Anyone know why...

[Reggi 0]

Does anyone know what the philosophy behind not allowing people to play more than one character at a time is?

[Guest]

MMORPG, not singleplayer strategy.

[Reggi 0]

Well that is cute but, it isn't really blizzlike. I had several accounts on retail that I used. I was sort of wondering if Elysium had given their actual reason for not allowing multiboxing.

[Rumpelstiltskin 5]

The Elysium project wouldn't gain anything from allowing multiboxing, it would only increase the strain  on infrastructure. Blizz have all the $ reasons in the world to allow it.

[Reggi 0]

Again, this would maybe be a concern if we had queues, but we dont. Allowing multiboxing would be good for a servers economy because it would be an influx of consumers to buy stuff on the AH. It would also help with some of the low server pop issues in some cases. Someone like me would probably raid with multiple guilds, possibly allowing another guild that couldnt quite get enough to raid a chance to raid.

[Xylon666Darkstar 4]

2 hours ago, Jorn Skyseer said:

MMORPG, not singleplayer strategy.

This is not incorrect.

[Rumpelstiltskin 5]

4 hours ago, Reggi said:

Again, this would maybe be a concern if we had queues, but we dont. Allowing multiboxing would be good for a servers economy because it would be an influx of consumers to buy stuff on the AH. It would also help with some of the low server pop issues in some cases. Someone like me would probably raid with multiple guilds, possibly allowing another guild that couldnt quite get enough to raid a chance to raid.

Server economy is fine, changing stance on this now would likely screw up the economy though. 

I can't see how faking the population numbers with multiboxing would help low pop servers to be honest.

What's keeping you from raiding with multiple guilds right now? I'm sure that many players have at least one alt, I myself have two accounts with multiple alts on both so I can adapt to the situation, someones been yelling for 15 minutes for a tank to do X? I log one of my tanks and so on. I'm proud of my characters because I know I put in some effort levelling them in a legit way, earning every single piece of equipment (not so proud when thinking about time invested though). 

In my opinion the only ones who really gain something from multiboxing are cheater, botters, gold sellers and similar scum.

[Reggi 0]

Yeah but for ppl like me who have limited time to do the vanilla grind multiple times it would be easier if I could use my other account to help me do stuff like elite quests and what not. 

Also, the reason it helps dying servers is that it allows floundering guilds to stay active. This keeps people from quitting and stabilizes the population.

It wont screw up the economy because if your mains have lots of gold, that gold will go to gear alts, so instead of the money sitting around in the bank it will actually go to use in the economy. Econ 101 will teach you that money infused into the market is good for business.

[Guest]

6 минут назад, Reggi сказал:

Yeah but for ppl like me it would be easier

Econ 101 money infused into the market

Easiest - not to play at all.

Edited March 26, 2017 by Jorn Skyseer

[Brisies 0]

Generally, the use of multiple characters at once to play the game normally requires you to utilize third party programs that are otherwise not allowed in the game.  You also skew tables in your favor when it comes to PvP combat as you are controlling the actions of two players at a single moment when the opposing character has a normal limit of 1 thus defeating the purpose of PVP combat as you break the skill vs skill barrier in favor of Skill vs Amount of players involved.

 

On a pve standpoint, its similar.  You can kill mobs nearly 2-3x faster than even the quickest classes, you gain access to other spells and abilities you wouldnt have if you had played a single character, and thus also cause economic strain in a pve context. Its not that its inherently wrong, its just it creates an unfair advantage versus other players who play the game 100% the way it was meant to be played, with 1 character at 1 time.

[Rumpelstiltskin 5]

7 hours ago, Reggi said:

Yeah but for ppl like me who have limited time to do the vanilla grind multiple times it would be easier if I could use my other account to help me do stuff like elite quests and what not. 

You are not making sense. In a previous post one of your points was that you could be raiding with multiple guilds. If you have that kind of time you sure have time to level at least two lvl 60 chars in vanilla.

This is not an instant gratification server, but there are others out there that allow multiboxing and also have increased xp gain.

Edited March 27, 2017 by Rumpelstiltskin

[Reggi 0]

Raiding all available 40 man content takes like 3 or 4 hours a week max. At three times that pace it would take several weeks to level a single toon. 

[Reggi 0]

4 hours ago, Brisies said:

Generally, the use of multiple characters at once to play the game normally requires you to utilize third party programs that are otherwise not allowed in the game.  You also skew tables in your favor when it comes to PvP combat as you are controlling the actions of two players at a single moment when the opposing character has a normal limit of 1 thus defeating the purpose of PVP combat as you break the skill vs skill barrier in favor of Skill vs Amount of players involved.

 

On a pve standpoint, its similar.  You can kill mobs nearly 2-3x faster than even the quickest classes, you gain access to other spells and abilities you wouldnt have if you had played a single character, and thus also cause economic strain in a pve context. Its not that its inherently wrong, its just it creates an unfair advantage versus other players who play the game 100% the way it was meant to be played, with 1 character at 1 time.

The point is not to have multiple characters playing the same content, the point is I can use my higher level characters to help me do lower level stuff on alts.

[Storfan 24]

gtfo.

Multiboxing is cancerous to an mmo-community and there's nothing you can ever say that will make me or server admins to change their mind on that regard.

[Brisies 0]

This falls under the PVE side, giving you an advantage over others who do not have it.  Its still against the rules.  You may have the following though

1. One single main character in the world
2. One single bank character in a city for banking purposes only
3. The TWO cannot be in the world adventuring at the same time...  It is against the TOU.

[smokeit 26]

On 26-3-2017 at 3:48 AM, Reggi said:

Well that is cute but, it isn't really blizzlike. I had several accounts on retail that I used. I was sort of wondering if Elysium had given their actual reason for not allowing multiboxing.

Theres not 1 single difference you can think of with retail and a private server?

I'll give you a moment..

No?

Welll then!

BLIZZARD RETAIL WOW makes money from more accounts. They dont give a shit about multiboxing because it equals more income.
Here it's free and easy to make multiple accounts, must be fun seeing packs of 5 grouped multibox characters everywhere in this world. NO, it wouldn't.

[Hurricane2 2]

On 3/25/2017 at 11:32 PM, Reggi said:

Again, this would maybe be a concern if we had queues, but we dont. Allowing multiboxing would be good for a servers economy because it would be an influx of consumers to buy stuff on the AH. It would also help with some of the low server pop issues in some cases. Someone like me would probably raid with multiple guilds, possibly allowing another guild that couldnt quite get enough to raid a chance to raid.

Multiboxers are terrible for the economy.  They cause inflation of gold, items and mats.  It also does nothing for population since it's still 1 person.  Why it's not allowed is obvious.  There is not 1 beneficial reason to allow it.

Edited March 27, 2017 by Hurricane2