that you get a second avatar to use for your shop keepers??
NO... you don't. You do however have the ability to buy a shopkeeper for the shop, at a major price that's a lot higher then it is to make a second free account...
Why are you so mad ? ;f
Dont tell me you are so desperate to have a second avatar
I dont see any problem in this, im really not getting why do you care..
It can be yours gradma playing , like if you want. HF
The reasons to care are many... but foremost among the reasons is a question of fairness. One person with one avatar has a very distinct disadvantage to someone cheating with multiple avatars on something like the auction, landgrab, and a variety of other things.
The oppossite side of this is true too... There are some people that openly share one avatar between many people, which is just as unfair since it's a whole lot of brains powering that one avatar, some of which might have distinct unfair advantages - maybe on landgrab time the guy with most experience in pvp who sits at oil rig all day with his main avatar is taking over this duplicate guy. Other times, it might be the guy who has a phd in a business related field, etc.
This "double standard" also is apparent in little actions like the hanger rental incidents where MA is letting one avatar be owner and the other run the place. etc.
By the way, discussion about this topic, and other instances of duplicate avatars has been going on a loooong while
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-second-avatars-isnt-obvious.html#post1738435
Why MA|FPC allows it to keep going - Who knows? Maybe you can ask the community manger?
Biggest uses of second avatars seem to be for
- lowering travel costs (why not have one sitting in a bank planetside, and another on CND, actually owning CND...
) Maybe have one in Twin, one at the Rig, and one on CND, or who knows what else... PROBLEM WILL GET WORSE AS MORE PLANETS OPEN UP!
- making yourself look important in a political way (have multiple avatars start a variety of societies all tied together as one mega society and that way you have a bit of a powerful hand over all of them politically, sort of... then even if you do stop using the dupes, or one gets banned, you still look important since MA won't erase the name in society terminal of who started the society)
- Funds - have one avatar hold all of a investment fund... and just cross fingers in hope that that big time money holder does not get banned or someone pulls all the money out from under you (RR Fund, Entropia Investment Fund, etc).
- FAP cheating - this one isn't as bad now since they changed the system a bit. It used to be that a duplicate could fap the other avatar all day long with autoclickers and reduce the need for armor
- spies - useful in landgrab
- Rent out hangers... Maybe the hanger owners don't complain too much about the dupes where ones on CND and one's on CP, one on Calypso, and one on the Rock because of this fact - they know that if they complain too much, it'll bite them in the butt since they exploited this type of thing with their hanger rental deals?... They don't mind loosing a few peds in would be travelers since the masses still use the rented hangers? Although, when hangers come back, that might change?
I'm sure there's other uses too.. Officially MA claims that it's against EULA and Policies to have more than one avatar, but unofficially, they don't seem to care, which is sad since the PED is tied to the dollar, and scammers using multiple avatars make this game look like more of the money laundering place then it really is to people that don't play this game much or to would be n00bs who would eventually deposit but don't because it all looks very scammy as soon as they start seeing the bigger picture of all the duplicates out there...
