First night with the multibox, initial impressions & problems with RAF links

[Jheusse]

Greetings:

Have posted a few times over the last few weeks, done a lot of lurking, many many searches.

I jumped all the way in quickly, bought 4 battlechests last weekend, since I wanted to do shammies I had/have to activate accounts fully right out of the gate. Spent hours yesterday structuring my new accounts (teamblah1-4), ran into the error 203 problem with trying to set up the 4th RAF. Tried releasing and renewing the IP a couple times and powering down modem and router for 20 min, IP remained the same, still have the error. I am assuming I am baked until I try to do the creation from a completely different computer or can call in on Monday?

Having done some very early assist and follow stuff, it takes some getting used to, but there is something beautiful about my 3 semi goth chick shammies all casting lightning bolt in unison. That first groove when you get them to cast properly is a serious rush.

Ran into headaches occasionally not being able to tell if I was paused or not, is there a way to force a visual indicator?

Links to Keyclone's video tutorials on his site need to be more prominently spammed, those things are GOLD for setting stuff up. The maximizer sample layouts are also a godsend.

One thing I'm not grasping on the maximizer regions is exactly how the function key region swaps work, I'd think I was going to swap A and B and get A and C instead, can someone clarify?

The wiki is also magical, though it can be hard sometimes to tell if some segments are outdated. I played it safe and set up the low, medium, high graphics macros even though I'm on keyclone maximizer.

Since I alt a lot I don't do much binding, are there good ways to expand the number of quickbar buttons that are available to pass? For example the additional quickbars in the default UI don't seem to pass since they are a click not a keypress.

Will enjoy fiddling with my 4 shammies once I get the last one launched, and 4 box until it's time to add the 60 pally that's not linked.

Going to try and fiddle a bit, see if I'm smart enough to use the assigning focus based on party1, party2, but try and have it not be a list of named toons. There are so many ways to handle the focus and such it'll be tough to settle on a combination of simple and flexible.

The wiki and this forum has been a great resource in getting me started, several times I hit walls and did a couple searches and opened 12 windows looking, usually I did find the answer.

My machine should be strong enough to run at least these 4 (32 bit XP, 256 MB 8600 GT, dual core Athlon, 4 GB memory), but I think I might be hooked.

[softflow]

"are there good ways to expand the number of quickbar buttons that are available to pass? For example the additional quickbars in the default UI don't seem to pass since they are a click not a keypress."

You're going to want to add keybindings to the extra WoW bars. Most here use Trinity or perhaps Bongos. Trinity is good because you can macro right on the button. However, the default WoW bars work fine -- just go into the keybind options and find the Multi Action Bars or whatever they're named. I use shift-1 through shift-6 and the same with control & alt. It really helps because my thumb buttons on my mouse are set for shift & control, so I never have to really stretch my fingers ;-)

Just with that setup, you should get an extra 18 buttons to bind.

[Jheusse]

I went out tonight to start working on my kids, merrily lightning bolting stuff in the draenai kiddie area.

I noticed my first RAF toon was falling behind on xp and wondered what was up.

I have a main account that is not linked to anything.

My best friend sent me an RAF invite email from his account. I accepted the invite, activated vanilla and TBC, then invited myself again, accepted, activated normal and BC, and did this one more time successfully. The fourth time I invited and tried to create I got the error 203 issue, so that account had to wait 2 days to be created over the phone with billing.

Now I have 4 shammies on accounts supposedly linked A>B>C>D, with the A account also having a link back to my friend's account.

But the A account is not getting the boosted xp, I just noticed it barely after billing closed, so I opened a ticket.

I checked on the account management screens, the A account is only showing the link to my buddy. Checking the other accounts they seem to have links, my teamblah2 account has 2 linked accounts, similar for teamblah3 and 4 (4 has one link, end of chain).

Something doesn't seem right, I have the invitation emails for all 4 and successful account creation emails for the first 3, I never got one for the account I created on the phone.

What happened? Can it be repaired?

[Tasty]

Your thread title makes is sound kinda like Multibox is a person

[Jheusse]

You're right, on re-reading it sounds like a bad B-movie title or something.

How much ability to fix this does billing have? I am not in the mood to be out big chunks of cash for 4 battlechests, though in a pinch I could just link an E to the D and drop the A, but that'd suck, I've worked pretty hard to get it right.

That would also kinda bone my buddy out of the RAF benefits.

[Jheusse]

Turns out I managed to tangle my links between my accounts when I did the activations.

I meant to have:
Main alone
Buddy's account>team1>team2>team3>team4

What I have:
Buddy>team1
Main>team2>team3>team4

So now after being on the phone with Billing for 25 min (after 15 min hold) I can return the battle chests to Vivendi for refund and buy 4 new ones and try to get it right this time.

I could just cancel team1 and team2 and make team 5 and 6, but then I'd lose the link to my buddy so he loses the benefits, and the accounts would have something like a 7 day separation in their lifespan.

*grumble* frustrated as hell.

[DLoweinc]

"Ran into headaches occasionally not being able to tell if I was paused or not, is there a way to force a visual indicator?"

Ya, there is a checkbox for visual indicator where you can pick the font size, color, and message of what it says when paused. the default is MUTE in green text with small black background.