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Homeworld style RTS interface for multiboxing
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Poster Master
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-09-19 05:16:02 UTC
It is time to admit it. Multiboxing is an extreme reality, and just like $$ for isk and just like character trading before this, CCP needs to officially embrace it (more than they have so far).

At this point I believe we should be calling alts as "hired guns", people you pay ~540 mil/month to work for you. There should be an in-game solution to obtaining alt accounts and more importantly there should be an in-game interface to support multiple accounts.

I suggest a "tactical mode" where your game becomes similar to Homeworld. You select the ships of yourself and your alts (or hired guns) and you issue commands similar to an RTS with "Attack" or "Move" etc, with addition of tactics such as "Favor tank, Favor EW, Favor DPS, Favor Tackle" etc.

Thoughts?
Fia Magrath
The Clown Inquisition
#2 - 2013-09-19 05:22:25 UTC
This would effectively turn eve into a RTS with player focus on the macro and current content focus on the micro. Not going to happen.
Skill Training Online
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-09-19 05:27:04 UTC
I like the idea and going a step further the counter would be ECM which would no longer have an effect on single ships.

Instead it disrupts the node from the network and the ship powers down. All active mods cycle off and the ship comes to a stop.


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Wapu Kashuken
Serenity Rising LLC
Controlled Chaos
#4 - 2013-09-19 10:04:47 UTC
I like the idea in general. I've seen videos of mutliboxing software using a single UI. Not CCP sanctioned of course (don't know about the EULA legality either). But it would be a good place for them to start researching how to implement multibox support.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-09-19 11:00:24 UTC
I'd like it if we had homeworld style navigation on the solar map.

Whatever that would be good for... Oh right, ultra deep safe spots.

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Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#6 - 2013-09-19 11:45:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
These "Drone Pilots" are called mercenaries and you can hire them on contract...they're also real people and not "alt bots".

I'm not a fan of more 1 Subscriber = 15 Characters and so I don't think that support should be given to multi-boxers. The thing I love about EVE is that for every ship you see there's a person somewhere in RL flying it and making it do what it's doing. Yes, I do know that CCP allows the use of ISBoxer.

Not a fan and encourages more solo play style than MMO.

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Chalithra Lathar
Macabre Votum
Northern Coalition.
#7 - 2013-09-19 23:21:37 UTC
As a multiboxer, I'd prefer if the game just stayed how it is. I'd rather CCP put their time into improving the game/providing new content instead of trying to make the game an RTS