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We've discussed an account-based system at Carrion Fields in the past, but always discarded the idea. I assume you mean having people set up one permanant account, under which they create characters and the like so everything is kept track of in one place?
For starters, we want it to be easy to come and play - adding another step (creating an account) detracts from that. Also, I assume the point would be to keep track of the actual player behind each character, but I don't see that it would be any easier to prevent fraudulent accounts then it would be to prevent fraudulent characters.
In short, there wouldn't be any gain, but it would make it harder for people to play the game when they feel like checking it out. It's one of the same reasons we don't collect email addresses. Of course, this is all from a free MUD model. If you're using a pay-to-play or pay-for-perks model, it might be completely different.
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