum amount of changes allowed. That will be less restricted than doing guest accounts.