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Reported myself to the GMs on silvermoon (EU) last night - And this is the response (dont mind my messed up UI):
http://bp0.blogger.com/__UMctQVGzCw/...lti-Boxing.jpg
(not quite sure how to get that image working, if you cant see it check the post in my blog in my sig).
Good to know that went well for you. Last night, I reported myself just to make sure they know about my accounts being multiboxed. I'm almost certain the GM I got hates multiboxers. Granted, the literal meaning of his statements were true, but he was still a jackass. What he said was, "Well, regardless of whatever I note on your accounts, if we receive any reports of you doing anything but legitimately multiboxing, we still have to investigate."
Like I said, the literal meaning of the statement is true. But that's like the idiot managers / parents / authority figures / etc. that pull the, "I believe you weren't doing <bad thing here>, but if you were..." Bottom line, the implied insult is still there. It's basically being corrected even though you did nothing wrong. Especially in the context of my being a multiboxer willing to report himself in order to expedite the report and investigation processes. Like I wouldn't know they need to investigate... Seriously, any report made against me will NOT be for legitimately multiboxing! Try botting, hacking, etc.
Whatever.
EDIT: Fixed a typo that had most of the text in my post being struck out.
I had my first run-in with hostile players (The TOS lawyer types) yesterday. The 3 shamans in question are level 60 now, and probably evaded this sort of thing because I instance grind. Why did it happen yesterday? Probably because a) I'm Alliance. b) I was in Hellfire Penninsula. Those two are a dangerous mix of ignorance and stupidity. Everyone else has a million of these stories, but I think I get to post my first-time too!
The GMs have yet to bother contacting me.
1:
Kristofer: "dont bot"
Me: "I'm not botting. This is multi-boxing, in which I control several characters with a single keyboard and mouse. It's completely legal."
Kristofer: "reporting you anyway"
Me: (Here I lovingly typed out 6 paragraphs on the difference between multi-boxing, and where he could find more resources on the subject including actual conversations with in-game customer support (("GMs")) about the legality of what I was doing)
Kristofer: dont spam me
Me: "You might want to familiarize yourself with the definition of spam in the TOS user public chat channel policy"
Thanks to you guys at dual-boxing and Suvega and Vyndree at vboxing, I was prepared. It's like when someone tells you some way to defeat a warlock/mage duo when you're a prot warrior and you actually pull it off. I was CHARGED!
So I crossed the street (or Path of Glory) to burn some blade-throwers, and a druid descends and stands there staring.
Me: WOW! I've never seen swift flight form up close before. You look really cool!
Them: The joiner command, eh? Been a while since I've seen it used.
Me: I use a program called Keyclone to allow me to control other clients. It's a standalone program with lots of applications, but it's completely legal.
Them: Nice hack.
Me: Addon, not hack.
Them: Well hack being
Them: a bit
Them: strong
Me: I don't appreciate the implication there.
Them: Still
Them: That thing you sign when you
Them: The legal thing
Them: I wouldn't recommend using it
Me: (insert paragraph explaining the legality in easy-sauce language)
Them: Very much
59Hunter: WOW!
Them: if at all
59Hunter: three 60 draenei shamans!
Them: for exactly that reason
59Hunter: Where did you come from?
Pop-up: Your group is now ready to enter Alterac Valley 2.
Me: You're not willing to listen. Gotta go, AV queue. IT'S LEGAL!
I think I'll report myself as well just to get it overwith.
I highly suggest it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'McBooty',index.php?page=Thread&postID=96759#post9 6759
It gives you that extra security blanket knowing that there's a record of you multiboxing in the case that some poorly-trained GM doesn't know his policies.
I was sersously thing about doing this the other day.Quote:
It gives you that extra security blanket knowing that there's a record of you multiboxing in the case that some poorly-trained GM doesn't know his policies.
I reported myself while i was boxing Mech. The GM was really nice. I asked him to look at how i did it and my addons and told him i used Keyclone. And he was like "the looks just fine". I also asked him a few other questions, like i have a re wispering addon that rewispers all wispers from my alts to y main. and if Gold spammers wisper my alt. it might look like my alt is trying to sell my main gold.. He said that that wont be a problem since my main wont report my alt for it. And still then it shouldnt be a problem. I also then asked him if he could like make a note that i am multiboxing. so that all other GMs would directly see it.. but he was not able to keep notes on ppl..
I agree that we all should report us self and tell them that, "hello, i'm multiboxing, does it look fine with you guys..?"
would you report one toon from each account? or just your main?
I did it with just my main.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'blast3r',index.php?page=Thread&postID=96806#post9 6806
sameQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=96810#post9 6810
I went ahead and submitted a ticket for my Main. Probably a good idea to do this!
He pretty much just said that they investigate each account thoroughly and basically said have a nice day.