Account sitting
From IceWars Documentation
In Icewars, it is forbidden to login to more than one account with the ordinary login. But because you probably would like to help out some friends while they are working, going to the pub, visiting their grandma or hunting foxes or something and not able to login and construct the next mine or start the next research, there is the sitter login. If you use the sitterlogin, you are allowed to sit any number of people you like, any time.
There are several limitations, though. You cannot read the messages, you cannot change the options, you cannot reach the "ruler and his people" menu and you cannot send fleets to planets that do not belong to the account. That means that you can't send resources or ships to your own or any other account, neither can you attack someone. You are also not allowed to work a way around those limitations, that means, e.g. you are not allowed to attack an account you are regularly sitting.
You are also not allowed to play an account basically via sitting. This means that it is forbidden to play an account via sitterlogin and have a friend login once a week and send all the resources and ships to you. If someone is away on vacation, you may play the account via sitterlogin for up to two weeks, if he is away for a longer time he has to use the vacation mode.
To use the sitterlogin, simply select the sitterlogin-selectbox on the login page, type the nick you want to sit into the name field and the sitter password into the pwd field and then login.
Usually, the sitterpassword of an account is the same as the full password, however you should never give away your full pw, simply change the sitterpassword in the options - Mail and Passwords Menu and tell the new sitterpassword to your friend.
There is also a section sitter authorizations in the options, where you can select what a sitter is allowed to do. So, when you just want to show what a great account you have, you can switch all the authorizations off and give away your sitterpw to the people you want to impress. as soon as you change the sitterpw, they are all logged out and you can switch some authorizations on again.
