Isboxer requires a person to be active and input all commands.

Botting is completely automated not requiring any user input.

How are these the same?

More tears please. I have 40 procurers that all need a carwash after a hard weekend at work.

So you don't put any actual money into EVE, yet you think you are helping EVE just because you use plex that someone else bought? There will always be people buying plex for real money, the more people like that, the better. The less people like you, running 40 accounts that you don't pay for, the better.

The point to ISB is to streamline the control of your toons. It doesn't "automate" a thing. It allows someone to arrange their screens and operate multiple accounts with ease and accuracy. It allows someone to view whats going on with any one ship at a moment notice by glancing around the screen. (I play on a 47" tv, and when properly setup, its a beautiful thing.)

ISB is not just about mining. Anyone that has used ISB knows full well the capabilities stretch way far and beyond the simultaneous spamming of F1 monkey style.

I never wanted to mess with ISB until U got a little taste, and its awesome. Try ISB ratting, or ISB running sites/missions. I run sites with 4 or 5 accounts and its a freakin blast. 10 accounts in a lvl5, pfft, childs play.

Im not trying to be snide, nor do I mean any disrespect to anyone. Just my .02

I guess the real difference is the whole "automated" part to running software like this.

If you were to look at how a bot works. I bot is following a scripted set of commands. To keep it short, lets just say they are Undock, find rock, mine rock, redock, unload, repeat. over and over and over, all day long until sed bots owner comes home from work and stops the program.

Multi software doesnt "automate" like this. It just replicates a command the user inputs when that user presses a key or clicks the mouse over a target on the screen. It doesnt chain commands together, and it wont do anything if the player steps away from the kb.

By CCP's own definition, all they want is a human at the keyboard to operate their game. They dont want a player to start a program and leave for the day to let that program run routines from lines of script.

The real difference isn't about the number of accounts. Its the presence of a human to interact with the game while the client is logged in.

Gaming bots are bad because the user just starts a program and leaves. There is no warm body at the keyboard.

Corps do not even come into this.

A player isboxing 20 or 40 accounts is earning isk at a greatly accelerated rate. This is a clear violation of the Eula. You may not use your own or any third-party software that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play

Bots are bots. If it requires automation, it's not the player performing it.

The person who wants to run multiple clients should be required to give those clients their orders individually.

Using a bot to automate the giving of commands is using a bot.

And what's the policy on botting?

Ban ixboxers

Ok there's clearly no showing you the errors in your comprehension of the eula. Please stop bothering to quote it until you have a clear and concise understanding.

Let me ask you one final question. What if I used, say, 10 accounts, and EACH ACCOUNT was on a separate computer with its own keyboard and mouse, and I used an assembly of sticks to press the buttons ALL AT ONCE. Would this still be 'illegal' game play?

sure, they allow automation tools of some kind, which they do for profit (as the only logical reason I see).
This is what I'm saying the whole time.

So we're now back to the part where you're claiming ISboxer is a botting program & requires zero human input. I can't wait to see you backtrack from this again.