Too much multiboxing?

[Hetzer]

Usually after a long session and i have logged out, i try to
Turn the telly on 5 times.
start to pull out more than one coffee cup
try to put the cat out 5 times....

its then i take a break from wow :wacko:

[Mendicant]

I made a thread about this a few months ago and people thought I was crazy

IRL sensations after multiboxing

The sensation has passed now... I only felt it the first 2 weeks I multiboxed.

Usually only happened early in the morning before I was fully awake. Things like...

- Thinking (if only for a moment) you need to do things for each of yourself
- A sensation where you feel like you might get caught on something, so when you walk you almost want to check behind you.
- Feeling like there are multiples of yourself in the same place (mostly just as I woke up)

[Malt]

Sometimes before doing some mundane action I get the impulse to press the pause/break key to make sure not all of me's do it. Can't explain it beyond that. Pretty screwed up.

[Xzin]

Would be worth further study. I don't know how to describe it either but it changes your way of thinking - at least subtly. Makes you stretch your brain and bifurcate your focus from one thing at once to two (or more). You never wind up being able to fully concentrate on two things at once but with practice you start to get good at it - you become able to do two things decently well at the same time, constantly shifting back and forth between them almost automatically.

Not sure in what ways this stretches the mind but it certainly does feel a bit different for the first while.

What are you all doing 5x though? Except a few actions, I generally did things once and it happened 5x. Except opening up npc quests, logging on, etc.

[Ellette]

The things I have to do 3x is loot, buy water (too lazy to trade it :P), repair, sell, equip new gear, turn in/accept quests, enter/leave bgs, etc :P Made me think there was me x3 sleeping in the same bed with my boyfriend lol Might have been a good thing for him but made me go "wtf?? oh... dream... right... :sleeping: " lol

[krinkle]

Would be worth further study. I don't know how to describe it either but it changes your way of thinking - at least subtly. Makes you stretch your brain and bifurcate your focus from one thing at once to two (or more). You never wind up being able to fully concentrate on two things at once but with practice you start to get good at it - you become able to do two things decently well at the same time, constantly shifting back and forth between them almost automatically.

Not sure in what ways this stretches the mind but it certainly does feel a bit different for the first while.

What are you all doing 5x though? Except a few actions, I generally did things once and it happened 5x. Except opening up npc quests, logging on, etc.

Its more of a feeling that I had to do it 5 times for all 5 of me. It only lasted for a few seconds until I was fully awake, then I was like WTF? Anyway it has happened a couple times where I dreamed like this since starting the 5-box team, especially after 4+ hours play before bedtime.

[shaeman]

There is a recognised medical condition for this.

It's called madness

[Care]

During my morning waking cycle I often have problems getting out of bed, it gets even worse when my mind is still playing multibox tricks on me... getting up 3 times! As if one isn't enough!!!

[merujo]

but I remember thinking I needed to do something 3x

lol! now imagine 5x. i was half asleep as well, and remembered i needed to do something in work the following day...all i can tell is that i gave up the idea because 5x times would be painfull. next morning i was like laughing and saying: how the f*** i thought that way?

[Drizzit]

When i go multi boxing to single boxing it is a pain for me. I keep hitting the button for my alts to follow me everything i kill a mob or something. And the other thing is that stupid pause button. I do it every time that i am typing. In wow it is the worse, but when i go to work when i just start typing something (if i was doing something else, let when i come back from the bathroom) i hit the pause button.


On another note has anyone play games where the wasd are used and you try to use qwes as the keys instead. I so suck at games now cause i am use to strafing not turning.