BobGnarly
02-22-2008, 06:29 PM
One of the more interesting parts of multiboxing for me has been observing the reaction of other players to my squad.
I play on a relatively new PvE server (trollbane), and as far as I know, I'm the only MBer there, so I was definitely expecting some attention when my 5 toons come cruising by. And there is definitely plenty of that. I grin a little each time when I pass somebody on a road, which I've done countless times before in my wow travels, but now they get past me, stop, turn and start to follow. Every time, I'm thinking in my mind "whoa, back that ass up!" :)
My favorites have been the "wtf?," "holy shit," "omg!" type of responses just because these people seem to be honestly perplexed by what they are witnessing. I have to say, almost everybody I've met so far has been positive, not a single botting/reported/whatever incident (/knocking_on_wood).
I also spend a lot more time doing things for people, like dancing, fan-outs, etc. It seems to really be fun for them and it's certainly not a difficult thing on my end.
However, the really interesting person that I wasn't expecting is the one who just seems to not care in the slightest. I'm not talking about those I meet in passing, I'm sure many of them are just preoccupied and don't notice. However, yesterday as an example (but no where near the only one), I was doing a quest involving killing a bunch of miners and there was another warrior there doing the quest at the same time. Now I was actually being nice and trying to share, but he had to notice that within 5 minutes of my arrival, I had mowed through 90% of the mobs in the area. He might have, but he didn't even skip a beat. I don't know if he was just too busy trying to kill stuff because he thought I would bleed the place dry, didn't notice me (I don't know how), or just didn't care, but you would think he'd at least stop and take a look. Nope, just on about his business as if nothing new was happening. It left me wondering what was going through his head at the time. It's neither here nor there really, and to be honest, I'm kind of a low-flyer anyway on the attention scale so I prefer it.
I've been actually having fun interacting with people, and I wasn't expecting that. I think I'm going to be a little more proactive and try to get people involved somehow, hoping that when/if this whole multiboxing issue comes to a head, maybe people will see it as a positive because of their experiences, rather than just view us as a group of elitists that they will just naturally want rail against.
Anyway, been a fun ride so far. Just dinged 20, and I'm glad, because the XP to this point has been slooooow.
I play on a relatively new PvE server (trollbane), and as far as I know, I'm the only MBer there, so I was definitely expecting some attention when my 5 toons come cruising by. And there is definitely plenty of that. I grin a little each time when I pass somebody on a road, which I've done countless times before in my wow travels, but now they get past me, stop, turn and start to follow. Every time, I'm thinking in my mind "whoa, back that ass up!" :)
My favorites have been the "wtf?," "holy shit," "omg!" type of responses just because these people seem to be honestly perplexed by what they are witnessing. I have to say, almost everybody I've met so far has been positive, not a single botting/reported/whatever incident (/knocking_on_wood).
I also spend a lot more time doing things for people, like dancing, fan-outs, etc. It seems to really be fun for them and it's certainly not a difficult thing on my end.
However, the really interesting person that I wasn't expecting is the one who just seems to not care in the slightest. I'm not talking about those I meet in passing, I'm sure many of them are just preoccupied and don't notice. However, yesterday as an example (but no where near the only one), I was doing a quest involving killing a bunch of miners and there was another warrior there doing the quest at the same time. Now I was actually being nice and trying to share, but he had to notice that within 5 minutes of my arrival, I had mowed through 90% of the mobs in the area. He might have, but he didn't even skip a beat. I don't know if he was just too busy trying to kill stuff because he thought I would bleed the place dry, didn't notice me (I don't know how), or just didn't care, but you would think he'd at least stop and take a look. Nope, just on about his business as if nothing new was happening. It left me wondering what was going through his head at the time. It's neither here nor there really, and to be honest, I'm kind of a low-flyer anyway on the attention scale so I prefer it.
I've been actually having fun interacting with people, and I wasn't expecting that. I think I'm going to be a little more proactive and try to get people involved somehow, hoping that when/if this whole multiboxing issue comes to a head, maybe people will see it as a positive because of their experiences, rather than just view us as a group of elitists that they will just naturally want rail against.
Anyway, been a fun ride so far. Just dinged 20, and I'm glad, because the XP to this point has been slooooow.