What's the beef with boxing?

[Daldaen]

Basically people want you to be forced to invite them into your group and be forced to interact with them whether you want to or not. These are the same people who whine when I don't feel like taking their 100 plat for porting them somewhere. Also why boxing was fantastic, you didn't have to bother other people to speed up your travel or recovery.

You wouldn't be forced to box. Especially if there were an IP limit put on that stuck you to 2 or 3 boxed characters. There is so much that requires more than 2 characters especially in Velious. 2 boxing would just be convenience mainly for transfers, ports, rezzes and filling final group spots or filling in a group spot that was vacated where the group wouldve collapsed without it.

[Swish]

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

Basically people want you to be forced to invite them into your group and be forced to interact with them whether you want to or not. These are the same people who whine when I don't feel like taking their 100 plat for porting them somewhere. Also why boxing was fantastic, you didn't have to bother other people to speed up your travel or recovery.

You wouldn't be forced to box. Especially if there were an IP limit put on that stuck you to 2 or 3 boxed characters. There is so much that requires more than 2 characters especially in Velious. 2 boxing would just be convenience mainly for transfers, ports, rezzes and filling final group spots or filling in a group spot that was vacated where the group wouldve collapsed without it.

You could technically solo Ragefire with 2-boxing.

Not surprised you're a fan of boxing Daldaen.

[toolshed]

Boxing on Live made sense with the Bazaar. I was able to box my merchant and play the market while playing my main.

[skootr]

server owner says no. /tread

[kildone]

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

server owner says no. /tread

My question is not about boxing on P99 specifically, so you post added nothing to the discussion, this is the off topic forum after all.

If you could provide info on why the server owner says no that would be helpful. So please go express you desire to end other people's threads elsewhere.

I find most of this thread very interesting.

[myriverse]

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

Man you really went all out just to make a pun on the word "boxing". Not sure whether I should be impressed or feel sorry for you ...

If it makes you feel better, most of it was just copy/pasted it from somewhere.

[sox7d]

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

I have seen comments in other threads but wanted to hear opinions in a thread specific to the issue. I honestly don't get it and think the arguments against do not hold water.

It very likely I am just ignorant on the issue. These opinions against are likely based on experience. Did P99 ever try it?

On live EQ I knew a number of folks who two boxed and one guy who would play up to 5. These guys always preferred grouping to boxing. Always glad to drop down to one character to allow folks into a group.

On blue 99 when the server was new I could understand a ban, but when I was leveling 1-35 two years ago the server was so top heavy that I had a real hard time finding anyone to group with. So much that I stopped playing my cleric to play a Druid so I could solo effectively. Part of this is likely due to mostly being able to play during non peak times?

I would suck at boxing myself but at least I could play any character like maybe a warrior if I had a cleric on the side to buff and heal. I don't want to get banned though so...

On red99, 6 months ago and now recently on a new character I can rarely find a group even in CB or Unrest?

Thoughts on boxing MMOs in general? Advice on finding groups on P99 servers < lvl 40?

8/10, well done.