Assembly Hall

(I believe LordServants started working on this behind the scenes already, so let's keep that ball rolling)

There is a lot of drama, misinformation, slander, name calling and anger from both users and haters of multiboxing.

I posted my thoughts in multiple locations but I have a fairly condensed post here

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5242995#post5242995

One nagging question I have is internally what has happened that CCP has done a 180 in how it treats multiboxing and why they are taking such a dramatic stance now (with a 30 day and then permanent ban on a 2nd infraction).

I'm asking that the CSM hold a formal meeting / town hall / round table on the situation.

It's my hope that players, CSMs and perhaps CCP Dev's can sit down and discuss this issue together.

I disagree, for years multiboxing ment using one mouse and keyboard to be able to control multiple toons at the same time.

CCP is trying to walk back 7? Years of confirmation that this was ok, while providing little explanation or taking into account the half dozen work arounds to accomplish the same thing without much downside to the Multiboxers.

Today, right now, I could easily implement a very simple change in isboxer and get around 90% of the mouse and keyboard duplication ban with zero hassle, the other 10% will simple take me a few more button presses to achieve.

So instead of arguing among our selves i would like to speak directly to CCP and to show them the errors of their policy and to also dig into what really their issues are.

Whatever they hope to fix will not go away, people will still be able to multibox with little difficulty, only some inconveniences.

What error? you want them to roll back the ruling or completely ban isboxer and other things, which have other benefits. And if you can get around the ruling then why are you complaining?

It should be noted that we talked about input multiplexing at the summer summit.

No.

Using IsBoxer, or any other hard- or software, to send one click or keypress to more than one client is now finally illegal.
(except for out of game stuff like login and settings).

The problem is CCP is well known to fire shots without checking the target first. I wonder what the ban count on this change is actually going to be for people that actually alt-tab between accounts like you and me. To some people, when they mine in same clusters as I do, they think the lasers firing up is simultaneous on all accounts even if there's that small time between clicking each EVE window in the bottom bar and pressing F1-F3 on all of them at the same time.

Personally, I was never bothered by ISboxer or keystroke multiplication/sending. It didn't bother anyone for years. Until ISBoxer controlled bomber wings started wreaking havoc upon the dogs of war. Or massive fleets mining the shiznit in high-sec space.
Up until that became a widespread common thing, nobody gave a rats ass about Multiboxers using ISBoxer or Logitech G7 keyboards or Keyclone utility software.