EVE General Discussion

been posting since 2011 with this "alt" i would say im already committed, and yes this is an alt.


also, back on topic.

This the reality: Multiboxing is not cheating and its perfectly legal under the terms of the EULA for reasons that are too complicated to explain in a few paragraphs, lets just say "LAWYERED!" to make it simple, thousands of way more smarter people than you have been trying to reason how multiboxing is against the EULA and have failed because of the way the user has to be legally defined by the EULA, you are not smarter than them. give it up.

This is what it does to you: it makes you angry for some inexplicable reason, most likely because your basic understanding of PC hardware/software prevents you from "thinking" in the terms necessary to see how there's no automation on multiboxing. just like things beyond their understanding make anyone angry and frustrated, this pisses you off to no end.

This is what you can do about it: look the other way or, since this is eve and not a theme park, do something to them to punish the behavior you don't morally agree with.

This is what you are doing: you try to come up with some rationalization that will support your disdain for the practice, but you cant, so you fall in a cyclic discussion with arguments that don't base themselves on any fact based reasoning, but rather on the emotional response the practice incites in you. in the end, since you cant attack the practice rationally, you attack it morally.

This is what CCP is telling you: don't **** with the sandbox, either get on your catalyst and go find like minded people, or go back to wow.

I'm not strictly against the multiboxing when it comes to mining for example. But I think there is cheating in such cases: on the one hand a player with ISBoxer and x accounts and another player who did not necessarily want to have x accounts to protect his freighter :

Link to killboard

More forward the attacker seems proud of him since he ensures that the fact that he uses ISBoxer is easily visible (same naming scheme, same appearance).

ISBoxing is bad when it comes to pvp, otherwise it's fine

Who really wants to see packs of ships moving like schools of fish in EVE ?

I imagine that the EULA could mention that multiboxing software is not allowed for pvp and considered like an exploit but allowed in all other cases.

edit : typo

Posting in ISBoxer whine thread number 1billion.

The distinction between cheaters and non-cheaters is quite simple. I suggest you keep saying it until it sticks.

Player at the computer imputting commands = Not cheating.
Player not at the computer, automated program imputting commands = Cheating.

ISBoxer may allow you to command more ships alot easier than having to go through each client individually, but as long as there is a player behind the controls then its completely acceptable.

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