Multi-boxing with your friend's accounts

[savarin]

ip exemption.

/poke amelinda

[Slave]

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

ip exemption.

/poke amelinda

If they had an ip exemption in the first place, why would they need their friend's account? Doesn't make any sense Savarin.

[Arkyani]

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

If they had an ip exemption in the first place, why would they need their friend's account? Doesn't make any sense Savarin.

IP Exemption is for two SEPARATE people playing in one house. For example, father and son, husband and wife, and so on. It does NOT give people permission to take advantage of the exemption and two box.

The reason you cannot log in two computers from a single IP without an exemption is to prevent two boxing. The devs here were nice enough to give us a way to allow people in the same household to enjoy the game together, but sadly some people try to abuse that exemption for the wrong reason.

[Slave]

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

IP Exemption is for two SEPARATE people playing in one house. For example, father and son, husband and wife, and so on. It does NOT give people permission to take advantage of the exemption and two box.

The reason you cannot log in two computers from a single IP without an exemption is to prevent two boxing. The devs here were nice enough to give us a way to allow people in the same household to enjoy the game together, but sadly some people try to abuse that exemption for the wrong reason.

I don't think you're following all the permutations of the problem. I know all that. Everyone knows all that. My statements were assuming everyone knew everything there was to know about the rules in this matter.

In this case, only people who ALREADY have exemptions can ostensibly use their friends account to 2-box. Why would they do that? I mean it doesn't take long to level a druid or wizard up to porting level, and the added layer of people is nothing but a risk. It doesn't make any sense.

[SpartanEQ]

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

I don't think you're following all the permutations of the problem. I know all that. Everyone knows all that. My statements were assuming everyone knew everything there was to know about the rules in this matter.

In this case, only people who ALREADY have exemptions can ostensibly use their friends account to 2-box. Why would they do that? I mean it doesn't take long to level a druid or wizard up to porting level, and the added layer of people is nothing but a risk. It doesn't make any sense.

When their "friend" is not around (at work, school, etc.) they log-in as their friend to port/buff them or their group. This is essentially two-boxing even though they only log-in for a short time. It's one person playing two characters at once and it's strictly verboten.

[Slave]

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

When their "friend" is not around (at work, school, etc.) they log-in as their friend to port/buff them or their group. This is essentially two-boxing even though they only log-in for a short time. It's one person playing two characters at once and it's strictly verboten.

Maybe the problem is all this account trading and giving people access to your information. I remember this was forbidden on Live, maybe to prevent stuff like this?

[Fromage]

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

If they had an ip exemption in the first place, why would they need their friend's account? Doesn't make any sense Savarin.

"Please don't be a selfish jackass and get your friend's account banned just because you want a cleric buff or someone needs a port"

[Simreal]

I don't quite understand why multi-boxing is such a big deal.

I get that you want to encourage people to group with each other and promote the community and all that. But you also have people sitting in every zone where people frequent charging for ports, buffs, rez's, and every other thing. There aren't enough people in some zones to even form a group .. so you have to either solo which takes forever for some classes or hunt the few zones with people in them.

It seems to me that if you wanted to discourage multi-boxing .. or better yet promote grouping and community, then all you would have to do is give a bonus for groups that include players from different IP addresses, and cancel group bonuses (or even penalize) from groups that have multiple players from the same IP.

[Arkyani]

If we allowed multi-boxing, everybody would just use macroquest and group with themselves. It would totally destroy a sense of community and having to rely on others to do things.

Although, as with anything, there are pros and cons to the situation. My personal opinion though is that if they allowed multi-boxing I never would have created an account here in the first place.

[Deuces]

The IP thing wouldnt help because they can just use two different IP's if someone near them has an unsecured wireless.