Spying other races
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Sorry, but I have a question, even if it isn't of primary importance: as it has been told, it is possible to have more than one account of different races (and I am happy about it) but this implies that it is possible to easily spy on the plans of the other races In anticipation of the invasion of another planet
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Even in more political sandboxes like EVE, spying doesn't directly affect many people in a significant way
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There's no way a developer can stop it, only make information less valuable
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Races don't have plans, individuals and organizations do. If an organization or individual couldn't keep a secret to begin with, there's nothing a developer could do to help them.
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Think about it in terms of real life.
If we can't catch all the spies it doesn't want to nor does it mean we don't want to prevent it.
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In reality any nation will strive to eliminate as many spies as possible, and consider a world in which no enemy spies exist to be ideal. However, we're talking about a game here, and spying could absolutely enhance gameplay - it adds to the drama of, in your example, the invasion of another planet. This doesn't mean every invasion through the future history of a game will have accurate spy intel, though.
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You can't stop spying. Even if players are limited to only one race per account, what's stopping them from buying a second copy of the game? Isn't that how spies in EVE do it to avoid the API key check?
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Tbh, Holya have a good point.
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I wouldn't mind some cooldown for switching between races. Like 1h or something. Of course if we get more then 1 character per account to begin with.
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@Karuro the point number 3 @Holya made is pretty much the answer. Guilds, alliances and reigns will make plans, not "races" :slight_smile:
Of course, the possibility that a race-wide alliance is formed to serve a specific purpose in a certain moment in time is not to be excluded - but that's all emergent gameplay, and anyway it will be the (hypothetical) alliance being "infiltrated", not the "race" :slight_smile:
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@prometheus sounds good!
