Honestly patron is a waste if you are using them all on the same IP.
Proxies are a must now because if 1 account gets caught on that ip they are all instantly banned with it.
Right now Im proxying and patroning miners while running 4 f2p accounts on my home ip just as like ban fodder while making gold.
My 4 f2ps got banned yesterday, but my patron accounts are running just fine.
Also let me just note appealing to get bans undone is like 100% pointless.
Out of like 20 appeals I did, only 1 got unbanned and it was a long time ago when there security wasnt as good.