Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Wander
What you are not appreciating is that on Tranquility, multiboxing scales infinitely until a player runs out of time to control active pilots.

The only "more" contribution to the equation is greater potential staying power (if a pilot loses a ship, then it can fly a drone. Assuming there is a mechanism that allows fleets to bring along extra pilot controlled drones).

In other words, neither point provides anything that is not already available. Opting for more limited functionality is of course possible for capital pilots that want to take the hit to avoid the cumbersome and awkward current system. But it is simply a choice to sub-optimize for convenience.

I for one would not mind seeing people scouting in something you can catch in a bubble. I would find that very convenient :).

But lets tack on:
Limited cyno capacity ( lowers the potential convenience factor considerably. Return to base to "reload" using "repair").

Edit
Morrigan corrected to Wander in light of post below :-)

I have removed some off topic Posts, and those quoting them.

As someone who regularly multiboxes in PVP, I would be perfectly okay with this. It actually kind of annoys me that people might think they were fighting three separate humans vice one human frantically switching windows and trying to fly 3 ships at once. It would also be nice if all my kills could be linked to me, so that people would know "He got 17 unique kills on this character, 14 on this one, and 27 on that one."

No, your idea is useless, complicated and unnecessary. The only thing it would be used for is a free throwaway cyno. In any other reason a separate character is better.
If you want to use multiple characters and their abilities, get them. The game isn't supposed to give you that ability. It's YOUR CHOICE to use multiple characters. That entails paying for them, training them up and learning to use them effectively together. Multiboxing isn't free not should it be.
I don't want to see a drone doing something that a player should be doing and that includes disposable cyno's.
If you cannot afford to multibox or are incapable of doing it, it's not a gameplay-issue. That is an issue between the chair and akeyboard. Take a look at the multiplexing change. CCP wants more players controlling their characters, not less.

If you lose a ship and a pod, you don't go back in with a drone, you get a new ship and burn just like every other player.

Why are you so stuck on multiboxing? It's not some magical button that will make the game good or enjoyable. It is a tool you can use and not something that needs to be made easier or more accessable just because you cannot afford a better computer

Oh trust me I've read more than enough of Jerghul's ideas and all of them are based on his feeling of being left out of something.
my favourite was blaming multiboxing for global warming and that was why AFK-cloaking needed to be nerfed.

I just don't see any value in having a drone that is basically a noob-ship with a cyno or a scram. Why would you want to use it? Unless you just want the free cyno network

Talk about mind numbingly oxymoronic, I don't see anyone defending multi-boxing really. Serendipity actually seems to be more negative if anything.

And you forget that these drones will be able to take gates. So you jump in drone 1, jump through a gate and engage a person, die, and you switch to the next drone and so forth.

Basically Jerghul is asking for as many bites at the apple as he has drones. He'd like to go hunting ratters, but instead of bringing 1 ship and trying his luck and if he gets podded sent back out of the area he is hunting, he'd bring this ship with these drones and when he dies in 1 drone he'd just go deploy another and keep going.

Serendipity's point is that a true multi-boxer will use this, not to field 5,6, or however many drones, he'd have one account with the drone boat, and several ready to jump to the cyno. For example, the drone boat in question is the Sin with it's big fat drone bay and high drone bandwidth. Now instead of having one of the players be the hunter, we have the drone do the hunting. When a target is found and tackled, the cyno is lit and everyone jumps to it and kill said target. So the multiboxer would be able to leverage this kind of drone better than a singleboxer.

Why does multiboxing need to be made easier?

Wander
The current multiboxing system is inaccessible, cumbersome and awkward. Hence my proposing a limited, convenient, accessible alternative.

I can copy paste as many times as you need bro. But the reason why has been repeated many times already.

Morrigan
Cumbersome and awkward are reasons enough. See the gazillion "little things" posts moderators have solicited and responded to for other examples of cumbersome and awkward things that have been fixed.