Wormholes

Hey all, I was just curious how people generally multiboxed their sites. I have a 3 monitor setup and generally would run 2 DPS and one cloaky scout for safety, one on each monitor.

It works but still can get tedious, especially in an emergency warpout type of situation. I've looked at SW like isboxer but can't make the jump as it seems overkill for what I am trying to do. But I was curious how others did it.

And yea I know this isn't WH specific exactly. But in a way it is. I can multibox missions, but i don't consider it the same as multibox efficiency isn't as key for me since there is lots of safety. WH's are so much more dangerous it makes me try and multibox more efficiently.

Well yea friends are always better. But sometimes nobody else is on.

And even with friends I will generally run at least 2 clients (I always keep a cloaky scout out).

Pretty sure what I am doing will not contribute to my salvager gank risk over anything else. (I dont try to run a site and salvage at the same time. Too hard to keep an eye on dscan etc).

I always found it better (for myself) to run multiple accounts on one monitor. After my years of playing Everquest like this, I find it much easier to just alt+tab between different windowed accounts.

Also, I always keep a scout on a wh, just in case. To make this even easier, I turn off the volume for my accounts that are running the anom, and turn up the volume of my scout's account. That way if someone jumps into the wh, you hear it instead of having to see it.

I find a 4 client setup works fine on 2 screens.
I do it like this:

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9089/soloc.jpg

lol

I only use 4 clients when I haul out of a C1. Have to watch out that the multitasking doesn't fries my head.

I am usually multiboxing, and usually using 2 high-end CPUs, sometimes supplemented by a decent laptop, and 4 or 5 screens (2 large, 2 small, and the laptop).

For most of my w-system PvE work I am running 4 or more toons.

My PvE fleet setup is usually 2 do-ers (DPS-doods or miners / harvesters), 1 supporter (fleet boost tengu or orca), and 1 watcher (scout with DS-probe deployed). Sometimes I’m also freighter hauling or doing some hisec industry at the same time. The watcher has a small screen to himself, the booster is background minimised if I am running sites. If I am mining the orca booster has a screen to himself, because he also warps in to pickup the ore / gas. For running sites each of the DPS ships has a large screen to themselves, and when mining / harvesting they’re in overlapping windows on a large screen. The additional high sec stuff is running on a very old small screen.
One of my DPS guys is also a perfect salvager, so when we've cleared a bundle of sites he does the rounds with the noctis. My scanner is also a perfect can-opener so we tend to do a bit of a ship shuffle after clearing mag / radar sites.
I set my fleet up so that the main window toon can squad-warp the relevant parties out … altho haven’t had to do that in any urgency for an awful long time.

For my w-space PvP (currently bomber / recon fleets) I have two DPS guys, each with a large screen run by a separate box, and my scout in the larger of the small screens. Oddly I’ve found it best to have my main tackler running on the slightly slower box on the second-largest screen. Perhaps it’s the mouse or the screen refresh or that each object takes up a larger portion of the screen (IDK), but the tackles seem to be much more positive and reliable on that system … when fractions of a second make the difference between successfully pointing someone and them getting into warp.

For my bombers bar stuff or other larger PvP fleets I usually run one toon on the main screen using the fastest box, and have TS/Mumble/Whatever running on the other box … and often some other activity (scanning a system I’m camping or doing stuff in hisec) running quietly on that other box.

Well, what I was getting at is even if ppl knew where you guys were, I am sure you would hold your own. I certainly wouldn't be seeking you guys out. Heck the one time I had a connection to an exhale. WH I pretty much took the day off

Maybe, I'm just in a mood, but I get such a kick out of these types of replies.

Yes I enjoy the social aspect as well. But ya know, sometimes just nobody is on. Maybe I had a day off from work etc. So I'm all alone and feel like doing something. But I don't feel like scanning down WH's looking for a gank, so I'll run some sites that spawned in the home system.

When that happens I was curious how other people would multibox vs, how I have been doing it. What I wasn't really looking for is answers to the merits of social gameplay. But thanks anyway.

The better question to ask is...who doesn't multibox sites? Given you can pretty much py half a PLEX per month in PI it's only 5-6 hours of PVE a month to afford a second toon anyway.

I multibox my ladars. Never been ganked in 3 years.

I dual box in window mode on a laptop Just overlap the screens slightly. Downside if you don't pay attention and you get jumped.. you loose 2 ships. I lost 2 Tengu's doing this when the wife distracted me for a split second...