Is "sitting" allowed?

Im going on holiday fridag, on skies :D

However, is it allowed to have someone to sit your account for ya, while you are gone?
It cant directly harm other players.

To those who doesnt know what sitting means:
Sitting is a term used in other browser based stradegy games like Tribal wars.
It grants another user the ability to look after your account, so that it runs like normally. However this should ofc be a trusted friend ^^
It could be like, rebuilding mines, farms and wells, so the economi aint going up in smoke.

if you read the rules when you registered you would've known the answer.

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Originally Posted by MOD_Calen

if you read the rules when you registered you would've known the answer.

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Or you could answer his question which would be quicker and more helpful

indeed, in the time you said to read the rules you could have given the answer too

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Originally Posted by MOD_Calen

if you read the rules when you registered you would've known the answer.

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you could have said yes or know, however i have now taken an update on the rules.

Multi-accounting

Having multiple accounts is a serious offence in The Settlers Online as it gives one player a distinct advantage over the others. The TSO team therefor monitors account creation and bans players using this as a cheat/exploit.

it says only that 1 person aint allowed to create more than 1 account, nothing about another person babysitting ones account while on holiday, as a friendly gesture??

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Originally Posted by Bronx

you could have said yes or know, however i have now taken an update on the rules.

Multi-accounting

Having multiple accounts is a serious offence in The Settlers Online as it gives one player a distinct advantage over the others. The TSO team therefor monitors account creation and bans players using this as a cheat/exploit.

it says only that 1 person aint allowed to create more than 1 account, nothing about another person babysitting ones account while on holiday, as a friendly gesture??

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How is this unclear to you? If someone's babysitting your acc their IP is on your acc and on theirs, thus can be considered as multiaccounting.

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Originally Posted by Acee

How is this unclear to you? If someone's babysitting your acc their IP is on your acc and on theirs, thus can be considered as multiaccounting.

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Because if you are baby-sitting an acount, you don't have it, and you did not create it. So sitting an account does not fall under what BB calls multi-accounting.

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Originally Posted by Dilbe

Because if you are baby-sitting an acount, you don't have it, and you did not create it. So sitting an account does not fall under what BB calls multi-accounting.

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exactly.

And merely using IPs to determine what is going on is a flawed approach... I doubt BB would use that system to figure things out.

One house-hold/location could have more than 1 player. People's IPs change over time (reset your modem, it's likely to change then (not in all cases of course, but it's definitely not the case that a physical location will always have the same IP) and the player could suddenly have an IP that was someone else's before even through they had no connection whatsoever. And some people might log on from a friend's house while visiting, giving their account-history multiple IP locations.

So, as far as I'm concerned, the question still stands and still hasn't been properly or definitively answered...

Unless they put in an option for sitter down the track. The question cannot be answered in yes or no.

what is even the point of this question?? just leave the game, holiday come back. simple. Cant believe that some people are from the same gene pool.

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Originally Posted by SoldierX

what is even the point of this question?? just leave the game, holiday come back. simple. Cant believe that some people are from the same gene pool.

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Right back at ya.
And i dont even have to explain myself.


What about letting my sister/broter/neighbour "who doesnt play TSO and dont have an account", manage a account while someone is on holiday?

Is it really that important that you need someone to baby-sit a game for you?

If BB threatened to delete the account if it hadn't been accessed, then I'd agree with you. But a few weeks off for a holiday should be just that, a holiday, not a time to worry about your little fat virtual men running around a virtual island.

Why question his reasons? Pointless trolling.

You should be aware of this in UBISOFT T&C's

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MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY
If a particular Site, or any product or service offered through the Sites requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You then will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Ubi immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Ubi will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Ubi or another party due to someone else using your account or password.

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Short reply :
In most (if not all) games, such activity is called "account sharing", which is prohibited and can lead to account ban if found.
Please make sure to not share your account information like ID or password.
It would be also good to read what Nail have posted above this post.

I've got 2 main IP addresses, as my company VPN network uses a US server, so I did setup a Castle Empire account too, but only used it once.
I also access my account from home in the UK and from Qatar so have different IP addresses for that too, and have a UK proxy server for accessing the BBC whilst in Qatar. I have also accessed my account from an internet cafe. I have used all these IP addresses at various websites that say they monitor IP addresses and have never had a problem. So I think it is only something that is activated if they suspect someone of cheating rather than routine. I'm part of the admin team at another games site and know they ask if other players use the same IP address, as it's common on that site to have several family members using the same IP, but only look into such things when there has been a complaint about somebody.
So the question is not whether it's tracable but rather whether it's allowed

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You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Ubisoft immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Ubisoft will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.

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It doesn't expressly say no, but seems to imply it's not allowed.

Personally I wouldn't bother, when you get back from holiday your island will be there, your store will be full of logs and planks, your mines, quarries and fields will all be empty, but apart from that nothing will have changed

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Originally Posted by Dragonia

Short reply :
In most (if not all) games, such activity is called "account sharing", which is prohibited and can lead to account ban if found.
Please make sure to not share your account information like ID or password.
It would be also good to read what Nail have posted above this post.

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It sounds like your trying to say that your not alowed to share you account details, but then say read the post from Nail above, but that says you can share your account info (-:

And the question is not how it is for most games (most games do allow account sharing, btw, and most web based mmo's alow sitting, but through an ingame option), but how it is for this game.

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Originally Posted by Jools

Personally I wouldn't bother, when you get back from holiday your island will be there, your store will be full of logs and planks, your mines, quarries and fields will all be empty, but apart from that nothing will have changed

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But this is not true, because your buildings stop if you have not logged in for about 24 hours.

No, it isn't allowed... But there shout be an update, where you could pick players to "sit" on their friends acc...

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Originally Posted by Luuk_The_Great

No, it isn't allowed...

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Considering it is not disallowed by the ToS, how can you say it isn't allowed?

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Originally Posted by Dilbe

Considering it is not disallowed by the ToS, how can you say it isn't allowed?

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Read this:

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Originally Posted by Bronx

you could have said yes or know, however i have now taken an update on the rules.

Multi-accounting

Having multiple accounts is a serious offence in The Settlers Online as it gives one player a distinct advantage over the others. The TSO team therefor monitors account creation and bans players using this as a cheat/exploit.

it says only that 1 person aint allowed to create more than 1 account, nothing about another person babysitting ones account while on holiday, as a friendly gesture??

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Originally Posted by Acee

How is this unclear to you? If someone's babysitting your acc their IP is on your acc and on theirs, thus can be considered as multiaccounting.

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Yes, i did read that, and responded to it already. Hence my response.