Many people often double think regarding whether they voted on 1 or more accounts by mistake? Why doubt? A vote history page can be introduced in account profile. Total accumulated NX can be a nice counter bonus! Our pro devs, please?
Double voting a few times won’t get you banned. Most people don’t accidentally double vote for 2 months straight. The bigger issue is people don’t understand what “only 1 vote per person” or what whitelisting rules mean. English is not everyone’s first language Even for English speakers, people really hate reading rules People do read the rules and think its easy to get away with, so they do it, cause they didn’t get caught doing it for a week, why not keep doing it? The character(s) you have in question that you may have already voted on, you can keep clicking “vote,” it doesn’t process unless you finish captcha and click vote now. If I think I double voted I just type in the chara I think I may have voted, if any of them give me a “you cannot vote for another x minutes,” its pretty straightforward that I voted today already.
I've discussed this scenario I think a couple of years ago on another thread and broke down that it's actually very hard to vote abuse accidentally. It does not happen as often as the public thinks due to the amount of checks in place to stop accidental vote abuse. Here's the megathread link, and below I'll just paste the quote I gathered from it written by me to make it a bit easier to find since the original was ~9 pages long lol https://royals.ms/forum/threads/long-term-ban-instead-of-permanent-ban.193316/ If I really had to guess, Cynn hit the nail on the head: I think it's a combination of English not being everyone's first language and even if they can read English-- people really hate reading rules in general. A lot of it really is common sense: don't hack, don't rwt, etc etc. But when other servers blatantly allow vote abuse, other players who've played those servers thinks its alright to do so without doublechecking. Same goes for the voting whitelist. I genuinely do feel bad for those who didn't know and continued to have 1 family member vote on their phone and the other on wifi for months on end, but in the same breath we have bold text underneath the chatbox to type your username into to vote with explaining what you need to do and most people still don't do that... Spoiler We can't really translate the rules into multiple languages ourselves because we mostly speak English, we would have to rely on the community to help with a project like that. I think having the rules and terms and conditions in multiple languages would be a great idea overall to help those who struggle with English. However in the same vein, even with all of that effort put in to translate the rules I can see most people not being bothered enough to read them regardless which would leave us essentially back at square one again unfortunately. I still think with that in mind though, overall it would be beneficial to have multiple variations of the rules in different languages.
Maybe just prioritizing the most commonly misunderstood rules for translation would be a good compromise? Perhaps also just translating a brief summary focusing on what can get you permanently banned, and what a permanent ban on royals means? I voted against the feature proposed by the op of this thread. It sounds like a waste of dev time. Those who vote on different accounts each day (and have a dynamic IP address) could instead just use a physical or virtual calendar to mark off days they voted on.
I like the idea of multiple languages for rules. Can help with Russian and Hebrew. Maybe it's time to open a thread with such a suggestion? @Becca
One thing to be wary of with translating the rules into many different languages is that it could become a maintenance burden. Even if lots of enthusiastic community members put up their hands now to help translate everything into many different languages, there is no guarantee those same people will still be around to update the translations each time the rules are modified, or a new rule is added.
