[ARCHIVE] Final Checklist Discussion

Multiaccounting for profit is a bannable offense. The game will be balanced around playing as a single player, and the legitimate uses for multiple sims (roleplaying etc) will be implemented later as a system which only enables money making for one of the sims on your account at a time, and potentially even connecting with multiple sims from the same game client. Getting around this system would require multiple accounts. Multiaccounting will likely lead to a reposession of objects, money, or a permanent ban.

Ownership and being roomie of multiple lots on one sim will be available sometime in the future, for those who have max upgraded their first lot. Likely, people will be able to own multiple lots by earning money on one of their sims at a time before this feature becomes available. Money earned from player->player transactions would not be limited by the multi-sim rule, only money from job objects and jobs, so you would still be able to run a store or a player business on a second sim, just not afk farm job objects, play pizza with yourself or have multiple sims in the job lots.

You don't seem to understand what the page does, so I'm not going to bother answering that.

It's a placeholder for an actual account management system. The wordpress page is a static page, it simply allows the user to access the user management API made available by the game server, via an HTTPS XmlHttpRequest. This API is not intrinsically "unsafe" just because you can access it from a static page on the same domain, and because wordpress is the devil or whatever.

There will be! The moderation control panel will detect suspicious patterns and flag them up. With permanent bans being dealt out for multiaccounting, you wouldn't want to risk losing everything you own.

It "wasn't important" because it got completely trashed. If we're to add more gameplay revolving around budget and businesses, it will need to remain stable.

Wasn't it like the top 1 thing people criticized TSO for?

You can use devices from multiple IPs for the same account (your account will still work on iPhone/Android 4G), and you will be able to register multiple accounts from the same IP if you stagger the registrations over several days.

There are special interactions between users which will be flagged as "suspicious activity", eg. large one way object trade or transaction (monetary value for very little in return). When your account is flagged, it's up to a moderator to review your past transactions and trades, IP history and possibly user activity in general. If there is definite proof that you are multiaccounting, both accounts will be banned, billed or warned, depending on the severity of the actions. Legitimate play from the same IP will likely not trigger the flagging system, so long as your user activity doesn't reveal any other signs that both accounts are managed by one person or physical machine.

Playing with multiple sims on the same account simultaneously is not recommended until the account-wide single user money-making limits are put in place. You're playing with fire at that point.

Most users will start with 0 simoleons, since accounts are free. There will be a way for the very first founders to easily get started.

Be at the opening ceremony, that's all I'll say. Online jobs will have boosted payout for a while til I can get a good # on the average earnings from each job type and tweak it from there.