All About Shared Accounting
While there is a rather long section on shared accounting in the game help section, it isn't much help, so maybe this will be.:)
What exactly is it? What does it do?
It's when two people (or ten for VIPs) can legally access the same account. It's against the rules for anyone else to know your password (I personally think that is/should be the player's decision but never mind my opinion) so this is the alternative.
Basically, up to two other people can access your account and play your game should you enable it. Of course, this is very handy, as people can help you along quite easily with a dozen tedious tasks which you could farm out. You may know (or not) the saying "a Government which is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have". This is the way with account sharing. Once people are in there, there's no telling what they may do so you'd best trust whoever you give the "key" to, so to speak.
Basically, up to two other people can access your account and play your game should you enable it. Of course, this is very handy, as people can help you along quite easily with a dozen tedious tasks which you could farm out. You may know (or not) the saying "a Government which is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have". This is the way with account sharing. Once people are in there, there's no telling what they may do so you'd best trust whoever you give the "key" to, so to speak.
Where is it? How can I turn it on?
Go to Profile > My Account > Account Sharing Tab and scroll down. Here you may enable it. You may only do so for someone on your friends list.
You may only let them log on when you are not logged in... you can't both be there at the same time. If someone tries to log in when the other is on the login page will just refresh itself... there's no warning message but come back later and try again.
You may only let them log on when you are not logged in... you can't both be there at the same time. If someone tries to log in when the other is on the login page will just refresh itself... there's no warning message but come back later and try again.
How many people can I share with?
Two for regular users and Pegasus account users. Ten for VIP Account users.
What good'll it do me?
Well, here's some random uses I thought of:
- AP Farming
- Horse training/bolding/skilling/whatever
- Someone to keep your ranking up while you're away
- Managing your promo for you
- Someone to log in now and then if you haven't for a while so you account isn't deleted
So... I did it. Now how do I undo it?
Go back to that account sharing page we talked about earlier. It lists everyone you've got it enabled for and you can turn it off again there.
How do I know if someone enabled it for me?
If someone does you'll get a PM like this:
How do I know if someone disabled it for me?
Then you'll get a PM like this:
Help! Someone hijacked my account/scammed me/tricked me/whatever! Now what?
Sorry. Whatever happens via account sharing is your problem. It's like if you willingly gave someone not on your insurance the keys to your car and let them drive off, knowing full well the risks, and then being upset you have to pay when they crash it- hey, it's your car, in your name, under your insurance policy..... and you DID give 'em the keys. ;)
But wait a minute! What about my privacy? How am I protected? Huh?
Well, it's not like they just have free reign in there...
They Can:
They Cannot:
There... feel better? ^.^
They Can:
- Care for your horses
- Congratulate players
- Manage all aspects of your EC (excepting your forum and page)
- Access the current promo for you
- See the "__ new message(s)" notification
They Cannot:
- Sell a horse
- Buy a horse
- SH a horse
- Post in forums
- PM people
- See your private mail (anywhere)
- Edit your page, your forum, your EC page, or friends list
- Friend people
- Rearrange your page (if you have a Pegasus account/VIP account)
- Make affixes/change them
- See anything in the "Your Account" section.
There... feel better? ^.^
Can I see some screenshots or something?
No problem!
This appears at the top of every page right under the advertisement:
You can see that one cannot sell a horse- there's no option to do so.
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