The solution to alias/alt accounts on QL

[raythenoob]

is in this thread:
www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?24423-Anti-Cheat/page9

But here it is in its entirity:

By Ketnar (a slumming alt himself). Kind of ironic isn't it...

Ketnar said:

Oh I have a solution for cheating.

But the devs would never implement it in a million years.
(And it doesn't even require anti-cheat software.)

Require a valid, verified credit/debit card, even for the free accounts (which would incur no charges, obviously, but could if the user decided to upgrade.), and a cellular phone SMS verification to activate an account. (This system is used to cut down on fraud account on many, many websites. just not any *gaming* websites, there is no reason it couldn't be, however)

Want multiple aliases? Sure, since you are verified, not a problem! Alias away, buddy!

Caught cheating? Got Banned? Good luck with getting a new account, chump. Now its a lot harder to just sign back up again and get back to cheating.

Problem(s) solved.

Don't have a credit card/debit card and cell phone that can be verified? You are probably too young for this game (or your parents don't want you playing it), or you have bigger problems than not being able to play quakelive in your life and probably shouldn't be bothering with it anyway.

Furthermore, these are not lost potential sales as these people will never pay to play anyway.

Done and done, cheater problem evaporates faster than you can say 'bye, suckers!'

But like I said, the devs would never do this in a million years because some bean counter somewhere thinks its suicide, when its an /excellent/ way to separate the chaff (never going to pay, ever) from the wheat (might pay someday, but haven't yet, but are willing to verify who they are to play in a safe, moderated environment for free.).

And that's your solution to cheating, Let the boo-hissing and bawwing commence!

(pre-discussion disarmament: You do not get to 'modify' how this proposed system works, this is how it works, and this is the /only way/ it would work. No "what about fakebook?" "what about twigger?" "what about my geocities website does that count as verification?" or "but i'm in a nasty third world country and we all share one 56k modem and don't have credit cards! Can we pay with dried fruit??" either. TOUGH. You don't have a means to pay for the game, let alone provide proof you arn't just some 12 year old troll wanting to hack and troll?, why should any for-profit game even care? )

www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?24423-Anti-Cheat&p=209280&viewfull=1#post209280

[raythenoob]

And for the record, Bimnutz was the first person to come up with this idea. I'm just giving ketnar credit in this instance, simply for the fact that he explained it better and outlined the neg/pos aspects of it.

[raythenoob]

He went on to say:

ketnar said:

And as for the people boo-hooing the idea 'oh noes people would never put their CC into a game website!'

Yeah, they do. Heck, people put their credit cards into an /xbox/, their cellphone, one idiot got it tattooed on his arm. (I bet he was upset when the card expired), they link them to paypal accounts, they use them to buy DLC.. STEAM anyone? The whole idea that 'people are too paranoid to use creditcards online'.. well, maybe YOU are.

But to sooth your worries, lets make a change to the 'auth' idea then.

Fine, you can make a free account, unverified.. but you are /limited/ until you verify. No stats longer than 1 day,and a limited number of maps. (and I mean LIMITED, like,NO maps, one for each game mode/type lets say.) and only on 'trial' servers. (and registered/verified people can only spectate on the trial servers). You can fool around and try all the game modes, and feel how the game is, but you more or less only get to see one map per game mode.

There, this way people can 'try' before they verify (FOR FREE) and unlock more of the game.

Better?

That is probably going to start happening sooner than later anyways. Just a matter of time before they start taking away existing modes/maps in a last ditch effort to save the game.