Okay so recently if you haven't discovered, Dragon Saga posted on their facebook that an issue with Multiple-Clients afk'ing in Port of Winds Farm has apparently become a problem and will now place any multi-client users in there under investigation, even resulting in bans.
Now if you don't know about multi-clienting, I'll shed light. It's the use of some, technically 3rd party so understandable, programs that allow you to access multiple clients of Dragon Saga on the same computer. Players have used it to fill party slots for farming, afk in Port of Winds Farm, get necessary 4-man groups for F7, the whole nine yards.
Now naturally, GM's may find a program like this wrong as it promotes playing multiple accounts at once. However a long time ago, GM's like Hastur and ShazamO have technically approved their use, probably stating that as long as it didn't cross some lines it would be okay. So of course players, hearing that GM's have no qualms about it, didn't see any reason to not do it.
Now I have rarely multi-cliented. I made the mistake of making all my main characters on 1 account having never known of the possibilities with it. But I wish to ask; Is it fair that you now start to place restrictions on habits players have been doing for a long time that were previously okay? I understand that multi-afk'ing is a bad thing as professions is an afk-heavy system. But the system is flawed so much that it pretty much asks to use it to minimize time required to obtain things from there. Just to remind everyone of what has to be done to get everything in professions without spending thousands, if not tens of thousands, of gold: You have multiple gathering and multiple processing jobs in order to make anything, and it requires combinations of them to get specific things which in the end, penalizes you for training multiple ones on a single character with precious %exp drops. Combine that with a fatigue system and IM to either speed up the process or remove fatigue restraints and you can see why players need to use multiple characters at once.
Now another point I wish to bring up is other flaws in Dragon Saga's GM team when it comes to other rule violations. Trade chat having spammers and IM sellers which is both against the rules, but has rarely seen anything done about them. Other 3rd party programs previously investigated or gone ignored despite reports being made. And you're focusing on something considered tame and acceptable by multiple players, even those who don't abuse it.
So I wanna ask the players:
- Do you afk frequently at Port of Winds Farm?
- If you do, how long does it typically take to get everything you need?
- Is the new Port of Winds farm policy on Multi-clienters fair?
- If yes; explain.
- If no; explain why.
- Do you feel that Professions needs a reworked system to prevent this sort of thing from being a necessity as it is?
- Do you think other programs should be focused over Multi-client programs?
Looking for feedback. This isn't a rant or an insult to GMs, merely giving and asking for information and discussions.