Need help with Lotro.

[Mj12]

Hello.

This is my first try at multi-boxing. And to get started i need some advice.

My game is Lotro, I use 2 computers (1 laptop). I was wondering if there is a program that lets you use 1 keyboard to do actions on each computer. If i press 1 on keyboard quickslot 1 on each computer is activated (but different "spells").

Hope any can give some advice on this.
Thanks!

[kyo]

I was wondering if there is a program that lets you use 1 keyboard to do actions on each computer. If i press 1 on keyboard quickslot 1 on each computer is activated (but different "spells").

i personally use Synergy with broadcasting.
if i put broadcasting on. and i have 2 accounts and 2 computers and i press "1" on the main computer, the other computer will also receive a "1"

i don't have lotro so i don't know exactly how to do it
you'd have to set your spells in the game

hope it helps a bit :)

[Mj12]

Thanks for quick reply!

I have dl'ed synergy, but cant get it to work.
Are there any guides for easy setup?
Aslo, can the lotor team "see" that im using these kinds of programs?

[Mj12]

I got them connected, and assigned a broadcasting hotkey.
But i dont want all keys to be active. Is there a way to only get the nr 1-9 buttons on keyboard to broadcast? so that the rest is only for main comp?

[kyo]

not from synergy
maybe other apps got this options.
what i did in WoW is unbind all the other keys on the 2ndary account

[Heenan]

Shockbeta's version of MultiBox can be used to broadcast certain keys. It's what I use, and it worked great when I played LOTRO. I duo'd a Guardian/Minstrel combo to 20 then quit to come back to WoW :)

Get it here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=402

[multiego]

actually i use a normal Synergy. i go to hot key set up and setup the keys i want to broadcast. unfortunately for some reason 1-9 hot key pushes 1-9 on clients but not on the computer itself (wierd...) so I got around by doing 1-9 does 1-9 on local computer, Shift 1-9 does 1-9 on other clients.

[Runiat]

Aslo, can the lotor team "see" that im using these kinds of programs?
If they look hard enough, yes.

However, as there's many ways to do the same thing without any programs (such as buying 2 wireless keyboards and setting both recievers to same frequency), and you are paying twice the subscribtion of single-boxers, there's very little chance they'll mind.

I still prefer Hardware - particularly 1 keyboard in each hand - as there's absolutely no way for them to tell me apart from 2 (not very good) players sitting next to eachother, but again, haven't seen any game with rules against paying them more money.