Screen Sharing & the High End Raid Scene

[arsenalpow]

Yesterday, while I sat at Phara Dar and contemplated my life decisions for almost 16 hours waiting for a purple dragon to spawn in a 17 year old elf sim, something about screen sharing came across my desk. I had heard that it was possibly something that TMO and IB had done back in the day and I raised the question to the staff about it's legality.

For those of you that don't know, screen sharing is when a face tracker is logged in by a single person, then uses skype or other types of means, to broadcast his screen to the rest of his guild thus allowing everyone in his guild to bind sight essentially. This lets you crowd source tracking. Now you might be thinking, doesn't this violate the idea of "one person, one computer" which in essence is the boxing rule on Project 1999? The answer to that question is no, according to Sirken, through his messenger Braknar, it is not considered boxing.

The logic behind the ruling is that it had been happening since the IB and TMO days, the staff was aware of this, and never really felt the need to elaborate on the policy specifically. It's still happening to this day, it was happening last night at Phara Dar even.

[Mon Apr 04 01:03:32 2016] You told Fifield, 'so if you guys aren't bind sighting how are you watching this'
[Mon Apr 04 01:03:40 2016] Fifield tells you, 'skype'

Additionally, because the other people in the guild can't control the account they are watching through screen share it doesn't really count at boxing even though it could be perceived as boxing.

So this should be the norm going forward for your 17 year old classic elf sim. I'm just letting all raid guilds know that they should be adding this to their strats immediately if they want to keep up with the Joneses.

PS: warping eyeballs through walls to make them pop to the entrance has also been deemed legal from what I've been told, although I don't have a Sirken ruling in black and white for that one. YMMV.