Account System Proposal:

Every player would create an account from an e-mail address (with an option to receive newsletters at that address). He can then create as many characters as he likes from that account. The game keeps track of PK wins/losses, overall PK ratio, total hours played, how many active characters each account has, how many heroes that account has had, and other interesting/useful info, then publishes these stats to the website in the form of a playerlist and leaderboard. Stuff like specific details about current and even past characters such as names, races, class, cabal, etcetera, would be hidden from the public.

Goals:

The goal for all of this is to better track those players that may play multiple characters, especially on either side of the pendulum, and to make it a little easier to detect illegal or questionable activity related to that. The leaderboard and public stats for each account act as incentive to keep playing from the same account, rather than creating new e-mail address and new accounts. It also acts as a mild disincentive to play more than one character, as everyone will see how many characters each account has. This can be got around by creating multiple accounts, but this involves making new e-mail addresses, and you'd be spreading your stats across two accounts instead of just accumulating it in one. Sure, people who don't care about stats won't be bothered by this, but I feel like most people like to see how they stack up next to other players and to compete for community-based reputation.

Thoughts? What are the cons in this type of situation?

Splntrd