Yes, email verification doesn't add a terrible amount of difficulty to creating a new account on Hawken... but it certainly takes 100% more effort than the current system of "Just type anything you like and you're on your way." You actually have to create that email address (even if it's easy in Gmail) and then you actually have to get the verification and click and so forth. At least it's 'something.'
But, perhaps the biggest and easiest to implement/fix deterrent to creating alt accounts would be to FIX THE BUG THAT ALLOWS PLAYERS TO INSTANTLY BYPASS THE NEW RECRUIT TRAINING AND TUTORIALS.
If Reloaded wants bonus points for making that both more effective at slowing down alt account creation AND giving actual new players a much better online experience, expand and improve the training/tutorials to actually give players some useful experience at how online Hawken matches are actually played.
Make it so that there is a full bot match tutorial for each and every game mode (especially Siege) where the player is instructed along the way and must complete certain tasks/goals and actually win the match... before they can ever join a live, online match.
Edited by StubbornPuppet, 17 February 2016 - 12:11 PM.