[br3nt84]

And before you think it no, not a myspace, facebook profile, but more so a 'master account' or profile that all your runescape accounts are stored under. The reason for this is, similar to Wow allow you to move gold and items between your accounts. These master profiles will allow you to also double the security of your account with seperate passwords for each account and the master account if you so wish.

In order to counter real world trading, once an account is stored under a master account it is locked to it forever. I believe that you have spent the time doing hardwork to earn that cash and therefore should be able to choose which of your accounts you need it on. It will also have minimal effects to the economy as no gold is being brought in or out of the game.

Lets us know your thoughts and any suggestions to further improve the idea.

[Goalie]

Very interesting idea, never really occurred to me before. I don't see any flaws so far with possible real-world trading issues, although people probably could workout some loopholes I suppose.

I know I like having separate accounts, although I wouldn't mind a change to a 'Master Account' if you will. Try suggesting it in the Official Forums and see what comes out from there, nice idea.

[Lordhasaflas]

Seems like a good idea to me.
And, with the coming possibility to change names, you will soon have some sort of master account.
Bad thing: Jagex probably wont involve the account moving..

[AlchemyHawk]

It isn't a bad idea, but Jagex has recently said a few times that they won't be doing this. I have mixed feeling about it too. And if the reason we are getting money is because it is hard earned, then why don't we get the experience either?

[br3nt84]

Alchemy 18, on Sep 18 2009, 10:05 PM, said:

And if the reason we are getting money is because it is hard earned, then why don't we get the experience either?

Not sure if I interpreted this right but, if you were able to give experience from one account to another, it would be very unfair, as you could have an account with 99 strength, go an get really high xp rate per hour and then trade it to the other account. Another example, if you had 99 fishing, you could catch sharks at a fast rate, and then trade the xp across, with would mean that an account with 1 fishing could be getting xp rate of 99 doing sharks.

I agree with Goalie, those RWT are a crafty bunch.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I wil update you when I post a topic on the offical forums.

[AlchemyHawk]

Well if you had cash and traded it, then you can merchant bigger/more items earning more money too, and if you do it way more than strength or fishing or nay skill for that matter.

[SimplyDerek]

I could have sworn there was a rule against having more then one account. I know that they are going to be implementing that if you are a member and be come a non member, all your member items gets moved to a special area in the bank giving back your free to play bank space. But, idk about this though.

[AlchemyHawk]

Derek 1991, on Sep 18 2009, 06:36 PM, said:

I could have sworn there was a rule against having more then one account.

That is only have more than one account one at a time, Jagex is perfectly fine with you having more than once account.

[cestal]

Personally, I don't see the advantage to making all games be exactly the same. I like the Runescape is different than other games, and I don't see a need to change it, especially the basic paradigms of the game like "accounts stand alone." I have played and enjoyed games where there was a central account with multiple aspects, as you are describing it. I don't hate them. I just don't really feel the need for RS to become one.

OTOH, I wouldn't quit if they did or didn't do it, if you see what I mean.

[ald]

Doings this you mean I could add accounts that are already created to my master account? Or would I pick aldorug and be able to only add new ones to it.


If you say I can already add old accounts then this update would never work. Because then rwt would be super easy.

[br3nt84]

aldorug, on Sep 20 2009, 08:37 AM, said:

Doings this you mean I could add accounts that are already created to my master account? Or would I pick aldorug and be able to only add new ones to it.


If you say I can already add old accounts then this update would never work. Because then rwt would be super easy.

The way I was thinking is you can add old ones, however once an account is used with a master account, it cant be changed to another master account. Sure for the first few weeks you could buy accounts with money on them from RWT sites, but as soon as they run out of accounts they would have to create new ones under a master account. People could probably find a way to exploit it they always do.

This would not really benefit people who play mains, execpt for the extra security, but if you wanted to start a pure, this would be excellent, the reason I want it is that I recently started a pure, got it 92 mage and ran out of cash. I hate making money on pure, so much easier on mains.

[Goalie]

Accounts that real-world trade often get banned. If this account gets banned and removed from your master account, then another one can be added, and the money circle can be continued right?

This brings up another point. The offense system. Would their be seperate marks for each account, or one big system containing of let's say 20 Blackmarks? I think it would work better if the marks were put on the master account, therefore making real-world trading riskier for players to try and perform, knowing that if the account their buying off gets banned, it's their account the blackmarks go to.

[br3nt84]

Goalie, on Sep 22 2009, 08:00 AM, said:

Accounts that real-world trade often get banned. If this account gets banned and removed from your master account, then another one can be added, and the money circle can be continued right?

This brings up another point. The offense system. Would their be seperate marks for each account, or one big system containing of let's say 20 Blackmarks? I think it would work better if the marks were put on the master account, therefore making real-world trading riskier for players to try and perform, knowing that if the account their buying off gets banned, it's their account the blackmarks go to.

Thats a good idea about the black marks, I'll try and explain what I mean about RWT, I'm pretty bad at it lol. After the update comes out, to create an account it has to be made under a master account, which it cannot leave from, therefore after RWTers sell all of there accounts they would have to create accounts under a master account. Since all of their new accounts have to be made under a master account: Theirs, they cant sell them. Also maybe if Jagex could but a limit on master account per Ip, say 5 accounts or so.

[ald]

This would destroy Runescape and make skills and pures extremely easy to get. All the people who had to work for there money when someone else can just use there main or rich account and transfer money.

[AlchemyHawk]

aldorug, on Sep 21 2009, 09:41 PM, said:

This would destroy Runescape and make skills and pures extremely easy to get. All the people who had to work for there money when someone else can just use there main or rich account and transfer money.

I agree with this.

I have no idea if this sucks or not, but I just thought of this. What about (if you still want a way to transfer) IP transfer? You could set your IP address and have it password protected so even if you are hacked they still don't know your IP/password. You could only transfer if you had the same IP for both, and the accounts transferring had to be both using the same IP address so you couldn't "give" or pressure people to give you stuff on runescape. It is just some extra protection like Bank PIN's but allowing you to transfer money from different accounts.
P.S. They could also have a limit or deduct a certain percentage from the money transfer based on your skills so you couldn't make a new acocunt and have it unfairly have a Party Hat or something lol.

[Goalie]

Okay br3nt84, but what would you like to see happen if one of the secondary accounts gets banned?

[br3nt84]

Depending on the severity of the ban, if say macroing or RWT Ban hammer on the master account, say just black marks building up to a ban, then just a single account ban.

[goldtowar]

There is that rule that says no multiple accounts... so i doubt that they would make this...

[AlchemyHawk]

goldtowar, on Sep 27 2009, 02:03 PM, said:

There is that rule that says no multiple accounts... so i doubt that they would make this...

There isn't a rule that says, there never was and there probably never will be.
The rule is against multiple accounts being online at the same time.

EDIT:
Exactly my point.

[goldtowar]

it does say this at the top of the page:


You may create more than one account, but if you do, you may not log in more than one account at any time, and they must not interact with each other in any way. This includes 'drop trading' or any other method of item transfer.