EVE Multiboxers

[Souca]

Looks like we can get a mining op going this weekend then. I've got my two hulks plus a myrmidon salvager to provide drone support. I'm going to level up a WoW team in the Hinterlands on Friday night but Sat & Sun is good for me. There is an ice belt marked in Abudban on Ombey's maps but I don't know if it's there. I scanned out some wormholes and a gas cloud site during the week, it's worth doing the scanning every week as you can find mining sites that can be exploited.

For ice mining we'd want to get the barges that are optimised for it - the skill is also needed.

I'll have a look at what materials are required to make Rifters and the other stuff needed, maybe try to get some module BPOs/BPCs.

Researching the BPOs is needed to optimise the material requirement for manufacturing, it's a swine but there you are. I really don't understand why there isn't a 'lab ship' (remember Traveller?) that has a research lab built in. EVE has mining ships, so why not research ones? They'd be very popular as can be proved by the constantly full labs in Empire space.

The ships that are specific for ice are all exhumers. I have the skill to use normal Ice Harvestors and on a retriever I can fit 2 and a upgrade. mackinaw is the first ship to get a bonus for Ice cycle time and it's the middle tier exhumer.

Yea, there is still ice in Abudban. There is also crazy lag from tehre being about 50 miners there are about 400 cans. Nice thing about ice is that it has so many units on it. I was working on small one tonight and it had over 50k units left. It takes 10 minute per ice harvestor to get 1 unit

I was able to find some time efficiency labs, but beyond that I can't find any open materials labs or any copy labs. Sometimes I can get a manufacotring slot, but to be sure I opened a cheap office in a 0.4 system 3 jumps out. Much cheaper there too. I figure I'll slowly get my BPOs there and just research the PE on them while I wait for the rep to put a POS up. I might head back to the closest Gallente region I can since I have 3.94 standing with them and could get it up to 5 pretty easily so I can put a station up sooner. I'd only need my manfacturing and research alts to be close enought okick off job once the get the skills that let them remote.

I also need to do some non Veldspar mining to get some other minerals for ships. I'll likely do that tomorrow with the new alts since they likely won't have their crystals for veld yet.

- Souca -

[Alptraum]

no all 4 accounts are the eve boxed sets you buy in the store..no trials....creating them with the www.eveonline.com/activate website as a new user and then kicking in the 60day game cards taht come with them..so a bit confused as to why they are pissing around on me. Goal is to run 5 eve's from my quadcore here just like I did in wow.

Ok im pretty sleepy since i worked like 16 or 18 hours straight today plus another bunch driving home...but got 3 more copies of Eve so got 4 alts now....went to log the 3rd alt on and my 2nd alt was disconnected..was some tiny screen poped up but vanished before I could read it....does eve have some retarded issue with u trying to run 4 or 5 eve clients off the same computer? cause that's gonna suck if they do. All these accounts are activated with 60day gamecards not trials either.

You can only have one trial account per pc - was one or both of them a trial (e.g. buddy program invite)? Easy to miss if you're a bit tired.

I can run 4 instances on my quadcore - although I'm employing a second PC (Athlon XP...) to run a single instance and only 3 on my main PC

Make sure to turn down the graphics settings for EVE, it's hardly worth having all the fancy lighting effects most of the time

[RobinGBrown]

no all 4 accounts are the eve boxed sets you buy in the store..no trials

I don't know then...

Try checking the graphics settings - dunno how good your PC is but a quadcore can definitely handle 4xEVE, probably 5 or 6 with settigns fine tuned, after that who knows...

[Alptraum]

im not sure whats going on with my quadcore its definately not slow 2.66 ghz with 8 gigs of ram..it'll run nearly 10 wow clients..but at work right now im running 4 eve clients no problem on my sony laptop...perhaps the gm's have done something since i put the petition in this morning...either way im semi happy right now....but must get 5+ clients running at home on my desktop if im to truely be a terror in the belts as a miner.

[Souca]

im not sure whats going on with my quadcore its definately not slow 2.66 ghz with 8 gigs of ram..it'll run nearly 10 wow clients..but at work right now im running 4 eve clients no problem on my sony laptop...perhaps the gm's have done something since i put the petition in this morning...either way im semi happy right now....but must get 5+ clients running at home on my desktop if im to truely be a terror in the belts as a miner.

You've gotta find that error it's showing you. That's key.

I know they aren't trials, but the error you get for trials is something like "We are happy you're so excited to play Eve, but please limit yourself to playing one trial account at a time." Or something like that.

I assume you've changed to windowed mode, and you you've turned the advanced graphics settings on. There is a selector that will allow you to choose the video card, so if you are running multiple cards you can change that to keep direct x from switching to software when you cross card boundaries, even though the eve client will always go back to the main monitor on log off and even when you change that setting.

Are you running from the same directory or have you done the wow symlink thing? I'm running all of mine from the same directory, so if you are symlinking, try it without.

Beyond that, I've not got any ideas. It just worked for me. Might want to check the forums on the eve site, I know there are people in the rookie channel always asking about it, but they usually are hitting the trial issue which isn't your problem.

Good luck, and do let us know what you find out.

Edit: Are you hitting a cluster queue? I just logged off and logged back on and got the queue message, so maybe you just were logging on in prime time? Just asking everything I can think of.

- Souca -

[holyrthnyou]

If anyone wants a 21 day trial drop me a line in PM and ill hook you up, i have 2 left to give out this month as i used one on myself.

[Ellay]

Has anyone found a way to easily /follow and /assist in this game by chance?

[Souca]

Has anyone found a way to easily /follow and /assist in this game by chance?

You can get your drones to assist You can also set ships to keep a certain distance or orbit, but I haven't looked into a keybind for it or anything. Why, are you considering coming over to the dark side? Yes.... come to the dark side....

- Souca -

[RobinGBrown]

There's two types of '/follow':

When all your ships are near to each other get the follower to use the 'keep at distance' or 'orbit' commands on the main - you can get these by right clicking, or selecting a target and them using the target window to select an action.

The other way is to form a fleet and then use the 'warp fleet to' and 'warp to member' commands to move all your ships at once - beware of alignment issues (although thats an advanced topic to do with fleet battles)

Drones are very useful for assisting as Souca mentioned previously they can be set to guard or assist IIRC. There are drone keybinds available.

There's no target of target options AFAIK so if you're forming a multibox fleet it's maybe better to work it out so that they support the main via simple methods (shield and armour boosting). Weapons can now be grouped together so you don't have to press each of the keys for them but selecting targets always requires mouseclicking.

For bigger fleet ops, such as groups of multiboxers (woohoo!) eeveryone should invest in the leadership skill and look at the xxx warfare, wing command, and fleet command skills - those will let us form up a larger well boosted fleet for really big mining ops.

Keybinds for mouse clicks are definitely naughty as far as EVE is concerned so don't go down that route.

For software boxers no additional software is needed - just a beast of a PC

For hardware boxers you'll need a Synergy-like application (I'm using Input Director) or really fast hands...

The good news for hardware boxers is that as there are no keys requried you could use a mouse in each hand and get a pair of those feet mice too!

[Ellay]

I use to play Eve for a bit I really liked the whole space thing with the missions and whatnot. I'm not sure exactly what I had now but I do remember doing level 4 missions in 0.0 with 3 drakes, the constant manual clicking on each character was quite annoying though