And let there be Banhammers!

So, Mobage is rolling through its customary monthly house cleaning, quite a bit more aggressively than previously.

I honestly have to recant my previous words that Mobage doesn't mind if it's only two or three accounts because I'm hearing horror stories galore from highly ranked players who are getting their accounts permanently banned. Now, many of these players are getting tossed for having 10+ accounts that are used purely for farming. But I am also hearing about people who CLAIM that they only had two or three accounts and are getting banned.

There does seem to be some added aspects into the formula. Mobage looks for names like Doglover1, Doglover2, Doglover3, Doglover4, etc. After seeing them, they can do a quick search to see if these are different players or if they are from the same phone/IP.

Another thing they seem to be keeping track of is large amounts of trading as always that is strange. They mostly do this because its a sign of people buying cards/items for real money.

One interesting fact about these bans by the way is that they all seem to correlate with Login bonus campaigns last day. So, in the future and present you may want to limit any trading with alt accounts for times that do not correlate with card pack days.

Now, I believe talking to people saying DON'T MAKE ALTERNATE ACCOUNTS! Is a lot like telling people not to have sex. Since I can't be sure that you won't make the accounts instead I will tell you how to make it as safe as possible.

1) Name each alternate account something unique and different.
2) Avoid doing large amounts of trading that seems inherently one sided. Instead of one rupie, you could trade 9 feeders for example.
3) Avoid doing any large activities between accounts during event reward period and especially during claim ticket periods.
4) Try to use one second dedicated device for alt accounts and never log into them on your main device. This way if they do get banned, hopefully your main will remain intact.
5) Finally, there's a reason money laundering exists. If you use each of your accounts to sell items and purchase one very expensive item using their resources, and transfer that card to your main account, it's a lot less likely to raise a red trading flag than 30 different transactions all to your main account.

An example of this would be:

Main Account - Bridge Account (This account would be legit if possible) - Main Farm Account - 29 Other farm accounts.

Your 29 accounts would sell everything to gain HP and then transfer that HP to your Main Farm Account. Main Farm account purchase the most expensive card it can afford. Main Farm account then trades the card to the bridge account for something like 5 Rares and 100,000 rupies. Bridge account waits a week and then does a similar trade with the main account.

Hopefully the 29 accounts, main farm, and bridge should be on one device and the Main account on another. This way if Mobage catches the 29 accounts, they will see the related accounts but hopefully miss the main account.

Of course the best way not to get banned for having alt accounts is to not have alt accounts. I still feel that mobage doesn't have an issue with a player with 2-3 accounts that they play actively. I think their issue is with accounts for the express purpose of farming LCP.