Every other way of alt abuse is imho game design flaw f.e. crafting abuse (which is the most common because of current crafting/gathering system which is one of the 2238 worst fails).
REVIVE PEOPLE IN THE REPLICATION TIMER USING DOCTOR'S BAGS. Cooldown depends on your doctor skill.It gives medics unique responsibilities and playstyle.Makes the doctor skill less of a turd.Makes the doctor profession worth investing in and actually related to healing.
Yep.Gathering in particular is going to be hard to "fix." It's extremely easy to find resources and takes only seconds to gather them. So there's a cooldown, but this means people who bypass the IP check can gather 4x as many materials by switching characters. People who play legit have to gather in a "staccato" fashion, forty-five minutes of each hour spent waiting for the cooldown. Their only choice is between gathering only every once in a while, in which case it takes forever just to make an hour's worth of ammo, or go AFK/browse the Internet/etc. while they wait for the cooldown.I guess it's necessary, otherwise miners would get ganked or stolen from 100% of the time rather than 5-10% of the time, but it sure is boring and annoying.