EVE General Discussion

Thanks for uploading this! I was actually planning on doing the same thing this summer, but sadly got bored of EVE before I subbed all the extra accounts.

I ran the number on this if people are curious.
You need about 2 months on each new account to get them ready for incursions. You could cut it down to 1 month if you're only trainning battleship pilots, but it's not advisable. Skills are just too low across the board in that case. You'll need a minimum of 2 months for the logistics pilots and off grid booster.

As for costs. Use buddy account promotions. That gives each account 4 months + 21 days for the price of $39 USD each (if you use the bonus PLEX as game time). Which comes down to ~$8.5 per month, which is a pretty good deal. Assuming you have 2 accounts already. 10 extra accounts nets you ~$400. Unless you have a lot of ISK, you will probably have to spend the bonus plexes on ISK in order to afford the battleships for each account though.

I have not tested how many clients you could run on one PC. I know 6 shouldn't be too big of a problem. I have a couple of PCs for working from home, so that's not an issue for me, but if it turns out that your PC is not powerful enough for 12 clients, another one will probably net you about $600.

As for internet bandwidth. Making a quick check on a single client showed really tiny upload amounts (~10 KBps), so your internet connection shouldn't be an issue even with ****** 512 KBps upload. Download is always higher and will definitely suffice unless you're sitting on dial up.

Once everyone's trained up, you should be able to coast with a plex for each in about 10-15 hours time. Assuming an average of 2 hours of gaming per day. You should be able to pay for all accounts in game in a week, and the next 3 weeks should be free. At which point you can start saving up for 22 accounts to run the Assault incursions.

Anything below 12 accounts is not worth it in terms of the hourly wage you would get at work, and you're better off just working an extra hour and buying plex to sell in game. 50 mill ISK per hour per accounts * 12 = ~1 plex per hour.

EDIT: Oh, forgot to mention that you should either have a stockpile of emergency ISK, or be prepared to buy and sell about $60 worth of plexes in case you lose connection. Since all of your accounts are going through the same connection. All of them will be disconnected at once.

That sounds like a load of bull. MMO stands for massive multiplayer online, not massive multiplayer online who all have to hug and be friends.

Some folks would just rather enjoy a technical challenge than have to deal with an often volatile and unreliable social challenge.

I assure you, multiboxers get what you're saying about being able to control more than one character with the same button.

Some people feel cheated when they see that someone is able to accomplish more than them, for any reason. But just because you feel this way doesn't actually turn it into a bot and I think you and others who feel this way would probably do better if you can express yourselves without comparing multiboxing to botting, because it's simply not the same thing.

For example...

The biggest thing you might get out of botting is time to spend doing something else. You might argue "no, the biggest thing you get out of botting is a billion ISK" or so on, but that's not the truth, you could get the same billion ISK without the bot, you just have to actually be at the keys playing the game. With a bot, you let your bot do it just so you can get a billion ISK without spending that time in the game yourself. I spent a lot of time in the 90s botting MUDs and developing and selling bots for them, and bots were almost exclusively used to play catch-up in order to play with friends or adventure to the next cool area.

A multiboxer on the other hand is not interested in removing himself from the game... Just the opposite: he's trying to be a bigger part of the game. You can argue that the multiboxer is injecting additional time into the game as compared to a player with 1 account, and a botter is also likely injecting additional time into the game as compared to a typical player, but that's about where the direct comparison ends.


So I'm not saying that it's wrong for a player to somehow feel betrayed by this, that's an okay feeling to have. It's just not the same as botting. ;)

Fair point, but with a ISboxer, there's still a human to interact with, whereas a traditional "real" bot isn't such a thing.

I'd say that someone with n accounts under ISboxer is more liable to create in-game situations and experiences (as in, content experiences) which otherwise wouldn't have occurred.

Can't get enough of the butthurt "Ban people using multi accounts. Ban ISboxer, Ban anyone who makes more money than me" Posts in this thread. Already gone through a 2L of Jergins and 3 packs of tissues.

I was told there'd be no math.

So like your alliance?

Real men use spit and a dirty sock.

im kinda said, you need to get this stream lined so the goon's can adopt it anduse all that tech isk to use plex to fund entier fleets ran by 5 guys.


1 FC with the DPS ships, 4 on logi.


o the tears just think you wont even need other people any more. just your ceo and his 5 best friends.