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I already have a macro that says:
/s Please go to www.dual-boxing.com for additional information (including but not limitted to the legality of multiboxing). I'd love to chat some more but I'm quite busy. Thank you very much for your time/interrest/resent.
/s www.dual-boxing.com
/s www.dual-boxing.com
/s www.dual-boxing.com
And I just keep grinding/farming :)
I agree about wow's player base. I've given at least 15 mmos a go and wow's simply awful. It is most people's first mmo and it shows. This is why Shadowbane was the best - if you were a dick, i'd one-man-gank-squad your levelling groups endlessly then i'd camp your city and burn it down :twisted: Sadly the reprocussions for a complete and total lack of manners or brains in wow are zero, especially on PvE servers. You can't even swear at people.
I have to say it gets a lot better in outland. Mostly, you are chain questing and you are high level. It would take a real muppet to think you got to 60+ and havent been banned because nobody reported you or that bots quest. Having a guild name - I suggest Mutliboxing - usually saves you from being thought of as a powerleveller.
Also, don't run around with dnd/afk tags on any of your chars whilst leveling. That's a chinese powerleveller signature move.
As far as replies go, sarcasm works wonders for people who threaten you. Some people are just curious and I happily chat to them for a few lines. I find having a nice chat with somebody from a guild usually means I don't have to deal with that guild again as they talk about it on guild chat.
Finally, remember that you are paying for multiple subscriptions. If anything, it gives you even more of a right to not be harassed :)
oh i miss the glory days of shadowbane... for this exact reasonQuote:
This is why Shadowbane was the best - if you were a dick, i'd one-man-gank-squad your levelling groups endlessly then i'd camp your city and burn it down Twisted Evil
going out to hunt for the cry of the carebear in global was ... just... awesome !!!
i was 10-boxing a mage assassin group... i'd blow things up in a blink... oh you shoulda heard them squeal. i was so successful at it, wolf pack/stray bullet changed the game. i could find a way around it, but nah...
Most popular ones I get:
"..."
"WTF"
"that is the coolest thing I've ever seen"
"Why are there 4 of you that look identical?"
"How come all of you have the same gear?"
"HAX. Nobody could possibly coordinate 4 accounts that perfectly."
"I'm so depressed after seeing your kill speed."
I used to reply with the most viscerally caustic thing I could think of. But after the first few weeks I decided I would simply assume people were just misinformed. I wasn't correct, but I was close: most folks in WoW simply lack decent communication skills. Obviously, few people have the wherewithal to conceive of doing this, let along executing it successfully. When talking to people, most actually come around and are nice, or even offer to tank/CC/heal for me if I need it. ;)
In short, the few real pricks will remain that way no matter what. The rest are uninformed, not creative thinkers, poor communicators or some mix of all three.
Now, on a much more interesting note, I have 4-boxed groups of dwarfs, night elves, humans, gnomes and undead. By FAR the most reviled have been the night elves. By FAR the most loved were my 4 gnome mages, Eenie, Meenie, Minie and Mow. ;) An interesting set of social assumptions people make, even in a game where these are _avatars_! /boggle
the ones i really like are the ones that come up, get all pissy, and start saying "you have no skill... and need to multi-box"
i always found this statement very telling. i would respond :
"you know this is a computer game, right?"
"uh huh"
"and i agree this is skill based... but what do you think that skill is based on?"
"umm..."
"you think pounding keys is skill? sort of dex based?"
"dex.. yes"
"sorry no. this is a computer game.. the skill here is int based... and since i wrote this program...i win"
Admittedly I don't give the same visceral impact only having two at a time, but anyone who behaves like they want to know what I'm doing I tell them. Everyone else gets ignored (ie me just ignoring them not /ignore).
And yes I've been reported. With two, hate to think how many times you x5+ will have been. :D
I'd like to add a little observation to this. Have you guys noticed how its ALWAYS the people from little crappy non raiding guilds or unguilded people who threaten/do report you?
From the people that have been real tossers thus far, not a single one was from a 25-man raiding guild. They have all been from either fool's guilds, guild jumpers, unguilded or from few-man outfits.
Not saying there wont be exceptions but there clearly does seem to be a direct link between (ingame?) intelligence and both attitude and ability to get whats happening.
What puzzles me the most is how people can even think you are a bot. You run quests, you reply, you dont run around one path, you dont cast the same identical spell sequences and you party... none of these people would know an actual bot when they saw one.
Ignorance is bliss :)
And it shows up in all forms, from being unguilded, empty threats, and basically what aurelie said in the post aboce :)
I currently transferred to a new server and the response there is so different then my prior server. The peeps are friendly and amazed at how i accomplish the 5 box feat. hehe. Havent been called a cheater or loser ye. " WHEW" :D
Victory! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Braggon