That actually sounds like a much better solution, for one very vital reason, if percepted by the harassers, that is: You're being legit as you're actually reporting someone for calling you a bot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyndree
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That actually sounds like a much better solution, for one very vital reason, if percepted by the harassers, that is: You're being legit as you're actually reporting someone for calling you a bot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyndree
Why would they bother?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fursphere
As far as Multiboxing goes, its a lot easier to just use bots to party everything. I know of several people who run 5 bots and they can farm Instances continually. Perfect clears each time. Scripting instances (where the real cash can be made) is a cakewalk compared to Multiboxing instances. It also costs less than hiring a farmer. A decent bot scripter could run a botfarm of 100-200 bots and cost less than 40 odd Multiboxing farmers.
banning multiboxing will affect blizzard's bottom line - it wont happen
The effect would be trivial.Quote:
banning multiboxing will affect blizzard's bottom line - it wont happen
My take on this is as follows:
I posted in the Magtheridon thread months ago that even having a focussed presence on a single server has the potential to cause problems for our community.
It would only take a surge of negative public opinion for Bliz to be forced into stopping / outlawing multiboxing, and I think we should all listen very carefully to the original poster's advice.
We multibox simply because Blizzard allows us to multibox. To believe otherwise is foolish.
Which means you guys need to quit stacking it on the horde side and roll some Alliance multiboxers on mag with me so I'm not alone 2 vs 5 billion ;p
ROFL Like certain countries...(tongue in cheek) the real problem we face is not coming from a mass of MBs ganking tards, who probably deserved it in the first place.
It comes from lack of education, inaccurate conclusions and biased postulations all being screamed as if truth.
Honestly without being in conversation with the guy running the extra characters It would be difficult to determine whether he's a bot or not. Yes there are other ways, but honestly how many people in the "general populace" do you know who actually know the difference between a Bot program and Keyclone?
Not many and thats the biggest problem. Everyone see's Keyclone or other KVM software replacements as the great "truth" behind a Multi-boxer's powers and also misconceive that since it is an additional program or application you "must have running" that it counts as third party hacking software and thus falls out of good graces with Blizz's TOS.
The fact is the tard populace needs to be educated to understand the diffrence between Automated program script and those requiring user input on a constant basis.
I saw a post by some kid that claimed his brother was using Keyclone and wanted extra accounts to borrow so he could try it. Problem is, when he made a link to how awesome Keyclone was, he linked to Glider (full on bot program) by mistake and told everyone on the boards thats exactly what MBs use, since his brother is one, and that it would do "everything for you" without you being around.
./cry Thats the kind of tard ignorance that is going to kill our fun.
BTW I am working on some explanation articles that hopefully will be able to educate those of the "general intelligence" level.
Sorta like all those interesting facts about your chars you found out for the first time when people began shouting all over about you. Things you never knew lol.
It's just like any other server really. There is allways a guild or 2 that you don't mess with PvP whise cause you know that when you kill their lobies that 15 are going to show up and give it back to you x10. the only diffrence is it's just 3 people to get the effect.
That actually makes me wonder... could there be a such a problem as laying too low? Trying really hard to be inconspicuous could just make multi-boxers stand out even more, except then people wonder why they are trying to hide what they're doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by simpletom
But I agree that not being a jerk is a good idea.
As for the notion that "not everyone can afford more than one computer or account": I have to wonder if Blizzard is more interested in catering to the person with money to spend, or the person on a tight budget. I would certainly not try to piss off the latter, but I would definitely want to cater to the former. People who have money and are looking for a reason to spend it is where you target your product at, after all.
I try to keep a lower profile, but I get seen quite a bit in capital cities and such. People ask a few questions, but, for the most part, I get left alone.
Honestly, I doubt it'll ever be an actual problem. It's wise to prepare for it(mostly mentally, as there's not much else you can do :P), but I just don't see it happening.
Why? Because the general lot that know about me on both of the servers I play on don't mind and I do doubt that it's widely different on other servers.
The average guy thinks it's cool and he wants to know how it's done. He wants to be educated.
In my previous post I described a few scenarioes and number 1 outnumbers number 2 by at least 200:1 by now. I've had ONE really bad encounter with one special player, as described in scenario 3. However he was quickly ignored by the other players in tradechat as I jumped in, explained what I was doing, was backed up by about 20 other players and *booom* the twat was labeled for life as a... twat, really.
Though I do agree, excessive showboating should be avoided, but I mean it would take an awfull big mass of players to get multiboxing banned, seeing as there are already loads who accept it and don't mind it.