[EVE] Any EVE boxers out there?

[Bradster]

As Voig stated pretty well the advantages to having multiple accounts, I’ll list off what I do.

Both in 0.0
Player A is my main. I use him for PVP, Rating and scouting.
Player B, Hauling, Added DPS/Off tank. Skilling for Logistics (healer) and Scan probes for finding players and plex.

Empire
Player C and D Miner in hulk/mach working to max mining skills
Player E (new) Skilling for Freighter, right now I move stuff out of 0.0 to .5 with Player B, then Player E moves it to Jita (so I’m free to haul without getting attacked by war targets).


I stick around 0.0 most of the time, I normally Ice mine on Player C and D while I’ll play A and B. It’s pretty easy to manage.


When I lived in Empire I just had 4 accounts, 3 Hulks and an Industrial which also doubled as a duel raven combo for missions. I keep C, D and E in empire for safety, that and if I’m in a camped in situation I can feel free to do whatever I want on the other guys.

I’ll have my hands full tonight I’ve been using Player C and E to move POS fuel that I mined across 32 Jumps (on this laptop at work). I need to move a months supply for both of my POS’s for Player B to pick up while A scouts. Hehe

Edit: Finally get the play but I'll have to work in-game tonight. Least I made a little over 100m while my POS moon harvesters worked for me all week. Sometimes like now it;s pretty nice.

[Bradster]

Bradster, I love the look of your desktop, btw! Would you be as kind as to give me some tips on the PC configs of the rigs you got there? what would be a good config, able to run EVE smoothly, and even perhaps server as to box WoW eventually? I am not really interested in any key programs, just about the details on the rigs you got, how you connected them and so on.

thanks,

Check my sig goto my site then my forum. My whole setup is listed. My "Alt" machines do ok, not great FPS compared to how they ran wow. But if your looking to draw the line some where I wouldn't go below what I got, with just running windows, and EVE (no other software not even an anti-virus) they run smooth under normal circumstances, any fleet fights.... well forget it hehe.
As for Titans being built, I can confirm that is a rumor, far as the Roadkill side some think we have one so we just go with it. But honestly we don’t. Smash I’m pretty certain doesn’t either. Now our other friends in the area, possible but I wouldn’t know much about them.

[07drewgt]

I used to play Eve a while back. Had at one point 7 accounts running.

1 Carrier tanking/fighter support.
5 hulks,
1 It5' Maxxed. T2 expanders, and T2 Rigs.

it got boring.. spend that time building and saving and building just to lose a 3 billion Isk carrier in a fleet battle/Pos battle was zzzz

[Voigtkampf]

Thanks for all the info, I appreciate it very much! Actually, I found your website before, but didn't dig through the forums for the setup, eh.

As for the Titan, well, Hot Space from ToG is horrible with english, that silly Belgian, lol...

I run three accounts in windowed mode, works fine, but doesn't win any beauty rewards. I have a similar setup, as for my toons, but my A and B "main" ones are currently maxing up all learning skills and acquiring +5 implant sets. C is a pure PvP toon, whereas D and E are industrialists/researchers/uber-miners.

I am getting myself a new PC according to those speccs, will be more than enough running 4 accounts at the same time, 2 on each PC... For starters. ^^

I will be mining ice on 3 accounts with hulks, always had a hauler along, but now its going to be a hulk with cargohold optimization rigs. Need to keep that POS running.

[Bradster]

Last night I finally said screw it. I’ve decided to bring all but 1 account to the 0.0 corp. For a couple of reasons.

I was making great isk selling ice. However since the return of the macro miners prices dropped from 150k per block to 120k, with over 30k for sale on market. The ice simply doesn’t sell. With out a freighter (30 days away) I’m screwed right now. I did cut a few deals via the alliance selling direct, but market was limited because I’m unable to delivery 1000+ blocks.

Another reason is, Ratting is fun, however the best systems for ratting that has the best chance for a rare/named spawn is always crowded. To deal with this I rat at one of my systems I have a POS in, however the common rats I get are 1.2m which aren’t great. In the mean time I see tons of ore, and not many miners.

Other people that would like to mine, can’t with only using one account without a 400m tank (named shield booster and cap recharge). So now I can run 3 Hulks, 1 tank and 1 hauler, plus anyone who also want’s to get some mining in can do so if I’m mining.

If I mined the low stuff Hedbergite that’s 20m per Hulk x3 60m an hour. That’s the least amount I could possibly make. Or mining Crokite (I don’t see much Arkonor) Crokite is 51m per hulk x3 153m an hour. Even 60m hourly is an improvement over ratting. That’s a content flow with out interruption (no competing for belt spawns or waiting for respawn). Just seems logical at this point to go all out and mine like mad there.

Tonight around 11pm I can leave my personal corp and move them in. Already have the hulks in the 0.0 waiting to go :thumbsup:

[Voigtkampf]

Now my palms are itching as well. I got only my PvP toon in 0.0, where as I got the two uber-miners on standby, at the edge of the great lawless sea... Only thing that reverts me from going down there to 0.0 is war, and I am wondering just how much peace and quiet can I get by mining in there. I will be leaving my two main chars in Empire, they are now maxing up learning skills while I am earning money on others. Decided to bite the bullet and max their learning as well as get them +5 implants, thinking long term here, doubt I'll ever leave EVE again. The 3 toons that are supposed to be earning money will def go to 0.0 now, though.

I found a nice, ore rich system, its a dead end and somewhat off the beaten track, and going to set up a POS there. Now, I am going to use 3 accounts for mining there, wondering about the right setup though. I got a PvP toon which can also haul, and two miners. One of them was going to be a Rorq pilot, so that leaves me with one PvP toon and one miner. Not too great... So, considering, these are my options.

1. Mine with one, haul with other, use a tank as third.
2. Mine with two and warp off to the POS to dump the ores, or, eventually, which I also don't like at all, warp off with the PvP toon, switch to indy and come back to haul off the stuff.
3. Mine with two in the belt, aligned and ready to flee, whereas my PvP will haul.
4. Get another miner/hauling toon.

Should be able to fly a Rorq within some 20+ days, but that would also mean one less miner. Plus, sieged, Rorq is a sitting duck and very, very desirable target...

Only thing that is truly bothering me with this setup are my dodgy connections. I am leaving outside the city, nice and quiet out here, lots of space and the nature is just charming, but, since I am some 6km away from the central, my connections can be very dodgy sometimes, and I got used to live with DCs. One thing to DC in WoW, die and corpserun, other thing to go in EVE, DC with a friend in a simple mission which one man could solo, and reconnect to find myself in my pod, since I was webbed. Jolly fun. inch: I'd be running 5 accounts in a jiffy, buy me new miners and roll, but not when I am risking half a billion ISk when I DC... :|

[zashi]

Dunno if it has been changed since I played... but you used to be able to fit a gistii booster to a hulk and tank most of the 0.0 spawns.

Is anybody a part of an empire corp that does fun things?

[Voigtkampf]

Yes. Gistii setup for a hulk that can then tank 0.0 spawns. And thats a ,5 billion hulk setup. Meh, somehow, I prefer the vanilla hulk and guards.

I got an Empire corp but I kind of cannot make it go big time. I got half a dozen very good friends that play with me, all of them are older people (25+) and most are rather casual, so we mostly play one, two of us at the time. I am kind of torn between quantity and quality, between recruiting en masse and just having quality people around me. We mostly run missions and mine when we are online. Preparing for takeover of EVE galaxy.

[Bradster]

Well this weekend I started using all my guys in 0.0 I made about 200m mining in two days. About 6-8 hours of mining (I didn’t keep track well). The pro’s and con’s. I didn’t have a dedicated tank, which I’m able to do. However the system I picked is one of our busy homes. Many would come in and kill the spawns I was tanking thus it deemed the tanker useless, respawn would agro a Hulk instead.

To make it work well I’d need to find another system to mine which isn’t crowded with ratters. Right now I’m limited by systems with stations since POS refine on ore is only like 40%? It’s terrible. Ice however is 100% I only had to warp my miners twice in all that time from neutrals coming in to the system. Over all a good experience. I did have to warp every 20mins or so due to rat respawns, slight interruptions but not bad.

To start our own corp?

Now I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I was thinking of possibly starting my own corp for Multiboxers, For empire and 0.0 . What I need to know first is how many here would be interested in joining? Also a count of how many toons you have and your play times in -5 EST format please.

Corp objective:
Both PVP and Industrial stuff. Personally I like both!
Kill and make money, sounds good to me!
Group play, Team work and dedication for other corp mates

Don’t get me wrong I love to PVP, but there’s also satisfaction from helping one another out, that is if their willing to do the same for you, that’s what it’s all about. I want everyone to be able to make tons of isk in 0.0 when their ready to move. Mean time empire side of corp is always there for you. The one thing I learned boxing is that having a complete group of toons to your self can get lonely, as it removes the mmo aspect out of the game. What I want to do is get a group of boxers together. Run Plex’s, PVP just make our mark and have fun.

I like the idea of a long term goal of Capital Ship building for one another. Things like that cost too much. Take 5 people with 5 accounts that’s 20 (example mining) Building something like that isn’t going to take that long. To me mining a few hours a week to make us strong as a whole sounds like a solid plan. Best of all we get to see the results as So and so now has <Insert freshly made ship here>. To me that’s just cool, I’ve never seen a corp. do that. That’s something that could work.


A list of things that would need before creation.
A name! Zerg or any variant is taken.
Corp Tag Someone creative that can make our Corp tag look good (I’m bad at this!)
Recruiter(s) Boxers only, someone to spam the OP daily
Director’s at the very least one, ideally two that will share management of the corp.
POS fueler Freighter driver
Diplomat: Level 5 in smack, level 3 in Bullshit? lol

[These last’s ones, an experienced individual someone can turn too for direction]
Production
Mining
Combat trainer
Etc

Joining an Alliance:
This is something that will have to wait for a month. The cost to join is 1billion isk CCP charge. I also have to figure out what is expected from us as a contribution towards the Alliance. Or we could make our own Alliance; we would need one hell of a convincing guy or results to entice a corp to drop 1B isk to join us. Personally I’m interested in Road kill, as that’s where I’m at now and I really enjoy how they all work.


So there’s a rough draft of my thinking. Pipe dream? Perhaps but it’s totally doable if we have a few here to start with. The hard part is the finding those that match the Corp Manifesto so to speak. I’m also open to suggestions as well, that is IF we have anyone interested in building something from the ground up. I won’t sit here and tell you this is going to be easy. But over time we can take a step back and say Holy Shit we did that! Behold the fleet of 20 cap ships lol. That would be funny.

Speaking of big ships a Titan one shot my Raven along with 38 other battle ships at once this weekend! @#$%@#$% Red alliance 8| :cursing:


EDIT
Allready have a private Ventrilo Server

[Sutekh]

I have for some time been trying to figure out how to multi-box EVE in pvp as I have 6 clients. Is there a program I can put on my computers that would allow me to do basic mouse and keyboard operations.

I need the F1 – F8 keys. Ctrl + Click (this is how we target things)

I figure if I made my UI exactly the same on each client it would work perfect but I don’t know of program that just exactly reproduces 1 keyboard/mouse onto multiple computers.
I have thought about buying 6 sets of the same wireless keyboard/mouse combo’s and just using one keyboard/mouse and hooking all the receivers up.. Any comments on that idea?