I’ve recently just started my 2nd trail run of Eve as I am burning out on WoW. I’ve read thread posts in this section but I’m a little confused about Eve and multi-boxing, and I was hoping to get some feedback.

My background: currently I am dual boxing in WoW using Octopus, Jamba and macros. I’ve stuck to button broadcasting only, as I am not sure how to setup up mouse click broadcasting and tbh button broadcasting suits me fine.

But I am getting bored with WoW and am turned off by the whole RealId concept, so when I play now it’s limited to raiding on my main or grinding another team to 80 (my 2 sexy locks are on 73 atm).


Now from talking to guildies who have played Eve, it seems an easy dual-box setup is one toon mining and jettisoning cargo pods, while the 2nd toon sits there in a barge and runs the pods back to base when they are full.

I could see this getting boring fast and would be looking at something a little more complex in the future, such as trading, manufacturing and transporting, maybe one of the toons would transport the crap to sell while the other guards him.

Now to my EVE questions


  • Can you dual box in a similar way in EvE as you can in WoW using Octopus to generate key presses between master/slave toons?
  • Are there /follow/assist macros I can use?
  • EvE seems to be all about the mouse clicking, is there a way to key bind abilities and attributes to limit the amount of clicking required?
  • I run with 2 screens, is it possible to drag the millions of menus off my main screen?
  • And finally, what are some of your set-ups out there?


Cheers