Final Fantasy XI: Anyone else out there boxing it?

[Bigfish]

Well, managed to finish the SAM unlocking quest last night, except for the final turn in. The tree is a bitch for a party of 30. Hits hard, and has the tp build of a Samurai. Wiped 4/6 of my characters. Got him down though, reraised, and got my branch. The bomb was a bit tricky as well. Hits hard, but doesn't asplode in your face, so its really just surviving until it berserks, and then it drops like a sack of potatoes.

Got the NIN Quest started, but haven't had the time to kill the leeches yet. 3 day weekend though, so hopefully I can get a lot of work out of the way and get back to leveling.

Bleeding out my eyeballs with zinc ore and rusty subligars. 3 times a day I run the AH circuit searching for the stuff. Only need 164 more Zinc Ore, and 44 more Rusty Subligars. That only 170-200k more gil, at which point I think I'll be done dumping gil from my previous 75 in to my group.

Can't wait for 40, when I'll finally have most of the teleports, escape, and Warp II. Will make travel SO much faster.

[Ridere]

Yah, it'd be pretty darn handy to have your own WHM and BLM for the teleports and warps. I think if I were to box, even if WHM isn't the most ideal job to have in a party anymore, I'd still take them along just for the teleports. You'd be the master of transportation. haha

[Kopitar]

My new project is to multi-box a first person shooter game. I'm actually starting on console ones first because their controls are 10X easier than PC FPS games. A game like Halo 3 has auto aiming assist, auto look centering, etc. etc. As soon as I come to terms with the fact FPS games are too complicated to box, I'll go back to MMORPG's.

You looked at Darkfall Online at all? Sounds like it might be what you are looking for. You have the challenge of trying to box a FPS while enjoying the other elements of a MMO.

I'll take my hat off to anyone that boxes Darkfall Online. No follow commands, no macroing, no assist commands or even targeting for that matter. In Darkfall you just swing in a direction or cast a spell in a direction and it damages what it hits. You will be able to melee things at point blank range but shooting arrows or casting spells at moving targets will be a really difficult challenge. It also does collision detection on players so you can't stack players on top of each other like in WoW which makes mouse tracking across multiple sessions tricky seeing that your point of views will be different.

You will probably die more from friendly fire than anything else.

Not possible to dual box combat in Darkfall, but it's very good for resource gathering, we have a number of people in our clan doing it. If i bring my 2nd account to a battle it's just to spam mm in the general direction of the enemy and to portray more numbers for us.

[Gearboxx]

I just canceled my wow subscription about a month ago and have been bouncing between FFXI and Lotro. so far FFXI takes the cookie, and i am really interested in dual/tri boxing once i learn the game a little more.
what server are you playing on?

[Bigfish]

I'm on Fairy.

[Bigfish]

Just an update, I've managed to get my subs to 37, and I've got my mains up to 25. It has been quite interesting because having to search for spells for my blue mage has got me around 90% of my exp, and it has really been quite the world tour having to travel to obscure corners of the world for the right family of monster. Now that everyone is on their main job, we are doing so much better than we were previously, to the point I have to make sure we don't kill mobs too quickly before they can use their skills or the group can skill up their combat skills on it.

[Ridere]

Very nice!

I still really want to box FFXI. It was my first MMO. I just can't get myself to start over, and I don't think I have the hardware for it. I'm hoping squenix releases more information abou their next MMO this summer!

Keep up the awesome work.

[Halaa]

Nice work with the full party, Ive been triboxing for nearly a year now. Been using the g15 binder plug-in for the azaril windower as it allows me to play all characters without tabbing or having to do anything but run the game thru windower and write macro scripts. As far as SE's take on it, they arent concerned as long as you dont RMT but I wouldnt being overly obnoxious in case you get a GM on you thats had a bad day. As for me I blatently look like im using some form of scripting engine. I borrowed some characters and leveled 5 BLM as my first project completly syncing casts and one shotting everything in my path with timed Ancient Magic. Toned it down after that and leveled MNK RDM RDM using both RDM synced casting heals and just going all out on the MNK. now Im leveling DRG on both the secondary characters but only doing 1 at a time and using the other guy to PL while I level whatever jobs I need for maats cap on my main. Once I get all 3 characters DRG to 60 I plan on doing triple DRG/mage for synced healing breaths.

[Ridere]

So a question for you boxing FFXI.

How successful are you guys in running more than one copy of FFXI at a time? I feel pretty confident I could get HotKeyNet working with FFXI, but my main concern is that I recall FFXI being very CPU-intensive. So how are you all handling your accounts? 6 computers, 2 computers?

I have two computers right now that I use for WoW. My Desktop PC as my main, and a laptop which is actually powerful enough to run the other 4 copies of WoW, though I do have the settings toned down to the lowest. I'm reallly just curious as to your setup, Fish, since with the announcement of FFXIV, I have to admit that I have a bit of a desire to fire up FFXI again.

[mactabilis]

"I'm reallly just curious as to your setup, Fish, since with the announcement of FFXIV, I have to admit that I have a bit of a desire to fire up FFXI again."

Word. I've been missing ffxi since i quit 2 years ago. Hate to admit i was a greedy elitist, back in my day. But, reading this post and fish's adventures spark a whole new sense of adventure and an aspect of playing ffxi, i've never thought of until searching dual boxing forums. I dabbled in 2 boxing PC+Ps2 ffxi, but thats as far as my multiboxing hobby ever went. With word of FFXIV, i'm thinking of going all out on the multiboxing. But for now, I wouldn't mind practicing with FFXI. I'm currently brainstoming rigs that would be ideal for me. I need It to be mobile because i'll be doing alot of gaming at work, on a 3gpp2 network. Do you guys think 1 rig would be able to handle 3 toons in FFXI and later in FFXIV? Also, what "game-isolation" software do you use fish?