Multiboxing software question.

[nitra]

Just wondering if anyone has been banned for using Shockbeta's Multibox program? I'm interested in multiboxing and I've tested out this software and it works the way I need it to. Any thoughts?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

That multibox program does not automate your actions. It only relays keystrokes, which is the same as hardware (with some obvious tweaks for usability). See this thread for some more info: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=872

Now, for the subtext of your question (i.e.: will Warden kill my accounts if it detects this) I think the answer lies in how many people who multibox, use Multibox and are still posting here.

[Vyndree]

I've been reported, and I've talked with a GM, while using MultiBox. That being said, the software that detects botting (Warden) is, as far as I know, not controlled by a GM.

When asked how I play all 5 characters, I simply respond: I use one keyboard to control 5 computers.

I don't elaborate, because GMs are people, and some people are stupid. There is always a chance that the GM happens to be stupid and automatically assume any sort of software is a bot.

In my opinion, it's not a lie. I AM using one keyboard to control 5 computers. This software lets me do that.

On a side note, I have a vetra multicaster ready and waiting for when I get some ps2 to usb connectors for my 2 laptops. You can never be too careful these days -- Warden has made mistakes in the past and honest people got banned for it.

[Los]

Warden should be some code in wow client, that detects if in memory changes are happening. I will always feel a bit beh because of that because like you said, we play with best intentions but that software cant see that. If on of their devs screws up im toast

[Ughmahedhurtz]

In my opinion, it's not a lie. I AM using one keyboard to control 5 computers. This software lets me do that.

Exactly. The ToS says you cannot automate things. The UI changes usually nerf anything that can be automated to perform more than one task per human control activation (aka button press/click). Since multiboxing with software or hardware is not automating anything and requires a button press just like single-boxers, I'm in agreement with you. The GMs I've talked to have reiterated this exact line of thinking and every posted screenshot of GM comments on it has confirmed this.

You can never be too careful these days -- Warden has made mistakes in the past and honest people got banned for it.

I suppose this is true, though I firmly believe the scale of this has been blown out of all reasonable proportion due to disingenuous cheaters trying to make it look like they're all simply victims of The Man(tm) trying to Keep A Brotha Down(tm). While I'm sympathetic to people getting accidentally ground under the proverbial wheels of blind justice, I also believe that you could fashion an entire series of Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of The Story" out of nothing but people who said they got falsely banned for having benign software when they really got banned for doing something else explicitly against the ToS. Engage in enough shady conduct or ToS-skirting behavior and you WILL get owned. True story.

[Heenan]

I've been using MultiBox for some time now to DualBox. I've never had any run-ins with the law.

[Lost Ninja]

IMO Multibox is fine, I'd be much more wary of Autohotkey and perhaps Keyclone. Autohotkey is designed to automate tasks, we mostly use it to automate alt+tab, but I have seen WoW scripts that do much, much more.

Keyclone IMO is not automated but I can see where people would/could decide it was particularly the ability to miss out sending some keypresses to some clients, but not others.

While the same functionality is there in Multibox, it is (it appears) to be the case that if you don't send a key it doesn't that key at all, to any client.

Note: I'm not saying keyclone is automation, just that I could see people saying it was. Also note not having bought/used it I don't 100% know the above is true, I'm going by what I have read here.

[hapiguy314]

Keyclone IMO is not automated but I can see where people would/could decide it was particularly the ability to miss out sending some keypresses to some clients, but not others.

Dude. This is NO DIFFERENT from when I manually UNBIND a key from a client PC so that when I press a key from my PURE HARDWARE set up, it won't "broadcast" that action.

There are UIs and MODS out there that does a whole of a lot worse when it comes to Automation than Keyclone.

[Gigatron]

I'd be much more wary of Autohotkey and perhaps Keyclone.[/i]

Ahhhh, what do they automate? They just broadcast keystrokes, how is this automation? If anyone gets banned from using either of these, then to me anyone using hardware to broadcast keystrokes should get banned as well. It's the exact same thing. The only difference is warden won't be able to detect a hardware solution.

[zanthor]

I'd be much more wary of Autohotkey and perhaps Keyclone.[/i]

Ahhhh, what do they automate? They just broadcast keystrokes, how is this automation? If anyone gets banned from using either of these, then to me anyone using hardware to broadcast keystrokes should get banned as well. It's the exact same thing. The only difference is warden won't be able to detect a hardware solution.

Keyclone automates nothing.

Tell me what you want automated, I can write an AHK script to do it. AHK could quite easily be used to write a full functional bot. The fact that no ones done it yet means it's probably safe for now, but believe me, the ability is there, and therefore so is the risk.