On 7/23/21 12:25 PM, Preston Crow wrote:
On 2021-07-23 15:12, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
The code currently forbids being connected more than one time per account.
I don't remember what the rationale was for that restriction - game-play ones?
technical ones?
Any hint appreciated :)
I was thinking of removing it, to allow players to exchange easily stuff
between their characters...
Ideally it would be a server config option. I'm a huge fan of letting the
server administrators decide how they want their server to work. There are
quests that are designed for multiple players, though only one that I've been
unable to do solo, and I can understand trying to make them really encourage
social play. Then again, in a pinch, players will just create multiple
accounts, so there's not a lot of value in the restriction.
On a related note, I could see an argument for a method of letting other
characters from your own account into your private apartments.
This probably dates back to before the account system was added.
Back when you logged in with the character, it only made sense that a single
login for a character. In some cases, a connection could get dropped, and it
take a while for the server to notice the dropped connection, so having the
server see the same character log in and drop the existing connection made it
easier to log in (I think before that, you got an error message if you tried to
log in with a character already logged in)
With the account system, this makes less sense. There might still need to be
some logic to cover the case above (connection dropped). And any change would
need to makes sure that the same character can not be logged in more than once.
I don't think there is any account info that is held by the server that would
result in account corruption, eg, char A logs in, then char B. Char B logs
out, updates info, then char A logs out, and overwrites that info, but not 100%
sure of that.
To follow up on Preston's comment, having account based apartment instead of
character based ones could also be interesting.
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