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Update regarding Multiboxing and input automation

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Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#4141 - 2015-04-19 16:20:39 UTC
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
There is no new EULA.

Now you're just arguing semantics because you have no real argument.

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RoundRobin breaks Eve's EULA/TOS & policies.

One output for one input. How does it break the EULA/TOS? And more specifically, how does it break the EULA/TOS without including EVE-O Preview, Mumble, TS3, and Steam Overlay?

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VideoFX manipulation can be used to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies, when for example it is used to create those dashboard set ups.

VideoFX is using Windows Aero and as such does not fall under the purview of CCP, unless they magic-wanded $100B into existence to buy Microsoft. Additionally, there is no part of the EULA that would ban VideoFX that would not ban the aforementioned programs without disabling people from moving their UI around.

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Stop incorrectly telling people what is allowed, you may end up getting them banned if they believe you.

Stop incorrectly telling people what isn't allowed. Just because you can't handle multiple clients doesn't mean everyone should not be able to.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#4142 - 2015-04-19 20:15:59 UTC
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
Nolak Ataru wrote:

Wrong. The person I "exposed", as you put it, was using either RoundRobin or VideoFX manipulation, both of which are allowed under the new EULA.

There is no new EULA.

RoundRobin breaks Eve's EULA/TOS & policies.
VideoFX manipulation can be used to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies, when for example it is used to create those dashboard set ups.

Stop incorrectly telling people what is allowed, you may end up getting them banned if they believe you.



+1. I honestly don't know why this self delusion persists.

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Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#4143 - 2015-04-19 22:26:18 UTC
Nolak Ataru wrote:

One output for one input. How does it break the EULA/TOS? And more specifically, how does it break the EULA/TOS without including EVE-O Preview, Mumble, TS3, and Steam Overlay?

Technically RoundRobin is 2 outputs for 1 input otherwise all the outputs would go to the same client. But thats not why it breaks Eve's EULA/TOS & policies. Read Eve's EULA/TOS & policies and I don't mean read the new imaginary version you seem to think exists. Read the one CCP provides. Specifically 6A.2 and 9.c (Found in the third party policies).
Nolak Ataru wrote:

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VideoFX manipulation can be used to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies, when for example it is used to create those dashboard set ups.

VideoFX is using Windows Aero and as such does not fall under the purview of CCP, unless they magic-wanded $100B into existence to buy Microsoft. Additionally, there is no part of the EULA that would ban VideoFX that would not ban the aforementioned programs without disabling people from moving their UI around.

VideoFX is not banned and I never claimed it was. It can however be used to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies and that is what those dashboard type setups do.
Nolak Ataru wrote:

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Stop incorrectly telling people what is allowed, you may end up getting them banned if they believe you.

Stop incorrectly telling people what isn't allowed. Just because you can't handle multiple clients doesn't mean everyone should not be able to.

What I can and can not do has no affect on what Eve's EULA/TOS & policies allow. Encouraging people to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies is a bannable offence, so maybe you should stop doing it. Ignorance of the rules is no excuse for breaking them.

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Marsha Mallow
#4144 - 2015-04-20 00:31:34 UTC
Relevant

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Trakow
Beta Switch
#4145 - 2015-04-20 00:50:05 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:

Trakow wrote:
The servers use 1-second ticks.

I've tried several times, and within one second, I can mash a button 7-8 times.

But, by pressing a button, then pressing Alt+Tab before pressing it again in another window, I can only do it 2-3 times. And yes this is using left hand to Alt+Tab and right hand to press the button.

So someone who activates 5,6,7,8,9 or more modules on different accounts within a second are likely using round-robin software (ISBoxer or whatever 3rd PS).
I can use tiled windows and hover focus to press buttons on 8-10 with ease in a second. So should I be banned because I have multiple monitors?

Like I said here, if you really can do as you claim, to activate 8-10 modules on different accounts within one second, prove it, post up a video of you doing it with monitor(s), keyboard and mouse visible, because I don't believe you, because it can't be done, even if you're using hover focus. Until you can prove it, I think you're lying, and I stand by the fact that you can only activate modules on 8+ accounts within one second by using third party software, which is one thing that helps CCP find RR users by looking at server-side logs.
Lucas Kell wrote:

Trakow wrote:
Also, I'm sure they have more information server-side than just button-presses. Window focus/activation events can also be sent to the server, as well as sources of keypresses and mouseclicks. Yes, you can detect if a keypress comes from hardware, or if it was triggered by something sent by other software using things like WScript.shell's SendKeys, or JS's initKeyboardEvent etc etc etc... Not rocket science.
They can indeed tell the source of the keypress (though that can be masked pretty easily) but in order to do that at all, they need client side detection which they do not have.


No, you can't easily mask the source of. Perhaps spoof it to make it look like it's coming from some other software, but you can't fake it to make it look like it's coming from hardware.
Trakow
Beta Switch
#4146 - 2015-04-20 01:05:16 UTC
Nolak Ataru wrote:
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
There is no new EULA.

Now you're just arguing semantics because you have no real argument.


He is right, there is no new EULA, they just changed what they're enforcing. See the first post in this thread and read it.

Nolak Ataru wrote:

One output for one input. How does it break the EULA/TOS? And more specifically, how does it break the EULA/TOS without including EVE-O Preview, Mumble, TS3, and Steam Overlay?


As I've mentioned before, they've specifically excluded Mumble and TS3 and it's within their right to. You can't compare their enforcement to other softwares, that's their choice.

Nolak Ataru wrote:

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VideoFX manipulation can be used to break Eve's EULA/TOS & policies, when for example it is used to create those dashboard set ups.

VideoFX is using Windows Aero and as such does not fall under the purview of CCP, unless they magic-wanded $100B into existence to buy Microsoft. Additionally, there is no part of the EULA that would ban VideoFX that would not ban the aforementioned programs without disabling people from moving their UI around.


How quickly you forget the msg I got from Peligro that I posted and got removed. It was also quoted. VideoFX was specifically named as not allowed.
Kinete Jenius
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4147 - 2015-04-20 04:01:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Kinete Jenius
Trakow wrote:
Like I said here, if you really can do as you claim, to activate 8-10 modules on different accounts within one second, prove it, post up a video of you doing it with monitor(s), keyboard and mouse visible, because I don't believe you, because it can't be done, even if you're using hover focus. Until you can prove it, I think you're lying, and I stand by the fact that you can only activate modules on 8+ accounts within one second by using third party software, which is one thing that helps CCP find RR users by looking at server-side logs.
Ever watch one of my videos?

When I activate the gate I"m just pressing and holding D as I click through. You can get a similar effect with hotkeys and a nkey rollover keyboard.

I'm slow at it so I can only imagine what some kids are capable of.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#4148 - 2015-04-20 07:01:07 UTC
Trakow wrote:
Like I said here, if you really can do as you claim, to activate 8-10 modules on different accounts within one second, prove it, post up a video of you doing it with monitor(s), keyboard and mouse visible, because I don't believe you, because it can't be done, even if you're using hover focus. Until you can prove it, I think you're lying, and I stand by the fact that you can only activate modules on 8+ accounts within one second by using third party software, which is one thing that helps CCP find RR users by looking at server-side logs.
Yeah, I'm not going to be installing recording software, recording videos and uploading them for you to see just so you can go "oh, you can hit 8 buttons in quick succession". And I realy don;t care whether or not you think it's possible. The fact is that it is. You can use tiled clients as fast as you can use a standard round robin, and most importantly far more efficiently than a regular player with a single screen. and that's what counts, because that's what they are comparing against. CCP are looking at whether or not you are significantly more efficient than the average and banning based on that.

Trakow wrote:
No, you can't easily mask the source of. Perhaps spoof it to make it look like it's coming from some other software, but you can't fake it to make it look like it's coming from hardware.
Yes you can. Irrelevant though since they don't have client side detection.

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Trakow
Beta Switch
#4149 - 2015-04-20 17:13:51 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Trakow wrote:
Like I said here, if you really can do as you claim, to activate 8-10 modules on different accounts within one second, prove it, post up a video of you doing it with monitor(s), keyboard and mouse visible, because I don't believe you, because it can't be done, even if you're using hover focus. Until you can prove it, I think you're lying, and I stand by the fact that you can only activate modules on 8+ accounts within one second by using third party software, which is one thing that helps CCP find RR users by looking at server-side logs.
Yeah, I'm not going to be installing recording software, recording videos and uploading them for you to see just so you can go "oh, you can hit 8 buttons in quick succession". And I realy don;t care whether or not you think it's possible. The fact is that it is. You can use tiled clients as fast as you can use a standard round robin, and most importantly far more efficiently than a regular player with a single screen. and that's what counts, because that's what they are comparing against. CCP are looking at whether or not you are significantly more efficient than the average and banning based on that.


I said record with keyboard and mouse visible, as in, using a camera or cell phone and upload, no recording software required. And I don't think its not possible, I know its not possible. And that's how people will get caught. So unless someone proves me wrong with video proof, then just arguing is useless. I can also say that I can jump 20 feet straight up, or that I have a car that can drive on water, anyone can say anything, doesn't make it true unless they can prove it.
Trakow
Beta Switch
#4150 - 2015-04-20 17:18:56 UTC
Kinete Jenius wrote:
Trakow wrote:
Like I said here, if you really can do as you claim, to activate 8-10 modules on different accounts within one second, prove it, post up a video of you doing it with monitor(s), keyboard and mouse visible, because I don't believe you, because it can't be done, even if you're using hover focus. Until you can prove it, I think you're lying, and I stand by the fact that you can only activate modules on 8+ accounts within one second by using third party software, which is one thing that helps CCP find RR users by looking at server-side logs.
Ever watch one of my videos?

When I activate the gate I"m just pressing and holding D as I click through. You can get a similar effect with hotkeys and a nkey rollover keyboard.

I'm slow at it so I can only imagine what some kids are capable of.


And that's my point. Until someone can prove they can do it, they can just stop saying that it's possible. You even said that you can't do it that fast, and I stand by my statement that nobody can until they prove me wrong with a video. And I'm making it easy by saying 8 clients within a second, because someone doing it with 15+ clients within a second or two is even more obvious.
Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#4151 - 2015-04-20 18:41:55 UTC
Trakow wrote:
And that's my point. Until someone can prove they can do it, they can just stop saying that it's possible. You even said that you can't do it that fast, and I stand by my statement that nobody can until they prove me wrong with a video. And I'm making it easy by saying 8 clients within a second, because someone doing it with 15+ clients within a second or two is even more obvious.

Burden of proof fallacy. You made the claim that nobody can do it that fast, you must provide the proof.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#4152 - 2015-04-20 19:39:25 UTC
Nolak Ataru wrote:
Trakow wrote:
And that's my point. Until someone can prove they can do it, they can just stop saying that it's possible. You even said that you can't do it that fast, and I stand by my statement that nobody can until they prove me wrong with a video. And I'm making it easy by saying 8 clients within a second, because someone doing it with 15+ clients within a second or two is even more obvious.

Burden of proof fallacy. You made the claim that nobody can do it that fast, you must provide the proof.


Just like you provide proof for all your claims. Roll You do realise he is asking someone to back up their claim that they can swap clients just as quick manually as they can with a RoundRobin set up.?

When are you going to provide proof for your claim that CCP are banning people who are obeying the EULA?

You're doing it again Nolak, stop telling people to provide proof when you are unable or unwilling to do so yourself. Its not a very nice characteristic.

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Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#4153 - 2015-04-20 20:14:46 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
Just like you provide proof for all your claims. Roll You do realise he is asking someone to back up their claim that they can swap clients just as quick manually as they can with a RoundRobin set up.?
When are you going to provide proof for your claim that CCP are banning people who are obeying the EULA?
You're doing it again Nolak, stop telling people to provide proof when you are unable or unwilling to do so yourself. Its not a very nice characteristic.


We gave you the proof. CCP removed said proof. We posted on the dual-boxing forum said proof and contact information for those who didn't post their proof. You keep saying "That doesn't count" every time we either give you the proof, or the means to obtain the proof yourself.
*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

He first made the claim himself that no human player could match an ISBoxer. Pain Time used to 10-box PVP pre-ISBoxer. The WH corp is doing just fine without broadcasting. Kinete's doing just fine. And the fellow down in Deklein with 10+ ishtars is doing just fine. With practice, Kinete can easily trump whatever standard you have for being "too efficient", which is what we've been saying for ages now: That practice makes perfect. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Or, in EVE terms, "Any sufficiently skilled and experienced EVE player is indistinguishable from a bot or macro". Leigh Brackett also had something to say: "Witchcraft to the ignorant; simple science to the learned".
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#4154 - 2015-04-20 20:45:05 UTC
Nolak Ataru wrote:

We gave you the proof. CCP removed said proof.


Bull. ****.


Quote:

We posted on the dual-boxing forum said proof and contact information for those who didn't post their proof.


That bot apologist website is only proof that you're trying to shield yourselves from being rightfully banned.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.

Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#4155 - 2015-04-20 21:03:11 UTC
Trakow wrote:
I said record with keyboard and mouse visible, as in, using a camera or cell phone and upload, no recording software required. And I don't think its not possible, I know its not possible. And that's how people will get caught. So unless someone proves me wrong with video proof, then just arguing is useless. I can also say that I can jump 20 feet straight up, or that I have a car that can drive on water, anyone can say anything, doesn't make it true unless they can prove it.
Still no. I'm not planning on uploading videos of anything for you. And I really don't care if you believe it or not, it's a fact that clicking 8 buttons in quick succession is not hard.

Once again though, it's irrelevant because what it's compared again is a player with a single screen, and even with your limited ability to fire off input to your computer in good time you must know that someone with 12 windows tiled across 3 monitors is going to be significantly faster than a player on a single screen. So they will appear considerably more efficient than a "normal" player and thus appear to be using tools.

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Trakow
Beta Switch
#4156 - 2015-04-20 23:25:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Trakow
Nolak Ataru wrote:
Trakow wrote:
And that's my point. Until someone can prove they can do it, they can just stop saying that it's possible. You even said that you can't do it that fast, and I stand by my statement that nobody can until they prove me wrong with a video. And I'm making it easy by saying 8 clients within a second, because someone doing it with 15+ clients within a second or two is even more obvious.

Burden of proof fallacy. You made the claim that nobody can do it that fast, you must provide the proof.


No, I do not, yourself and others have claimed that you can activate modules across multiple clients just as fast as using Round Robin by just Alt+Tabbing, or using a "Focus on MouseOver" feature. There's also claims like THIS ONE (last para) from Lucas Kell which says that it's impossible to prove that someone is using Round Robin because they can tile windows etc, but it is, because of activations per second, for which I'm also asking for proof of ability to do the same as RR manually.

This is YOUR post

In which you disputed my reply to ShadowandLight HERE (2nd paragraph) who claimed that Alt+Tabbing too fast means you're breaking the EULA, but it can't because you cannot switch clients and activate that quickly. And also challenging Sgt Ocker from several posts of his like THIS ONE where he claims that CCP cannot determine a Round Robin user from someone Alt+Tabbing or manually switching clients too fast. Therefore, I'm asking them, and anyone else who agrees with them, to prove that they can manually be as fast as a Round Robin user. And from the looks of it, nobody can prove their clams.
Trakow
Beta Switch
#4157 - 2015-04-20 23:32:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Trakow
Lucas Kell wrote:
Trakow wrote:
I said record with keyboard and mouse visible, as in, using a camera or cell phone and upload, no recording software required. And I don't think its not possible, I know its not possible. And that's how people will get caught. So unless someone proves me wrong with video proof, then just arguing is useless. I can also say that I can jump 20 feet straight up, or that I have a car that can drive on water, anyone can say anything, doesn't make it true unless they can prove it.
Still no. I'm not planning on uploading videos of anything for you. And I really don't care if you believe it or not, it's a fact that clicking 8 buttons in quick succession is not hard.

Once again though, it's irrelevant because what it's compared again is a player with a single screen, and even with your limited ability to fire off input to your computer in good time you must know that someone with 12 windows tiled across 3 monitors is going to be significantly faster than a player on a single screen. So they will appear considerably more efficient than a "normal" player and thus appear to be using tools.


It's not a fact until proven, it's just claims and hearsay. And I'm not talking about just clicking 8 buttons, I'm talking about activating modules on 8 different accounts within one second, which you say is not hard, so again, I say prove it. Show me. I say bench pressing 800 pounds is not hard, do you believe me?

Again, you bring up multiple monitors to change the subject... it doesn't matter if somebody has 100 monitors... I'm sure the majority of Eve players have more than one monitor, so those players fall well into the "normal" player statistics.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#4158 - 2015-04-21 06:50:22 UTC
Trakow wrote:
It's not a fact until proven, it's just claims and hearsay. And I'm not talking about just clicking 8 buttons, I'm talking about activating modules on 8 different accounts within one second, which you say is not hard, so again, I say prove it. Show me. I say bench pressing 800 pounds is not hard, do you believe me?
It's 8 buttons on 3 screens, always visible. No swapping required. They may as well be one client, so yes, you are literally talking about pressing 8 buttons. I can even just swipe my pointer across the windows hammering F1 because focus can be set to hover. And no, I'm not going to sit here recording home videos for you, stop demanding I do, pervert. I don't care that you aren't very good at using PCs and think that it's impossible, I really do not care what you think, and since it's irrelevant there's no need for me to prove anything to you. You want to go off thinking I'm a liar? Go right ahead. I am done discussing this with you.

Trakow wrote:
Again, you bring up multiple monitors to change the subject... it doesn't matter if somebody has 100 monitors... I'm sure the majority of Eve players have more than one monitor, so those players fall well into the "normal" player statistics.
So you're saying that the majority do, and that the majority have enough screen space to multibox efficiently, and that most people use that space for multiple accounts rapidly performing multibox activities? The thing is, they don't, so no, a "normal" player won't be multiboxing that efficiently, and so manual multiboxers are definitely at risk.

The thing is, I have used both round robin and a manual setup. The manual setup is slightly more efficient possibly just because the round robin setup left screen you couldn't; see while the manual setup shows everything at all times). So if round robin is banned, so is a decent manual setup as the interaction speed with the clients is identical. I'm going from actual first hand experience with both here, while you are guessing based on what seems to be a crippling inability to use a PC.

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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#4159 - 2015-04-21 07:15:59 UTC
I have removed a rule breaking post.

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Nolak Ataru
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#4160 - 2015-04-21 12:35:52 UTC
Trakow wrote:
No, I do not, yourself and others have claimed that you can activate modules across multiple clients just as fast as using Round Robin by just Alt+Tabbing, or using a "Focus on MouseOver" feature. There's also claims like THIS ONE (last para) from Lucas Kell which says that it's impossible to prove that someone is using Round Robin because they can tile windows etc, but it is, because of activations per second, for which I'm also asking for proof of ability to do the same as RR manually.

This is YOUR post

In which you disputed my reply to ShadowandLight HERE (2nd paragraph) who claimed that Alt+Tabbing too fast means you're breaking the EULA, but it can't because you cannot switch clients and activate that quickly. And also challenging Sgt Ocker from several posts of his like THIS ONE where he claims that CCP cannot determine a Round Robin user from someone Alt+Tabbing or manually switching clients too fast. Therefore, I'm asking them, and anyone else who agrees with them, to prove that they can manually be as fast as a Round Robin user. And from the looks of it, nobody can prove their claims.


I was referring to your earlier posts where you made the claims regarding the speed, and where Kinete argued against it afterwards. So the burden of proof is still on you and CCP. Additionally, you're arguing guilty before proven innocent, something which no civilized society uses in court anymore. I wonder how big a proponent of "guilty before proven innocent" you would be if you got caught in a ban wave that was targeting, oh, lets say ISK buyers. And finally, CCP Peligro (I think) himself stated that they do not have a client-side detection method at Fanfest, and you can ask them yourself directly by submitting a ticket.

Check. Mate.