How to setup Accounts?

[Slats]

Hi all,

Been away from the community for a long time, and just noticed RIFT went F2P. Seems like a decent boxing community going on in RIFT and I thought I would give it a shot.

I've watched the ISBoxer videos and feel comfortable setting this up. The one thing none of the guides talk about though is the way you setup accounts? Do I have one 'master account' like in WOW and select a sub account or do I need 5 separate e-mail addresses?

How do you guys setup and are there pros/cons to any of the solutions?

Cheers,

Slats

[Alge]

A single gmail address can be used by suffixing your username with +rift1, +rift2, etc, so that a valid email address might look like gmailusername+rift1@gmail.com. Other services provide aliases or similar.

[moog]

A single gmail address can be used by suffixing your username with +rift1, +rift2, etc, so that a valid email address might look like gmailusername+rift1@gmail.com. Other services provide aliases or similar.

Ooh, didn't know that, that would have saved me making another 4 gmail accounts!
I went with mail forwarding from gmail2..5 to gmail1, which works fine, but that above is a neater solution :)

[luxlunae]

The problem I ran into with this is when I needed to send an email out. Blizzard (obviously it could vary) wouldn't accept myemail@gmail.com because the account was myemail+account1@gmail.com.

I too have run into this issue when trying to sign up for different MMOs using the +info trick on email accounts. I haven't done it for rift but I think some games just outright won't accept it.



Personally I have access to a web server so I just made rifttwo@mydomain.com riftthree@mydomain.com and then set them all up to forward to my normal gmail account. Obviously not an option for everyone, but I was happy because I've never actually used the email capabilities of my hosting service before.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The problem I ran into with this is when I needed to send an email out. Blizzard (obviously it could vary) wouldn't accept myemail@gmail.com because the account was myemail+account1@gmail.com.

What did you have to do with them that required an email _from_ the configured address? I've used aliases on my domain since the beginning (Vicini! You told me to go back to the beginning!!) and I can recall having to actually send email to them from the account.