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I'd like to have clarification from CCP on the following grey area:

Suppose that i have RSI on my mousehand and experience a disadvantage compared to unimpaired players.

Now i use the onboard windows tools for disabled people to put doubleclick on a keyboard key.

Have i used forbidden automatisation to gain an advantage over other people?

Will CCP detect this incorrectly and ban me due to a supposed automatisation tool which is a windows onboard functionality?

Please never do this!

NVM

Why? Let's say there is a single IP address running nine(!) clients. A human multiboxer (like myself) can only interact with one client at a time, while a software-assisted multiboxer (and let's just go ahead and use ISBoxer as an example) can issue commands to multiple clients simultaneously. I should think that would be incredibly easy for CCP to detect. Even in the case of three roomies each running three clients, CCP should be able to detect (via MAC addresses, hardware signatures, or some other gadget) that if three mouse clicks came in during the same game "tick," that they came from three different physical machines. Further, the odds of three separate machines running three clients each, having coordinated clicking is so close to nil that CCP could again say "Yeah, these are different people playing behind NAT, not one person botting."

CCP have eve for making money - not for fun.
Without ability to use multiboxing software - many people will discontinue some of the accounts - and this means less income for CCP.

Good example?
While i was flying my raiden char in higsec i noticed something strange on local.
The same nic 74! times the only different was numbers at the end of the nick.
I warped belt by belt and finally found this guy ( yep it was one - i was talking with him on local ).
70 coventors on one belt + orca and freighters moving belt <> station.

Simply i don't see any other possibility than semi-Boting/ Multiboxing to maintain this kind of operation.

70x19.95= 1396.5 $ less/month if this guy decide to discontinue most of his accounts.
Thats why :

I see two things....
1. A perfect target for kill mails
2. A way to make human-driven (as opposed to bot-subsidized) industry at least a little more viable

YARRR!!!

Well, since multi boxing isn't something they are concerned with, even with assistance like ISBoxer, this is a moot point.

Now if you used ISBoxer in conjunction with other tools to completely automate those accounts to not require a users input for each action, then you are in danger of being banned.

Just like with keyboard macros'. A keyboard macro that duplicates one keystroke you physically make across other keys (say to activate all of your mid slot items with a single keystroke) is not something they consider a cheat and would ban you for. However, if you have a very advanced macro set up that allows the client to play without user interaction you will be banned if caught.

They have deemed certain items to be against the letter of the EULA and TOS and potentially bannable, this allows them flexibility when needed to deal with new software and variations on that software. However they have specified that if you aren't using it to Bot, perform RMT, or hack/modify the client they excercise their right to NOT ban you.

Your entire post above completely ignores this fact, which was actually the main point addressed in the Dev blog... but people continue to panic and apply worst case what if scenario's while completely ingnoring the actual relevant part of the blog.

The rest of us are just going to wait until the hysteria passes. Once the light of reason returns to peoples eyes, and they stop hyperventilating, perhaps some worthwhile discussions will happen.

Until then, well, it's been highly amusing.

I have a question with regards to "modification".

Banal as it may seem, I have long desired to pilot my ship with a joy stick or game pad. Now hacking the client is out of the question (and honestly beyond my capability anyway).

But suppose I wrote a driver for my game pad to control the mouse cursor, and mapped a button to generate a click where ever the cursor was on my screen. As far as eve knows I used my mouse cursor as normal to alter my course. But I controlled my mouse with something other than...well, a mouse.

Would this be considered a type of macro that would warrant a ban?

What if I made a driver for my controller that let one of the pressure sensing triggers control the ships throttle by dragging the mouse cursor and clicking?

I couldn't use the mouse to steer and use it to change speed at the same time, any more than I could with a regular mouse there is only one mouse cursor so it shouldn't give any unfair advantage?

Translation: We paid lawyers to tell us that they'd rather not work on the EULA to tighten it up. We'll continue to pay them to not adjust the EULA for the foreseeable future, in the hopes that "just trust us" mollifies most of the playerbase. Someday, we may make them work for their money and actually tighten up the EULA.

Perhaps I can help you here. (I haven't read all 600+ posts in this thread, so apologies in advance if this deceased equine has already received its due beating.) Below is a restating of my perception of CCP's stance:


Hopefully you can use my example above to guide future clarifications.

MDD