Multihunter

Multihunters use admin tools and tip-offs submitted by the community to find and close planets that are breaking the game rules. For the most part these are accusations of account sharing, where more than one person operates an account, or multi-ing where a person has access to more than one account. Both are banned.

Evidence

Evidence used ranges from usernames, passwords and e-mail addresses being similar or the same to login correlations where accounts are logged into at similar times from the same place or are logged into from wildly different locations frequently (eg. Germany and Australia). When a planet is found to be cheating, it is closed and an e-mail is sent automatically to the account owner. They then have 10 days to appeal the decision. It is rare for a player to admit that they cheated. More commonly a variety of excuses are presented which range from the slightly plausible to the wildly impossible. In the case of account sharing it has been known for the planet to accidentally prove the point when more than one person claims to be the account owner. After 10 days, if the multihunter team have not been convinced by the reasons presented, the planet is automatically deleted. On some occasions, the reasons given are satisfactory and the planet is reopened.

Punishments

Multihunters can apply a range of punishments to planets found cheating, depending on the scale. Mostly the planet is closed which is followed by the planet getting deleted if the appeal is unsuccessful. Other punishments such as a percentage decrease in roids, fleet, xp etc can be applied at the multihunter's discretion, but they are usually used for offences such as the use of excessive abusive language in mails or on the galaxy forums.

The Planetarion forums are a separate entity outside of the sphere of control of the multihunters.

Exceptions

Families playing, or groups playing at schools, universities and workplaces can apply for an exception to tell the multihunter team in advance that there is more than one account at a location.