Two-Boxing

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Originally Posted by Kevlar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never really understood the totalitarian stance against 2-boxing here. EQ is not a solo friendly game ...

You are correct, EQ is not a solo friendly game. It isn't supposed to be, other than the well-known classes and cases that can do so by its design for kiting, pets, etc. And even then the definition of 'solo' is not exactly what Wowtards would call solo today.

First law of human MMO behavior: If it is perceived as solo-friendly, you will solo. Not group. It's the reason any other MMO out there has no need for grouping. It is a big part of why people don't say 2 words to each other, or get to know many players through their characters any more.

Boxing is the same as mercs, and supposedly for the same rationale.

Originally Posted by Kevlar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

... one that takes away even a smidgen of the noob friendliness of later expacs, its even more unfriendly here. ...

Lol, what? EQ at its friendliest and most social was classic, Kunark, Velious.

Now if by n00b friendliest, you mean "easy fights, no penalties, overpowered gear, soloable or mercable, no class interdependence/socialization for travel or economy" then I guess later expansions would be all that.

If you think those are normal traits for EQ to have, then you should play on live (or Fippy to pretend to play classic) - those are the antithesis of why p99 was made and who mainly plays it.

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Btw, I hope when they check for boxing, they check machine ID and not just MAC address of network cards, since you can have 2 clients on the same machine using a different card. But also checking to ensure different machines means they would have to fake using a VM or really have 2 machines, and boxing usually isn't done acrss VMs or machines.

Legit people always play on diff machines; boxers almost never do (other than VMs maybe if they knew machine ID was being checked).

If you can detect physical host machine ID, even better to not be fooled by VMs either.