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It is an irony but the truth and I believe a problem that many players face. Friends playing along each other getting IP blocked in waves and stuff ?
This doesn't make sense. It is suppose to be a team game but when friends get together and work strats and hits out, IP blocks appear.
Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem that has been on-going for like ages ? Thanks.
I played with a married couple for quite a few ages and never had a problem. Plan around it if you know you're going to get blocked.
How to plan around it ?
You know that only 1 can interact with a particular target, so give the other person something to do as well. Having 1 play TM and 1 play attacker is usually a good way to do it as long as you make sure they don't accidentally cast something on a chain target.
Well, by doing that it means you can't work on a same target isn't it ? And that is the problem.
Why is that a problem? You really aren't at that much of a disadvantage compared to a kingdom facing no blocks. If you've got active TMs (which you should), then you're at no disadvantage. Certainly not anything unfair, especially compared to the alternative of not blocking same-IP interactions and getting pelted with OOW multi-razes.
25 people in a kd, you honestly both dont have to hit the same target,ive got 3 married couples in my kd who have played around that ever since it was put in with little to no issues.
It is a problem and is annoying not being able to have 2 people hit the same province during a war provides some difficulties... but at the end of the day it's a dying game... not much you can ask to do ;p
since most of the "married or roommates playing together" are really just multi and clearly play like multi... why don't you just stop being a multi.. the bottom ghettos are plagued by multi.. get rid of the multi this game drops from 3600 players to in reality what it really is anyways about 2900 players.. for whatever reason the devs now embrace multiQuote:
Originally Posted by boxerz
Sorry but don't assume it is multi. The problem of playing under same WIFI even for a day and targets getting blocked when chaining is being done is not fun. I don't think there should be so many restrictions of choices ie TM/ attacker, hitting different targets etc to prevent things like this. There should be alternative.Quote:
since most of the "married or roommates playing together" are really just multi and clearly play like multi... why don't you just stop being a multi.. the bottom ghettos are plagued by multi.. get rid of the multi this game drops from 3600 players to in reality what it really is anyways about 2900 players.. for whatever reason the devs now embrace multi
Good read there. Thanks Anri. But I do hope perhaps mods can do something about this area of gaming.
Married couple playing utopia? God they must be ugly.
so mean to your parents.....
;)
Accessing the game via VPN is against the rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anri
if mehul was running the show it would be massive deletions probably 700 to 800 mehuled immediately.. game would be better than it's been in a long time
Yea, because mehul cared so much about the rules lol
more so than current managementQuote:
Originally Posted by Palem
Mehul left the game completely saturated with multies. The current IP block system is miles better than anything he had, info on it here
yes but using something like teamviewer or just windows remote desktop to have one spouse/roomate always play from work (where they are online 8 hours a day anyway) isn't a vpn and would be more borderline. I know a guy i used to work with did that in reverse to log into his home pc from work. Hard to say they are vpning when utopia or work banned all 4 or 5 of the differnt default proxies the company used (1 day he loged in from new york, Los angeles and texas in a span of an hour due to works stupid rules and boom no more utopia) and ONE person plays remotly on their OWN computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
You forgot to mention he almost completely ignored the fact that the vast majority of the game was trading accounts. That, along with things like rampant x-logging and other things that were either enforced because the guilty side was too lazy to try and cover themselves, or were just randomly enforced (which was cleared up in a day or so with trading/scripting)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bishop
You can just play from different whatchamacallits like me and a colleague from the cigar shop. There's no better feeling than crushing things and chortling through a cigar set in a sinister grin.
Ok. The rules are clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Palem
Here are the rules:
Internet Proxies and Anonymizers
You are expected to access the site from the IP addresses assigned to you normally by your Internet Service Provider.
If you access the site via a proxy server, anonymizing network or any anonymizing software, you will be considered to be in violation of the Code of Conduct.
If you have no choice but to use proxy servers made compulsory by your Internet Service Provider, country or corporation, you must provide details and supporting evidence to the operators of the game before continuing to use the game. Exceptions may be made at the sole discretion of the operators of the game, and may be revoked at any time without notice.
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I do not agree with much of it because it is simple not 1998 anymore or 2008 for that matter.
More and more internet users is starting to understand the importance of privacy for a various amount of reasons. Having a good VPN service or more advanced setups is becoming more and more common and its not done to try and cheat utopia. Its done because how some governments and various companies and agencies are breaching the peoples privacy more or less every day, in a few different ways.
This would hardly be the main way someone would cheat utopia in 2015 if they wanted to cheat. This could be discussed for a long time, what i am saying is i feel the rules are kinda outdated and i think a VPN service is a very grey zone and something that would really not be used for cheating. I think if utopia wants to go after the ones who really cheat it is already impossible because they are remote setup in a network from the home IPs and there is nothing that could be done to stop that except win legit, because legit always wins in the end of the day.
To me it seems according to the rules that there is a way around it also, if you are on the "whitelist" for using a VPN login or some more low profile service provider.
EDIT:
I just read Bishops update on The Official Utopia blog so i guess it is rather up to date over there. Just not really that up to date ingame. Where it should be up to date!!