Multiboxing politics.

[TheXevs]

Howdy again.

Been multiboxing (5 alliance SPs) for about a week now and have been getting some pretty insane reactions on my server (apparently not many people are doing it) - they range from "that's the coolest thing I've ever seen" to "reported for cheating". Horde from BGs have rolled toons on my server to spam me with "welcome to your ban, hacker." - I've even had a horde roll a toon to say how much fun it was playing vs my toons. In general, most alliance have a positive reaction to the toons but there are those that stand around proclaiming my lack of a real life or that I have too much time on my hands (as if it takes more time to play 5 toons at once than one). Anyway, do you guys have a standard response to criticism or do you typically just ignore it?

As an aside, I guess one of the more frustrating things I've run into are the alliance pugs just following my toons around in BGs (especially AB) instead of actually trying to win.

-Xeva

[Toned]

That's pretty much how it goes... Your BG group will follow you around spamming you with OMFGs WTF's and FUCK YOU HACKER! While you steam roll people.

[kllrwlf]

Just put them on /ignore and forget about it. :thumbup:

[elo]

Yeah, you'll find lots of posts on here about similar stuff. We all deal with it, and it's been very loudly argued with Blizz but they still love it.

Best thing you can do is laugh at their ignorance. On the time thing they're just making a math error. They did a Time X 5 rather than the appropriate Time / 5, easy mistake to make. Generally the best answer to this is (if they're level 50+) "So what's your /played time?", then tell them what yours is divided by 5. I've had people log off after that conversation (Personally I'm level 63 with less than 2 days time in each).

BG's... only join with friends until you get really good at it, pugs are very intolerant.

And once you're 60+ you can just hide in instances all the time like I do. Now that I'm doing Coilfang I often stop off outside SSC to put on a show for my guildies who are raiding, and pickup some water, wish em the best then dive in.

[Tasty]

BG's... only join with friends until you get really good at it, pugs are very intolerant.

Yeah unfortunately they are. On a plus side I joined a EOTS the other day and my team was telling me how awesome I am and how much ass I kick Needless to say it made up for all the previous pugs

[firest4rter]

Howdy, I have been reading these forums for a while gathering all the knowlege I needed to launch into boxing. So I guess I should say longer time reader (troller) first time poster :P

This week I started 1 x Pally and 4 Shammies (I dont do anything in halves) and have totally enjoyed setting it all up and now have them all at lvl 10. I play on alliance Aman Thul PvE because thats where my main is and friends are, the only other boxer I have seen on my realm is my friend who dual boxes to shammies so I know its haerdly known about. Like Xeva, I am adjusting to the attention I get as I move around, I had one guy last night tell me its an unfair advantage and I should be banned. I guess you get used to this after a while and as elo pointed out, once you get 50+ I expect it will die off a bit because you will be more well known.

One thing I have found necassary is to work on my show off macros to impress all the on lookers. eg. Move into formation around my pally, drop totems, dance, laugh etc. I have found when I take the time to do this most people respond with "cool" as I guess they realise its not just a bot and a real person is behind it all.

I can imagine BG's will be a whole other challenge, although it will be easy enough to avoid too much attention AV

I plan to spend alot of time in instances as I level so hopefully I wont have to deal with this all the time.

-Fire

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Yep, you get a wide range of responses from people.

On a related note, I have several different multibox groups which have received widely variable responses:

4x Night Elf Hunters = 99% negative
4x Midget mages = 99% positive
1x dorf priest + 3x human locks = 50%
4x Undead priests = 75% positive
5x Undead (priest+locks) = 60% negative, but this was after warlocks became "OMG OP! NERF!"
1x BE pally + 4x UD mage = 50%

It is interesting to note that the trends appear to be much more influenced by the current consensus on how OP or not OP a particular class combination is, with blatant exception of night elf hunters in particular and hunters in general. I don't have any shammy or druid or other groups so can't comment on those, though I have a sneaking suspicion that they'd both be at 50% or leaning positive for druids and the opposite for shammies.

[raylion]

Once the word starts to spread on your server or battle group (well, BG might be harder to crack) then you'll get less whispers from your own faction, the other faction tend to be constantly bemused though...some will /cheer some will use /spit (hate that emote). But anyway, you'll become immune to it soon enough and it actually becomes funny after a while.

I always make a point of explaining to people that ask what I'm doing and tend to ignore the 'WTF' brigade unless they can be bothered to string a sentence together

I also mentioned what I was doing on the realm forums so people understood I wasn't a bot. Mixed reaction but mostly positive and did help reduce the whispers.

[Droopz]

Yeah I'm been getting both types of comments since I started to. Mostly positive though, and even the negative comments arn't of an aggresive nature. More like "I think Blizz will ban this soon." or "Why are you wasting $xx/month on a game..." etc.

I do agree tho that spending some time setting up the "show-off" macros channels alot of the "ZOMG HAX!" into "ZOMG AWESOME!" I have the normal dance/wave/rasp/spit as well asa couple of /s comments and a special one "/s We are not bots! We are mulit-boxing!"

So when someone in Org /yells "OMG BOTZ BAN4U!!" they get told by 5 mages at once

[opt]

Howdy again.

Been multiboxing (5 alliance SPs) for about a week now and have been getting some pretty insane reactions on my server (apparently not many people are doing it) - they range from "that's the coolest thing I've ever seen" to "reported for cheating". Horde from BGs have rolled toons on my server to spam me with "welcome to your ban, hacker." - I've even had a horde roll a toon to say how much fun it was playing vs my toons. In general, most alliance have a positive reaction to the toons but there are those that stand around proclaiming my lack of a real life or that I have too much time on my hands (as if it takes more time to play 5 toons at once than one). Anyway, do you guys have a standard response to criticism or do you typically just ignore it?

As an aside, I guess one of the more frustrating things I've run into are the alliance pugs just following my toons around in BGs (especially AB) instead of actually trying to win.

-Xeva

I have this set as a macro set on my main char
/invite optimistics
/invite optional
/invite optic
/invite optamise
/dnd <big long im not a bot or hacker, links to my blog and dualboxing.com for more info on what im doing>
So whenever someone whispers me , they get a big massive spam DND message back in there faces. Be nice to them and tell them what your doing is legal and doesnt break the agreement because u press the keys which trigger ingame commands and then most of the time there sick of seeing your dnd message and shutup.