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ExperienceTrio
08-26-2008, 11:27 PM
Hello,

Myself and a friend of I dumped FFXI for WoW almost 1 1/2 years ago.

We're looking to go back to FFXI but we want to multi-box if we do, we each want to do 3 characters, 1 healer + 2 dd, 1 tank/puller + 2 dd.

I see everywhere about multi-boxing for WoW and I've only seen notes about it for FFXI, I'm wondering if anyone has experience in doing this for this game and what kind of hardware is needed. I would prefer to run 3 sessions of FFXI per computer (i.e. all of my 3 toons on my computer and his 3 on his). With FFXI at maxed settings in windower before I left I had roughly 20% CPU utilization and I've since upgraded so I don't foresee that being an issue hardware wise.

The main concern before I go buy 2 copies of FFXI and KeyClone is if it will work to even broadcast the commands I can figure out the macro's and playability of it so long as I know that if I press alt - 1 it will happen on both game clients at the same time.

Any advise is appreciated. Thank you.
Krisco750
08-27-2008, 02:55 AM
Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question... but being a former FFXI player I must say.. awesome! That was the worst part about that game was waiting on groups. If you could be your own group, that's pimp. :)
ExperienceTrio
08-27-2008, 10:06 AM
Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question... but being a former FFXI player I must say.. awesome! That was the worst part about that game was waiting on groups. If you could be your own group, that's pimp. :)Group waiting does suck pretty bad. In the next version update they are changing the way people will exp. I think it's extremely revolutionary for FFXI, check it out @

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/3599/detail.html

No longer will you be forced to keep extra sets of gear and you can always optimize your group to be in the same level which is better than 95% of pug groups that barely stayed within the notorious 3 level gap of before. Nothing like having a lvl 10 whm in your group and seeing your tank hit lvl 14 and peace out on the group back in the day.