Octopus, an oldie but goodie. Need some input.

[Ghallo]

Ok guys, I just wanted to see if anyone out there is actually still using Octopus. I certainly am, but I'm curious if I am the only one. Just doing a quick poll.

1. If you used Octopus (more than just installing it, I mean used it) and you moved on - could you let me know what you moved on to (and a brief "why")?
2. And, if there was 1 thing you could change about Octopus, to make it better for YOU, what would it be?

Ghallo

[Fef]

I used Octopus for almost a year.

Then one of my accounts was hacked, I still don't know why to this day. Just after that, I bought a new computer, so I felt like taking a fresh start and purchased Keyclone. Reason was I could download from a trusted web site (well, I trust Keyclone's official web site), and it was cheap.

Honestly, the switch to Keyclone didn't bring anything to my multi-boxing experience, except for the ease of mind to think that it is most probably completely safe (I don't use round robin, I don't find it a convinient approach when playing several different groups with different keybinds).

I cannot wait to try Freddie's interfaced version of HKN !

[Ghallo]

Hmm, no one left that uses Octopus?

[WaffleFrie]

i still use octopus for a 5 box and dual box/dual pc. only thing i'm not outragiously happy with is that i can't get it to recognize a game with a launcher. i'd love to run a 5 box with hero online but just can't get it working :'(

[Marious]

Been using it since day 1, love it! Can't say I change anything on it, what I do with it, it works perfectly fine.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Yep, I'm still using it. Never seen a need for anything else.

As far as what I'd change, the only thing that comes to mind is automatic broadcast pausing while I'm chatting. But nobody has support for that, so it's not a big deal.

[Ghallo]

Ugh - you could set <enter> as your broadcast pause toggle (and then map it to itself so it does a pass-through>

Just a thought.

Here are some of the features I was thinking about:

1. Profile Creation Wizard (does what the current tool does, just creates the XML based on presets and a friendly wizard).
2. Profile Copy button (currently you need to manually change settings between profiles).
3. Allow keys to be "translated" on a per client basis. All of the other multiplexers do this. EG: "Shift-X" on this client becomes "1" on the other client.
4. This is the big one. Allow "regions" to be defined for the master window that EITHER became 1 click in another window offset (without keypress) OR translated into a single keypress which would then be broadcast per #3 (the idea here is I am playing my warrior, I click on the "make slave priest heal me" region and the priest receives a "Shift-Alt-2" keypress which causes the priest to cast a heal on the warrior.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ugh - you could set <enter> as your broadcast pause toggle (and then map it to itself so it does a pass-through>

Just a thought.

OK, but what happens when you type /r <message>? What if you're doing /1 "LOL NOOBS!" or /2 "WTB Titansteel Guardian x5 PST any of us." Those situations mean you have to have / or enter or backspace/reply or whatever all toggle chat mode on and then enter or escape toggle chat mode off, which isn't currently possible. :P Too easy to get out of sync.

[jddc78]

I 5 box with it as well. Fef, the same thing happened to me. Within a week of installing it someone hacked one of my accounts and I had to call to get it back. Leads me to think that the location we may have got it from is doing something fishy. But other than that isolated moment it has done everything I've needed it to do.

There are a few things that maybe I just don't know how to do that I would like.

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.
2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

[Pocalypse]

OK, but what happens when you type /r <message>? What if you're doing /1 "LOL NOOBS!" or /2 "WTB Titansteel Guardian x5 PST any of us." Those situations mean you have to have / or enter or backspace/reply or whatever all toggle chat mode on and then enter or escape toggle chat mode off, which isn't currently possible. :P Too easy to get out of sync.

HKN (as it is currrently) can support that, and it works very well.

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