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Volgaris wrote: »

This is bad design. The game already lacks structure and this design just adds to the chaos. That's going to impact a lot of players that don't engage in this and will eventually impact them enough to the point they leave. There needs to be some guard rails on it, is my point.

Again though, it's bad design in your opinion, but it's Steven's preferred design, because he wants all of this in his game. Because he experienced this in his inspirational games and there you did have server rep, even if you had a ton of alts. Mostly because it takes time to get an alt to a proper stage of progress, which means that each of your characters will get their own rep and quite often people in your own guild would start disliking you, if they know you have certain alts that do random bs in the game. I've seen this happen a ton of times myself.

And keeping your alts secret from your guild just brings us back to what I already said - minus rep. Though even those secrets are rarely kept for too long. Someone somewhere usually finds out and either rats you out or starts going after you themselves.

So can I use a single keyboard to send signals to all 5 of my computers? Single input to 5 computers running different accounts? There'd be no way for intrepid to detect that. It'd be fairly easy to setup. I'd probably use 1 keyboard to the main pc, and a game pad of some kind for the other 4 or 5 or 10. Just need to send a few to command to the followers. Follow, jump, eat, target of target, attacks, buffs, ect. normally about 10 different inputs per follower is enough depending on it's class.

1 man takes on 13 other players hahah glorious
We won’t have a game
People won’t play that.
The current stance seems all they can do.
Multi family on one Ip 😎 cool.
1 man playing more than one account auto blocking and getting healed by the bot commands through pixel detection is a whole different thing.
Any good bot maker can get around most of this but it’s so obvious it’s being done should be easy to ban too.
It should be a bannable offense.
A mule sitting at a bank is not hurting anything I think we can all agree to that.

As the title says. If your main is in a guild and you bring an alt into that same guild it shouldn't count towards the guilds player count. Since guild member count will be a mechanic in the game alts shouldn't be invited into the Guild because they clog the numbers. Since it's the same account the two characters can't be logged in at the same time, it won't give the guild any advantage in anything really. It'll help with the GuildName1 GuildName2 GuildName3 issue we see, to an extent. This is just a way to help keep players that want to play together, together. We're not all in discord all the time, I personally like to play some music and engage in some mindless gathering and crafting for hours here and there. But if my alt isn't in the guild chat i'll miss the LFM for somethingsomethingsomething, that I wanted to do with my main.

Just a feature that adds to the game without breaking anything, a no brainer in my mind. But maybe I didn't think of something.

Yes.

Also, I've been seeing the content has been removed a lot. I'm starting to think it's an account called Unknown, and they're just randomly posting "This content has been removed." on threads...

So can I use a single keyboard to send signals to all 5 of my computers? Single input to 5 computers running different accounts? There'd be no way for intrepid to detect that. It'd be fairly easy to setup. I'd probably use 1 keyboard to the main pc, and a game pad of some kind for the other 4 or 5 or 10. Just need to send a few to command to the followers. Follow, jump, eat, target of target, attacks, buffs, ect. normally about 10 different inputs per follower is enough depending on it's class.

If they need to be different inputs for each computer and some is "multiboxing" by just leaving a character in area to watch for a spawn or something. Then I don't really think of that as multiboxing. To me multiboxing is using multiple accounts together to achieve something. Like dungeon running, pvp, gathering defense ect. Just being logged in at town with a mule while your main is out pvping or something isn't multiboxing.

As a multiboxer I have to say allowing multiboxing in Ashes will break it. The game just doesn't have room for it. It's already a pretty niche design with their concept of PvX, splitting the focus between PvPers and PvEers, if they were to add in multiboxers it'll break not only the PvE content but also the PvP content. It breaks it in other games too but the consequences here would be even worse. Allowing this play style would bleed more players than it brought in. Imagine you're running around gathering and not only do you get ganked but you get ganked by a multiboxer, talk about insult to injury... the PvE crowd is already on the fence about the game, this would just push them away. Looks like their not going to allow this anyways, which is the right choice.

I do agree there a legit reasons to multibox. I found it really fun clearing dungeons. Even brought my group into a raid and that was interesting lol. PvP was fun, but i'd fight other multiboxers. Fighting a single player was pointless. Overall though multiboxing goes against the spirit of the mmos. I'll do it if allowed, but prefer it not be a thing.

Volgaris wrote: »

..... I think Ashes lends itself to be alt friendly, maybe too much so.....

There is no such thing as too much of a good thing, especially when it requires a monthly.


Edit: the above comment does nothing to progress the OPs thoughts on the item at hand but did seem distantly relevant

I expect for them to try and go outside the box with this one. Its quite easy to come up with really cool stuff, like the bard got a pretty cool and uniqe kit because it is very clear what a bard is.

For example:
•An AOE snare becomes a pit of zombie hands dragging and pulling the enemy.
•A heal ability that spawns little gremlings that run to the nearest and most damaged ally and hug them.

Fun stuff like that i do expect.

Just go play a solo game.
The anti social community is getting out of hand with their entitled stance on a MMO…
Let’s remind them what that actually means.
Find a solo game to ruin your self into oblivion.
Please stop trying to come here and showing your emo kid I gotta be alone downy inspirations.
Go play another game this ones not for you.