SaintPaul 1 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 As the subject says, why not make 2FA mandatory? So everyone who plays on Elysium must use it. Personally I’m not a fan of it myself and find it inconvenient, however there are many here who praise it and it would make policing of the servers much easier: If you catch anyone gold spamming, buying gold, exploiting you can be certain the person who owns the account is the guilty party and perm ban them right off the bat. No investigation required. They have no comeback, they can’t use the “my account was hacked” excuse anymore. You know you are banning only the guilty, and it’ll no doubt save admins a ton of time. The guilty know they can’t get away with anything anymore. Committing ban-able offences is now stupid. We'll probably see a drop in ‘server crime’. I can think of 2 drawbacks to making 2FA mandatory. 1) A small percentage of players won’t have a smart phone of other device that they can use. I doubt this is many people and they can always use bluestacks or something as a work-around. 2) Admins will get emails from dumb people claiming their dog ate their phone or other silly excuses for locking themselves out of their account, in which case just ignore them. It’s the users responsibility to manage their own email / login details etc. I guess there must be a reason it’s not mandatory already. There so many people on the forums claiming they’ve been hacked or banned when they have done nothing wrong though. This seems like a no brainer. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 That's a good idea. If the administration had made 2FA mandatory since when the project started, they would have had much less burden to deal with. It is actually possible to set up 2FA by using Windows Authenticator. No smartphone is required. A few jackasses already tried to play that card "ME NO HAVE SMARTPHONE. NO PAPA NO MAMA NO RICE". Here's how to setup 2FA sans smartphone: 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
egorlike 0 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 That would be a great idea, except the fact that hotmail banned elysium so I can't even activate my 2FA and there seems to be no way to fix this 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SaintPaul 1 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 1 minute ago, egorlike said: That would be a great idea, except the fact that hotmail banned elysium so I can't even activate my 2FA and there seems to be no way to fix this Good point. Admins would need to invest in some reliable email systems obvsiouly. This is up to them to fix, not you. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 13 minutes ago, egorlike said: That would be a great idea, except the fact that hotmail banned elysium so I can't even activate my 2FA and there seems to be no way to fix this Open a yahoo account. It's free. I don't see the problem. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SaintPaul 1 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Erjh8765 said: Open a yahoo account. It's free. I don't see the problem. Problem is many players already created their accounts using non yahoo/Gmail accounts and those email addresses now have huge delays receiving emails from the current Elysium email address. Sometimes emails never arrive at all. Currently Elysium provide no way to change the email address on your account, so if you already have an account linked to one of these addresses your pretty screwed. Hence why I said in my OP I find 2FA inconvenient. This is fixable though. Edited February 13, 2017 by PeterGriffen 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted February 13, 2017 You're right. It's probably a temporary issue. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
