Game Guides Archive
Thread: Multiple Accounts on one PC is BORKED intentional? Workaround is available (clicky in post)
mrWattz
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:52 am
#14
yup my 2nd account will be canceled as well shortly if they dont fix this
Aelspear
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:53 am
#15
Add me to the list of accounts getting cancelled due to this problem. Have no use for a doc char if I can't use it
Cry4Dawn
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:54 am
#16
Flucka wrote:
Well as the method for playing two accounts on 1 pc at the same time was a client side hack and could be said to be an unfair advantage, (much easier to use 2 clients on 1 pc than 2 clients on 2 pcs to work in tandem) it was pretty stupid of people to start repeatedly posting how to do it on the games official forums.
Cann't say I'm suprised it got 'fixed.'
/waits for multiple 1 starring
Ya know I hate to be negative, but you are talking from your rear end. playing 2 accts is NOT a hack nor is it an exploit. There is NOTHING in the rules that says you cannot play 2 accts from 1 computer nor would it matter because if you had 2 computers it would be the same thing. YOu cannot play both screens at one time, nor does your PC run at 100% due too 2 SWG running at once, so if anything they have a disadvantage.. Lets not speak on issues you dont know about
messier1129
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:55 am
#17
/deletes 2nd account
*ponders deleting main account also*
why SOE?? WHY!!!!!!!!
*cries*
Now i actually have to communicate with others to get buffs 
Jedi Padawan
captenjonny
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:56 am
#18
Red-Dwarf wrote:If you watched carefully the code in the .cfg files has been rearranged (the skip intro command has moved cfg files and changed from =1 to =True)So far no dev has reported on a new code for reactivating multiple accounts that I've seen.
I'll wait a bit before cancelling that seconds account. We "worked around" the issue before. Someone will again.
C'mon you ALPHAgeeks! Save us!
LaneML
Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:58 am
#19
They might lose all 3 of my accounts. I don't like waiting in line to play a game I pay for. With the game mechanics/buff mechanics...buffs are NECESSARY.
MrThallid
Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:19 pm
#20
Start the game and let your main toon load. Alt+tab or Alt+Esc out of the main game.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to Processes. Fing the swgclientSetup_r.exe (the SETUP part is the key). Highlight it and End Task (or End Process).
Start second account's logon (press play in launch pad).
As for quoting...
you can only quote the post you are replying to. I have a button in the toolbar next to Mr Smiley that is a word bubble (word balloon). Clicking on it creates the quote.
Good Luck
Amscu_Edfo
Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:30 pm
#21
Flucka wrote:
Well as the method for playing two accounts on 1 pc at the same time was a client side hack and could be said to be an unfair advantage, (much easier to use 2 clients on 1 pc than 2 clients on 2 pcs to work in tandem) it was pretty stupid of people to start repeatedly posting how to do it on the games official forums.
Cann't say I'm suprised it got 'fixed.'
/waits for multiple 1 starring
Well as the method for playing two accounts on 1 pc at the same time was a client side hack and could be said to be an unfair advantage, (much easier to use 2 clients on 1 pc than 2 clients on 2 pcs to work in tandem) it was pretty stupid of people to start repeatedly posting how to do it on the games official forums.
Cann't say I'm suprised it got 'fixed.'
/waits for multiple 1 starring
Cry4Dawn wrote:
Ya know I hate to be negative, but you are talking from your rear end. playing 2 accts is NOT a hack nor is it an exploit. There is NOTHING in the rules that says you cannot play 2 accts from 1 computer nor would it matter because if you had 2 computers it would be the same thing. YOu cannot play both screens at one time, nor does your PC run at 100% due too 2 SWG running at once, so if anything they have a disadvantage.. Lets not speak on issues you dont know about
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Actually Flucka is correct. We agree in the EULA before every time we play not to alter game code. So technically, we are all exploiting. The only reason SOE didn't bust us is because we shoveled money at them in this particular exploit.
But anyway, that's not even the reason I am posting. The reasonI am posting is because this code change was done by SOE on purpose. Now, someone please correct me if I am wrong, because I don't program stuff for a living.
They call JTL patch 11, and everyoneshould thinkof it as a really large patch to understand what I am about to write. I would not be surprized if the JTL disks were blank save for a line of code that directs the launchpad to open and download. lol
Seriously though, when I fire up my main account, I first download any new code that has been pushed to live. I then log in, windows key out, and start the launch pad again to log in my second account. Now, when this happens, I can play immediately, I do not have to load any code because it has already been loaded through my main. Basically the two accounts are running the same software even though I legally purchased a second copy.
Up until now that has been fine with SOE. However with JTL going live next week, whatis to stop someone from buying one copy of JTL, loading it onto the machine, and then using that one copy with all accountssincethey do not really have to load new software more than one time? Accounts are "ground side," if you will. We pay right now to play a ground character. There is no, "JTL account."With the addition of JTL, they need to have a way to make sure that we are forced to buya copy for every account. This is why the code has changed. Hopefully it can be remedied.
Soln
Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:40 pm
#23
there is no way I will keep playing without my second account
it's hard to run 2 instances simultaneously, but I do it temporarily with my second account to buff my main. If this goes, I sincerely will be going too. Peace.
Obeewana_Doobie
Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:00 am
#24
Aelspear wrote:
Add me to the list of accounts getting cancelled due to this problem. Have no use for a doc char if I can't use it
Totally agree and I'm with you there. The only advantage someone has that I can see is that they can run a business and have a combat character. If someone likes sitting there DB'ing their character or whatever it is they think people will do, it is insgnificant compared to the good it does for people who use it correctly and not for exploiting (if that is the worry).
Message Edited by Obeewana_Doobie on 10-21-2004 12:00 PM
Cry4Dawn
Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:05 am
#26
Flucka wrote:
lol that didn't take long...
clicky
Ummm that posting you have a clicky for only shuts down your client, which means it shuts down your SWG all together.. That was a joke Flucka