ok i see your point but i really cannot see how you can stop this from happening without outright banning alts, which i don't think would be fair for the people who have alts but don't use them to boost themselves or families with multiple players
I'll try to explain my thoughts here.
First of, I believe I mentioned this, but staff did say on some occasions during our discussions they have no way of telling who's an alt or not. That doesn't mean they cannot put rules in place for people to follow, whenever they can easily enforce them or not. Ban evading is a good example, going from what they said they cannot know if someone is using an alt to ban evade, but the rule still exists.
The point I'm trying to give here is that there could be rules put in place that might not be easily moderated, but just the fact that the rule exists will make majority of the people not want to break it.
For example, I've been to a few classes that Wildsam hosted recently, and he has a no alt rule, which is something I argued for before on several occasions, but was always dismissed.
So yes, one of the regulations we could have is to ban alts in classes (they're already not allowed in challenges).
An alt limit being introduced I would be in favour of, because last day 4 accounts it really becomes unreasonable - there's no reason to need that many accounts other than to provide an unfair advantage.
Agreed, I mean it's obvious. And ridiculous
It's also obvious who on the server "abuses" alt accounts, all you gotta do is open your eyes. I don't blame those people because it's not their fault the server has made it stupidly easy to profit of them, but if I take into consideration that a lot of those people are staff who ultimately decide the faith of alts, that's when it becomes an issue and I do blame them for allowing it slide.
it seems impossible to regulate - how do you suggest doing it?
1. Add rules (whenever they can or can't moderate it). If Sam can do it in his class, I don't see why it can't be a all class type rule (I will not get into why having 2+ accounts in a class is unfair, and anyone who disagrees with me on that is simply not right). You could add a alt limitation rule (I will get into this later).
2. Fix the economy. If I could profit more from something I'm actively doing, rather than just using alts, then it wouldn't be such a big issue as it is right now. I don't want to make this reply too long, but anyone who knows how earning gold works and what the economy looks like, knows what I'm talking about. The richest players on PW didn't earn their gold from actively farming mobs and opening chests (where alts also have an advantage bc chests have cooldowns), they made the gold for selling their extra collectables sets that they easily got simply for having more than just 1 alt. A single player cannot do that, because no active way of earning gold can match up the collectable economy, and if it does, it's still unfair because of the effort they had to put in.
3. Some servers limit the rewards so that you can only get 1 per your IP. This means that you wouldn't be able to claim extra rewards on your alt, unless you used another IP. Of course, bypassing this limitation is a violation of the system put on place. In fact, PW has one system like this, and that is voting, but for whatever reason, PW never addressed the people who change their IP on alts. so they can get double the voting rewards.
To me, that's a clear sign PW willingly chooses not to do anything about it, because it's ridiculous to allow people to just do that like its nothing, as well as having those absurdly high voting rewards (speaking of HPs here mainly).
And finally, let me turn the tables and ask you, why is the purpose of allowing alts, especially more than one? (Other than getting unfair advantages which I named above). The only legit response I ever got to this question is to allow people to redo the quests. You can make quest replayable. I know PW would never do it, but I do think banning alts all together does way more good than bad. You can disagree with me on that as much as you want, but as of right now, that's just how it is.