Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
I fear you misunderstand me, or I worded my reply awfully - I am saying that using the method of finding alts of an account using a blacklist feature I described is awfully convoluted, to the point that it can be ignored. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I fully agree with you that the way you described the blacklist feature to work should be the way to go and anyone with sensible knowledge about client - server programming would do that in the exact same way.
Ah, I thought you were saying that moving the blacklist check server side would be more convoluted than having it happen client side.

While you're right in that you could still use the blacklist to confirm if a character belongs to the same account as another character this way, it would only be possible to confirm that character A and character B belong to the same account. You would also need to know when the alt would be online and catch them doing something like typing in a public chat channel to be able to confirm that they were blacklisted.

It would be a long-winded process to confirm that character A and B both belong to the same account. It would be much better than being able to click on character A and see that they own character A, B, C, D and E, along with all of their retainers and location/activity history, as is the case right now.

Quote Originally Posted by Exmo View Post
Incorrect. Your thinking is in the clouds rather than of results. It would be extremely easy for a stalker to use player search to discover an alt of someone blocking them by comparing the list against a control account. Doesn't matter if blacklist is handled client side or server side. There is no way around it.
It would not be "extremely easy". It would also only confirm that character A and B belong to the same account, it would not give you as much information as you're able to obtain now. Just take the L. You don't know what you're talking about.