Family member creating an account

[catmat63]

Hello!

I was showing my husband the event pets for the RPG event and he wanted to create an account to collect some but we weren’t sure if it’d have any effect on my account. We would be sharing the same internet but will not be trading between each other. Is it okay for him to create his own account?

[Lostlovebirdz]

Even if you're not trading with each other, his account could still be flagged as an alt due to you two sharing the same internet. I'd talk to a staff member about it first via a support ticket.

[Schuyler]

It's fine for family members to play CS, too. You may get an alert reminding you about the one-account rule when you go to trade with them, but just sharing the same IP address as another user is not going get you in trouble. Many users play CS on public wifi that any number of other users could be sharing after all, like at school with their friends!

Just be aware that it is considered cheating if one account is serving to benefit the other, like if your husband were to regularly adopt pets to send them to you. This applies even if the other account is controlled by someone else. Both of you should be playing CS for yourself.

It's not required to avoid trading altogether, but if you want to make sure you don't get accused of cheating, keep your trades fair with friends and family. Make sure that the pets you trade are fairly close in value to the pets you are receiving so it doesn't look like one of you is getting all the good stuff in return for trash, and don't allow someone to constantly give you free stuff if you never give them anything in return.

If you ever want to make an exception, eg. sending a birthday gift, you should get permission from an admin first by sending a help ticket as your accounts may get flagged otherwise. And if he signs up and decides CS is not for him, he should to send his pets to the Pound instead of sending them to you. It would be considered cheating if he signed up and then gave you everything he could adopt.