[QUERY] Is this against the rules?

[Ashonina]

Hello, I was participating in N-day when I noticed a faction called “THE LET OUT” had a statement requesting members to use alt accounts for shields in the description, wasn’t sure if that was against the rules or not. Link to faction: https://www.nationstates.net/page=faction/fid=178
My apologies if this is posted in the incorrect board or if making a new topic is not allowed.

[Might Delete Later]

we srs rn? is this ur first n-day?

[Insiag]

Puppets are basically mandatory at an extremely large scale, or for R/D, or for card farming, or just for fun. Just don’t WA multi and you can have as many nations as you can maintain.

[Aethelia]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

[Kshemarashtram]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

That would be the death of R/D gameplay.

[New Halo]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

For someone who has been on the website for over a decade you seemingly know nothing about the core gameplay mechanic behind having multiple accounts.

[Xiongmaitien]

As it turns out, there's nothing against the rules to add puppets into factions, that ensures that the factions had the advantage, and as long as it is not violating the rules via script, there's nothing really much to do.

[Might Delete Later]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

where is the harm in having puppet accounts

i for one have multiple for multiple reasons, card farming, alts in other regions I don't have embassies with, when S5 rolls around I can have cool looking cards...

[Rosettan Overwatch]

-snorp-

I, for one, use alts to store separate factbooks and dispatches. I barely answer anything on them.
The cheating that does exist, and the stalking, are already handled well.

Anyways, as far as I can tell, no. Everyone uses puppets in N-Day.

[Gandoor]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

As others have said: that'd be the literal death of R/D and it'd also completely kill off the ability for people who wanna create a new nation because they got a new idea for a nation they wanna develop for worldbuilding and RP purposes to, well, do that.

Like I've got multiple nations with factbooks and lore and stuff I've developed, you really gonna sit here with a straight face and tell me that somehow makes me equivalent to 'ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers'.

Be serious.

[Reploid Productions]

There are many valid reasons to operate multiple nations; R/D gameplay as already noted, people use them for card farming, roleplayers use them for playing different varieties of nation or colonies, folks into region development might have multiple puppets so each region has a dedicated Governor in-house and so on. There is a discussion underway about capping puppet nations, but at the moment it's only breaking the site rules if more than one puppet is in the WA at the same time.

[Nation states logic]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

As others have said: that'd be the literal death of R/D and it'd also completely kill off the ability for people who wanna create a new nation because they got a new idea for a nation they wanna develop for worldbuilding and RP purposes to, well, do that.

Like I've got multiple nations with factbooks and lore and stuff I've developed, you really gonna sit here with a straight face and tell me that somehow makes me equivalent to 'ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers'.

Be serious.

What happens when you get deat? How will you restart?

[Furballland]

It's a fair question. In many games and on many websites, having multiple accounts is considered cheating and can result in an immediate ban. Why should NS be different? I've been on NS for awhile now and I still don't see any good reason why anyone should need more than one nation. Just have one login and do everything on that, that's how it works everywhere else. Multiple accounts are for ban evaders, scammers, and stalkers.

It doesn't make sense, and someone said that it will be the death of R/D, they are right btw. Also I have hundreds of puppets that are used for card farming, and some puppets are used for lore building, and creating its own storyline. Why anyone should need more than one nation? Because they wanted to if they do it as their choice, and there is nothing wrong with having multiple puppets. The only thing is that as long as you do not cheat through script or multing, it will be just fine, but if you do cheat in WA, you will be ejected from it, or if you use script to answer issues, then you will be banned as stated on OSRS as it is a prohibited action. Rule-abiding people who used puppets for manual card farming, having advantages on their faction, or lore building aren't "ban evaders, scammers, and/or stalkers."