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08-05-10, 04:53 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Phanx View Post
I'm not sure that sort of thing happens so often that writing an addon to (try to) detect it would really be worthwhile.

I say "try", because if the guild had 42 accounts and 71 characters when you logged off, and then had 44 accounts and 76 characters when you logged back on, you'd have 5 new characters and 2 new accounts. While 2 of the new characters obviously came from the 2 new accounts, you'd have no way to tell where the other 3 new characters came from.

You could try to avoid this issue by having multiple people in the guild run the addon, and share data, but if you're in a guild where you feel like you need to get a bunch of people running an addon to make sure other guild members aren't using alts to masquerade as different people, that's probably a strong sign that you should find a new guild.
Given the fact that only one character per account can be online at the same time (except for disconnects and some other technical issues like stuck characters) one could easily get the information who could (not) be whose alt.

Sure, it would take some time, depending on activity and number of members, but it's possible.
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