I've been playing Eve for five years with seven accounts, however I had never even considered it multiboxing until I started boxing wow. Key broadcasting is only helpful to a minor degree, there is no macro system and the equivalents to /follow are mouse-controlled and less useful to a multiboxer.

In PVP, Eve only shines when you come close to or break through the extremely high glass ceiling the game suffers from. Multiboxing PVP is more of a window management game where each of your ships are playing different roles. At one point I was PVPing with a carrier (drone ship), recon (cloaker - used for intelligence gathering, hunting out targets), and two DPS characters set up to complement one another. I was also flying a dreadnaught on another character in a completely different fight on the other side of the eve universe. As you essentially have to manage each client seperately, this becomes a real physical drain over time and the rewards do not meet the risk. Nowadays I stick to a cloaker and a dps, this is the setup that every successful Eve PVP'r uses. If you can break that glass ceiling you will find the most rewarding PVP of any game, be it solo, piracy, anti-piracy or alliance fleet based PVP. It is all fantastic and it will make your heart race every time.

PVE mission running is a real bore once you have gone through all of the content. There is nothing that comes close to the quality, challenge or diversity that you see in wow raiding and the rewards are almost offensive. However, this is one of the easiest areas to multibox as lightning fast reactions are not needed.

Industry and the financial markets are vast, complicated and dynamic - we could discuss them to death however there is no major multibox element here apart from mining and research.

Meta-gaming - scamming, griefing, sucide-ganking etc. are rife and accepted. I don't see a major boxer aspect here but if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them

RMT is accepted via the appropriate channels - you can sell store-bought game timecards ingame for ingame currency (ISK). Character purchasing (with ISK) is also accepted via the appropriate channels - this is a potential inroad for all the rich multiboxing miners out there looking for a higher skilled character.


The best advice I can give anyone who is open to getting the real experience of the game is to get yourself into a player alliance that holds its own space - experience the truely player-driven content - the politics, the wars, the fleet battles and you will start to see what Eve is about. Multiboxing miners are quite an attractive proposition to player alliances as they make a significant contribution to the alliance finances via taxes and what not, so get out of secure space and mine that crokite

Sorry for the wall of text, but I am rather passionate about this game as it is my first MMO :P