Final Fantasy XI: Anyone else out there boxing it?

[Duese]

Because it needs to be in every single thread about FFXI ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARghlVjBab0

Watch it. Remember it. Live it.

[Zzc2]

Hey Bigfish,
what's your setup like? I was thinking of trying to box FFXI but there is not much info on setting it up. Only thing I have found is that I need windower + g15 keyborad + g15binder. How do you get all this to work with multiple computers for the game? Do you use software broadcasting or hardware? how do you setup macros for each window?

[Zzc2]

Since it looks like other people are looking for info on how to box this, I'll post what my experience has been so far.
This is my experience using 5 computers boxing 5 characters. There are other setups I have heard of other setups (1 computer multiple ffxi) but Im not sure on the details on how to get it going.

1st off you are going to need windower, which you can download here
you will also need spellcastlite here and if you have a g15 or g11 keyboard, you will need the g15binder here (note, if you have rev2 or 6 keys on your g15, make sure you get the g15r2binder and not the g15binder)


Once you download all those, install windower on all computers(THE DEFAULT DIRECTORY IS WHERE THE INSTALLER IS SO MAKE SURE YOU SET THE DIRECTORY TO WHERE YOU WANT IT TO INSTALL), and add the spellcastlite.dll to all computers and the g15binder.dll to your MAIN COMPUTER ONLY. both files go in the windower/plugins dir.

now you need to modify your windower/scripts/init.txt file
scroll down in the file until you start seeing all the
load XXXXXX
load xxxxxxx
load xxxxxxx
At the bottom of the list, add load spellcastlite and on your g15 computer, load g15binder or load g15r2binder depending on your keyboard
Here is one of the init.txt files on a slave computer

next, you will need multisend here (there is another one out there but i think multicast is easier). Install that on all computers.

Setup your ffxi config settings and launch the windower gui on all computers. it will launch the game with what ever settings you provide. Once you are in the game on all your characters, go back and launch the multisend program on all computers. If you launch multisend before you log on your characters, multisend wont pick up the character names which will cause the send commands to not work properly.

That's the basic setup. I don't have access to my g15 computer, so I do no have the g15 setup here. I'll post that later.

now, to send commands when your all logged in and setup, you do //send commands

//send @all /follow main

this will send the /follow main command to all your computers. you can all do it by job or specific person.

//send @war /ws fastblade

this sends the command /ws fastblade to all warriors that are setup to use the weaponskill fastblade. note that you dont seperate fastblade and you dont add <t> at the end. this is the spellcastlite setup. all weaponskills, spells, etc are like this.

//send slave1 /ja provoke

causes slave1 to use the provoke ability


I'll try and post more info on the setup later but this is good for now i think to get people started.

[Solon]

Someone is trying to drag me back fo FF11, and the only way I'd go is boxing. Any more updates?

[Ridere]

There's automated scripts running right now to ban RMT/gold sellers. S-E, naturally, found a way of messing this up, and as a result a lot of legitimate players are currently being banned and unable to get back into their accounts for days, if not over a week, worth of time. Combined with the fact that you are required to continue paying for your account during this time, it has aggrivated many people.

I still miss playing the game, and I still sometimes think about starting to box it, but given that they're banning people with relative reckless abandon, I'd emphasize a bit of caution. Boxing may be something that gets flagged as RMT activities.

S-E's customer support/service system has to be one of the worst I've seen in any MMO. It's really sad, since I did really like FFXI, and I'm excited about FFXIV.

I'd suggest reading up some on http://ffxi.zam.com/ and take a look at the current frustration players are having with these bannings. 6 accounts is a lot to invest in, only to have some automated script run and ban you, simply beacuse you're transferring money from the 5 toons to 1 main.

[Zzc2]

Yeah, I started boxing this game. two weeks in I was banned one night. Contacted customer support and they said I needed to get a court order to find out WHY I was banned. They said there was no one I could talk to, they cant tell me why I was banned, told my I was perma banned, and that once they ban a player, they like to keep them banned, meaning I cannot startup a new account or i will get banned. They banned my 4 characters that looked alike, then later in the day, banned my 2 other accounts. I was pissed at them. I hope ff14 doesnt have this fucked up customer service.

[Ridere]

Yeah, I started boxing this game. two weeks in I was banned one night. Contacted customer support and they said I needed to get a court order to find out WHY I was banned. They said there was no one I could talk to, they cant tell me why I was banned, told my I was perma banned, and that once they ban a player, they like to keep them banned, meaning I cannot startup a new account or i will get banned. They banned my 4 characters that looked alike, then later in the day, banned my 2 other accounts. I was pissed at them. I hope ff14 doesnt have this fucked up customer service.

That is majorly depressing. I really want to box FFXIV. S-E really needs to drop the draconian act. I'm not quite sure what's going on. They need to start getting some bad press, or something.