Multi-playing is the use of one or more characters by one player
to jointly achieve a particular goal. A player CAN play more than
one character, but not use them together. Alts should be treated
as completely separate and unique characters.
One alt cannot benefit from another alt. You cannot pass gold or
equipment between alts. You cannot use another player or physical
location drop-offs to pass gold or equipment between alts.
In a party, you cannot switch alts as you progress through the
same area. If you switch alts (because someone leaves, someone
else joins etc., and you need a different party make-up), then you
must also switch areas. You cannot clear an area with one alt and
then use a different alt on the boss, etc. Each alt gets gold and
equipment based on what they've been present for.
If a party member obtains an item in the party and decides to sell
it on the open market, the alt of another party member may attempt
to purchase that item at a fair price. The second party member may
not take any action to ensure that the item reaches their alt,
rather than another buyer.
Players may hire the alts of party members for services usually
performed outside of the party, provided that they treat that
other character the same as they would any other character
performing the same service, including providing appropriate
compensation. This includes such things as equipment work and
resurrections. Alts should not provide services directly for
their mains. Alts should also not be hired to perform tasks
usually performed by members of the party, such as casting
prots, curing diseases between runs, etc. Characters in parties
should also not receive the benefits of their alt's services,
such as receiving a share of gold from loot their alt helped sell
or an item their alt helped to craft.
Alts cannot live in the same castle.
It is considered cheating if two or more players play the same
character. Selling or handing out passwords of characters is also
cheating. All characters involved will be removed from the game.
If a player is not "yours" you should likewise not be controlling
it in any way. This includes the use of triggers to guide another
character's actions while the player is afk.
Quite simply, two characters owned by the same player should not
benefit each other in any way. The following examples should
illustrate what's right and wrong, but use some common sense.
Violating these rules can result in measures ranging from force
reincarnation to getting nuked and removed from the game.
It should be noted that reasonable attempts should be made to
obtain services or new party members prior to engaging in the
behaviors deemed legal below as they pertain to item sales or
services provided such as enchantments. The spirit of the rules
here is the prevention of lack-of-party and not the disinclusion
of newcomers or non-party members on unknown alternate characters.
Legal: Pumice is killing monsters when a party forms but is
lacking a biomancer. Pumice goes linkdead, and logs in on her
biomancer alt Ninth to join the party. After the party, Ninth logs
off or goes linkdead and Pumice resumes playing.
Legal: Syndic wants to join a party, but the tank needs stickies;
Syndic goes linkdead, logs in on his merchant alt, provides
stickies for the tank and gets paid a reasonable amount comparable
to the current market rate for the service, then logs off this alt
and joins the party as Syndic. (Reasonable is within +/- 10%)
Legal: Mapr the biomancer is in a party in the Chantry. Another
biomancer joins the party and they decide to adventure in Xzela's
Encampment; the party leaves the Chantry, and Mapr goes linkdead
and logs in on his psionicist alt, Dijkstra, joining the party en
route to Xzela. After the party, Mapr receives gold for loot from
the Chantry, while Dijkstra receives gold for loot from the
Encampment.
Legal: Bob and Kizandersnatch kill a monster and get several items,
one of which is wanted by Kizandersnatch's alt, Toothbrush. Bob and
Kizandersnatch dice, and Bob gets the item Toothbrush wants. Bob
decides he wants to sell the item rather than keep it, so he puts
it up on sales for anyone online to bid on. Kizandersnatch switches
to Toothbrush, places a bid and wins the item.
For the following examples, we assume Jack and Bob are characters
belonging to the same player.
ILLEGAL: Jack and Bob must not be on at the SAME TIME.
ILLEGAL: Jack dies while fighting a big monster. He's level 60
and has a lot of experience points. Bob the templar resurrects
Jack and gets a ton of dues from the resurrection. This goes
against the previous example, and also against the rule that alts
may not benefit (from) each other.
ILLEGAL: Jack and Bob party and kill stuff, with Jack and Bob's
player cleverly using a program to heal Jack whenever Jack says
"HEAL" on the party line. This is wrong in the same ways as the
previous example, and in addition violates the rules on botting
(HELP BOT).
ILLEGAL: Jack makes a killing and has so much money and items he
doesn't know what to do with them. So Jack's player transfers
50000 gold and gives some items to Bob. This violates the rule
that alts may not benefit from each other.
ILLEGAL: Jack is fighting a tough monster. It is "severely
beaten", but so is Jack. Jack's player brings Bob in, and Bob
casts anathema at the monster, damaging it further. Bob quits and
Jack comes back to slay the monster and get experience points and
loot. In this situation, one alt again benefits from another
illegally.
ILLEGAL: Jack is in a party going to an area where Bob has
the necessary key or item to unlock it. Bob provides or sells
it to a member of Jack party thus granting Jack access to an
area he would not otherwise have been able to enter.
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