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Old 05-14-2021, 10:11 PM
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p99 should take a page out of the private DAOC Phoenix server's way of handling/preventing boxing.

Phoenix prevents boxing using VPNs across multiple VMs/Docker images by requiring using a custom launcher to get into the game - that launcher runs checks across common files these virtualization solutions typically have (down in driver files etc. for them).

On host machine, it associates hardware info (hard drive serial id, mac address on NIC etc.) with an account, to prevent account sharing (after a hardware fingerprint is registered with an account, that hardware cannot run any other accounts).

Still can't prevent it entirely though - if people have 3 distinct hardware machines and 3 VPNs, and play in a way where they don't interact with their boxed accounts, nothing can really be done about them tripling their solo camps or group play.
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Old 05-14-2021, 10:16 PM
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p99 should take a page out of the private DAOC Phoenix server's way of handling/preventing boxing.

Phoenix prevents boxing using VPNs across multiple VMs/Docker images by requiring using a custom launcher to get into the game - that launcher runs checks across common files these virtualization solutions typically have (down in driver files etc. for them).

On host machine, it associates hardware info (hard drive serial id, mac address on NIC etc.) with an account, to prevent account sharing (after a hardware fingerprint is registered with an account, that hardware cannot run any other accounts).

Still can't prevent it entirely though - if people have 3 distinct hardware machines and 3 VPNs, and play in a way where they don't interact with their boxed accounts, nothing can really be done about them tripling their solo camps or group play.
Project 99's Dsetup.dll sends users hardware ID to P99.
Rogean has said this himself.
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Told this to Rogean, Nilbog & Menden.
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Old 05-15-2021, 01:42 AM
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p99 should take a page out of the private DAOC Phoenix server's way of handling/preventing boxing.

Phoenix prevents boxing using VPNs across multiple VMs/Docker images by requiring using a custom launcher to get into the game - that launcher runs checks across common files these virtualization solutions typically have (down in driver files etc. for them).

On host machine, it associates hardware info (hard drive serial id, mac address on NIC etc.) with an account, to prevent account sharing (after a hardware fingerprint is registered with an account, that hardware cannot run any other accounts).

Still can't prevent it entirely though - if people have 3 distinct hardware machines and 3 VPNs, and play in a way where they don't interact with their boxed accounts, nothing can really be done about them tripling their solo camps or group play.
Literally the last paragraph of your post is allegedly how most people box on P99 so you essentially just wrote a whole post about something that P99 should do and then said that it’s not possible for P99 to prevent anything
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Old 05-21-2021, 03:59 PM
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Project 99's Dsetup.dll sends users hardware ID to P99.
Rogean has said this himself.
Yes, the staff have this information but they do nothing with it because without boxers the population would be closer to ~500 (or less) during peak hours.
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Old 05-21-2021, 09:37 PM
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Yes, the staff have this information but they do nothing with it because without boxers the population would be closer to ~500 (or less) during peak hours.
and what about them chemtrails, huh? it's all a deepstate plot i'm tellin ya!
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Old 05-22-2021, 09:34 PM
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Yes, the staff have this information but they do nothing with it because without boxers the population would be closer to ~500 (or less) during peak hours.
I hear qanon is looking for a few good folks.
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Old 05-23-2021, 12:56 PM
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I hear qanon is looking for a few good folks.
I heard they had an opening for a Shaman
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