bring back dual boxing.

[simp403]

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

Hey that drop transfer of a fungi who got stolen from someone was funny as shit btw.. maybe a dual box transfer would have kept another dedicated player but now he's in 2002.

Who the fuck drop transfers a fungi?

[Agecroft]

/checks population

..1400+ on blue alone

Who is leaving again? To go where?

[simp403]

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

/checks population

..1400+ on blue alone

Who is leaving again? To go where?

We're leaving for red.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by simp403 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Who the fuck drop transfers a fungi?

A dedicated player that apparently has no friends.

[jcr4990]

I logged on P2002. It was an embarrassment. Client sucks its glitchy and awful. I like PoP era a lot more than Velious and prefer the ability to 2 box but I just couldn't deal with how bad the client is. Not to mention theres less ppl playing there than Red server and we all know how shitty the population is over there.

I would LOVE to see 2 box allowed on P99 (only 2) but its quite obvious it'll never happen with the irrational hatred of the idea by so many folks here. So just gotta deal with it.

[kaev]

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

No.

[kaev]

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

The only good that can come from this thread is BDA deciding to move servers.

Gosh, wouldn't it be great to be rid of them? Might make a poll

stop teasing and do it. Shit or get off the pot!

[Whirled]

That would be interesting to do a patch test - allow up to 2 ip same address only for 1 month & view results. +1 vote for science.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would LOVE to see 2 box allowed on P99 (only 2) but its quite obvious it'll never happen with the irrational hatred of the idea by so many folks here. So just gotta deal with it.

More so than than the "irrational hatred" is the how do you police permitted boxing? A blanket ban on boxing and requiring IP exemptions for multi-player households is far less overhead than allowing 2 clients per person at a time whether on one computer or two computers.

When you get into allowing people 2 clients per person/computer/connection, then you start running into the issue of GMs having to police whether that is 4 people sitting at a camp, 2 people with 2 computers and 2 clients each, 1 person playing 4 characters across 2 boxes 2 connections.

With boxing, the server population would increase by at least 50% at any given time. EC would be loaded with 400+ people idling a trader character. People would just load up a port bot / heal bot instead of asking for other people's help. People would power level themselves, thereby monopolizing more content. People would be able to lock down two different camps by themselves. People could lock down harder camps by themselves pushing what would otherwise be their duo/trio partners into other camps to hold down themselves. Raid encounters would become even more trivial since raid leaders could bring along a rez cleric to every raid and idle it at character select in the event of a wipe or players bring an extra DPS class and AFK auto attack.

Live was able to disincentivize boxing by requiring players to buy a new copy of EQ + play a monthly fee. If players wanted to box, Verant/Sony got the benefit of it. Here there is no such disincentive besides taking 5 minutes to make a new EMU account and no benefit to P99. Live accounts became inaccessible when no one was paying the monthly fee. Here, accounts live on in perpetuity and get adopted by friends and guild members.

[Ele]

grrr, who moved this thread to RNF while I was typing my post. Now I can't edit.