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A few thoughts on multiplaying:
1) I generally prefer allowing it, but only with permission so at least you know who is who and can help protect against abuses. Of course, even with this allowance, some people will choose to multiplay without getting permission. That is where the remaining thoughts come into play.
2) It is always easy to catch the stupid and the careless. They are almost not even discussing. On a game where multiplaying is allowed with permission, a huge percentage of those who choose to multiplay WITHOUT permission fall into the stupid and careless category. There is a good correlation between people who break game rules and people who are stupid. The intelligent gamer who also likes to break the rules is far less common that your general numbskull wanker who breaks rules because he or she is too stupid to understand that rules generally make for a better game.
3) Of the remaining types of "illegal" multiplayers, it is indeed hard to catch them... in the short run. But in the long run, it is once again EASY to catch them. Why? Because everyone makes mistakes, and eventually they will say the wrong thing to the wrong person, or do the wrong thing, or trip a log of some sort, etc.
4) There is a certain elegant beauty to the fact that getting away with multiplaying is easy in the short run, and hard in the long run. The longer the cheater plays his/her characters, the more he has to lose. So when the person DOES eventually get caught, they have much more to lose in terms of characters, time investment, etc.
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