2-boxing

[Vaighn]

don't ban me just asking!!

if my roommate wants to play and we don't want to wait a month for the petition to be answered, can't we just buy another $30 Linksys Router and set up a 2nd wireless network for him to connect to?

[Artah]

don't ban me just asking!!

if my roommate wants to play and we don't want to wait a month for the petition to be answered, can't we just buy another $30 Linksys Router and set up a 2nd wireless network for him to connect to?

Unless your ISP gave you more than 1 public IP addresses then no, you would need a second internet service line brought to your house. You can always use your mobile phone to connect to the internet or buy a wiress card from your service provider or you can ask your neighter to rent their wireless internet for the 2nd computer.

[azxten]

VPN

[doraf]

What is so taboo to play more than one account at once on this server anyway? It was OK in classic.

[Caridry]

What is so taboo to play more than one account at once on this server anyway? It was OK in classic.

pretty much eliminates the need to group, which sucks for solo players.

edit: basically it keeps the zone/group population healthy.

[azeth]

What is so taboo to play more than one account at once on this server anyway? It was OK in classic.

not enough folks playing to allow for 1 person to lock down item camps.

[Vaighn]

not enough folks playing to allow for 1 person to lock down item camps.

Don't we have full guilds of hardcore players that make that impossible anyway? What's the difference between a 2-boxer and a huge guild full of assholes?

[azeth]

Don't we have full guilds of hardcore players that make that impossible anyway? What's the difference between a 2-boxer and a huge guild full of assholes?

haha, i understand. the difference though is that you can combat one of them with a simple IP block.

the guild full of assholes problem is a beast unto itself.

[doraf]

Don't we have full guilds of hardcore players that make that impossible anyway? What's the difference between a 2-boxer and a huge guild full of assholes?

EXACTLY!

[Silentone]

Smells like hasbinband in here

[Vaighn]

I just googled poopsock. lol.

[Swish]

What is so taboo to play more than one account at once on this server anyway? It was OK in classic.

Verant/Sony never said no to more subscriptions.

This server has a smaller population than the live servers did at this time. Finding groups as non-essential classes is tough enough without zoning into MM/Unrest/etc to see a bunch of boxing groups.

These 2-boxing threads need deleting, its not abortion or euthanasia and is not a moral issue up for discussion. If you want to box, go and play on other EQemu servers, they'd love to have you.

[doraf]

Verant/Sony never said no to more subscriptions.

This server has a smaller population than the live servers did at this time. Finding groups as non-essential classes is tough enough without zoning into MM/Unrest/etc to see a bunch of boxing groups.

These 2-boxing threads need deleting, its not abortion or euthanasia and is not a moral issue up for discussion. If you want to box, go and play on other EQemu servers, they'd love to have you.

It was only a question, not a request. I play one toon and always have since May 1999. I have seen a lot of bans on the server due to 2-boxing and I just think it is rather ridiculous, so I asked. I think 4 or 6-boxing is excessive, but I don't really see a problem with 2-boxing. I don't spend a lot of time trolling the boards, so I may have missed some logical reason why 2-boxing is so wrong.

[Danyelle]

It was only a question, not a request. I play one toon and always have since May 1999. I have seen a lot of bans on the server due to 2-boxing and I just think it is rather ridiculous, so I asked. I think 4 or 6-boxing is excessive, but I don't really see a problem with 2-boxing. I don't spend a lot of time trolling the boards, so I may have missed some logical reason why 2-boxing is so wrong.

He gave you the reason though lol.

It's not necessarily that it's some terrible terrible evil. (Though i'm sure some people here think that way...)

The thing is, on Live there were a few factors that made it ok:

1. To box you had to pay for more than one account (Until it went F2P. And even then, unless you play on Test, you still need to pay to enjoy the game...across all accounts). The extra costs over a game deterred people from making more than two, maybe three max, accounts to box. Unless they were either rich or willing to burn money over an MMO like that. This meant there was still grouping room. On P99, and EQEmu as a whole, there is no subscription fees. Unless they IP limit you, you are only limited by the clients your computer can handle. Considering WinEQ lets you use multiple eqclient.ini's to allow for one maxed graphical client and the others all at bare bones graphics, not to mention EQ could practically run on a Gameboy Advanced as it is, this usually means people can load like 20 toons. I heard of someone on PEQ that did like 40... That's well past "room for grouping" and into "lol I have my own guild and raid force".

2. The player base was MUCH larger on Live back then, and still is today. Not to mention people back then generally had less than stellar computers. With the lower EQEmu population and the rising availability of good PC hardware, allowing unrestricted boxing means people would never get to group. You'd be forced to box or solo. SEE: PEQ Server.

As for why they don't Limit it to 2 or 3 toons and remove IP exemptions to ensure no one is taking advantage of them to box more? *shrug*. They just don't. That's what Nilbog wants so we kinda gotta deal with it. lol

[Nuesnada]

pls disregard previous text mistook this for an other 2 boxing thread .


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