I played Shards of Dalaya (a different EQEmu) for about a year before finding p99. The rule there is you can 2box but cant 3box. At the high end, not too many people boxed anyway so it didnt really matter, but just as people here have described, it completely rapes the low to mid game. Any zone where people would goto level was deserted aside from a few duo's boxing. While that may be fine and dandy for the people boxing, it also presented the problem that the high end was absolutely full of Tanks and healers, but no dps. The reason? Everyone boxed a cleric/druid/shmmy and a warrior/SK/pally, just due to the simple fact that leveling a DPS took 4x as long. It really just presented more problems than it helped address, and as a side effect depleted the population.
and regardless, i dont think anyone remembers their classic experience as abunch of horridly played duo's sprawled across norath.
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