A question about alts

[N0t A Pyr0]

So alts are not supposed to interact or be in the same suburb and I respect that. Saw some postings about this and I don't want to inadvertently break any rules. I have 2 characters in BOW, both stay to seperate suburbs totally so far. My first character was from Earletown and has never gone farther than Trewekke, I scout Earletown with him and try to update the zombie map. My second character just moved into Pashenton and some opportunites came to mind that might benefit the group.

1)Is it wrong to use my alt to update squares of the zombie map in Earletown by using binoculars from a building in Pashenton? These would be squares my main would not normally go to, so these would not technically be actions to help my main.

2)Would it be wrong to occasionally switch the characters suburbs to maximize my inventory? One stays near a hospital, one stays near a Police Department, when my inventory is full I switch characters so that I can heal those fighting in the PD and use my ammo to kill the zeds outside the hospital. Restock then switch again. Neither would ever be in the same suburb at the same time, neither character would benefit from the others actions, only other members of our group.

3)Is it wrong to broadcast information that my alt knows? Say there are 30 zombies all on an empty square on one of the South blocks of Earletown, my alt cant get to a radio. Can my main, who stays in the northern half of Earletown, broadcast this information to help those that may be in Southern Earletown?

If anyone can respond to this and let me know what they think about these I would appreciate it, I don't want to give BOW a bad name so I will definately not do anything along these lines unless it is cool with you guys.

[me101]

this is just to tell you that i've read your question.. its just that i can't answer all the questoins without getting some more info from others.. like i see it now 3 is the only one im having issues with.. like you said even though it'll help others out it may be seen as using the two characters to spread over a larger area.. thus you trying to avoid the 50 ap rule... eventhough i know its not your intention.. (ill get back to you or someone who is a little more decisive can

[nozzer]

My feelings:

1) Wouldn't have an issue with it.
2) Personally I'd say fine, as long as they stayed far enough apart. However, I'd feel pretty sure someone else may call it zerging.
3) I'd have to call that dodgy at best. It's not helping YOUR alt, per se, but it's possibly helping other members of your group, via methods that are at best grey. In an ideal world, it's almost like passing info between alts, and that's naughty naughty.

[N0t A Pyr0]

Alright thats fine then, if I really need ammo there is always Hindmarsh Row in Rhodenbank, and with all the revive requests I'm thinking of moving into a more revivification role in Pashenton, this will allow me to only update 7 squares of the zombie map(Swansbury to Tossel) for Earletown, which to be honest I doubt that I should ever need to go near with my main(there are much nearer FD's). To bad I will only be able to speak the number of zombies at the revive point for the people in Lance and not update a Pashenton map, that bow zombie map for Earletown is a cool format I think, just not wiki savvy enough to actually make one for Pashenton.
1)Only 7 squares in Earletown, my main will never go there.

2)Not going to switch characters, gonna man the revive point instead. No reason to have any reason for anyone to have anything against BOW.

3)No broadcasting information on my main from the alt, though I will post info in the Pashenton forums if applicable.

I hope this is acceptable to everyone, if not please leave comments here for discussion.

[Joe East]

My personal view on this matter is that the best thing to do is keeping your characters totally isolated from each other, which would mean having, preferably, several suburbs between them so that they are unaffected by what goes on around the others. However, if you follow the guidelines in your last post, I won't have any problems with it, and I don't think it will give you an unfair advantage.

Since BOW don't really have any rules as a group, the main thing to worry about is how other people would find this practice. I asked myself this: Would it bother me if a zombie player had two organized zombies, one in Earletown and one in Pashenton, and he used them in the same way you propose to use yours? I found that it would not.