SirCyanideRose wrote: »

I've heard that some factions will use dirty tactics like joining a faction and using anti-idle, just so real players can't get in, and therefore getting an advantage. Locking it may be a way of preventing players from using sub toons to do something like this. Just a theory.....

alt accounts would work to do the same thing.

It would be easy for Zenimax to produce a tool that detected a character doing the same activity continuously without updating anything else. That would eliminate running-in-place activities, so such things are not a real issue.