[Balanor]

My understanding is that when purchasing a new copy of NWN from Good Old Games (www.gog.com) now, a common CD key is provided. While people can get a unique key, many appear not to and as a result we are getting many players that end up logging in sharing the same CD Key.

While this is a security risk, I have let this go until now - but it was probably inevitable that several individuals would ruin it for everyone. Recently we had some occurrences of players using these shared keys acting...’immature’. Fortunately, they didn’t do harm to anyone other than themselves. But if I continue to allow the use of shared CD keys then that, coupled with constantly changing IP addresses and no more master server to make sure player names are valid, essentially means I have no reliable way to try and stop repeat offenders using shared CD keys from continuing do do something malicious (like logging in with different names and trying to grief others, etc). Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that continuing to allow anyone to login to the server using a shared CD key is too big of a risk to allow it to continue.

Therefore, once the setting reboot occurs (the next server update), known shared CD Keys have been flagged and people trying to login with them will be able to login to the server, however your PC will be uncommandable and you will receive a message that using Shared CD Keys is no longer allowed (similar to what happens in the post above if you login using a non-case-sensitive version of your player name). For convenience sake, I am posting all player accounts that appear to be affected by this additional security measure. If you see a player name of yours on this list it's not that you have done anything wrong - but do be sure that you get a valid, unique CD Key for NWN or you will be unable to login to Thay.

List of Affected Player Accounts
accumulateddebt
Adonaious
akigrin
amirzarhouni
Arachan
Araminta
Arclath
athghamhain
Baladar
bbhustles
Black and White Ink
braincabin
bryanbarhorst
Chasfron
Creldest
daenre
duckwaffle882
Ezrath
Frimbo
Geco28
geokhan
GMT709
Heraticx
Horstmann
jay84
John Cope-Flanagan
Johnny
Jonas Kerring
jzhmer
Klied
L3
Leoric
milleniumfalcon
Mr Brak
Olacaten
Porkandporkaccessories
proteus64
Randomus
Rane_Erandur
Raskias
RaventheDruid
RoninWulf
Ryuk96
Salendra_Sylvan
Shuji
Taurik
The Frying Weegee
TheFryingWeegee
TheMadPoet
Timur
TriothePunch
UndeadNarcotic
woodaba
wooley2000
Yelrebmik
zacku
Zar Caedis