Playing from 2 pc's

Digitalaniq - Heavens Tear

I was wondering if i could play this game from 2 pc's with the same IP. Thing is, both the PC's are in the same LAN, so both have the same IP but they're 2 seperate PC's.

Aadi - Lost City

As long as they're two different PCs, you're fine.

Hunter_PT - Heavens Tear

Aadi - Lost City wrote: »

As long as they're two different PCs, you're fine.

^ This. Aslong as it is two different pc's your fine.

Saitada - Sanctuary

My wife and I run 3 pc's at the same time from the same LAN.

~S

Peritia - Lost City

As everyone has already mentioned, it's perfectly fine. I'll elaborate a bit though:

People often focus too much on the IP issue for identifying themselves when gaming. If you were simply accessing a website, then you would have little more identifying information than the IP address.

However, Perfect World is of course locally installed software. Some of you observant people may also have noticed the fact that the launcher begins two separate processes: elementclient and pwprotector.

Just making an educated guess, but the latter likely periodically reports a few key features to the server (local IP address, some device IDs for your hardware, etc).

If all of these values were reported identical between two clients, it would be pretty much proof positive they're multi-clienting, and they would/could be banned in short order.

Just speculation though.

Aadi - Lost City

Peritia - Lost City wrote: »

As everyone has already mentioned, it's perfectly fine. I'll elaborate a bit though:

People often focus too much on the IP issue for identifying themselves when gaming. If you were simply accessing a website, then you would have little more identifying information than the IP address.

However, Perfect World is of course locally installed software. Some of you observant people may also have noticed the fact that the launcher begins two separate processes: elementclient and pwprotector.

Just making an educated guess, but the latter likely periodically reports a few key features to the server (local IP address, some device IDs for your hardware, etc).

If all of these values were reported identical between two clients, it would be pretty much proof positive they're multi-clienting, and they would/could be banned in short order.

Just speculation though.

My own speculation...I don't think they really pay that close attention to the issue, because I know plenty of people that have admitted freely to multiclienting (not naming any names here), and have never been banned for it although they're almost always doing it. I'm not sure what kind of report would make PWI actually look into multiclienting, but they don't seem to actively seek it out.

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear

Peritia - Lost City wrote: »

As everyone has already mentioned, it's perfectly fine. I'll elaborate a bit though:

People often focus too much on the IP issue for identifying themselves when gaming. If you were simply accessing a website, then you would have little more identifying information than the IP address.

However, Perfect World is of course locally installed software. Some of you observant people may also have noticed the fact that the launcher begins two separate processes: elementclient and pwprotector.

Just making an educated guess, but the latter likely periodically reports a few key features to the server (local IP address, some device IDs for your hardware, etc).

If all of these values were reported identical between two clients, it would be pretty much proof positive they're multi-clienting, and they would/could be banned in short order.

Just speculation though.

It would be impractical and too costly to get too much PC info (especially constant data of this sort) from every player running the game, but rest assured, beyond IP, the very next thing the client finds is your MAC address, which has been done in MMO games for at least a dozen years now, even though it's so easy to spoof nowadays (most people don't know how so still easy to use to track/identify).

NuDe - Heavens Tear

Hi janus ^^