EVE General Discussion

I've seen them, my corpmates have seen them, and I'm sure others have as well, but I can't help but notice these guys going around with 41 accounts with some sort of macro program to control all of them at once. They hit up all the ice belts, and suck it dry before anyone else could get a fair share. This type of playing is unfair, and at the very least anyone with this many accounts should be required to be in a corporation, so everyone that wants to pod that guy a few times over for hogging all the ice can wardec him over and over again legally. That, or I guess the bulk of EVE's population are these guys with 41 accounts going at the same time and regulating them means EVE goes bye-bye. either way, it's a little unfair.

At the very least make it so that a given player cannot have more than 5 accounts in a given system at the same time.

Hi Sibius!

It's called multiboxing. People control all their ships at once,
through a program that relays the input to the other client.

As it isn't doing anything on it's own,
and only works as long as somebody gives commands,,
it's considered to be legal within the EULA.

I hate to say it, but you are essentially getting out hi-sec'ed. Ironic that it isn't catalysts which are irritating you, but a more successful miner. If you don't like living there....move?

... or you could mine rocks... plenty of those, whether it's 1 ship or 41. Make it so.

It's almost an hour and he didn't reply yet.

So now he'll reply, because of this post.

Which will make him look even more suspicious,
so he might rather not.

Otoh he might just call this post out for being ridiculous,
because I suspect a troll. Which will make it even more obvious.

Dude, it's pixel money, don't splash gasoline all over yourself yet.

Plenty of empty low-sec ice belts. But you don't want that because you cannot go AFK while sitting there.

Your solution is impossible, people would start using a proxy (e.g Tor) to channel specific clients through other IP addresses, and since the IP is the only connecting element... (unless they collect hardware ID's too, and even then they might have multiple PC's).

Yeah but it's not like you get RL money out of Eve, you just don't have to put them in. I doubt that guy running 100 barges fleet has new swimming pool because of it, he just have hobby that fuels itself.

Since there is no limit on number of accounts you can have why would multiboxing them all be against rules? As long as you don't engage in illegitimate activities why should anyone care? There are in-game means to make your life miserable but I guess they require more effort than forum whine thread.

Basically, it comes down to this: one form of automations (botting) is considered against the EULA while another form of automation (isboxer) is not.

Both take limited inputs (i.e. fewer inputs then it would normally take to run say 40 clients) and apply them to a larger set of clients. Botting does this through a "run" command that executes a predefined program while the user is away whereas isboxer effectively runs a number of smaller programs (macros) while the user is (nominally) at the keyboard.

Either way automates gameplay, but CCP says one is bad and the other isn't, so those are the rules we play by. If you don't like it.....well....catalysts are a cheap solution to your problem.