Why do a player choose to be a multi?

[Liderant]

i opened this topic to deal the problem of the multi from another angle. Try to understand why they are multis. (i must sound like a psychologist )

Reasons to be a multi:

-You are new to the game and dont really understand how to play it (how does a battle really work and those kind of stuff)
-The game is difficult to you, you feel incompetent, so you make many accounts to win more points.
-You are not really interested in the game, but you play it, because you have nothing better to do.
-To learn more about all races in the less time.

I think i already confesed a long time ago that when i started to play this game, i was a multi. I must say that i didnt learn much wile i was a multi, just because you dont try to understand battles wile you are a multi. You just see the positive or negative scores, and dont give a $%&&% about how did the battle happend.
I was a multi, but not an obvius one. What i mean, is that my multi accounts had never seen each other, or made attacks together (so i think i never really affected anybody)

Advice for multis:

-If you have two or more accounts, i hope you have the time to understand and learn how does a battle happend in all your accounts. In the future you will not only learn that, but you will learn about honor and about playing fare with only one account.

Belive me, you have more fun playing with only one account.
When a game is easy, it always gets boring, so please, dont make it boring for yourself!!


i will probably get many critics about this topic, but i must say, this is my personal opinion. I do not really care about multis, as long as they do not ruin the game for others (mass attacking and those kind of stuff). I must say that I support multis, as long as their intentions are to learn how to play this game faster and do not affect other people's game.


[ This Message was edited by: Liderant on 2004-06-17 02:57 ]

[hurafloyd]

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On 2004-06-17 00:14, Liderant wrote:

-The game is difficult to you, you feel incompetent, so you make many accounts to win more points.
-You are not really interested in the game, but you play it, because you have nothing better to do.



I think that those two points that you mentioned are meaningless...

If I dont like a game why should I play it? I'll search for another of my liking...
And why should I open many accounts to win more points? I dont get that one...

If I were a multi, I'll open many accounts just to learn more game strategies and to learn about the different races as you mentioned, at this time I opened like three accounts...one like 2 years ago and two "noob killers" wiped me out, and it bored me, another like one month ago (the so recalled tantrum of Aldarion and "the great forum battle") and I closed it as some people can know... and the last one like one week...

Give them a chance, let them play and let them learn. People who cheat always get busted, and Admins are for that, not you! You just show the alarm and they only do the "dirty" job of bailing them out, if its true.

I think that a problem that it should be taken care of are those "noob killers"...

[ This Message was edited by: hurafloyd on 2004-06-17 01:29 ]

[mackman]

Dude how are you gonna give people tips on how to be a good multi?Whats wrong with you man???If you was a multi thats all well and good now that you are a honest player but no multi hand books please..

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SBR A former -TO- empire member.

[Liderant]

@mackman: that wasnt really my idea, anyhow i removed the part of the "advice". My point is that i dont really see the problem with multis when they are trying to learn how to play spacetrace. The problem begin when they start to take advantage of being multi, i mean, making unfear points (farming), mass attacking or even mass defending.
So my idea is maybe to give the chance to open more than one account, but making a "rule" that doesnt allow those acounts (from the same person) meet each other. Did i make myself clear?

[mackman]

Well the admins could do this.during the n00b protection maybe there should be battle simulations where as you fight a computer generated fleet and you get to pick what ever set up for your self that the race you chose is cabable of making.That why when a new player is done with n00b protection they have some idea on what they want to reserch how battles work and so on.....

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SBR A former -TO- empire member.

[mackman]

Honestly when I first started playing I didnt know what the hell I was doing untill captain silver of gfdr killed my base a few times then I finaly started to learn and then a player by the name of sir bogart of the joint was very helpful I thank him alot

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SBR A former -TO- empire member.

[Liderant]

exactly, there must be like a noob protection mode, so, when you first come to sapcetrace you can have an option, where you put that you are a noob and have no idea how to play it.
One of the things i remember when i was a noob is that i had no objetives, i mean, i was to scared to attack someone and i even attacked people 1 day away from me. I like that thing of giving targets to noobs
Maybe like an academy (not like the alliance), that tells you what kind of ships to build, and give you some virtual fleets and targets to destroy and explains you what happend in the battle. Maybe like a more detailed battle-report, with explanation and stuff

[Aeleon]

I think that many of the multis do it because they think cheating is a way of life. Why just have one account when you can have many. They probably play with multiple accounts in other games and do quite well, especially in games where you can take over other territories or planets and they can become stronger by farming out their extra accounts. These games offer no chance for non-multies because you just can't compete. It must be frustrating for them in this game because we can see who are the multis by their actions, and they cannot become stronger by farming out their other accounts. Some players may be multis just because they find the game hard when they are new, but I think most of them are hardcore cheaters who feel they can do anything they want, and in other games and parts of thier lives they have received positive results by cheating. In the USA we call them Republicans.

[ This Message was edited by: Aeleon on 2004-06-17 22:34 ]

[BladeTech]

hahaha. i understand why you are not absolutely against multies and that you want protection of noobs. but i must say that multying is still bad no matter what. if you want to learn the game well, just play with one account and concentrate. you may get beat up a lot in the beginning but thatz how you get better, right mackman? multying isn't the solution