EQLIVE True box server - Page 3

AzzarTheGod · #21 11-30-2015, 02:57 AM

Boxing is for children and manchilds.

Weekapaug · #22 11-30-2015, 06:42 AM

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How do they prevent you from playing more than one account on one pc? Wouldnt the type of person who boxes 6+ accounts already have workarounds for whatever they have planned?

I'm not a networking guy so of someone wants to clarify or point out what I have wrong, please do, but I would guess it has to do with IPs and Mac addresses. Every physical device has it's own address on a network so I'm sure they can filter that. Probably the same thing p99 does when the server auto bans accounts logged in on the same box even though those accounts are IP exempted. (Someone posted that this happened to them a while back). So even if you do the things people do to hide their real IP and whatnot to cover their tracks when cheating in games, it's still going to be looking for game instances on the same box. Or something.

Bear in mind that boxing is allowed as long as it's one instance per box, like the boxers did it in 99. This is just a step to make it less convenient and to make it harder for the 3rd party software boxers so that hopefully there won't be a group of macroed mages sitting on every camp of value after the first week. Or so I gather.

Zade · #23 11-30-2015, 09:08 AM

whatever method they will have of stopping boxing, people will figure a way around it. you would be amazed at the lengths people go to to box here. Live is a whole new level of neckbeard. if they have to buy new PCs, they will. But I don't see that happening on a hardware level. they will figure something "else" out, like our white knights do here.