Final Fantasy XI: Anyone else out there boxing it?

[Bigfish]

I'm just mildly curious. Feels a bit lonely without anyone to talk to, as most of the community is playing WoW.

[genocyde]

I just finally closed my 5 accounts on WoW. Having played off and on since 1.0 (I just found my old UIbackup folder on a jump drive I was cleaning out. Had a folder for every patch 1.0 - 1.12 cause they always broke on patch day :P) I finally gave up. Blizz's direction with WoW does not match my wants.

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.

I gave some thought about boxing FFXI, is it pretty boxing friendly? I ran a holy trinity style 5 box in WoW, would a mixed team in FF be harder or easier do you think? Got any tips for someone looking into that game??

[Bigfish]

I gave some thought about boxing FFXI, is it pretty boxing friendly? I ran a holy trinity style 5 box in WoW, would a mixed team in FF be harder or easier do you think? Got any tips for someone looking into that game??

I would say the game is VERY boxing friendly, especially for melee classes. /follow functions in FFXI such that when you tell your extras to /assist, they switch targets to the mob, run up to it, and follow it until it is dead, at which point, they will run back to their previous follow target. Only down side is you have to have your main actually engaged to the target before you can use /assist.

Of course, that's for melee. You could just as easily go with a tank, a healer, and 4 mages and blow things to kingdom come.

Outside of that, there is the mildly steep learning curve and the fact that the low level economy is more or less dead. If you can get past that though, its like instancing 100% of the time. (the killing elites for xp and loot, not the no-one-else-is-there bit)

UI is kind of klunky, but a bit of bind and macro working with windower should fix most of that.

[Talonluck]

What is SOE's stance on multiboxing? Do they allow it like WoW or is it use at your own risk?

[Bigfish]

Sony Online Entertainment's policy is very multiboxer friendly from what I understand.

Sqaure-Enix's, who run FFXI, is more or less pretty murky. I don't think anyone has got an official answer out of them. I'm not remotely worried about that though.

[Talonluck]

Interesting, thanks for the info Bigfish! I've got a few cousins who are interested in future multiboxing of FFXI.

[glo]

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.

[thinus]

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.

[algol]

SOE = Everquest etc = perfectly happy with boxers.

SE = no official statement, and rather draconian service. If an admin decides to ban you for "botting"...you're not getting your accounts back.

[maxel]

I'd be interested in it, and have been tossing the coin around. The main hold up I have as it stands is key passing. As I explored it, it didn't look like keyclone worked with the game, and I'm not going to drop a few grand to get 3 more computers up and running. Not sure how I feel about InnerSpace either. That whole subscribe to me model just doesn't fly well with me considering I'm also paying to play the game online as well. Are there any other alternatives?