...really?

[Answa]

Totally unrelated, but, OP: Your sig is awesome. Carry on.

[Whax]

This is a normal issue, I change my password 1-2 times per day because that message. It happends when your IP change.

[Soukyuu]

This is a normal issue, I change my password 1-2 times per day because that message. It happends when your IP change.

NOT with a token. My IP changes every day, yet I've NEVER had that message.

[3Jane]

I have had this issue arise only once, when I contacted SE tech support they suggested I request a fixed address from my isp. As this has not happened since then I haven't bothered, but it might be worth trying.

[waldo]

This happens to me frequently, I dont think it has as much to do with playing on different IPs as it does how you log in and off. I play on laptop and tower, I travel a lot so I like to play on the road. I rarely am forced to change my password unless my game crashes (whole different discussion, when will they fix the constant crashes jeez). Sometimes it also happens when I forget to log off at home (tower) and log on the next day with my laptop. So yeah, I think if you d/c, game crash, or log on with different IP while logged on (or closed game last session with d/c, or crash) it will prompt you to change password.

Anyhow not to bash the game, because I'm very hopeful things will continue to get better, but let's be perfectly honest... why would anyone 'steal' something that's worthless? The state the game is in doesn't give others a great deal of incentive to put the time and effort into hacking your account.

[waldo]

, or log on with different IP while logged on (or closed game last session with d/c, or crash) it will prompt you to change password.

Just to go into a bit more detail with this, if you do crash/dc or somehow log out wrong and you're charactor is still in the 'game world' you are still technically logged on SE's server. If any IP (even if it's not changed) attempts to log on while your account is still.... logged on I guess, I could see this as throwing a red flag. At any rate, not much you can do about it minus security token.

[Delsus]

Request your isp gives you a static IP or use a security token, I have played on 5 different connections and have never seen this because I use a security token.

[Whax]

NOT with a token. My IP changes every day, yet I've NEVER had that message.

I play in 3 different places, I'm not putting that monster in my keychain.

[Catapult]

Request your isp gives you a static IP [...]

ISPs will generally not do this for residential connections, because having a static IP lets you more reliably run a business server, which they want you to pay more for having. Instead you get a "dynamic IP", which will allocate you an IP address from a pool of potential IPs allocated to your ISP (often you can get the same one after a powercycle, but not always). So don't get too excited about finding a solution with your ISP.

But yes, I'm not sure about the exact mechanics of it, but the security flag happened to me a lot when I was using a 3G wireless internet stick for my connection. Every time I turned it on, I got a fresh and substantially different IP address. Since I've had my "always on" connection set up, I don't have the security flag going up any more.

Which gives me a thought...

Check your modem settings - make sure your connection is set to "always on" rather than allowing an inactivity-based time out to occur. It's one thing that could be causing more frequent IP-resets.

[Soukyuu]

Check your modem settings - make sure your connection is set to "always on" rather than allowing an inactivity-based time out to occur. It's one thing that could be causing more frequent IP-resets.

That's right and even though I don't believe such billing terms still exist, only do that if you are NOT billed per minute.