Aion US: SW boxable or not ?

[Moorea]

So is AION US boxable or not ? (using keyclone, hkn, etc...)

A) 2 accounts on 1 machine (ie local bradcasting to 2 windows) ?

B) 2 accounts on 2 machines (maybe easier if it's not possible to launch 2 game instances on 1 comp ?) ?

I read about gameguard but it's not clear if there is a legit/ok workaround (or if it affects B) as well as A) )


ps: unrelated: seems like the forums were down for a short while and are slow too ?

[Phanes]

If it has Gameguard you won't even be able to run your Media player and play it at the same time. I dealt with Game Guard in L2 and stopped playing when it stopped the following.

1. Windows Media Player from working while running the game
2. My n52 would no longer work
3. My logitech keyboard would no longer work

I was running two accounts and when it was clear these items would no longer work I voted with my wallet and left the game. Mainly because I don't pay to play games that cripple parts of my computer.

Since Aion is going to have GG I won't go anywhere near it.

[mmcookies]

I thought about giving Aion a try, but GG is definitely a deal breaker.

[Ellay]

The forums were down earlier because the hosting company made a boo boo ;p

As for Aion, Gameguard is crapola and I really can't endorse disabling it to get the game to work, but if you do turn it off then you can multibox on the same pc via hardware. I tested keyclone and it worked fine.

Multiple pc's even with gameguard turned off, and only using synergy to bounce between pc's, it said an illegal program was running and closed the game.

[Korruptor]

When I demanded a full refund for the pre-order and listed GG as my reason they didn't dispute it for a second. It's probably the #1 reason for refunds currently.

[outdrsyguy1]

I don't understand why you would need GG in a pvp mmorpg like Aion, wow doesn't have anything like that and other than speed hacks i've seen people banned for, i'm not sure i've ever seen another hack.

[Phanes]

These are the same people that brought us the grind fest that was L1 and L2. The leveling was so bad people wrote bots and everyone just leveled AFK. You could easily play 4 to 6 hours at higher levels and get like 10% of a level. GG was supposed to help stop all of that and NCSoft has put it on every game since then.

GG will disable pretty much any logitech item that can macro, any type of gamer keypad like the N52 etc etc

Again I vote with my wallet there is no way I will pay for a game that cripples part of my system.

[Moorea]

Another related question:

I don't /follow or equivalent on
http://aion.ign.com/wiki/Aion_Commands

Anyone knows if it's possible to have 1 character auto follow another in aion and how ?

[tango]

Hmm, I use a G19 keyboard AND a g13 gamepad in aion both in china and in the Aion closed beta and never had a problem. You just have to run the logitech software as an administrator and it works fine. Same for ventrillo.

[Moorea]

someone on aionsource irc chat said there is a /follow in AION - I haven't personally verified it works or seen it documented anywhere yet though...

beside rants on why aion is horrible etc... anyone actually has some idea on how to box it ?