SMS Account Authentication

[superapan]

I would even let you guys probe me.

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by Alkorin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Setting a 0 to a 1. Or something of the sort. "Deleted" is as simple as a flag on a character in the db.

Restoring all your gear, on the other hand... is a serious pain in the ass. You'd have to manually recreate all of the items as items are unique per instance.

Back on live there was an instance where someone got ahold of a character/account, deleted the high level characters and started new ones with the same name. Not to give anyone ideas, but is this nastier to recover from?

[Dr4z3r]

Originally Posted by Raavak [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Back on live there was an instance where someone got ahold of a character/account, deleted the high level characters and started new ones with the same name. Not to give anyone ideas, but is this nastier to recover from?

I'd guess it hardly makes a difference, mostly based on this: http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=36026

[Uthgaard]

Originally Posted by Alkorin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Setting a 0 to a 1. Or something of the sort. "Deleted" is as simple as a flag on a character in the db.

Restoring all your gear, on the other hand... is a serious pain in the ass. You'd have to manually recreate all of the items as items are unique per instance.

Everything stated here is incorrect. It's not a flag and inventory is part of the character in a separate table. When a character is undeleted, anything that was on it at the time is unchanged, so there is no additional work and no exploit potential.

[Aprio]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This would be purely optional though

My bad, I really need to actually pay attention and stop skimming. Carry on.

[xshayla701]

was just curious =3

[fauxreigner]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

... I am going to start requiring all eqemu forum accounts to be tied to a phone number ....

Any chance of making this optional?

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We may also optionally allow the numbers to be used in a securid sort of way, for those that decide to enable it on their account. This would mean that in order to even log into the account on the loginserver and to connect to P99, you would need to enter both your account password as well as the pin number generated on the spot.

Can someone explain how this works? Does the server generate a PIN and text it to you when you're logging in?

[phoenix182]

Cool in theory, but some of us just plain don't have a phone. I exist purely by email/net right now (long story). Any way to make it a web thing, not a phone thing? If not my only option is going to be to pick a random phone booth and give you that number lol.

[Arkyani]

What about people without cell phones? Just curious. Will I be unable to play any more just because I dont have one?

edit: nevermind. I just read that rogean will physically call the US numbers that dont have cell phones. Although.. this seems like a LOT of work.

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

Sooo if I say I don't have a cell phone, I get to talk to Rogean?

omg let's trade cupcake recipes!~