Using a phone might actualy be a good idea, like when you register you get sent a text to your number with a code that you enter to finish the registration. if an account linked to that number is banned then you wouldent be able to register anymore with it unless you mail the gms or something
theres already pay by phone here in India
All of these ideas would work in a perfect world but things like proxies exists, and the spammers utilize them extensively.
Duplicate prontera would not fool a bot, the map id wouldn't match where it is set to go and at best it would just log out. If a GM is going to the trouble of moving them we mute them anyway and block them.
SSN there is no verification of it, and our company wouldn't want to be responsible for storing your SSN as in the US that would be a dubious legality and difficulty in verifying. Some countries do use SSN, but they have different uses there than in the US.
The start up fee for an account is something that could work, as long as we didn't accept the payment methods that can be charged back, which means using ones that may not be convenient for that player. It also is a significant impact on new user registrations. How many of you would have ever tried RO at all if you had to pay a fee just to sign up? Personally I think many would just go over to some other Free Game instead of paying money on a "may be a cool game". It is free purely for marketting and expansion purposes. As an MMO there are always players coming in and going out, it is built into the assumed life of the game. The amount of players going out isn't going to change in a good way if we block new account registrations, but the amount coming in certainly will.
Right now lots of manpower "could" solve the problem of those registrations, or we can work on removing what inconveniences they put in place on the players, like the botters, and the shouters. The inconvenience and annoyance they cause players are the #1 issues for us, not the bandwidth or resources of ours that they are using.
i got an idea
give a FEW active, EXPERIENCED and legit accounts power to mute, but have a log record of who is muting whom
so tht it cannot be misused.It will be better as the players usually hang out in these place and the GMs dont have to bother tht much either