Is This True - You Can't Make New Avatars???

If that's the case then just prevent people from getting sign-up bonus on ALT accounts. Right?

We've set the account creation limits at two per Credit Card or Paypal, and five per household. These restrictions are in place on the Registration page, and in most cases those with a reasonable need for additional account per card or household can get one by contacting Support.

These limits were always meant to be based on active accounts -- but the current implementation counts closed accounts. That doesn't make a lot of sense, and we'll get that fixed.

We've put these controls in place, primarily, to combat fraud. Because Second Life is an intensely social space where many Residents have invested serious amounts of time, money, and energy, we feel it makes sense to take steps to help make indentity in-world as tangible and vaulable as possible.

Any Second Life Resident can easily have their account and an alt if they so choose; their partner, sibliing, or other household memeber with a seperate form of payment is not restricted from creating additional accounts. These are very reasonable limits, and they help protect the Second Life community. For what possible reason could one person need 30 accounts?

The current account creation limits are 2 per credit card or PayPal account, or 5 per household.

Maybe I should keep my trap shut on this but I have about 3 accounts. Two of which I use alot more then the third. Now to my knowledge I used my same credit card for all of them. Maybe I was grandfathered in since they only started doing this?

We can make accounts with cell phone numbers now, I think.


Here's a quote from Daniel Linden on the subject:



And Torley mentions the Paypal thingie:



Note that Daniel says "These limits were always meant to be based on active accounts -- but the current implementation counts closed accounts. That doesn't make a lot of sense, and we'll get that fixed."

I think there is another option beyond credit cards, paypal accounts, and cell phone numbers - but I don't remember what it is.

This is true.

I have a cancelled account, and was told it still took up one of the '2 accounts per creditcard and 5 accounts per household' allotment. IMO its the stupidest thing in the world. I was offered no information as to WHY this cancelled accounts still count, but I was told the limit on total number of accounts is because people game the system for the stipend, and the limits supposedly prevent this.

-Ghoti

Stupidest, most counterintuitive thing I ever heard!

Besides, if preventing stipend exploitation is the reason, the regulation will be of zero use in any case. You'd still be limited to 2 accounts (closing one, opening another), so how on earth could that serve the reason given???

Jesus Christ!

Just to chime in on how stupid this is.


To make matters worse, several players who started before the limits on avatars were lowered have many more avatars than we are currently allowed, so its not even fair that way either.

The only people this hurts are those who are not trying to scam LL.
For those who do have the knowledge to scam the system, it's an easy work around.

Feature suggestion: no-stipend accounts.

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Note that Daniel says "These limits were always meant to be based on active accounts -- but the current implementation counts closed accounts. That doesn't make a lot of sense, and we'll get that fixed."

Feature suggestion: no-stipend accounts.

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