Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
I have been doing some thinking on Alts. In most cases the players that have alts do not dedicate the time to 'grow' them, but they do log on. This means that players that do log on frequently but do not increase in power and rank, or increase very slowly, and are below some specified power (maybe 4 mil or so) can be assumed to be Alts. If this is the case then it should be fairly simple for the game to identify them.

Just to make things clear, I believe that a player that has all of the following characteristics is an alt (see exception below).

  1. Logs on to the game several times a week.
  2. Is below 4 mil power (or some other number).
  3. Power and rank increase very slowly or not at all.


Using this description infrequent players would not be identifies as alts because they do not log on several times a week. Only the players that log on frequently but do not grow would be identified as alts.

Using this definition the only players may be labeled as Alts but in fact are not would be the 'social' players. The one that use the game for chatting and not to play. But if 'social' players are considered Alts got game mechanics (like GW battles) it will not hurt them because they are not really playing the game.
This is an excellent idea, The largest guild on our server just created 40 alts to block us from attacking and taking over their sailing city. We only have one city and they have 5but our 13 accounts versus their 86 accounts is impossible to break through as our durability gets destroyed. I like Andy's idea and realistically who joins a server that's been playing over a year. That would be like me joining server 12 where the weakest player is 75 mil. They may have a friend there but realistically the new player will never go anywhere. I see new alts created everyday and that goes up my butt. New players would most likely join the newest server and have a fighting chance as being one of the top 10 players, not in the bottom as number 3623 on page 270. I would love to see this go into effect soon and watch that guild lose. Go Andy Go (Sorry for the whining).