Bypass IP Block?

[fishingme]

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

Everquest isn't exactly a solo game. By neglecting IP exemptions for months at a time, you're neglecting entire GROUPS of friends/family who, after having a positive initial experience, would be more likely to convice other people to play. People stay longer if they have someone to play with.

1) Spend 5 minutes doing IP exemptions daily
2) Watch population stop nose diving
3) ???
4) Profit

That's actually a pretty good idea.

[nilbog]

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

Everquest isn't exactly a solo game. By neglecting IP exemptions for months at a time, you're neglecting entire GROUPS of friends/family who, after having a positive initial experience, would be more likely to convice other people to play. People stay longer if they have someone to play with.

1) Spend 5 minutes doing IP exemptions daily
2) Watch population stop nose diving
3) ???
4) Profit

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

IP exemptions are being completed. There are plans in the works to alleviate this issue for the future.

Amelinda currently does the exemptions. Long ago, I did them, and let me tell you... it is time-consuming. Rogean created an alternate in-game command which helps speed this along.

Anyways, IP exemptions do exist and I am in the process of decreasing the wait time.

[Kinosh]

Its been I believe 2 to 3 months for my Ip exemption.. Please reply :/

[batkiller]

Read the post before yours :P

[Hollywood]

With all due respect, we should have two connections allowed, and anymore after that require exemption.

Whatever the percentage or ratio may be, there's far more scenarios where two people want to play together, as opposed to three, or four, or an entire Italian family and all their relatives.

And if turns out that a lot of people two box, who cares? 'Boxing' generally affects the economy due to a market flood of products because they become 'easier' to get.
But given the population of casters whom have ZERO problem soloing tons of content already, the market is not in shortage in comparison to the actual low population that does exist. And in some cases it's over abundant, which is because people can solo so many things.

So, what exactly are we risking by letting a household have two accounts logged in?

And let's talk about other positive reasons for it:

A) You're short a person for a group and NO ONE is on..surprise surprise. Just bring your other character. If it's a tough group with tough mobs, it's not exactly easy to do two things at once.
B) Security and peace of mind when dealing transactions/transferring valuables. How many people have had to look for a 'trustworthy stranger' because they really needed to give money from one character of theres to another? Only to find it go bad and they got ripped off? Why make this important aspect difficult for people?
C) Self buffing - you already earned your level 60 druid..and you spend a lot of time being generous and buffing others and helping - you paid it forward with your kindness- so why can't you also help yourself as well?


Seems to me that the negative connotation or 'what if' stigma regarding dual boxing is more potent than the realization of how it could actually be beneficial. And that fear is caused by horror stories of when it's been abused - by people who sought to do so intentionally.

If you let this minority dictate, then eventually everything will be taken away.

Do us all a favor and edit the IP limitations; that will give us a population boost, a server activity boost, happier general populace, it will bring more people back and it will also ease up some of your IP exemption work load.

[superapan]

This IP exemption thing is incredibly unnecessary and it just hurts the game. If I would want to violate the server rules by two-boxing or whatever, I'd just boot up my laptop and initiate the 3G connection. That or what was already mentioned - a phone. Voila. People who don't live in the third world usually have flat-rates for mobile data anyways.

So what exactly does this 1 login per IP accomplish?

[Harazzer]

I posted the request in march, bumped it before they started doing them recently when it hit 60 days and have since bumped it again. Its approaching 3 months that for me and my roommate to play together we have to use a shitty laggy air card that costs like 100 bucks a month in the bandwidth usage. I am not sure if we are being actively neglected or what but this is absurd.

[EremesGuile92]

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

With all due respect, we should have two connections allowed, and anymore after that require exemption.

Whatever the percentage or ratio may be, there's far more scenarios where two people want to play together, as opposed to three, or four, or an entire Italian family and all their relatives.

And if turns out that a lot of people two box, who cares? 'Boxing' generally affects the economy due to a market flood of products because they become 'easier' to get.
But given the population of casters whom have ZERO problem soloing tons of content already, the market is not in shortage in comparison to the actual low population that does exist. And in some cases it's over abundant, which is because people can solo so many things.

So, what exactly are we risking by letting a household have two accounts logged in?

And let's talk about other positive reasons for it:

A) You're short a person for a group and NO ONE is on..surprise surprise. Just bring your other character. If it's a tough group with tough mobs, it's not exactly easy to do two things at once.
B) Security and peace of mind when dealing transactions/transferring valuables. How many people have had to look for a 'trustworthy stranger' because they really needed to give money from one character of theres to another? Only to find it go bad and they got ripped off? Why make this important aspect difficult for people?
C) Self buffing - you already earned your level 60 druid..and you spend a lot of time being generous and buffing others and helping - you paid it forward with your kindness- so why can't you also help yourself as well?


Seems to me that the negative connotation or 'what if' stigma regarding dual boxing is more potent than the realization of how it could actually be beneficial. And that fear is caused by horror stories of when it's been abused - by people who sought to do so intentionally.

If you let this minority dictate, then eventually everything will be taken away.

Do us all a favor and edit the IP limitations; that will give us a population boost, a server activity boost, happier general populace, it will bring more people back and it will also ease up some of your IP exemption work load.

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

This IP exemption thing is incredibly unnecessary and it just hurts the game. If I would want to violate the server rules by two-boxing or whatever, I'd just boot up my laptop and initiate the 3G connection. That or what was already mentioned - a phone. Voila. People who don't live in the third world usually have flat-rates for mobile data anyways.

So what exactly does this 1 login per IP accomplish?

+1

[Tarathiel]

boxing will never be allowed on this server.... dead horse is dead

[AllDayAmbrotosAllDay]

If you don't like the no boxing rule, there are dozens of other shitty servers you can go to where you're allowed to box. Have fun never grouping there.