EVE General Discussion

A better solution is for CCP to create an authorised multi-account control system of their own

Apparently, it makes people jelly

It allows a single player harvest tears at an incredible rate.

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Another ban multiboxing thread...

Why? Solution to what?

Wouldn't it be better to simply disconnect and pemaban anyone with a Symantec product installed, since those actually are bad for you and you should be taught not to use them? I mean, at least there would be some logic to that kind of move.

Pay to win is an interesting concept. In eve, bringing more isk to the table (in the form of falcon alts, OGB alts, Implants, Super hotdrops, etc.) can often provide an advantage to an individual or group. While they don't guarantee victory (individual skill is usually a much larger deciding factor), they can nonetheless help you advance your goals. And all of these things can be acquired with isk acquired through in game means or through sufficient quantities of real world currency exchanged for plex.

For all intents and purposes, isboxed clients fall into that same category.

So, is that pay to win? In Dota (for example), one guy controlling two heroes while taking up only one slot on a team might be considered pay to win. But Eve isn't Dota, and finding a fair fight in eve is like finding a needle in a haystack. Eve isn't about fair competition between two or more players. In fact, the "game" in eve is, more often than not, about securing some advantage over an opponent to allow for a decidedly unfair fight.

It's ultimately up to you if you think that is pay to win. If you look at it through the lens of Dota or some other equally banal "esport" game, maybe. But if that's what you think, you probably missed the entire point of eve.

Grrr software engineers who want to get paid for doing work.

Of course... It's a secret key combination but not many people know

Personally I don't have a problem with multiboxers, I am one.

But when I multibox, I control my chars individually as I believe multiboxing software is essentially botting because you control one char and then rely on third party software to control the others, lets face it if that's not botting then what is.

It is also against the EULA, but will CCP do anything about it? No, because they are making money from it (indirectly), which is also having an effect on the in game economy which affects us all.

The problem is not just with the bomber fleets, but also also in mining (especially ice), incursions and although I haven't witnessed it, I dare say in wormholes too.

I would love to see a ban on multiboxing software and stop this game from being ruined, but just cant see CCP doing anything about it.

CONDUCT
A. Specifically Restricted Conduct

Your continued access to the System and license to play the Game is subject to proper conduct. Without limiting CCP's rights to control the Game environment, and the conduct of the players within that environment, CCP prohibits the following practices that CCP has determined detract from the overall user experience of the users playing the Game.

1. You may not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the System.
2. You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played.
3. You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play. You may not rewrite or modify the user interface or otherwise manipulate data in any way to acquire items, currency, objects, character attributes or beneficial actions not actually acquired or achieved in the Game.



As you can see part 2 states "You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played", which multiboxing software obviously does.

and part 3 "You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play.". Multiboxing software allows the acquisition of items in an accelerated way.

Therefore is in contravention of the EULA.