SMS Account Authentication

[RazzleDazzle]

i also only have a land line QQ

[ir0nfist]

I also do not own a phone and don't plan on getting one. However it seems you are definitely trying to offer options for those that don't have one. So my hat is off to you, unfortunately I don't think I own a hat either.

[Dr.Spike]

one easy thing, would be to make a program that is hardware locked.
And that program connect to a server and let you reset your password for the account(s) thats locked to the hardware id.
And any atempt from another hardware to reset someone else account, get banned for 24h (after 3 tryes)for trying to reset someone else account.
Could do this in many possible ways

[akahdrin]

I'm only going to be in the country for a little while longer and then I'm moving overseas again, will I need to verify this more than once? I have access to a cell currently, but in about 3 weeks I'll be in Peru for a year.

[Lomol]

This may be a dumb question because I only kind of understand how things work. Will this have an effect on account sales or when folks do this are they actually selling an EQMU account?

[runlvlzero]

Just curious on whether this is still going to be implemented, when, and how will we give your our phone #? through a new form input field on eqemulator.org, or internally through the EQclient? like a #SMSnumber command in EQ's chat.

Oh ya, and I was also wondering if this was gonna effect just project 99 or all servers on eqemulator.org, like PEQ, the EZ server, and Hidden forest.

[Casualties]

any update on retrieving login server passwords?

[singwa]

Is the login password recovery possible yet?

Thanks much...eagerly awaiting...

[bionicbadger]

I understand you want to make stuff easier for yourself, but its a privacy nightmare.

Don't people already have an email address registered to the account? If they get their account and email hacked, then they are pretty much retards to begin with and can't be helped.

You worry too much about people whining about hacked accounts.
People aren't paying for this and you have no Service level agreement with the users.
If you catch someone hacking, perma ban account and related IPs.
Otherwise ban the accounts that were "hacked" and accounts accessed on same IP if they can provide the relevant account information, and tell them they should be more careful in the future.

Account security isn't rocket science and maybe if people lose a game account that costs them nothing, they might actually smarten up instead of learning to expect other people to fix shit for them.

[singwa]

Dear Rogean,

Did you test your SMS LS password recovery? Was it a success?
I had account last year and played for 4 months. I cant remember my password now though...

Thanks