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I ran into a person on one of the servers that I couldn't buy from because they were associated which was weird. I know it has it do with IP addresses but she didn't show on my associated accounts so IDK

Large ISP's, especially, are assigned a certain number of Internet Protocol Addresses. Whenever some who uses that provider logs in to the Internet, the computer is temporarily assigned one of those IP addresses. When that player logs off or shuts down the computer, the IP address goes back into the pool and some other player may receive it. So, if someone else uses the same Internet Service provider that you do, you both may be given the same IP address at different times, and your accounts on HaJ get associated.

Players who attend the same college of university may also find themselves sharing an IP address with someone they don't know. Students who happen use school computers to play can also end up with assosciated accounts.

I hope that this helps to explain how you became "associated" with total strangers.

oh that sounds annoying!

I don’t believe it can be “fixed,” this has happened in the game for as long as I remember.

^ what she said!

I'd be happy to help!

if you both have basic upgrades I can add you both to a chat room ; the other person could put the horse up for sale ; I could buy it and then re sell it to you MackZ.

Isn't there a way to manually give your computer a different ip? I'm pretty sure I read about it a long while ago. It's similar the way scammers phone numbers are not from the country they are in, they can change it somehow. If Ammit says it's okay, I'll see what I can find. Realizing of course, I may be totally out to lunch on this.

You can't. Given enough time, months to years, they might unlink eventually. Using this system we have taken incidences of cheating down to near zero. It went from a regular administration headache to a non problem. So we use this system even though there are some false positives.