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Originally Posted by loramin
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Leaving aside the other (excellent) points about how not "everyone boxed", there's a more important point you're missing: no one free boxed back in the day.
If you wanted to box back in the day you had to pay extra for a special DSL/cable/ISDN line, and you had to pay for multiple accounts and multiple computers to play them on. That cost a significant chunk of change.
With Project 1999 though a modern computer, with a standard (no longer super expensive) DSL/cable line can run 6 "boxes" all from a single box. And if boxing was allowed all 6 accounts would be free. That's nothing like it was in '99, when boxing was extremely limited just becaus of the cost.
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I was a broke ass college student in 1999 and I two boxed. In fact, there was broadband in my area in 1997. And I didn't even have to pay extra to hook up multiple computers
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And while I don't think allowing two boxing would be all that destructive to the server even - but yes you're right lots of free 6 boxing would be on the server and it would be utterly destructive. Do we really want sam deathwalker on this server?
The only gripe I really have about the no two boxing rule is that doing item transfers gets to be a pain in the ass. Paying for ports and rezzes or getting a guildy to do it aren't that bad, but transfers are just *groan* and kind of petty to not allow boxing. Shared bank while not classic would be a good compromise.
I'm sure there is a decent amount of two boxing with VPNs and multiple computers though. I've run into a lot of PLing druids where the PLeveler talks and the Plevelee barely does anything.