Getting sick of duplicate accounts

Supay · 2014-02-11 05:03:07

I really enjoy this game, both having a go at other's houses and building my own. I'm certainly still very low level in terms of my ability of getting into others and in stopping people getting into mine, but I am improving. My first load of houses were generally beaten quickly but my most recent attempts have started to show more promise, clocking up a bunch of deaths and some small bounties, so I've been pleased with my progress.

However, I seem to have run into a major annoyance which is really pissing me off. I see 1-2 characters enter my house within a short time of each other, equipped with a general tool selection. They probe around and explore and between them will usually come to identify my small house and a specific weak point. This even involves them getting to my vault and walking right up to it and looking at it, but not accessing it. They will walk back and forth repeatedly through the route created, checking all the parts of my trap, then leave the house. Immediately another character enters with either precisely the minimum tools needed to access my vault or no tools but now knowing how to defeat my traps and go straight to my vault without any hesitation.

I am absolutely fine with people outsmarting me and I enjoy the challenge. However, I hate the use of multiple accounts for this scouting technique. These players can just run their repeatedly created alts into houses with no concern for their scouting killing them, then come back with their main which holds all their cash. It completely undermines the concept of the game and if its use increases then I can see it killing the game experience for the more casual players who can never build up past a few thousand $ before being alt-scouted and destroyed.

Supay · 2014-02-11 05:04:48

Oh, and you may both be dead now, but you know who I am talking about, Mr Brent Chad Fisher and James William Lentz.

fondfoat · 2014-02-11 08:18:01

Agree that it is the most disheartening part of the game. No idea how it can be fixed, but already I see them as they scout away. They aren't shy about it to be honest.

largestherb · 2014-02-11 10:29:34

that is pretty lame behaviour, however it could easily be two separate friends.

hey jim, i just got to the vault in this house, do you need some cash to help you get started?

yeah charles, that'd be awesome, what do i need?

arakira · 2014-02-11 10:41:34

Also, you would most probably have been robbed by the first guy because he had the tools and did the correct scouting. So, being robbed by one or the other doesn't change much in the end... Your house had just gotten ripe

JoeBlow · 2014-02-11 15:39:43

arakira wrote:

Also, you would most probably have been robbed by the first guy because he had the tools and did the correct scouting. So, being robbed by one or the other doesn't change much in the end... Your house had just gotten ripe

I disagree. This is cheating. They are using a throwaway account to get the route down and then accessing it with their main to get the money and vault items. BUT they never have any risk with the main because they don't care if the throwaways die. They just make more with another $2K in tools. Rinse and repeat until they know exactly what the main needs to bring and the exact path to take to not risk dying. None of us regular users can do this if we only have one account. If they get TO THE VAULT then walk away, that's a dead giveaway for a cheater.

Supay · 2014-02-11 16:28:34

JoeBlow wrote:

arakira wrote:
Also, you would most probably have been robbed by the first guy because he had the tools and did the correct scouting. So, being robbed by one or the other doesn't change much in the end... Your house had just gotten ripe
I disagree. This is cheating. They are using a throwaway account to get the route down and then accessing it with their main to get the money and vault items. BUT they never have any risk with the main because they don't care if the throwaways die. They just make more with another $2K in tools. Rinse and repeat until they know exactly what the main needs to bring and the exact path to take to not risk dying. None of us regular users can do this if we only have one account. If they get TO THE VAULT then walk away, that's a dead giveaway for a cheater.

Thank you, exactly the point I was halfway through typing before my baby yelled for some more food.

I have no issue at all with someone coming in with tools, working their way through my house by luck or skill and getting to the vault. I enjoy seeing how they did it and where my weaknesses lie. But using multiple alts for the $2k toolkit to scout out for your main removes the risk for that main character and lets you harvest funds into your main house without the risk of dying and losing it. That is where the problem lies.

iceman · 2014-02-11 19:25:03

JoeBlow wrote:

If they get TO THE VAULT then walk away, that's a dead giveaway for a cheater.

Not quite true - I've done that before, just because I'm scouting houses with no time to actually build something.

As for all of the talk about using "multiple alts" to scout your house - I really, really doubt that people are doing that. After getting a second account, there is very little incentive to get a third.

largestherb · 2014-02-12 11:12:57

iceman wrote:

JoeBlow wrote:
If they get TO THE VAULT then walk away, that's a dead giveaway for a cheater.
Not quite true - I've done that before, just because I'm scouting houses with no time to actually build something.

yeah, i've left a few alone when i was just taking 5 minutes to peek around

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Getting sick of duplicate accounts

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