worked for first account, then "failed to create user" for all attempts after

[crystallinity]

after fiddling with this unsuccessfully last night, i kept getting the error message "username already in use" even though i had manually checked the exact username and found it to be available. i eventually gave up and decided to try again today.

the actual problem appeared to be that my password didn't meet the requirements (i had lowercase and capital letters and numbers, but no special characters), and it was just giving me the wrong error message.

once i added a special character to the password, it actually worked, verified the email and everything... but only for the first account. after that, every subsequent attempt gave "failed to create user" after manually filling out the captcha, even though it was part of a batch operation to create 60 accounts, and i was doing the same thing as the first one. after the first successful account creation, i went through at least more 10 attempts where i manually completed the captcha but it repeatedly failed to create the next account. tried closing the command line and starting again, but now it fails on the first account over and over. any idea what might be going on?

here's the arguments i was using:

pikaptcha -u PTCAccountName -c 60 -p PTCAccountPassword -m [email protected] -av True -gp GooglePassword

[bwoodruff90]

i had the same error "Failed to create account! General error: Generic failure. User was not created."

i think that it may be a time based account creation block that matches with your IP address just having a guess...

[kevinvud1]

Same here. Failed to create user:..... and keep repeating

[janmatias]

I suspect they now check for + mail, as it gives me an error regarding my email formatting when I try to do it manually :/