I understand now why multiboxing is "excepted"

Me being one of these people that flame every "multiboxing is not fair" and "it's a hack" "it should not be allowed". Well I decided to go see what it was really about and try it at running multi PoE games. And after trying it I really don't see how it can be called a hack and I understand why it IS excepted in games. There is no hacking involved. There is no bot prog. Nothing is automated. It has very simple easy to use interface and very easy to set up. BUT I don't think it is viable for PoE. It is rather difficult to run multi PoE games and controlling all the characters. Your Characters end up scattered everywhere pointing in different directions. And to get them ALL to attack what your attacking seems impossible. And seems rather useless other than being able to have your own multiple characters in your party to just sit and do nothing while you take your main one to go kill and loot. Besides all that you need a rather powerful PC to even use it to be able to run multi games. I can barely run 2 games and it gets so fricking laggy and just not worth it for me.

Anyway. To get mad or to hate on people that do multi box is like getting mad at each individual person that plays the game. there really is no difference. Hating on one guy playing 4x the same game at once? Or hating on 4 individuals playing the same game?

I don't think you entirely understand the purpose or method of multiboxing.

It's not to fight mobs with multiple characters. They just stand there and add more loot for one main character.

Some people do it via one very high end computer, but other people have multiple computers side by side.

The complaint most people have is because most multiboxing does in fact use botting, so the player manually controls one character while the rest of the accounts follow and attack via bots, which is just pain cheating.

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Panda413 a écrit :

I don't think you entirely understand the purpose or method of multiboxing.

It's not to fight mobs with multiple characters. They just stand there and add more loot for one main character.

Some people do it via one very high end computer, but other people have multiple computers side by side.

No i don't have a clue to be honest. But that is what i figured it was about was to have multiple characters just stand there for more loot.

Its not really accepted its just not really easy to detect or prevent.

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Arisilde a écrit :

The complaint most people have is because most multiboxing does in fact use botting, so the player manually controls one character while the rest of the accounts follow and attack via bots, which is just pain cheating.

lol Another person that don't actually understand that there is no botting in multitasking. it is allowed in D3, it is allowed in PoE . It is not botting, there are no commands generated from within the game. The command comes from outside the game to each character and they execute them. In a bot all the commands are from a script internal to the game. This seems to be a hard thing for some to comprehend. Of course it is easier to do in a ftp game.

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Arisilde a écrit :

The complaint most people have is because most multiboxing does in fact use botting, so the player manually controls one character while the rest of the accounts follow and attack via bots, which is just pain cheating.

I dont think you understand. There is no botting. You can't get up go to work and leave it running collecting loot for you all day. There is no bot. There is nothing injected into the game or server to have any type of advantage over anyone else.

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Deadru a écrit :

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Arisilde a écrit :

The complaint most people have is because most multiboxing does in fact use botting, so the player manually controls one character while the rest of the accounts follow and attack via bots, which is just pain cheating.

lol Another person that don't actually understand that there is no botting in multitasking. it is allowed in D3, it is allowed in PoE . It is not botting, there are no commands generated from within the game. The command comes from outside the game to each character and they execute them. In a bot all the commands are from a script internal to the game. This seems to be a hard thing for some to comprehend. Of course it is easier to do in a ftp game.

...What are you talking about? You seem to be describing the definition of a MACRO, not a bot. An external program that feeds input to the game, without modifying the game process itself, is still quite clearly a bot and will definitely get you banned from PoE. Anything that automates gameplay is not allowed. This includes playing 1 character normally and having a bot control several multiboxed characters.

Manual multiboxing, where you actually move the characters from zone to zone 'by hand', is more of a grey area. From what I understand, it's basically allowed because it's next to impossible to prevent, not because it's widely accepted.

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Panda413 a écrit :

I don't think you entirely understand the purpose or method of multiboxing.

It's not to fight mobs with multiple characters. They just stand there and add more loot for one main character.

Some people do it via one very high end computer, but other people have multiple computers side by side.

No, you're the one that is ignorant about multi-boxing. Multi-boxing is to run multiple characters at once to increase one's damage output through synchronized ability use and movement.

What you're describing is just someone opening up multiple clients which anyone can do.

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Delmas a écrit :

Its not really accepted its just not really easy to detect or prevent.

Really? I would've thought it would be really quite easy to detect 6 players in a party all moving in the exact same directions and using the same skills in perfect synchronisation.

Being a F2P game this is a bigger problem than in other ARPGs - I'd quite like to see a GGG response to the problem.

Also it's "accepted".

Edit: Of course it would be hard to detect if someone was somehow uniquely controlling each of those characters, I personally don't know how it's precisely done.