The simultaneous sending of keystrokes is considered illegal in EQ2...

[highlander_133]

I just threw a post up on the official boards here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/p...64930&#5182388

[Trick]

While I don't play EQ2, I am a Keyclone user. What if you forced all keys into Round-Robin mode, and just spammed the key to make things happen? Yeah it's a reach, but tell me you've never spammed a key a couple of times just to make sure the command was recognized...

[Captive2]

EQ2 simply can't afford to alienate their multi-boxing user community. They've got enough problems as it is.

I see posts ALL OVER EQ2 Flames from people boxing. Sure, a few may just have a second character on follow - but most are using at least 3 accounts. If this is their official stance - and one they're going to enforce - my days with EQ2 are finished. I simply won't play the game with a single account. The same goes for WoW - these games hold no appeal to me if I can't box them.

Really disappointed to see this. I'll try to post to the thread on the official forums when I get home tonight - I can't get to those boards here at work. I wonder if this is perhaps a PvP-only issue - the whole idea of "fairness". If I'm in a 6-man heroic instance, or questing in the Pillar of Flames, who cares if what I do gives me an advantage; I'm not competing against another player.

Thanks for the heads-up Noxxy.

[Milque]

I can't make up my mind if I'm upset about this.

Right now I've got most of my combat zaps for each toon grouped into a single macro, and a toggle on the display that acts as a sort of Group timer that lets me know when I've let enough time pass for one spell (the top spell that isn't refreshing and the bottom spell in the macro) to have cast.

I have one key that fires this macro on each toon.

It's not the most efficient, and I'm sure my parses wouldn't keep up with a well oiled raid group's, but it gets me through fights, usually in one piece, and guarantees for the most part that my toons are all cycling through their spells as their available).

Round robining this so that I have to hit the button 6 times would not be a terrible hardship. Changing the setup to where keys 1 through 6 fire off the macro for each toon wouldn't kill me, either, and in fact would probably allow me better DPS since I wouldn't be wasting time on toons who are refreshed and waiting to case to catch up with slower casters with longer recycle times.

Just thinking out loud.

If I could figure out how to get a timer on each key so that I could see when each toon was ready to recast I'd almost RATHER have them all on a seperate key.

[Velassra]

I was actually thinking last week to try out the original EQ for a time. I'd imagine it would be relatively easy to box and there was so much content, even outdated, that would be a completely new adventure for me.....but if boxing is illegal in EQ2, I can't imagine it would stay legal in EQ either.

[Inactive]

I just PMed Rothgar on the official forums. Its not first time people have gotten a dev response on multiboxing, i hope he'll reply to me. We need an official non bs stance on this before we all rush out and buy new xpack times 6.

I'll keep you posted, but in all fairness i think all these GMs has misunderstood something, those are the exact same ones i dealt with and the elite GM that handled me in the end did end up telling me he misunderstodd me, i gave up talking to him though and when my email through site support told me to reply to this said GM i gave up.

However, dont rush out and cancel all your accounts. Im positive this is a misunderstanding.

[Velassra]

Looks like SOE replied to linked thread above.

[highlander_133]

Kiara responded, and then locked the thread.

So, multiboxing if you control all 6 characters signally and you have to type a command for all 6 characters separately is ok. Multi-boxing with the use of hardware OR software which allows you to control 6 characters with 1 command is not ok and considered in violation of the spirit of the game as it gives the player(s) an advantage over other players.

So using one mapped key to fire off actions on more than one client = illegal.

I cannot understand why SOE would have a policy that is so divergent from Blizzard, and is all but guaranteed to alienate players rather than encourage new accounts.

[asgradth]

Looks like SOE replied to linked thread above.

Yup, confirmed. Using SW is illegal and a violation of the terms of service, hence, a Bannable Offense. Time to cancel my accounts and move to a new game. It was fun, but it is no more. At least I can make some scratch selling my toons on the exchange server.

Thanks for all the help over the last few years, gang, especially you, Noxxy. I was able to do things I never thought possible as a multi-boxer... and I couldn't have done it without this community.

Until the next Game... This is Pang/Militant of Chainsaw Leprechauns on Oasis, signing off.

[Fat Tire]

I am curious when they made this policy change?




Edit: You may want to post this on the General Discussion forums so it gets a little bit more visibility for anyone considering playing EQ2. This is a pretty big deal. I could see wow doing the same thing.