It was 5 in 24 hrs but i created 4 a few weeks ago and they flagged them to add a phone #. I created 4 more last week so far nothing. What i did different was i created 2 on one PC and 2 on another and logged into the launcher to create the toons on the same PC i created the accounts on.
I def think something is tied to the PC you're creating them on and logging on the 1st time on where you have to agree to the user agreements etc you have to do that once after that you never have to use the launcher again. When I created 4 on the same PC and 4 on my phone it flagged them all about a week later. You can use a VPN all you want you're not hiding who you're. They know your hardware ID.
I thought this too, create accounts on different machines and when you click accept on the eula in launcher being the key thing to do on different machines, but it didn't work for me recently so it's hard to know, it did work before for me though.
I do think it is something to do with the
/played time being built up after creation, like if you create 4 character across 2 pc's, and leave them logged in, they will all get kicked and require 2fa after a few days time. So maybe create the accounts on different machines and leave them for for a while.
I was wondering if it might even be a human intervention thing like a GM just goes through the list of new accounts every week and flags any he thinks are suspect, a load with same email, sequential usernames, high
/played etc, I dunno, could be too many accounts for this to be reasonable.
Hopefully not a major problem, finished off making 54 accounts recently, all on same email and about half got flagged for 2fa and I gave the same mobile for them. Can't work out the system they have in place. Suppose it's making it easier for me to be banned/suspended in one go but I don't want the hastle of a load of different emails and possibly losing access to the accounts down the road anyway. From recent suspension threads it seems really haphazard which accounts they might suspend if you were caught AFK anyway.