RE: HiveGrove Campfire — Sep 4, 2026

[shiftrox]

That’ll be a challenge. I think if there are several people from the same family—but they’re all different—one account per person is fine; the challenge is figuring out how to handle that. I know some games simply block by IP, so only one per IP… I think that’s pretty drastic, but if we have to get to that point, we’ll see.

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[savvyplayer]

Perhaps you can just require some minimum Hive account Reputation for each player, and just whitelist those that don't have high enough Reputation but are known to not already have an account on the game. 🤓

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[shiftrox]

Those are interesting ideas. I've already implemented a certain threshold for new accounts to prevent bots, but I could also implement something more stringent to curb them even further.

[savvyplayer]

I just hope that players who haven't joined #HiveGrove yet would not be affected by your anti-bot, anti-multi measures! 🌱🤗

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[shiftrox]

Haha, but that brings us to a tricky issue. I know there are players who still have accounts with low reputation or something like that, but we need to have at least some protection against multiple accounts.

[savvyplayer]

I think that the following suggestion would help discourage multiple accounts on your #HiveGrove game. 🤓

1. All slots are locked when a new player joins the game.
2. For every tree a player has bought in the game, they can nominate a player who doesn't have a Seed Tree yet to get one for free, where the Seed Tree has its own exclusive plot not available for other trees.
3. Every slot costs an equal amount of HIVE tokens to unlock.

I hope this helps! 🌱🤗

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