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zyklon
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ok, i am developing a game, and i am trying to figure out a way on how to minimize multiplaying, or players having more than 1 account.

does anyone have any good ideas on how to do this?
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make it so only one account can use one credit card number
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its a free game
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make the first account they log in to on that ip the primary account for the ip for a couple of hours and then make them answer extremely guessable security questions to log in to a secondary account

or you could keep the last account logged into and the time+date in a cookie and then check that
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If it's free, you cant really do much to prevent people from operating two different accounts...

If I want to, I'll use a different ip address, different username(duh)/password(duh) and different email, different browser, etc...

The only way you could prevent it would be to charge... and even then if i wanted to I'd just use a different credit card (though you probably wouldnt complain ;))
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do you know any ways to limit it.
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Post by feyd »

There's nothing you can do, realistically.

IP information can't be used because many people can legitimately change IP addresses between requests.
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You could send the credentials as postal letter
or make a valid and assured thawte or CAcert certificate mandatory
or ...
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so basically pretend i have some hi-security thing, i dont actually have :).
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Post by smudge »

I'm just putting this out there, but what about cookies? Sure, you can edit them, but not your everyday average joe knows how to.
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