Assembly Hall

Well, that can be a problem, but really, that is extremly rare. do you have any idea how much hardware you need to run +50 game instances at once? my laptop can run 2, my main PC rig can run 6 without lag if I turn the graphics down. If I tried to run 20 or more acounts at the same time my rig would crash.

While I can agree massive isboxing could be a problem, I would say their are mayber 10-12 players doing it out of the 600,000 or so active accounts. Not really a big problem. The average isboxer only runs 10-15 accounts. I personally run 4 accounts, but not with isboxer, I do it all manually. But still, I really don't see how the problem is big enough to justify the resources that would be required to track and stop it.

Isboxer is basically a keyboard emulator that copies actions across multiple clients. There is no way to prove if a client is using isboxer. Except for maybe scaning the machine running the client for known third party programs. But even then, the programers responsible for creating those programs could find a way around it.

Besides to do so would require CCP to add a clause to the EULA allowing them to scan clients computers activities outside of the EVE client. That would likely get EVE banned by most large countries due to privacy violations.

It just can not be done, at least not legally.

They are welcome to come and try. The best people using ISBoxer have been able to do is run a fleet of bombers. Anything more complex and they fail miserably. Boo hoo., let's see those 100-200 ISBboxer fleets come to null and try to do stuff. In PvP that is. I'm quite certain someone who can effectively run 100 miners is far better off to rent out a system in null and earn 50x more than they do in high-sec.

But that's just me, I'd go for higher proffits if I could run 50+ accounts. I'd strip a Large Cluster in 2 hours.

The number isn't 'strongly increasing' due to the fact that the setup is so difficult that most people couldn't be bothered with it at all & learning how to effectively control your 20 accounts that are trying to do different things is a huge learning curve. People multiboxing heaps of account will never be a problem in the big picture.

Honestly, this is why I haven't gotten into it. I just can't be arsed to figure it out, set up all my clients exactly perfectly so that the multiboxing will work, and all the other crap that goes into it. Eve is a game, not a job, and that seems a lot like work to me.

Rekt

While I agree that isboxer should not be allowed you can't go banning people for just having multiple accounts, before the First graphics expansion around 08 I ran 8 clients with out a program, after that number dropped to 4 and then to 1 with a desktop that locks up and a laptop that runs slow. I have seen ganks with is boxer and those people have had ships replaced due to it, so basically ccp calls the other accounts bots but yet it allowed

Tin foil may help the issue you seem to have at the moment.

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Isboxer gives the user an advantage comparable to the advantage given by a bot. For example, a player could not normally play 20 EVE accounts at once. The player would have to either be botting, or using isboxer.

This no doubt gives the player a huge edge in this competitive game. To have the combined income of 20 players is a huge advantage.

What other ways is Isboxer unfair on normal players? Some players have isboxed pvp fleets, bombers, and gankers, but these are the least of the problems. The worst of it comes from the economic damage, and the taking of content that was designed for an average certain number of players. I'm talking of course about mining anomalies.

The problem has gotten so out of hand that you'll be lucky to find a mining anomaly system that doesn't have an isboxer fleet show up at every spawn. Or in the worst cases, there is 4 or 5 different isboxed fleets. Just take a look in Osmon or Wuos ice anomalies and see for yourself. There is sometimes can be up to a hundred mining ships present, but most of them are controlled by just a few isboxer players.

Isboxer users have the same detrimental effect on EVE as botters. Botting is not allowed for a few reasons.

Bots take content from normal players
Bots probably pay for their accounts with PLEX
Bots have an unfair advantage of being able to earn more isk than players who don't buy the software (with exceptions)

Isboxers take content from normal players
Isboxers probably pay for their accounts with PLEX
Isboxers have an unfair advantage of being able to earn more isk than players who don't buy the software (with exceptions)

You don't see anomalies full of bots nor do you see constant complaints about them. And yet you do see anomalies full of isboxers and there is a steady yet constant stream of complaints.

So while technically isboxer is not botting - it is infact at least as bad as botting.

Sure if you want to get technical the technical they are slightly different, but the effects in EVE on the players are exactly the same and that should be what matters to CCP, not some technicality.

I'd take the time to write a serious reply if literally everything you said was not hilariously wrong.