Multi-boxing

[Turdbender 0]

Multi-boxing.....kind of fun. Why is this banned? I could have another person sitting next to me playing in the same room or I can play 2 accounts myself. I fail to see the difference. Well......other than it would be preferable to have another person playing the second account. They certainly would have way more control over all of the second character's abilities and mobility. I can't get end-game gear doing this. Drop quests take double the time to complete. All experience gained through kills is split between 2 characters. As far as World PvP goes, playing solo, I've gotten slaughtered by groups of people or someone way above my level countless times and that's completely unfair, but acceptable. It's also not that much of an advantage to control 2 characters in PvP anyway.  I've taken out multi-boxers several times solo as they were fumbling around trying to aim their characters in my direction. It's not that easy to multi-box and not that much of an advantage, but for a person like me, it's fun to play around and see what works and doesn't work, writing macros, binding keys, and trying to think of ways to be more efficient. 

I appreciate this free server and don't want to break your rules, but no multi-boxing does disappoint me.

[Zancon 117]

If you allow it at all or even worse, allow it with some stipulations it becomes impossible to police.

Generally speaking people who multi box tend to do it on as many accounts they can. In order to do this properly they start automating some actions and bringing 3rd party software into it. With no barrier to entry (cost for subscription and game) it's a ridiculous arms race of people creating accounts and characters. 

Then the economic impact of multi boxers on the server. Farming zones with gathering and killing zones of mons because they have so many toons they cant die.

Or server and our staff cant handle these types. It's better to not allow it at all. 1 person plays 1 character at a time. 

[thecrazyscot 16]

Unless you're using your first and second account for enchanting or buying things from the Booty Bay AH to send it your other faction character.

[Turdbender 0]

Okay, so you can have 2 accounts and it is policed. Limited to Neutral AH trades and enchanting purposes as the reasoning behind allowing them. The goal of eliminating multi-boxing is to not have people who take advantage ruin everything in the world by creating too many accounts and also botting them. So I get banning multi-boxers as the rule. What I would do is only enforce the no multi-boxing rule when someone goes way overboard with it. Someone just leveling 2 characters at the same time or running a low level alt through an instance is harmless. Just my thoughts on it.

[Zancon 117]

There are many reasons to limit it. I am not going to list them all.

[thecrazyscot 16]

I'm not sure but I think running a few accounts at the same time also slows the server and since we don't pay for every account the server isn't rich enough to pay for such powerful stuff to run it. But I don't know for sure.

[SweetRevenge 0]

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If you allow it at all or even worse, allow it with some stipulations it becomes impossible to police.

Generally speaking people who multi box tend to do it on as many accounts they can. In order to do this properly they start automating some actions and bringing 3rd party software into it. With no barrier to entry (cost for subscription and game) it's a ridiculous arms race of people creating accounts and characters. 

Then the economic impact of multi boxers on the server. Farming zones with gathering and killing zones of mons because they have so many toons they cant die.

Or server and our staff cant handle these types. It's better to not allow it at all. 1 person plays 1 character at a time.  

Whoa! That seems pretty intense and hardcore!