we appreciate your interest to be a fair player. Here we will try to explain you in detail how to play fair with multi accounts, and avoid of getting banned.
I. Multi-Accounting
It is possible to maintain several accounts on one and the same server. These have to be announced to us by using a game internal function. Direct interaction between these multi accounts is not allowed. Circumventing these rules via other players is not allowed.
The interaction between multi accounts includes:
- Trading
- Defending or attacking towns
- Joint raids
Which means that you are not allowed to:
- send goods to each other.
- send military units to each other.
- raid each other - military and piracy.
- trade with each other.
- spy each other.
To avoid such an interaction, GameForge implemented "IP sharing" option. Once you activate that option, you will not be able to make any fleet contact and in that way violate multi-rule.
The most important fact is that you have to declare IP sharing correctly. That means that if you have 4 multi accounts you have to set IP sharing like this:
Account1 must be linked to Account2, 3 and 4
Account2 must be linked to Account3 and 4
Account3 must be linked to Account4.
Even if you do not have multi-account, but you share your IP address with your friend/housemate or anyone else, you have to declare IP sharing.
Our players are often confused thinking that we ban for multi-accounting only if they access them from the same IP. Even if you have 4 accounts and you play them in 4 different places, you still have to declare that accounts as multi.
Under multi-accounting rule falls Circumvention of multi-rule too.
That means that you are not allowed to use the third party to gain advantage from your multi accounts. There are a different type of violation of that rule, but here is one example.
You have 1 multi-account, and ask your friend to pillage your multi-account, and send you resources he pillaged.
In that situation, all 3 accounts will be banned for the circumvention of the multi rule.
Finally, it is allowed to maintain up to 11 accounts at the same server. That means that you are allowed to play with one main account, and 10 multi accounts. If you create more multi accounts, you will not be able to setup IP sharing with the rest of them, and risk suspension for Mass Multi.
It's good for you to know that you are allowed to:
- join the same alliance(s).
- use the in-game messaging systems - the in-game message, the chat, the alliance forums, with each other.
- have cultural treaties with each other.
- donate on the same island(s).
- be friend with your multi
If you have any other questions , feel free to contact us, we will be happy to help you!
Your Ikariam UK team
