As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to …
Detect Alt Accounts
Giving us Access to the Alt Account Detection API that you are already using in the BAN System would solve this!
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because …
It would make it easier to give High Value Tradable Rewards to players
isnt there already IP AND Device ban system??? Roblox itself cannot detect alt accounts but through WiFi and Device the account currently playing.. That is avaiable to all devs.
I advocate for this too, actually!
Speaking from personal experience as a moderator for an decently big RP game, we often times end up having people come in appeals that were falsely flagged by the Alt Detection API, and it was kind of annoying because we couldn’t really figure out a way to unban them. (As that was handed out by the API)
Having control over the API itself would help alot with false positives like these.
But even for Roblox it is difficult to trace alts. They released the device ban API a few months ago, but you can’t use it with Open Cloud yet, and the hardware restriction time limit is capped at 24 hours. Because of privacy reason, shared hardware, and preventing permanent false bans, it is difficult for us to achieve, permanent hardware ban right now.
If i recall, the system they have currently in place determines if you’re an alt or not based on your wifi connection, so if someone else joins on the same wifi they think that person is an alternate account too, which is why we got a couple false positives. (As a example, siblings playing the same game and one breaking the rules)
There’s already a system like how a person above mentioned:
It works automatically, you just have to ban the person normally.
Personally I don’t think this is a good idea because it would allow bad actors to reverse engineer Roblox’s systems for alt detection and thus allow them to bypass it completely.
Exactly. You would only weaken roblox’s ban system by making an alt account detection api available to the public
I haven’t thought of it that way, thanks for the insight.