Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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Bottomline, If someone wants to use multiple accounts I think they have every right to.. as we say 'its my 15 a month' on wow, but if you have multiple accounts but different computers, whats the point of multiboxing anyway? isn't the whole thing being able to make one big network?
With there not being auto-attacks, and the combat system being partially action, not even key broadcast software will do much good.
Things like not adding a follow feature will hurt the game elsewhere. In a dungeon and need to go afk because your kid cries? Too bad, now the whole group has to wait for you or leave you behind, because you can't just /follow and take care of your child. This then will have further consequences, like parents not being welcome and/or willing to group.
That being said, you could stand on your head and scream and kick, and it would still be possible and perfectly doable to multibox. Like already pointed out by others, don't make the life harder for people who play in legit ways, just because people brigade on social media. This never works.
And to finish this reply:
Look at WOW, if you'd like to see what happens when devs stray off the path they chose for their game originally, to appease/appeal to their fan base and as many new players as possible.
You have a strong vision, stick to it.
Sadly, you will never be able to stop multi boxing completely. But you can make it harder to do. Of course doing it by network will cause people who play in the same household to not be able to be on at the same time. Other games have had success doing it based on hardware, so you can not have more than one instance of the game running on a PC. However, people will still use VM's, people will still use multiple computers.
Just dont let people play on VMs with automated systems
Theyd be your wife and childs' acoounts then. Tsukasa makes a good point
who are you again?
Nice to see you again nick
The only caveat is someone making a healer alt that follows their main character on their main account, and using a notebook or something similar, heal their character when needed, effectively bypassing the whole social requirements for grouping without using macros.
Of course, this is completely negated if the game does not have an auto follow feature.
Edit: Maybe some feature where you can explicitly set the ports the game client will use to connect to the server, while restricting multiboxing in the same machine (don't allow multiple game processes to run simultaneously) may allow multiboxing to be prohibited while still allowing people in the same household to play at the same time with some minor hoops added with port forwarding shenanigans, but still...?
For my part, I live with my loved one and we are both gamers.
We are very hyped for this game, and so are many others. Not allowing multiple computers in a same house to run Ashes of Creation would probably ruin the game for many players.
I think though that these multiple accounts should be used by different persons, on different computers.
Allowing multiboxing with macros and such on a same computer is like asking for bots to farm endlessly and sell currency.
Probably streaming EverQuest...
If someone can play 3 computers manually with 3 different monitors all the power to them, I would love to see someone do that
I agree with your points, however can you answer this part of the post: "How do you prevent false positives on enforcement for families and friends who play from the same home?" I can't think of anyway that isn't a single account per IP which would mess with families, people who live in apartments, college dorms, or other shared IP scenarios.
Not sure you can call it multiboxing when you play on 3 chars on 3 pcs
If there were to be any more restrictions I'd only suggest considering limiting a freehold to one household as that will be the system most likely to be exploited early on through multiple accounts. And everyone in a household could discuss and come to a compromise.
Multi Boxed accounts should not be following each other out an about in the world to gain the advantage of double the hauling of mats, or an edge in PVP. They POSSIBLY should also be tied to the same node citizenship if they plan to multibox on the same server.