Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2014.08.29 23:25:00 -
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Lilly Naari wrote:The real issue here is not people useing 5-10 accounts, it's guys like Memory-Alpha who have 300+ and actively use 50-80+ at a time to both PvP and Strip every belt in a system in less then 2 hours. And an icebelt in less then 10 minuets.
My alt warped into an icebelt earlier today to mine some ice, and He was sitting there with an orca 2 freighters and 40+ Skiffs all bunched up in a ball.
I don;t think ISboxer should be banned persay, but this is getting ridiculous. When one person can control 50-100 toons "Simultaniously", there is a severe issue.
Besides, we all know these massive fleets are Isk Farmers selling isk and RMTing anyway.
40+ Man ISboxer fleet mains I have seen:
* Memory-Alpha - Operates out of Yoma
* Lucutus-Borg - Yoma, Elonaya, a few others
Come CSMs, put your collective intelligence together and do something, enough is enough.
Well, that can be a problem, but really, that is extremly rare. do you have any idea how much hardware you need to run +50 game instances at once? my laptop can run 2, my main PC rig can run 6 without lag if I turn the graphics down. If I tried to run 20 or more acounts at the same time my rig would crash.
While I can agree massive isboxing could be a problem, I would say their are mayber 10-12 players doing it out of the 600,000 or so active accounts. Not really a big problem. The average isboxer only runs 10-15 accounts. I personally run 4 accounts, but not with isboxer, I do it all manually. But still, I really don't see how the problem is big enough to justify the resources that would be required to track and stop it.
Isboxer is basically a keyboard emulator that copies actions across multiple clients. There is no way to prove if a client is using isboxer. Except for maybe scaning the machine running the client for known third party programs. But even then, the programers responsible for creating those programs could find a way around it.
Besides to do so would require CCP to add a clause to the EULA allowing them to scan clients computers activities outside of the EVE client. That would likely get EVE banned by most large countries due to privacy violations.
It just can not be done, at least not legally.
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