Multi-clienting

The rules is 2 chars log in the same for each person, so you could have 5 computers, you can still only have 2 chars online at the same time.

Yes many people break that rule, i know some people who have 3 shops log at the same time than their alt and main, or sometime some people log 4-5 chars same time to buff and open a instance.

Why would it really matter anyways?

If you spend real money in game I do not think they would ban over this. More chars means more money spent.

But rule is 2 chars per computer per person.


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i have one pc and want to multiclient on the same pc, what should i do? is ther something to download or what ? do i have to make two pwi accounts or not?

There is virtually no way of enforcing multi client rules because there is no way to distinguish the difference between 10 clients on one computer and 10 clients on 10 different computers with 10 different users on the same ip.

However, the only thing I know of that Wanmei did is limit the number of times people can connect to one server, I believe you can try connecting to one server 3 times before you get a server not found error and have to wait an hour or so. At least last time I checked, it was this way on pwcn. I don't feel like confirming that for pwi.
I know this limitation was added right before descent.

jamesali wrote: »

i have one pc and want to multiclient on the same pc, what should i do? is ther something to download or what ? do i have to make two pwi accounts or not?

If you have one account, you will need another.
Once you have two accounts (your main and alt), you look for a file called elementclient.exe in your pwi folder, open it twice, in one window you log into your main and in the other window you log into your alt.


The reason why there used to be a ban on this because multi clienting supposedly involved editing the client. While this is true, there is also a way of multi clienting without editing the client for older versions.
The ban was lifted a year or two after Wanmei figured out they messed up their "you must use launcher to play the game" message on elementclient and decided that PWI is allowed to use one more client.

Either way, the whole thing is as ridiculous as ini editing.

Salari - Raging Tide wrote: »

There was no editing the client that I saw, all you do is launch the game client directly instead of using the update launcher. This worked before they allowed it and how I do it now.

In the really old clients if you try and launched the client directly with elementclient.exe, you would get a message telling you to launch with the launcher instead.
I don't remember when that went away but I know it disappeared sometime either before or after the genie expansion, probably earlier though.

The msot common way of getting around it was to edit the client directly with a program and remove the lines that would tell you to launch from the launcher. The reason this doesn't work anymore is because wanmei did some changes to the name of pwi and pwcn and forget to update the message. At least from what I've been told, I haven't spent too much time into it.
The easiest way of getting around it is launching the game with the console.

If you don't believe me with the message, here.

For fun, that is a 1.1.3 client, a client released sometime when pwcn went into open beta back in 2006.

_Perses_ - Lost City wrote: »

Opened 20 clients first day they pulled this ****.


Still playing~

There used to be a player on RT (still might be there for all I know, I haven't gone by his spot in a long time) who had 5 herb shops: one each for lowest/low/mid/high/special grade herbs. It was pretty blatantly obvious that it was the same person, and I'm pretty sure nothing ever happened to him.

Bubbles - Lothranis wrote: »

There is virtually no way of enforcing multi client rules because there is no way to distinguish the difference between 10 clients on one computer and 10 clients on 10 different computers with 10 different users on the same ip.

When a packet is sent or recieved it contains the mac address of the users PC that it needs to be sent to. It's how your router knows what PC to send it to. They can easily see if there are 10 clients on one PC if they wanted to, but I am pretty sure they wouldn't want to.