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If corruption is given to everybody in a party/group, then this would be great.
On the other hand, if loot is bound to character, and a multiboxer gets their other characters corrupted just to get loot from them, then that could be an abuse.
I'm not sure how that could be prevented, though, since you could still do that with a friend, or even pay people to destroy your character enough times in a remote location to get corrupted and then take them out for the chance at the loot.
So, I like the idea of the current stance on multiboxing, though that could change as we get more information on how the systems work.
Testing this in alpha would be a good place to see how it goes.
With your test environments ahead, it'd be an opportunity to investigate and test it's impact more thoroughly so that you could have a firm stance on it in later test phases/approaching release.
Please don't allow it.
Then there's no need to start yet another thread. Keep it to the Megathread.
If you do, of course i will abuse it, but who wouldn't? It is something that can make you ahead of other players, I can get myself a full party going without the need to actually interact with other players. Bard will become a useless class because everyone will multi box one. This is just an obvious one, but I get the idea that you may have more than 1 person per household. I think that you should put a rule that any obvious multi boxing will be banable. So if someone is using the same IP address, the GM should get a flag to look at this player. This will reduce drastically any abuse of this issue.
It's called discussing it. Are you a moderator? I'll post whatever I want to discuss with other players. This is general discussion.
It's called being considerate.
I have pretty much always bought 2 accounts. 1 is my main and another is usually a mule account to hold items or whatever.
I have always logged into both accounts on one computer to trade items, but never played them together as in adventure or go exp with both. So with the way this reads, I am not going to be able to log in 2 accounts to trade items? Even if I do not "play" them both? That seems like a shame to me. I do agree with the multi-boxing to go out and adventure, but not if it means I can not even use my accounts to trade items and whatnot.
Stop trolling me.
TIL that honest and informative responses are trolling.
You have no idea what trolling is, do you?
Don't man!
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I wouldn't want to be on a "multi-box" server as a lot of multiboxers farm, use automated technology, and/or cause economy problems. On the other hand I have had friends 2-box without automated assistance quite well and were a lot of fun to group with. Ban the cheaters and the multi-box gold farmers, don't make it hard/impossible for a group/family on one IP to play this gorgeous MMO.
does someone know how the intrepid solution works with virtual maschines?
theoretically I could run several virtual machines on one computer and run the game once in each VM. this could trick the software that is supposed to prevent multiple executions of the game on one computer. are there any solutions to prevent this?
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Why should a player care about groups if they can just solo the dungeon. If you are going to allow for multi-boxing, then allow me the advantage of becoming as strong as an entire group combined and soloing the same dungeon. This way the game eventually becomes a nice solo game where player interaction is only required for raids....maybe.
Please remember this thread is talking about multiboxing, not botting. Botting is against the terms of service.
And what about the hardware? I can buy multiple PC's and switch.
I do not care about the multiboxing as long as only 1 person can farm a certain ore, tree or fishing spot for example.
For main plus two support classes. PvP, just focussed on main and forfeited the support classes every time.
Done for two reasons
1) So I could play at any time I chose with immediate start up solo.
2) So I could initiate group play at any time and have the key non-popular support classes in party on tap.
I would always bench my boxed account for a live player.
Now, I hope that AoC ends up gaining a well varied choice of player classes so the above issue(s) don`t raise themselves again.
And I hope that playing in large, medium and small groups and/or solo stay as vaible as they currently appear to be.
I also hope to be able to box on the same pc or laptop if have to, so that another household member might be able to play intermittently if they chose.
On one hand, if a person is a casual player and does not have a constant group to play with, then it helps them to have support characters to follow. However, it removes a lot of social interactions and the ability and/or need to find people to play with.
I'd worry for example that in Ashes, people would use several characters to facilitate their crafting needs by maxing out all professions on different characters, but to be honest, that could probably be done without a need to log them all in at the same time.
Overall though, I worry the most about bots and gold/account sellers. Those are the things that destroyed a lot of MMOs in the past.
Some of us on Resna are running around with 2 billion gold!!!
we are not. we are players and just like in any community there are bad actors who specifically want to ruin the game ecconomy for their own profit.
i think its a little unfair to generalize and say we are all bad and should be shut out of the game when there are streamers who cause more trouble within games for others than any multiboxer does.
there are situations where streamers have blatently said on stream "i have friends working for X company, you are going to get banned" and then a day or two later they are banned for silly things like "botting" because the streamer wanted to quest in the area where the multiboxer was questing so instead of peacefully questing in the same area or asking if they can jump in and get their quest done they asked their 40k+ viewers to report someone for "botting" and the multiboxer was banned within 48 hours. (it was not me who was banned)
this does not mean streamers shouldnt be allowed to play the game just because 1 streamer or a group of streamers did something naferious.
i also feel like its a bit unfair to discriminate against lower income earners who cannot afford to spend money on multiple pc's and hardware infrastructure inorder to play multiple accounts, this is just a paywall which makes no sence at all, its like saying "we are going to build a park for all the people in the world, its going to have all the stuff you would want at a park, there is just a $5000 entry fee", why? what does limiting 1 account per pc do? i mean other than shut out a vast majority of the multiboxing community.
after paying for the game and then paying a monthly subscription for the accounts and then paying for "expansions" which is more often than not just a way to make people pay for content they already payed for it becomes to much to be expected to buy more hardware.
unfortunatly due to the hardware requirement for multiboxing i wont be able to afford to pay for the game and the subscriptions and the hardware upgrade so im saving my money for the next game hoping eventually we get a game dev that has an open mind and does not just paywall most of us out of the game before we even have a chance to play.
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