It'd be nice to have something done about smurfing. Smurfing is why I quit playing this game online. It ruins the experience.

The suggestion I liked most was to have the player's Impulse account displayed in the profile of any Sins player profile that they create.

Crusader_Antonious

The problem with limiting player names is siblings who may be sharing the account (my biggest qualm with Impulse, to be honest.  It's a hassle when multiple people share a computer and the games installed on it).  Something does need to be done about smurfing, but it cannot interfere with legitimate uses of multiple player-names.

Raging, this may sound like a dumb question to you (and for all I know, it probably is a dumb question), but what's the big deal about smurfing, anyway?  Note that this isn't a "smark alleck" question, it's just a polite, honest question.  I truly want to know the issues involved, what kinds of problems it creates, yadda yadda.  Perhaps you can explain it?

I was online last night and its annoying when some kids get on and get on/off 50 times with a sn that reads youareafag or whatever it is they write.  I think its pointless to be able to create 50 accounts.  Make an account system that ranks I hate to say it but like halo matmaking you got your ranked and social, however give clans with there own ranking structure also. 

I think you can only have 5 names.  At least that's all it seems I'm allowed to create.

NA NA NA NA NA

SMURFS! FOR THE WAY

OOOORAH!

this is a disgrace, in society we always need someone or somehting to blame, leave us smurfs alone, we didint cause the credit crunch, we didnt cause the war in iraq, and we didnt cause people to play multiplayer less.

LEAVE US ALONE

[_]-BlackHawk aka Major General Smurf,

I'd like to see an end to smurfing, even though I don't play online. For one, the amount of complaints about it here is insane, and drives me crazy. Surely it should just be fixed. Secondly, I might actually play online were it not for the amount of smurfs that join specifically-labeled "newb" games.

This comes up in every remotely popular RTS forum ever made, and nothing ever gets done about it.  It is something that needs to be done from the get go to work.  Why won't it work now?

-Limit Accounts to 2: What about people who already have more than 2?  Do you auto-delete all but 2 accounts on them?  There's also no real tracking of who's account it who's in Sins IFAIK.  There's no 'profile list' attached to your product key; at least there doesn't seem to be.  Also, 2 accounts doesn't solve the problem anyway.  You can keep your main one, and keep deleting your second one and remake it once people figure out your identitiy or your record gets too good.

-Limit Accounts to 1: Similar issues to 2 accounts.  This WOULD put an end to smurfing, but is it fair to do this after the game has been out for nearly 2 years?  Can it even be done with the current ICO set up?

-Bling for Accounts: many RTS' give special icons/badges/etc. for wins and such.  They all have smurfing problems too.  Smurfs do not care about 'bling'.  They have their main account for that.  They smurf to be assholes, trick people, etc.  They don't really care about w/l records or what people think of them when using their smurf.

Hopefully some future RTS developer puts their foot down and realizes there is no good reason for someone to have multiple accounts.  Battle.net allows clan tags to be automatically added and removed; you do not need a new accounts for that.  'Testing' things?  Man up and risk a loss.  Multiple family members?  Too bad, it's for the greater good.  Share the account or get a second product key to change accounts.

Read them.  For some reason I was still unable to find why smurfing is considered so bad.  Maybe the reasons were just buried in the mountains of text and I missed them.  If I had to make a guess, this is all about trying to put balanced teams together for these pug matches.  Since I usually avoid the big 5v5 pugs, this issue doesn't affect me so much, so I'm sorry it came across to you as "pretending to play much multiplayer" and induced you to make a personal attack.

I don't think it's the "risking the loss" element in and of itself.  It's the "risking the loss and therefore being seen by all the other pugs that know me as some reckless or stupid player, therefore I'm booted in pugs from now on" element.

U didnt understand my point of view: pointless is not doing it when ist allowed.

If Devsa will remove option of smuring .... sign me up.

OMG its u who is Papa Smurf, not Tyr

The easiest solution I've heard is to always have the player's main username listed under whatever current name they're using.  This way, different players on the same computer would be allowed alternate names, but you would still know it's the same account.

There'd be no account limits (so no need to delete excess names).

Of course, you might have a hard time justifying that you're honestly Tyr's, JohnJames', or RagingAmish's 19th kid.

/signed

hey any1 wanna try to create a new clan SMURF ONLY?or ICO can make another channel for SMURF ONLY?