Two-Boxing

[Sethius]

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

Eqmac is close.

Up to POP then frozen in time, and 2 boxing is AOK.
I have seen more than a few P99'ers there.

As for two boxing not being classic, once Kunark was out 6 months, it was not unusual.

Two boxing is classic, I recall my good friend multi-boxing as early as Velious (and I have no doubt it happened before). I myself could not two box due to my computer being barely good enough at the time to run EQ and not having a separate pc for the second box.

I think the part that is not classic is that multiple accounts on this server are free and everyone now days has the hardware available to multi-box without issue. "Back in the day" you had to pay for multiple accounts and also have a very potent pc (that most people probably did not have) or multiple pc's in order to multi-box, so it was not as practical or simple for most people to multi-box.

That being said, grouping is classic too (I would guess from experience that single-boxing and grouping was the more common play-style during the time period of classic eq). With boxing, grouping tends to be decreased as people can just avoid the lfg process and just play solo. With a server population the size of P99, it is possible (if not probable) that grouping would be reduced to unacceptable levels were players allowed to box, particularly given that anyone can have multiple accounts for free and every pc now days can run many copies of EQ at the same time.

tl;dr: I agree with you [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]