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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.23 20:47:00 -
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Automating input of the game is not allowed by the EULA.
Unless you do it on multiple characters at once. Then it's called multiboxing and magically allowed. My YouTube Channel - EVE Tutorials & other game related things! |
TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.23 21:37:00 -
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Tippia wrote:LordOfDespair wrote:The EULA says you cannot automate if it " facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play"
So technically it isn't against the rules. Sure it is. You get to where you're going faster than if you had left the ship to its own devices. Quote:But I still don't understand how ISboxer isn't. Because it doesn't let you gain anything at an accelerated rate and because it only responds 1:1 to direct user input.
It responds 1:1 to direct user input for dozens of open windows at the same time. When 20 mining ships all lock a rock and activate their lasers within the same microsecond of each other, that is by definition an accelerated rate. Going over 20 screens and manually locking and activating would take much much longer. Also I don't believe for a second that someone running a 20 character mining fleet is going window to window to empty their cargoholds. My YouTube Channel - EVE Tutorials & other game related things! |
TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.23 23:43:00 -
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Tippia wrote:LordOfDespair wrote:A player playing on one screen, and having those actions artificially repeated onto 19 other screens is accelerated rate. No. It's still just 20 accounts working at the rate of 20 accounts. No acceleration there.
An AFK mining bot is also just 1 account working at the rate of 1 account, yet that is illegal because the player is not physically doing the work.
By extension one could argue that the player is also not doing the physical work for 19 of the 20 accounts being multiboxed. The player is physically active for 1 account. The other 19 are essentially being AFK botted because it's not the player actually providing the input, it's the program.
Also it is clearly providing an advantage. When there are 20 miners in a belt and you have to activate them all manually it will take you at least a minute to activate all of them by hand. I'm sure with practice it could be done faster, but fact remains that you can never do it instantly across all windows.
So the obvious advantage, no matter how small, is that 1 minute it takes to get to the last window. That single minute you don't have to wait for action to start adds up over time. Do it for long enough and that minute turns into an hour. That hour turns into 6 hours. That 6 hours turns into 12 hours and so forth.
Without automation it is impossible for a player to physically command 20 accounts simultaneously. That's really all there is to it. My YouTube Channel - EVE Tutorials & other game related things! |
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