Blues on Boxing

**Khatovar** · 02-02-2012, 03:09 AM

Multiboxing Is STILL Not Botting - Blizzard Drives a Wedge Between Multiboxing Programs and Automation

“Allow me to set your argument to rest. This:

Add in a 3rd party program. You press ONE button and all 5 screens react. How exactly is that fair/legit? It’s not. The ability to control 5 computers at once with 1 single keyboard and 1 single press of a button is automation. The ability to make your characters cast their individual spells and skills at once by pressing 1 button is automation.

Is not automation by our standards. This is why multi-boxing is just fine.
The moment that single keypress initiates a string of actions not normally possible via our base macro system for an individual character, then that is a different matter. It is also a separate offense.

Multi-boxing, currently, is not a violation of our policies.
That is all.”

Malkatorix, Blizzard Poster

Original Link -
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...&pageNo=14#278

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“We have drawn a line. You’re talking about automated behavior. Multiboxing is not automated. There is no automation. There is no great advantage, there is no illicit behavior, there is no overwhelming benefit, there is no automation.”

Belfaire, Blizzard Poster

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...&pageNo=18#341

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“As a soloist, you push a key and one thing happens on your account. As a multiboxer, you push a key and 1 thing happens on each of your accounts.

Automation would be timed macros, synced pathing, etc., not having the 1 key bound to Flash of Light on your Paladin and Fireball on your mage.

Clearly our definitions of automation differ greatly.”

Belfaire, Blizzard Poster

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...&pageNo=18#346

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“Here’s the thing – that’s not 5 actions. It’s one action, per character.
It would not be okay, if, for example, you had those macros set up so that you had one button to cast frost nova, wait out the global cooldown, blink, delay for global cooldown, then cast blizzard all in a single button press. That is, of course, several button presses.

So, to expand your definition: ‘safe’ multi-boxing commands are one button press = one action per character.”

Malkorix, Blizzard Poster

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#9

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http://wowarchive.yg.com/thread.html...geNo=1&sid=1#9

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“Think of a single key-press as a lever. You pull the lever, and something happens.

Think of multi-boxing as simply attaching 5 levers to a single handle. You’re still only pulling one lever, it just affects more than one something.

Now, think of automation as a lever attached to a set of gears and pulleys. You pull the lever, and a whole slew of bits and bobs start working, gears whirring, pulleys spinning. You might pull a lever, but it sets a process in motion that would be impossible with an ordinary pull of the lever if those gears and pulleys were not in place. Automation can apply to a single character just as much as it could with multiple characters.

The point is that the ‘something’ that occurs spools out without direct human involvement aside from the initial pull of the lever. That is automation. Even if it’s only a single extra step.

In multi-boxing, every action taken by those characters has its source in a human command. Each individual action. Thus, it is not automation.”

Malkorix, Blizzard Poster

Original Link -
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...=1&pageNo=1#13

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http://wowarchive.yg.com/thread.html...=1&pageNo=1#13