So, CCP, is THIS in line with your design philosophy?

Clearly, we should all strive for the ultimate in risk-free isk-making, running these wonderful 'solo pve' sites CCP made for us in hi-sec.


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risk free?

.....only because you would rather whine about him on the forums rather than sac up, undock and go shoot him.

I make my ISK using market ''tools'' so I'd not be intrested in using ISO box to grind ISK or PVE.

I am considering using it for the purpose of controlling 20 or so noob acounts runing through a proxy so I can use noob accounts to sucide gank in high sec. That way with 10 to 20 accounts on 14 day trials I should be able to take down a freighter on my own and not have to worry about sec status? Has any one had any experince using this and is it EULA legal?

Threads promoting cheating should be banned.

How well do they contest?

I'm gonna give the ISO boxer proxy catalyst solo suicide 20 man gank squad a this weekend. I have 20 trial accounts banging out the skills now. Lag won't be an issue as long as all 20 accounts react within 5 to 10 seconds. If anyone else wants to try along side me send me an in game message. 40 Catalysts ganks with no subscription fee's split amongst 2 players wreaks of profit.

I bet we can get ISO boxer on a ban list very soon after doing this

More likely that you'll get yourself banned for using disposable trial accounts to suicide gank before you get Isboxer banned. Trial gankers are against the rules.

I'm gonna give the ISO boxer proxy catalyst solo suicide 20 man gank squad a this weekend. I have 20 trial accounts banging out the skills now. Lag won't be an issue as long as all 20 accounts react within 5 to 10 seconds. If anyone else wants to try along side me send me an in game message. 40 Catalysts ganks with no subscription fee's split amongst 2 players wreaks of profit.

I bet we can get ISO boxer on a ban list very soon after doing this

were does the somethingstate you can't suicide gank with trial accounts? as long as you don't recycle them, I don't see how you break any rules.

Threads promoting cheating should be banned.

Edited by: GM Lelouch on 18/02/2013 08:29:22
Addendum by GM Lelouch:
This post was originally written almost three years ago and as software/hardware evolves, so must our stance on what goes within our game. It has become increasingly difficult for us to track the capabilities of various pieces of software over the years as their number, as well as the features they offer, increase greatly in number.

In other words, it is unfortunately impractical for us to evaluate whether specific pieces of software can be used without breaking EVE's EULA/ToS. This post should not be taken as endorsement for utilizing specific pieces of software/hardware with EVE, but as a guideline to what is acceptable.

Our general stance towards the concept of multiboxing has not changed but we cannot guarantee that the EULA is being upheld should you use any of the software/hardware mentioned by name in this post, nor will we at EVE customer support be able to officially endorse or sanction specific third party multiboxing programs.

Players wishing to multibox are responsible for familiarizing themselves with our EULA and Terms of Service, the following clauses in particular are of much relevance to this topic:

EULA:
6. CONDUCT
A. Specifically Restricted Conduct
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.

ToS:
21. You will not attempt to decipher, hack into or interfere with any transmissions to or from the EVE Online servers, nor will you try to create or use any third party add-ons, extras or tools for the game.

The old, out of date, post can be seen below as it originally appeared:

"Hello there,

To make a long story short, automation of gameplay is not permitted; players must be manually issuing the commands to control their character(s) at all times.

Our stance on programs such as Synergy and hardware/software combination such as the G15 keyboard is that they can be legitimately used as long as gameplay isn't automated. Synergy allows you to move your mouse cursor to multiple different monitors which are hooked up to different computers and we do not have any qualms with players using the program for this purpose. If Synergy was used in some way to control your accounts for you without a need for you to be at your keyboard, then that would not be allowed, but I am not aware of such a functionality with this program. If Synergy is used in conjunction with some other program to automate gameplay, it would not be permitted. G15 "macros" which allow you to group different commands into one keypress are allowed. For example, setting your G1 key to press F1, F2, F3 and so on for you with one key press is allowed (although this specific command is not as useful as it was before now that we have weapon grouping).

An exceedingly complex G15 macro which would effectively automate gameplay, such as mining, without a need for the player to be present at his keyboard would be against the EULA, regardless of whether the player utilizing said macro is sitting at his keyboard at the time!

Lastly, multiboxing is allowed, and programs designed for multiboxing in mind which allow a player to manually issue the same command to multiple game clients at the same time are allowed. In the same vein as what has been stated above, the player must be manually sending the commands; if a program is automating those commands for you, then it would be considered a breach of our EULA.

I hope this clears up this matter."