I am seeing tons of multiboxers in this game

[Niley]

you can only 2 box on one pc, if that's what you mean by trains.
I also almost always ignore people that whisper me(Im boxing), and i haven't seen one botter yet....i also highly doubt that chinese farmers would be multiboxing...

[Naysayer]

The Chinese servers are completely overran with bots. This is NCSoft we're talking about, they will do nothing to them and they'll flood the U.S servers as well. How many gold selling tells do you get per hour? 30 to 40? Where do you think that gold is coming from?

NCSoft makes decent mmo's, but they cater to the bots and gold farms so they always fail.

[Phanes]

you can only 2 box on one pc, if that's what you mean by trains.
I also almost always ignore people that whisper me(Im boxing), and i haven't seen one botter yet....i also highly doubt that chinese farmers would be multiboxing...

Niley I actually know a Chinese farmer that plays in DAOC he was actually in my guild. He told me that him and 3 other guys lived in a 2 bedroom apartment and played their team 24/7 on 6 hour shifts. They did it with 8 machines using one wireless keyboard and one wireless mouse.

So at least one chinese farmer multiboxs . I do not play AION I am only speculating but if a team of 6 can farm more effciently than a solo toon then they will be hardware multiboxing AION.

[Rin]

Actually,

As someone else pointed out, the 6x toons you usually see running around together are mostly players being botted. I've stopped to talk to several of them, but have never gotten any replies. Typically you'll see them running around in circles, killing stuff thats 4 or 5 levels below them. Some of the bots don't seem to be configured correctly though; if you start killing something in the area where they're in, sometimes they'll come to finish off the monster, lol.

It's hard to tell whether or not NCSoft will step up and ban the botters from the community. I'm sure they've got so much going on right now that it's hard to enforce things like this.

Furthermore, there's currently a lot of ex-WoW type people playing this game who want to reach the end-levels, so they're paying for someone to level them because they can't deal with the Aion grind. To put it into perspective, you could have a level 70 in WoW by the time you hit 20 in Aion. If you just grind, then going from 1-20 takes about 24-28 hours (even the botters/powerleveling people/etc will tell you that it takes 24+ hours). If you don't grind, you get hosed when you run out of quests to do and still need over a million exp before your next level.

From speaking with others, it only gets worse beyond the mid-20s, so you really can't approach this game super casually if you want to reach the "end game" within a month-2 months time frame. While I can't speak much beyond level 21.5, I can state that if you mix up grinding and questing, it takes about 3-5 hrs per level post level 20. A couple of my guildmates claim that 30+ is about 6-9 hours per level depending on how you do it. When comparing this to WoW, ideally you could have your whole team of 5 characters at 80 and in some raid gear by the time you get to 40+ in Aion. Hopefully that helps to give you the idea of how the leveling is in this game.

I most likely will not be boxing this game (especially not as 6 characters), because of the pvp and pve dynamics of this game that are a tad bit more than I want to deal with as a boxer. I do think that it would be awesome to have a team of sorcerers at 50 though -- you could probably 1 shot anyone in the Abyss. Although, after spending hours in Aion (rerolling and also helping the woman level her Ranger), the reward versus time played to level 6 chars to 50 just doesn't seem to be worth it to me (I'm sure some of you would enjoy it). It's a fun game though and I do recommend it.

Must...keep...grinding.

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