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How do you feel about Multi-Boxing?
Multi-boxing has been around since the beginning of MMO's. It has taken on different forms in different games and been labeled differently in each game. Before I jump into whether its wrong or not you need to understand what the different types are.
The first type of multi-boxing is the old school type. You have 2 clients open and your alt tabbing or moving your mouse between the two screens clicking the buttons. In my opinion this most primitive version is perfectly legal in any game setting. It gained popularity in the days of Everquest due to the fact that most classes weren't all that busy during a fight.
The second type of multi-boxing is the most likely to be characterized as cheating. Back in the day it involved using a client such a macroquest2 that ran a pre created script. This script could be as simple or as complicated as the coder was talented. Simple scripts from backstabbing at the right time to complete control moving / assisting / fighting / looting... all controlled and performed with the user AFK.
The third type is what I am seeing in World of Warcraft and it seems like the GMs have deemed it legal. The user has 5 accounts, opens 5 clients on 1-5 machines. Using software like key clone which is a p2p key sharing program that propogates your key strokes to the rest of your clients on other computers. Now even though Blizzards policy has been that if your controlling the chars yourself it is legal. I think this is an instance of with holding some information to make it sound more appealing. For example... the multi-boxers in this case are saying... "hey I am controlling each character myself." What they aren't shouting about is that they are using a third party p2p program to echo commands pressed in one client to up to 4 other clients... hell if you have the money and the hardware theres no reason you can't run... 25 clients.
Now my take personally is that if its ok with Blizzard its ok with me. However you cannot deny that 5 boxing gives you a certain edge in battlegrounds. I have seen evidence of 5 boxing going on to level characters, badge farm heroics, run a 5 man arena team (with a rating of 2000+ ), just about anything else you can do with 5 men can be done with 1 man controlling 5 shamans.
But I will let you decide take a look at these videos on youtube and then join in the discussion at the Mansion.
5 Shamans, 1 Man. AV PVP VIDEO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3HaGzIg34
5 Shaman Sethek Halls HEROIC
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_mDwawWr2yQ&feature=related
Testing out Arena Quad-Boxing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ylMdFMlNis&feature=related
The first type of multi-boxing is the old school type. You have 2 clients open and your alt tabbing or moving your mouse between the two screens clicking the buttons. In my opinion this most primitive version is perfectly legal in any game setting. It gained popularity in the days of Everquest due to the fact that most classes weren't all that busy during a fight.
The second type of multi-boxing is the most likely to be characterized as cheating. Back in the day it involved using a client such a macroquest2 that ran a pre created script. This script could be as simple or as complicated as the coder was talented. Simple scripts from backstabbing at the right time to complete control moving / assisting / fighting / looting... all controlled and performed with the user AFK.
The third type is what I am seeing in World of Warcraft and it seems like the GMs have deemed it legal. The user has 5 accounts, opens 5 clients on 1-5 machines. Using software like key clone which is a p2p key sharing program that propogates your key strokes to the rest of your clients on other computers. Now even though Blizzards policy has been that if your controlling the chars yourself it is legal. I think this is an instance of with holding some information to make it sound more appealing. For example... the multi-boxers in this case are saying... "hey I am controlling each character myself." What they aren't shouting about is that they are using a third party p2p program to echo commands pressed in one client to up to 4 other clients... hell if you have the money and the hardware theres no reason you can't run... 25 clients.
Now my take personally is that if its ok with Blizzard its ok with me. However you cannot deny that 5 boxing gives you a certain edge in battlegrounds. I have seen evidence of 5 boxing going on to level characters, badge farm heroics, run a 5 man arena team (with a rating of 2000+ ), just about anything else you can do with 5 men can be done with 1 man controlling 5 shamans.
But I will let you decide take a look at these videos on youtube and then join in the discussion at the Mansion.
5 Shamans, 1 Man. AV PVP VIDEO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3HaGzIg34
5 Shaman Sethek Halls HEROIC
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_mDwawWr2yQ&feature=related
Testing out Arena Quad-Boxing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ylMdFMlNis&feature=related
Labels: rant
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posted by Cerias Shadows at 3/03/2008
Cerias Shadows
Zyk
Osiris
Khormid
5 Comments:
Well actually as for the 25 accounts, it has already been done.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/wow/2-people-47-pcs-46-wow-accounts-no-life-275830.php
As for the 5 shaman thing, it seems kind of... cheap I guess. Most of the multis I have read about or seen run 5 completely different classes from 1 control interface. There was one guy that was pretty popular for a while and I can not easily find his blog but he had many discussions with gm's posted on it. Personally until they can prove that it is detrimental to something I say let them. Its not like 1 guy with 5 accounts is able to do something 5 people can't accomplish.
Nice artical!
If I would have five computers and time at my hand I would def. try it out ;)
It is astounding to see how much power five syncronized people have.
I've run into Multibox shammies and hunters in the BGs. In each case it was rather easy to isolate the main toon - spam that name to BG chat - and cut off the head so to speak.
So if someone wants to have fun paying Blizz 5x more then I do, its all good.
Be well!
I don't believe it is fair when Key Clone is used. My good friend and I play identical twin rogues - same level - same gear - same talents - almost the same name (Riviera and Riveira). We literally look like doubles and often we get other players insisting we are somehow hacking or two boxing when we are not. Very annoying.
I'm jealous. I wish I had the finances and the drive to use key clone and multiple accounts.
I did the old kind in EQ, back in the day farming named in Bastion of Thunder. I ran five characters on three computers. That's three different mice & keyboards. It was difficult, but a fun challenge.
In the end, it isn't cheating. A single person playing a full group cannot perform all of the actions that a full group of individual players can. The only real bonus, is a sense of accomplishment, an instant group, and not having to rely others who may have poor skills or afk issues.
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