From The Imperial Conflict Rulebook:
2.1 Accounts
You are allowed to have only one user account. This account will be considered your account and not anyone else’s. You must keep this account throughout your game time. There is no way to delete it.
This is not vague or ambiguous. Players who make multiple accounts intentionally violate this rule hoping that they will not be caught. There is no warning to be had, they know what they are doing and know the risk they take when they decide to violate this rule.
Unfortunately, taking this risk also risks any team members that would be impacted by their block if they get caught. The staff has no responsibility to soften the blow or ease the transition when this happens.
When a player breaks the rules, they are putting their family at risk. The damage done is solely on the player who violated the rules, not on the staff for enforcing them.
1.1 Enforcement
1. The Imperial Conflict team reserves the right to take any steps, within its domain, it deems required to correct rule violations. This includes modification or deletion of your account without warning.
6. What is considered a violation of these rules is at the discretion of the Imperial Conflict team. When in doubt, err on the side of caution.
7. A player may or may not be warned for rule violations. The decision to warn is at the discretion of the Imperial Conflict team.
Again, people who break the rules are not entitled to warnings. The best way to not get blocked is to not break the rules.
1.1 Enforcement
3. Any information on specific enforcement decisions is private and will be not be disclosed by the Imperial Conflict team to any outside parties.
As a reminder, we can discuss generalities here to help if people have questions, but let’s refrain from mentioning specific names as much as we can.
Not sure if joking, but no, this is a blockable offense. Not only that, but it’s a slap in the face to all the Patreon subscribers who decided to support the game financially in order to receive the perk that bypasses this restriction.
Many people want to play more than the 2 galaxy limit. If everybody just made an alternate account because they didn’t feel like paying, our efforts to keep the game running would suffer.
While this is correct, IP addresses aren’t the sole factor when we decide to block somebody. We take other things into account, including statements that infer that players are willing to circumvent the rules if they feel they can get away with it.
Better Solutions
I am aware that innocent family members are affected by this, which is unfair to them in the short term. Unfortunately, sparing the violator of appropriate punishment reduces the effect of the deterrent and is unfair for the larger community in the long term.
Our current process, despite its flaws, is the best balance between rule enforcement and fairness we can offer.
There are better solutions in the works, including freezing and redistributing a blocked player’s assets, but those have technical dependences that aren’t yet completed.
It isn’t that we’re doing anything out of cruelness, or that we don’t care. It’s that the players who choose to break the rules put us in a tough spot, and we have to go with what presents the most effective deterrent so that we can discourage others from doing the same.
In this case, whether or not a player “cheated” with a multiple account makes no difference. We have to enforce the rules as consistently as we can. Multiple accounts are illegal. End of story.
We would all have a much easier time if people didn’t break the rules in the first place, but unfortunately that’s not what happens.
In Summary
- Players that violate the rules put their families at risk by doing so.
- The best way to not put your family at risk is to not violate the rules.