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What's your stance on multi-boxing?
In case anyone saw the dev's last podcast, with Fevir Gaming asking questions, one of the questions touched on multi-boxing, and it's potential acceptance into the game. I'll provide a link to the video, for those who who would like to see it. The question comes at the 23:00 mark, for your convenience.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141624484
My personal stance on this is a vehement "NO!". My first encounter with a multi-boxer was in a battleground in WoW. Alterac Valley, to be percise (For the Horde!). I remember players on general chat warning/complaining about somebody on the Alliance side, multi-boxing. I had nerver heard that term before, so had no clue what they were talking about. At about that time, I had just come upon a tower that I was planning to claim. I happened to see a dwarf about to run into the entrance of the same tower, ahead of me. Thinking this was going to be a fun fight, I unhorsed, and cast a spell at his back (Warlock). I was not prepared. No sooner had me spell landed, then 4 damn enhancement shaman dwarves converge on my hapless ass, proceed to place about 12 damn totems, and destroy me before I can blink en eye.
Personal story aside, I believe multi-boxing also disrupts the harmony of what this game was supposed to be about. Which is dependence on community. Why would I bother grouping with others, when I can just make my own damn group? When happening upon a resource, a multi-boxer would be able to gather much faster than a single person. And, I already listed the advantage a multi-boxer has in PvP. And, that's just to name a few.
If I'm getting something wrong here, please educate me. And, granted, the amount of multi-boxers will be exceedingly small, considering the resources needed to maintain multiple accounts, as well as the hardware needed to run the program. And, I'm not against people owning multiple accounts, if that's what they want. It's when you take that out of game advantage, and translate it into the game, that I have a problem. As I said earlier, prevalence aside, It's the spirit of the matter.
Thank you.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141624484
My personal stance on this is a vehement "NO!". My first encounter with a multi-boxer was in a battleground in WoW. Alterac Valley, to be percise (For the Horde!). I remember players on general chat warning/complaining about somebody on the Alliance side, multi-boxing. I had nerver heard that term before, so had no clue what they were talking about. At about that time, I had just come upon a tower that I was planning to claim. I happened to see a dwarf about to run into the entrance of the same tower, ahead of me. Thinking this was going to be a fun fight, I unhorsed, and cast a spell at his back (Warlock). I was not prepared. No sooner had me spell landed, then 4 damn enhancement shaman dwarves converge on my hapless ass, proceed to place about 12 damn totems, and destroy me before I can blink en eye.
Personal story aside, I believe multi-boxing also disrupts the harmony of what this game was supposed to be about. Which is dependence on community. Why would I bother grouping with others, when I can just make my own damn group? When happening upon a resource, a multi-boxer would be able to gather much faster than a single person. And, I already listed the advantage a multi-boxer has in PvP. And, that's just to name a few.
If I'm getting something wrong here, please educate me. And, granted, the amount of multi-boxers will be exceedingly small, considering the resources needed to maintain multiple accounts, as well as the hardware needed to run the program. And, I'm not against people owning multiple accounts, if that's what they want. It's when you take that out of game advantage, and translate it into the game, that I have a problem. As I said earlier, prevalence aside, It's the spirit of the matter.
Thank you.
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I don't see multi-boxing as an issue so much as it is someone who also bots those multiple accounts. Very difficult thing to police though either way.
Anytime you use your credit card for an advantage that another player does not . Your game just became pay to win.
if i am wrong correct me as i dont really get the whole multiboxing thing plus would never do it as it seems like a colossal waste of money :)
10 man PVP guild spots multi boxer...wipes him out...
multi boxer spends another 30+ min setting up and syncing accounts.
If multi boxer tries to arena will get reported and banned.
If goes on a killing gank spree...reported and banned.
As far as I care if the person wants to spend that much time and money to give a advantage/risk.
while financially supporting the developers then i don't mind tbh.
Its a bad precedent and I hope AoC doesnt go that way. Im all for person liberty, if you want 5 game accounts so be it. Because of the PvP aspects of this game I see multiboxing being problematic. If it was a PvP zone, thats one thing you could avoid it but if its open world then boxing should be discouraged.
if i am wrong correct me as i dont really get the whole multiboxing thing plus would never do it as it seems like a colossal waste of money <img alt="????" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/svg/1f642.svg" />
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I really hope your correct on this. in AA alts are an absolute plague. Also lets be honest Pay 2 Advantage is Pay 2 Win :)
maybe make it more prohibitive with Mobile number account authentication for example.
In the end, boxers have to pay 15$ a month per account just like us, I dont see the issue.
They can only control one avatar at a time right ?
If they can control more than one, then they are scripting and botting.
For which intrepid said, that wont be tolerated.
I think intrepids stance is you can have as many alts and accounts as you like.
But you can only control one at any time.
Still exploitable if you use one alt for Bait and the other for attack.
Still exploitable if you have 20 follow, and use them as shields.
Still exploitable if you park one at each resource node and just flick from one to the other as soon as the resource spawn.
You cant be at more than one place solo.....you can when you multibox.
But would that really be any different to multiple players playing anyway in the global scheme of things ?
I dont think its a problem unless botting is involved personally.