Dev blog on overlays.

[bugme143]

Would you agree or disagree it's more efficient to set up a ton of dxNothing views and one main view on a single monitor *even if it reduces the real estate of your main view a bit* than setting things up across multiple monitors?

I would say that the player who spends time meticulously crafting his dxNothing windows would indeed have an advantage over one player over multiple monitors if you were input broadcasting (if only to make sure your stupid guns were cycling) or doing a similar inane activity which required little input, such as mining in highsec with tanked procurors in a 1.0 system (and not caring if they die) or playing DDD for some Vexors.

However, for everything else that requires skills, such as PVP, capital escalations, complex PVE (i.e. non-AFK ratting), or saving your ass when your 18 ratting chimeras gets dropped on (Hi, Gaara!), the player who has more monitors would win, as I outlined in the reddit post.

And of course, they would both have an advantage over 1 player with 1 monitor. But then again, I'd get a advantage if I parked my ass two feet from the London servers compared to someone in the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhere.

[fknra]

playing eve with 1 monitor is just silly (i played on a laptop for over a year, will NEVER go back)
that said, I doubt you would get caught if you had dxnothing windows set up to show your shields on all your toons and had them set up to switch to the correct window on click. (ie: toon 4 is taking damage click to switch to toon 4 pop cyno, click through 1-8 to jump to toon 4) as you're just using it as a window management tool
I think they're going to crack down on the "perfected" 10 toons with overlays and guns on one screen (no proof, no rumor, just a hunch)

[bugme143]

playing eve with 1 monitor is just silly (i played on a laptop for over a year, will NEVER go back)
that said, I doubt you would get caught if you had dxnothing windows set up to show your shields on all your toons and had them set up to switch to the correct window on click. (ie: toon 4 is taking damage click to switch to toon 4 pop cyno, click through 1-8 to jump to toon 4) as you're just using it as a window management tool
I think they're going to crack down on the "perfected" 10 toons with overlays and guns on one screen (no proof, no rumor, just a hunch)

That's the thing. They can't tell between someone with 1 monitor and overlays switching like you described to cyno and jump, and someone with 8 monitors who does the same thing. CCP Falcon himself (however inadvertently) agreed that multiple monitors constituted an unfair advantage over someone with 1 monitor.