[EVE] Any EVE boxers out there?

[Bradster]

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.[/font]

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?

I use Synergy across 5 PC's. One keyboard and mouse to control the whole thing. I just recently installed Synergy; thus far it's much better then having 5 mice. So good in fact combat with 5 would be pretty doable.

At this time there is no Multicast to split the mouse signal. Synergy is basically the only package that's helpful right now.

I'm sorry wireless mice will not work. Wireless keyboards will. But because of the mice sync issues and how quickly they go out of sync it would be pretty much impossible to use it, especially with eve due to the small areas to click in the overview


Here's my setup, and as you can see I've tried the wirless mouse route before

http://bradster.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=44d8b4d13376e823267fe9d8ea037a 53&topic=9.0

[Morganti]

I'm PVE'ing with 5 guys doing level 4 missions and I don't find it horrible to play all of them at once. My method of doing so is I have a raven with 78k range that I attack at range with, 2 harbingers that I use for short range damage (once the Raven gets aggro I also charge battleships with afterburnerd harbingers while the Raven pops frigates and other BS's). Medium drones on the Raven chew on cruiser and larger ships and drones off the harbingers chew on frigs. My 4th ship is currently an Augoror that continually pumps cap into the Raven so I can active shield boost while not paying a ton of attention to my tank (I liked the Drake passive tank much better for this, but Raven damage is nicer). 5th ship is a destroyer salvager that comes in mid-fight and cleans up the trash.

Multiboxing combat is quite doable, just have to practice it. I can't speak for doing it in PvP, but IMO if you have a reasonable tank on your ships and can dictate the fight either via CC or numbers you should have a reasonable shot.

Edit: BTW, I'm not broadcasting any keys, I'm just using multiplicty (basically a nicer synergy) to jump between computers with 1 mouse/keyboard. I don't see how broadcasting would honestly help a ton in EVE from what I'm seeing.

[Voigtkampf]

As for the EVE corp, I generally like the idea, however, for myself personally, I see two problems; first of all, I cannot really pass as a multiboxer, only yet to get my second machine for this, and second, I have 5 accounts (struggling not to get more!) oh which two are in my own corp I run with my friends, some half dozen of them (most of them in Europe timezone), whereas I've sent 3 of my other toons down to 0.0, where they do dwell... Mostly, that is. Also, if you should limit yourself to multiboxers only, you will probably have difficult times recruiting enough people for it.

I could offer you sanctuary in my own corp, if you would like, and would be prepared to help you folks out with research and freighter service if you should need it. Maybe a mix between multiboxers and "normal" players would be a possible solution as well?

[Bradster]

As for Multiboxers only, the same could be said for WOW at the start, I’m sure there’s a lot more out there in EVE that were not aware about. However that said they are most likely invested in their current corp which makes your problem a concern.

That was the reason behind the alliance. Right now I hang out with only one person from my corp. All 46 of us in this corp have our groups of people we hang out with from all different corps in the alliance.

My idea more or less was for a community like this one, help each other out and take part in some unique things such as 10 boxing ops or more and so on. More to gain as a whole rather then solo even with a ton of toons at once J

On a good note I decided to sell my 2 POS’s on rare moods (Plat, Chron) I made 1.4B isk! A nice profit, I must continue moon scanning again soon! I preordered a Freighter in 20 days my newest alt can drive it. I also finally broke down and decided to buy a Navy Issue Raven since I’ve wanted one for so long. I’m in high sec this week. Wanted to do a couple of missions because believe it or not I miss doing them. Figured I’d collect a ton of rig parts have a little fun then jump back to 0.0 this weekend. Yes the Navy issue is in empire, and no I will NOT take that to 0.0 I’m not THAT rich. Basically it’s my little retreat from 0.0, very quite no one local place to relax. My alt is like 3.9 standing. Figured I’d boost it up to 5.0 in the event I want to place a POS down here. I want to start stocking up now for building things when that time comes. Weather it be my own corp or someone elses.

[Voigtkampf]

Quite willing to give it a go and discuss it, will contact you ingame and see if we can brainstorm something.

[Bradster]

Quite willing to give it a go and discuss it, will contact you ingame and see if we can brainstorm something.

Sounds like a plan.

For the rest of you


For those that contact me in game. I’ve had a lot of people contact me on the forums and directed them on who to join for what their looking for. If you’re looking for a 0.0 corp and ask me to get you invited into the one I belong too I will do just that. However recommending you, your actions reflect on me.

Recently someone asked me for an invite, they left corp shortly after. The reason given was that their account got hacked. I got them invited again, they left again same thing was stated. At this time I have reason to believe because of the length of time that has passed the person that contacted me for the invite from here was the hacker of the account. And the person playing it now is the correct legal user of it.

So please don’t pull this shlt with me, I’m trying to do the community a favor for those of us who like the 0.0 experience, lets not ruin that mkay?

[Bradster]

This weekend was awesome.


First I went back to empire on Friday and decided, what the hell I’ll do a mission. I wanted some rig parts and well it’s one of the best places for it. So I got “Worlds Collide” level 4. If you didn’t know this already this is the hardest mission in the game. Many like myself always skip this one as it’s just too damn hard. Not me!

I’m in the process in finishing off making this video at x8 speed complete clear duel-boxing it, I cleared every single room. Also got an overseer spawn that dropped a Slave implant worth144m isk.

On Saturday back in 0.0 I decided to do some exploration. A few more skills finished and I thought perhaps it would be enough to find one. So I started dropping Multipecs around a few systems and got a unknown hit. Setup my quest probes and book marks. Hour past and my probes expired. Setup the probes differently and new book marks and tried again (thank go I can do other things on the other accounts). 4th scan I got a result!
Fast forward I found 4 results and finally found a Gate. Gurista Military base. I read in the Plex database this plex required 10 battle ships and was extremely hard.

So I called in some friends on short notice and there were 6 of us I was the tank and I had my alt in a Osprey taking care of the logistic part. Who ever said you needed 10 Battle ships was full of it. You could duo it with a logistic ship in tow. First room about 30 battle ships, 15 cruisers and 10 frigates (at once), at first I was on the line with my tank, it was extremely close to breaking, but after the frigs quickly popped it was doable. I did however ate up all my Cap boosters like candy to make it happen, but no warp outs.

2nd room omfg. Another large spawn, after it was cleared we had to destroy a station, this station does 6k EM damage (none of us fit EM as the npcs we were fighting didn’t use em) this station does that amount of damage every 30 seconds. In one volley I lost my alt Osprey, another volley later I had friends warping out. Three of us left we get it to structure and it finally stops (this thing has a ton of HP!) Down one Osprey every comes back, we blow up the structure (no Escalation) another group spawn with a 10.5 bounty dread spawn! All said in done our luck was not with us. No faction loot, just named crap, lost 2 Ospreys. But after the bounty and salvage still made out pretty good.

I stopped all my alts in their tracks training, to switch to Osprey training. With 4 Ospreys in tow I can tank 1600DPS and that’s just t1 fitted, and without the Raven running the shield booster. Should be finished on Tuesday and I can 5 box most 10/10 plexs.

The following day I find another site, but it noted it wasn’t really worth wild. I decided to go ahead and give it a try. I jumped in to the system and started making my way to the site with my Ferox first (Its salvagers destroy ships don’t last more then 1 second in a belt). As I begin to warp local filled up as I was now the victim of a logon trap. Knowing I had no chance in hell I figured I’d try to pull the same thing and logoff skid myself. When I logged back in he was in station at the cloning facility, live in learn that doesn’t work XD

But on a good note I always scout with the cheaper of the ships first so I was able to turn the battle ship around, get help and have my revenge AND got most of my loot back and enough to pay for another ferox lol.

Rest of the weekend was spent doing pvp, I think I got 22 kills this weekend which isn’t too bad. Decided to to try a ECM boat, and thus far I think I’m going to stick to using it for a while, I feel it brings more to the fleet.

A crow fully fitted costs 18M and has shlt dps (but it’s not designed to be a damage dealer).

A Blackbird fully fitted is 5m and I can jam 3 ships at once. Crap dps for a cruiser of course but its better then a crow. So I flew this extremely cheap shit all weekend and it wouldn’t die! I haven’t lost it in fleet vs. fleet yet. I had to warp out a few times being primary but over all I experienced the effects it has in a group environment and I like it. Pretty soon I’ll be training for Heavy Interdictor, which really isn’t all that long 20d to learn the ship and the warp bubble. The bubble is what takes all the time.

[Voigtkampf]

Great report, amte, sounds like awesome fun you've had!

Sadly, I've had tons of work recently, and could barely log into EVE, and when I did, I didn't find you online. Should get better these days. Almost let a POS run out of fuel, gah. Fancy dealing with Worlds Collide, I am looking forward to see that video.

Still working on getting dual boxing started, lots and lots of work, gah, not enough time to play... inch: See you online soon, hopefully!

[Nirthal]

I played EvE for over 3 years under the name of Chronus26. I used to be a pretty active community member, so my name might ring some bells somewhere for the older players.

I used to run 2-3 clients (1 box, alt-tabbing) most of the time, and have been known to Pvp on multiple clients... usually Carrier-Battleship, but I've done Carrier-Dread-Battleship, Carrier-Carrier and Carrier-Recon-Battleship too... the hardest thing had to be running two BS and fleet commanding at the same time...

I stopped playing Eve when I started playing WoW back in September. I cancelled my subscriptions a couple of weeks ago. Eve just ain't what it used to be.

[Crazylike]

I've been playing EvE since 2005 on and off. Got 5 accounts, but my friend has taken over 2 of them for aslong as he plays. I usually only play with 2 accounts at the same time, doing missions. One for tank/dps and the other for looting/salvaging/gangboosting. I use 2 computers, 2 keyboards and 2 mices and this setup is annoying the crap out of me. I have been using Synergy now and then, but one of the clients seem to CTD a lot when i use it. After reading this thread, I'll check out Multiplicty and see if that's any better.

I have all of my toons in the same corp, which also got some of my friends in it, but they rarely play nowadays. I was in a corp that was a member of the Foundation alliance a while back, so I was in 0.0 and doing fleet combat, but imo, it was usually very boring cause of all the lag. If we were lucky, only about 50 would join our fleet, and we would roam around ganking other fleets. But very often, we would have a 150+ fleet and.. well.. it lags. One time we camped a 150+ fleet outside a station and they all suddenly undocked + we had some more warping in on us. GAWD... the laaaag.. i couldnt do anything, and i have a fairly great computer (the other one I have is not "GREAT" but its decent for missions). So it didnt take long until I turned and headed back to empire.

Now I'm thinking about joining a corp with more people than just myself and the occasional friend popping in to say hello and then leave again. What i am looking for is level 5 mission running (never seen a lvl 5 before, but ive also heard they are not worth it right now), and most importantly, small gang combat. Me and two friends went to 0.0 not long ago, to try and gank single targets. We ended up camping a gate and we managed to pop a few targets but then a couple of nerds came and killed us. It was fun, but we lack experience. I'm the only one who has been to 0.0 before, the others have barely even done a mission, and they play too rarely to keep up with me. If anyone has such a corp, please let me know.

Maria Epiconthe ~ Main (Was alt before), can fly most caldari ships, frigs, t2 frigs, destroyers, cruisers, t2 cruisers, bc's, bs's.. i run a lot of missions, and have been in some fleet combat before.
*Secret from public* ~ Alt (Was my main before), can fly some minmatar ships, concentrating on looting/salvaging/gangboosting and in very near future exploration. Skilling for cheetah.
*Secret from public* ~ Alt, can fly megathron. made him to be a pvp char at first, but ive found out that ill just use maria for that since that char has a lot of combat skills and such already, so ive figured that i'll use this char for a dps boost in missions. only problem is, boxing in this game kinda seems to suck, and i already play with 2 clients