Two-Boxing

[Sethius]

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

Other guy logs in a half hour later, sees someone two boxing. Asks if he wants to join up to take out some harder named mobs...

Idealism does not always translate to reality, and I suspect that the reality is that two-boxing would be used for power leveling more than anything. Either way it cannot be proven, and I don't think I want to find out how it would/could be abused by this server...

Regardless, it is Sunday evening right now and there is currently 424 people online, so I think unless we start seeing peak evening population drop down to below 100 people we should not even consider boxing. The true grouping classic experience is what draws a lot of the crowd here, and even if groups can be hard to find sometimes, they still happen fairly regularly. The boxing rule being lifted could possibly drive more people away.

Also, I recall on live sitting in dreadlands calling out in general lfg for hours on end back in the kunark era. Remove the rosy glasses of remembrance and realize that finding a group wasn't easy even in those days (especially without a guild). It took work and patience.

Not many people on this server seem to be willing to shout out that they are lfg like we all did back on live, and if they do here, they give up after like 2 shouts. The reality is that you have to wait in a game like this, as people come and go and the group situations change. This isn't wow, and there is no lfg finder. I played SWTOR for most of this year, and people complained about never being able to find a group (no lfg finder there either), despite there being almost 300 people on the fleet on my server in the evening. I kid you not: I never heard one person shout lfg and when I checked the lfg flags, you'd rarely see more than 1 or 2 people using it out of the 300.

[Danyelle]

Boxing has nothing to do with Modern or Classic. People could, and did, box during Classic. It was only rarer because most people's PCs back then couldn't handle more than one EQ client. And the client sucked ass during that time in regards to tabbing and how it handled with the rig. Not to mention the ever present fact that people would have to pay for each account/character. They don't have to do that now either.

Just because it is more prevalent now than it was back then doesn't mean it is limited to the modern era. Thus the "It's Classic" argument is void. In fact it's more true to say IP limits are NOT Classic as Verant/Sony never had those in place.


Just saying.