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

Just don't allow duel boxing.

Ideally this is what you would do, but I believe when everyone was complaining about this happening back when Teal existed the staff said it's not really easily feasible to do.

I mean think about it, even if there was some easy way to try and initially block people from doing that, how do you prevent workarounds? People will just VPN into one of the servers.

Monitoring it in person and applying a boxing test to the player would be a pretty difficult mechanism to have be effective as well. When you don't have someone playing two characters at once in the same place at the same time, how would you confirm they're boxing? I.e. when you watch someone boxing now, what you look out for is potential flags in terms of what the two characters are doing together (e.g., auto-following, only one character moving at a time, etc.). When you don't have the second character for reference, it would be very difficult to confirm if that person is playing another character on another server. You wouldn't even be able to apply the current boxing test to that person because you'd have to be able to ID their character on the other server first, which would be virtually impossible to do if people were using VPNs, different computers, etc.

Saying don't allow boxing is all well and good (and I would certainly love it if that was a rule if they had two servers), but in reality it's not really easy to prevent it.