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I use isboxer each time i play to get vision on my 4 accounts and to be able to switch easily between them.

Vision help me to see when a warp is done or about to be done, if a ship come at a gate, where my mining cycle are, etc ...

It help me a lot.

I fear that it is what you are calling an unfair advantage, which would simply doom my user experience.

For me the equation is simple : Isboxer is the only way to play 4 accounts simultaneously. Switching ALT+TAB is quite acceptable with 2 accounts, it is simply unplayable with 3+.

I need my 4 accounts for the way i currently play Eve.

So it's simple, if isboxer is banned, let us know it, then i will probably auto-ban myself also and find a game more reasonnable.

i fully understand your need to keep the eula as vague as possible

however, could you please provide us with a bit more details about software and/or features you will treat with the banhammer soon(tm)?

Much like you use exploit notifications.

Messages like

"As of next downtime, don't use ISBoxer or any other software to stitch multiple clients together for any purpose whatsoever. Here are some examples of things we will no longer tolerate." are much more useful than super vague legal speak that basically says you can do whatever you want whenever you want without any warning whatsoever.

In the past, i have used a tool that allowed me to have one eve client always on top, just to see local from another system. would that be considered a problem? i could literally use a second screen that is positioned in front of my first one to replicate the functionality without being in trouble. that's stupid.

I am extremely concerned in your detection methodology. I do not see how you can differentiate 3rd party software influence and gamers with multiple monitors and game instances. I have worked on these issues for close to 10 years, and your lack of assurances for the innocent is quite offensive. You have not laid out anything in how you would differentiate between those 2 groups. Sorry to say, I am not confident in your ability to do so. Also, your graph is cool. Cause...you know...you catch a 100% of offenders, am i right? There is no way that you aren't capturing the full RMT picture.

I am concerned not only with your detetion methods of program uses, but how this will effect eve for limiting active accounts per moniter/screen.

I have been using Eve-O preview for some time now. As it makes it easy to not only switch between acounts but view each character. It is no different than me running 5 accounts and condensing them down in terms of intel.Howver, removing the legal use of overlay programs such as Eve-O Preview will greatly reduc the efficency in which you can. Which gives the player with one monther a great disadvantage over people with 2+ screens.

Honestly, if programs such as this are banned. I wont be fixing it by buying more moniters. I will probably just sell my characters and assets and just quit. I was drawn into eve by ability to run multiple clients. The additional risk in that. Now though, it will make running multiple clients on a smaller moniter (such as I have currently) just unrealistic in terms of PVP.

Please ban Windows 10, hovering over the icon shows a preview of all open clients (it is small but I have bird eyes).

In other news having a scout in the next system over is now considered an unfair advantage. CCP now bans multiple accounts from the same IP, MAC, or Client Hash. Sarcasm or not? Vote with your subscription.

Most of you really need to go back and re-read the devblog. You should also read the EULA and ToS. So many people jumping to conclusions that would be cleared up by actually reading it all properly.

CCP can not comment on individual third party programs. They have no control over them. The majority of third-party programs do not break the EULA themselves, however they can be used to break the EULA and that is a crucial distinction people need to understand.

Asking if this program or that program is in violationof the EULA is a question that can not be answered. Its what you are doing with the program thats important.

Many Linux window managers which utilize compositing have standard configurations that allow live preview of offscreen windows or other virtual desktops, and some even pass keystrokes to the offscreen window or virtual desktop when the preview is hovered.

I believe Windows 10 is approaching parity with some of these features as well.

Will users of these modern compositing windowing environments be considered as using third party software for an unfair advantage, since they use elements of one or more Eve clients in what can only be described as an overlay?

If not, is isboxer not itself essentially a particularly configurable modern compositing window manager being used in the intended manner?

If you want to ban isboxer, why don't you just say "We're banning isboxer" instead of dancing around the point and vaguely indicting basically every modern desktop windowing environment?

I am really struggling to understand what it is that is being ruled against here with the aversion to outlining clear restrictions or providing specific examples.

I also think when you start placing restrictions on presentation and input mapping beyond multicasting (or multicasting "workarounds" like rollover bars) you're starting to roll down a slippery slope at the bottom of which lies pretty much banning people for being too good.

Being better at the game than me is unfair. You are using the game client in a way that gives you an unfair advantage over me. Enjoy your ban.

This is the best proposal i have read here.

I will petition with each account. Every player concerned with this should do the same.