That's a tough question. Multiboxing where you essentially bring an alternate account with you to gain crowns and heat is as far as I can tell against the ToS, but having an alt account that you essentially just craft on or just play with and don't play both at once is ok, from what I can tell. And if you keep paying to get more, I don't think OOO will mind too much.

@Nick:

Sweet deals! I may have to save up my CE and find a seller.

I think this has been adressed before, although I am too lazy to dig up threads on it.

IIRC multiboxing is fine as long as you don't use any programs/software that allows you to control more than one account at the same time. Meaning logging on more than one at a time is allowed as long as you alt+tab between them.

Everyone get up to max 2 free accounts.
Everyone get unlimited paid accounts. (<-not 100% sure)

I think Nick is saying that the package "Purchasing Expansion Missions" was not triggering the FREE into PAID accounts but are now FIXED.

Where do we see if our account is paid or not? Also how do you log into 3 accounts at the same time?

Anyone can tell me if now his/her account is marked as paid because mine isn`t.

@Blitzwingoo
Banks do that already. Didn't you know? The money is usually forfeited to the government instead though.

I'd also like to point out that it would only delete CE from accounts that haven't bought anything themselves, so even then, whoever bought the CE in the first place got the use they wanted out of it (likely selling it for crowns or somesuch). Calling it a scam on OOO part would be silly.

MMOs kind of suffer from namelocking issues the older they get anyway, so ancient account purging isn't that bad of a thing. Mind you, they shouldn't need to worry about that kind of thing for a half decade, so Nick is looking FAR into the future. >_>

OT:
Well, not quite OT, but I thought multiboxing was considered poor form since you're basically making 2-4x the money in the same amount of time. Guess that verdict got overturned.

Nick is not looking far into the future. Since this game doesn't allow digits in the names, we're going to run into a namelock much sooner than any other MMO game.

@Blitzwingoo
1) Fair enough. But then it's the government taking something it had no real claim over either, blah blah blah. Whether it goes back to other people who likewise didn't earn it is irrelevant. Besides, you brought up this point to admonish people taking away stuff you've left alone for ages, and yet it *is* done in the real world and is fairly common at that too.

2) They bought it and gave it as a gift. Whether the "account pending deletion" did anything with it is irrelevant, and you know it. Also, tell me what the difference is between an account that has been left and forgotten for years on end, and a deleted account. Answer; virtually none, only the former takes up server space and player names. The CE on the account doesn't effect the market either way. It's virtually sunk.

I'm gonna try to stop arguing in circles or batting back "<1%" exception cases, which I suspect you'll start to use (inb4 "zomg, they might come back after being gone for years").

@Guyinshinyarmour

"But then it's the government taking something it had no real claim over either, blah blah blah. Whether it goes back to other people who likewise didn't earn it is irrelevant. Besides, you brought up this point to admonish people taking away stuff you've left alone for ages, and yet it *is* done in the real world and is fairly common at that too."

1) OOO shouldn't be deleting accounts in the first place
2) If OOO is going to delete the accounts, they should at least sell back the CE to the community through the Energy Market or something like that instead of pocketing the CE. They should not be allowed to profit from deleting accounts like this because that could be seen as stealing.
3) Just because it happens in the real world and maybe fairly common doesn't make it right. Begging and scamming is fairly common in the real world too.

"Also, tell me what the difference is between an account that has been left and forgotten for years on end, and a deleted account. Answer; virtually none, only the former takes up server space and player names. The CE on the account doesn't effect the market either way. It's virtually sunk."

There is no difference to us, but there is a difference to OOO....they get out of their obligation to provide services for the CE that was paid for. So in effect they're pocketing it. I'm saying no, they can't do that (if they do plan to do that). I'm saying they should give it back to the community.

@Dukeplatypus

Yeah it's probably likely old unused accounts don't have much CE in them.....but if you add up all the CE from all the accounts to be deleted, it could be a significant amount of CE and money that was spent on it. Haven't you seen that old Superman movie where they hack the pay-roll at a company so that they would get all the half-pennies that were rounded down from people's paychecks and it added up to millions? Yeah well, it's happened a bunch of times in real life and people have been busted by the cops for it.

Penny Shaving