alts are a part of an mmo game i think. get over. When i joined beta, the entire alt thing weighed heavily on me. In fact its why i left evony for tynon. The way evony is you need like 10 alts to feed your troops. And to run that many alts requires an assistant. But here in tynon land. The best use of an alt is to get a map to sail. So the most you really ever need is 3. And a lot of alts were created back when everyone on every server was getting lefts. Now sailing is not a huge part of this game, its one small thing with small rewards except saturdays, which alot of guilds on alot of servers have enacted truces for saturdays. SO to technically break the TOS for such a minor thing is nothing to sweat about and complain non stop in forums.

Now farming alts is just a pain. Because you have no assistant to do all teh work on the alts to get them a lot of coins and credits. SO your not getting too much from farming alts

The lack of an assistant actually limits how many alts a player will create for farming purposes. SO it does not really have a significant impact on the game. Unless there is some guy with 0 life playing 10 alts all day long, now thats the guy to report and worry about

in terms of spying, well that may be important on some servers but not all, and honestly this is one thing that i agree iwth doing cuz its strategy and reuires hosts and vhs to pay attention to who is in your guild. But after the uber guild(s) form,spying becomes useless.

using an alt guild to bid against the uber guild can go 2 ways. 1 way is just to insure the uber guild has gwf. SO that while against TOS may actually be needed on some small servers. And this really only requires 2 or 3 alts in a guild to get the contributions daily to do it. You could do it with 1 even, SO dont see this unbalancing the game
however if a guild is using an alt guild to outbid another active guild then there may be cause for concern but i dont see an alt guild being able to sustain contributions over the long term to be able to out spend an actual guild of active real players. Sure it could happen, but if it did, the players controlling the alt guild have too much free time and money on their hands.

SO overall i chose to come and play tynon becuase even if people did use alts, I dont feel they have a significant impact on the game overall. ANd i think most players dont feel alts make a significant impact on the game and so most of us do turn our heads to it, unless these alts do things to unbalance the server, then we may take action. However on my server even though i know there are alts, I care less, I dont want tynon to take action against the players who have them, because it makes the game more interesting for some and keeps the server more active. These alts really dont effect me too much if at all. SO as the old saying goes " NO harm NO foul"

SO could we all just stop complaining about this in forums. Its been talked about forever and a day. When the convo crosses the line and breaks forum rules it will get closed. Discussing it here makes no difference to anything.

If you feel that alts are unbalancing your server, then you need to gather serious evidence and send it in repeatedly, and frequently. Have others do it. And be patient,