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Post by Ecthelion »

"Your account is experiencing problems. Your email address is now
invalidemailaddress@invalidemailaddress.com

You also did not use your real name to create your account.

Username and empire name and in game name are fictitous but you must use
your real name and a valid email for your account.

Solution I will allow you to make a multiple account.
You may keep your Ecthelion account for 4 days then it will be deleted.

Ecthelion account set for deletion April 30 1:38 central time.

Jason (Administrator's aid)"

Hi, I come from medievalempires.org, and since you guys seems to be the creators of promisance, I am asking for your opinions.

I was wondering whether the above offenses warranted a deletion of my account :(

My email address is ez.dude@gamail.com and I've always kept that as my address. (The funny thing is I've communicated with him before using that email address) Yet he states I must re-create an account just cus I didn't put my exact real name... To make things worse, I've had this account since Apr 5 '06. It took Jason that long to tell me this!!!! I wasted so much time getting heroes nd consolidating my position.... Its also a game where there is no reset.

I'm uber-pissed atm, so what do you think? Is this decision fair on the part of the administrator? (He is the only admin we have)

Ecthelion

PS I personally think its an abuse of power since we are enemies ingame and I think its just a ploy to get rid of me. Do you guys put ur real names exactly when signing up for games?
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Post by bjornredtail »

To start out, we are not the creators of Promisance... There are a bunch of Promisance games that presceed us. We just have one of the best branches of Promisance :)

I can see why the admins want real "real" names, as to aid in the detection of multis... Sometimes I put my real name, sometimes not, depending on who is operateing the server and how much I trust them.
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Post by Ruddertail »

I do, but most people don't. The only reason real name is used is so you can remember it if you want to delete your account. Looks abuse of power - ish to me...
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Post by Devari »

I NEVER use my real name. I consider the Real Name field to be more of a "delete account password" than anything else.

Unfortunately, their server == their rules. Assuming your email address was valid, I strongly disapprove, but there is little I can do. I think there is something in the server rules that says you must use a real name... We don't enforce that here, though.
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Post by Kraken »

I created Promisance and i do think that it is a bad deal man! fight the injustice!!

oh, i also created the internet with Al Gore.
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Post by Freenhult »

I do...but only if I think that they aren't going to steal me identity...but there are two of me in the world so I don't really care that much.

I am playing ME too and I didn't use me real name...so we will see if I get noticed. Its been about...1 month I think since I signed up...
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Post by Nuclear Raunch »

Kraken wrote: oh, i also created the internet with Al Gore.
Sigh, do yourself a favor and google an urban legends website and look that up. Damn kids these days are so gullible.
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Post by gondor »

i have to say i think the same thing as Devari i dont put my real name i just have it so if i wont to delit it is there but not my real name like Devari says delitin password
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Post by Urran Voh »

I only use my real name here. Sometimes I make up a name though.
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Post by Tarislarech »

http://p072.ezboard.com/ftormguardiansf ... =155.topic


This is the administrator's aid for Medievil Empires. If you would like to see the whole story then please follow the above post.

Thanks FAF

PS. Yes I know several people do not use their real names. Most have though. Freenhult I noticed but you have a valid email and you haven't broken any of the other rules. Ecthelion has broken almost everyone. Including the taking advantage of the vacation bug after I disabled Gondor's account for doing that.

PSS. Ecthelion thinks he can slander me and run around and cry about everything and keep his account. Determine whether you all think that is fair to the other players.
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Post by windhound »

what I think most people miss is that these games exist only due to their admins
we are guests on other's property, and the admins have a right to do whatever they want. its their server, their bandwidth you're using ;)

dont like it, dont play

that said, I never use my real name.. have in the past, but parinoia set in
my internet name is wind hound ^_^ if middle initial is needed, win d. hound

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Post by Ruddertail »

Meh, you have a point, windy.

So thats the story. Meh, in that case, I don't see any problems. But disabling an account for not using their real name is pretty petty sounding. If there are other reasons, why not just cite them?
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Post by Ecthelion »

TarisLarech,

I was merely asking for Opinions. never did I slander you. Though you seem to like to slander me...

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Post by Turock »

Please don't be too hard on Taris. He tries his best to keep the multi's and other junk accounts off the server. I have been out of contact until recently with a number of things happening in real life. Usually he will email me and we discuss things before anything happens, but since I have been out of reach he was just acting as he saw fit. Hopefully I can get things back up and rolling again and help out more.

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Post by Nohc »

I never use my real name either, but I do use a correct e-mail address. Of course you need one of those here to get your validation code.

I don't think that you should be disabled, especially if you're in a war against him and it's been a month since you signed up. For other "crimes" things though, that's up to him.

I also agree fully with windy. ^_^
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