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I probably shouldn't have used the word 'macro' because nothing I did was revolutionary or anything like that. I should have said use of keybindings for placement and such, definitely had them follow one another, rather than follow my main in one big group. Thankfully whatever I did was enough to keep people from being suspicious otherwise I would have lost my oldest account that I've had since beta. Phew!
I definetly tried to be as normal as possible at first, as I'm the kind of person that hates to get unwanted attention. For some bizzare reason as time went on I became more like the other boxers though using naming conventions trying to make the same classes with the same races ect. I blame this site for making it seem normal to be wierd?!
If you have a them following each other you should have a round robin macro that does
/train
It's childish I know - but I've done that when grouped with other people, it's a sure fire indication that it's real people :)
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Does anyone else try to seem 'normal'?
It's a piece of cake with only two characters, even in battlegrounds, but with 5 the big give-away is when you travel - 4 followers stacked on top of each other is a bit obvious :)
I still hate the attention that I get when I play all 5, but I see one of my server's multiboxers is taking the haters on head-to-head with regular shows in Ironforge.
So, yeah, maybe being "in your face" about it is the solution. I know for a fact that we can rustle up at least 20 high level shammies between the multiboxers on my home server and that should make for some good light shows :thumbup:
I tryed once IRL and failed hard, now i just meet up with pedobear on the holidays.
Try to create several follow macros in different following orders, as well as a the normal "all follow one" order.
That way you can can travel in a line, change running order and use the bulk to get around corners. I mix that up with some silly formation macros. Looks not quite natural if watched for a longer period of time, but if you watch it for only a short period of time, it doesn't look too strange.
I also have a "confusion" macro. Basically it will make my toons say "yes", "no", "/shrug", "/ponder", "bored", etc. Works well if you get asked if you're a multiboxer ;)
Will try to make my huunters as "Natural" as possible.
Same with the circuits, they're exact, right down to what face they have, skin color, everything. They're only in different gear because I just put on 'em quest rewards, whatever's laying around, anything that drops that I can use. No use gearing them when they blow through levels at hyperspeed. I started a 3 mage/1 priest Undead team, all male same hairstyle, different faces and colors. I'm putting together a 3 lock/ priest team all female undead, different hairsyles, same haircolor. and I'm thinking of a 4x hunter team, all female, one of each horde race that can be hunters <chicks with guns>, or a boomkin 5 man, so I can respec to tank and heal a 5 druid team. RAF has made me go mad, I need less work time and more leveling time....Quote:
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Im currently playing 5 shamans as its my first multiboxing outing. 4 male orcs and 1 female orc, all look different as when levelling its a massive pain to get all similar gear especially when youre running instances. I treat them a little like a mini army and have some emote macros set up that gets a lol or a clap. One I use is I set up a cross formation break follow then mute, then I walk up and down and macro a say--"We're going into battle and not all of us are coming back, its gonna be dangerous but were Orcs". Unmute then macro /salute on my 4 followers. Mute again and say "Are you with me" Unmute--macro on followers /Kneel . Macro mount ride with extra line /s " For the Horde".
I only use mute / unmute to stop any feedback to the followers doing anything weird as Im walking about.
Im an old tabletop DnD player, guess its a hold over from there, but I enjoy treating the guys and girls as individual characters. I plan on only PvEing so its easy I guess. Word of warning though when you see your chars as seperate entities you start to notics characteristics developing with them. Like on of my chars is always dying no matter what and another always tries to run for the hills randomly (female orc) and another always seems to be using a 'grey' mace--All currently lvl 45.
Salutations from the UK btw
I like to have a different look for all of my toons. But it's easier since I play different classes. :p
I haven't tried to look normal, but I did notice something that seems to help me avoid a lot of 'boxing baaaaaad' comments. Most of my team is BELF except for my druid. Most people don't notice the BELFs at all since they are hidden inside Shyl. In fact, I had someone invite the two of use into their guild. They even waved to Shyl and ignored the rest of my team.