Any key commands that lead to automation of playing should be destroyed.
Any key commands that lead to multiple commands from a single source should be destroyed.

Anyone that thinks otherwise has no basis for their argument as only failed games stand behind these decisions.

I still wait to hear of a sucessfull game people were allowed to do this in.
The fact is there is none.

WOW has 8m subscribers and allows FULL UI customization, ISBoxer and macros (to an extent as long as your at the keyboard).... EVE might have 500k subs (probably way less, but we cant get any numbers) and has decided that since they are experts in how an MMO should run, they will start banning people who multibox too effectively.

I am glad they are putting in the bans. Going against multiple perfectly timed logistics, snipers and such really sucked.

WOW has 8m subscribers and allows FULL UI customization, ISBoxer and macros (to an extent as long as your at the keyboard).... EVE might have 500k subs (probably way less, but we cant get any numbers) and has decided that since they are experts in how an MMO should run, they will start banning people who multibox too effectively.

Any key commands that lead to automation of playing should be destroyed.
Any key commands that lead to multiple commands from a single source should be destroyed.

Anyone that thinks otherwise has no basis for their argument as only failed games stand behind these decisions.

I still wait to hear of a sucessfull game people were allowed to do this in.
The fact is there is none.

How you can call WoW pvp is beyond me.
They have 1 pvp server that everyone refuses to play.
Basically there is a small element that has a battlegrounds area that people think is pvp.

If you wish to macro on your pvm game, yea, i don't think anyone will care.

E very other game mentioned is a "throw away game", thats life expectancy is what months?
I wonder why that is?

Next time don't use a game that had to be rereleased 3 times as your statement of legitimacy.

Anyone that has played WoW knows that world pvp is very active.

Your hyperbole makes your ignorance extremely stark. There's tons of PVP servers. Anyone that has played WoW knows that world pvp is very active. Oh wait you have no idea what WoW is like because either you played it 8 years ago or you just go off what you hear. Well Blizzard has made it so that servers now share areas so as to balance out the numbers on both sides. My server has world pvp available at any hour of the day.

Your ignorance continues with your "throw away game" comment. All the games mentioned have been successfully in the market place making money for many years. Some of them are actually more popular then Eve.

Very actively botted, you mean. Bots comprise 40% or higher of their instanced PvP groups. And they do nothing about it either.

World pvp like guildwars where its choice to step out of the area so in fact you don't HAVE to pvp its all choice.

A game where pvp is done by choice and the far FAR majority of those numbers of subscribers are people who have 0 interest to ever pvp. Furthermore the entire game is designed so they don't have to, or really they don't require any interaction with others.

You are trying to compare a sandbox game with that is amusing at best.

Why don't you focus on Ultima Onlines story about how it lost over 50% of all shards population after the producer Jeff Skalaski citied "we will not be combating scripting/botting or multiple player inputs". How do you lose 50% of the population on year 13? Games die gradually unless idiots are put in control.

Or more recent lets look at Archeage a sandbox game, once thought to be the game of the year and really thought to possibly destroy EvE. After a bot explosion the dev team decided to do little or nothing and instead to push the pay to win model.
I know how many EvE players that were playing, they literally had mirror guilds to their corps on EvE.
The game died literally overnight land which was being only sold for real money due to its rarity is now so available they are now discussing shard transfers.
Did i mention the game came out in September? They have a PLEX called APEX it sold at release for 40 gold it is now 700 gold and projected by players to cap at 1500.
That inflation is for 5 months.

Its fairly obvious from these playerbases that people feel in a pvp focused game, that they don't wish to have one person running an army of players around, at least not with 1 button gameplay.
Maybe you feel different, but thats you, i assure you.

I figure another couple of months before people learn the new borders or are removed

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Would really help if CCP simply let people know what the borders are rather that forcing people to share GM correspondence behind the scenes, since even if someone is banned he's not allowed to tell others to warn them of where the line was. That's what the dumbest part of all of this is. People would be happy to abide by the rules IF CCP ACTUALLY TOLD PEOPLE WHAT WAS AND WASN'T ALLOWED.

Hey, wait, you're a CSM member. You're supposed to facilitate communication between CCP and it's players. Do your job, otherwise what's the point in having you?

"Examples of allowed Input Broadcasting and Input Multiplexing are actions taken that do not have an impact on the EVE universe and are carried out for convenience"

"If you are uncertain about your Input Broadcasting and Input Multiplexing use-case, please get in contact with us, as we would prefer to work with members of the community to come to an amicable resolution. We will also follow up this statement with further clarifications if needed, based on questions and concerns from the community."

If a part of the announcement is unclear or unspecific to your usage, we can only recommend you do not engage in any usage that is not directly stated to be allowed

Any kind of input broadcasting to a minimized client is against the rules. Thus it is a violation of the rules if any of those commands are sent to a minimized client.

CCP have create a clear grey area to discourage people from going into a certain direction. If this isn't a hint, I don't know what is.

I'd love to see a bot do WORLD pvp... Notice I said WORLD pvp not instance pvp or bg pvp or arena pvp... WORLD pvp...

mainstream gaming media

Every time you create something, there's this tiny percentage of people who think their life's crusade is to circumvent it. Sometimes this is harmless. Sometimes it's just in bad taste. Other times, it's to juke a system for personal gain. I think it's generous to create a freeware software to enhance games, if done with permission. However, I (and the entire gaming community that doesn't cheat - which is a decided majority) do not agree with third party applications giving people decided advantages in the actual game play......
And so on

Is it true that there were bans for people that multibox and did not even use a ISboxer or any other related software?
It is very common that people use 3-4 accounts in fleets (e.g. Dread, Triage, Super, Covert-ops)
There are some claims on a popular gaming website that are really disturbing.
Can somebody verify or falsify those claims?

As far as such things can be told, at lest some of those claims are accurate. It's pretty much impossible to proved clear evidence though which is why it's so problematic. Even if CCP were to respond to people's tickets it's not really possible to prove you weren't using tools without CCP coming to your house for a live demo. At this point the safe choice is to deactivate most of your accounts and only use 1 at a time, so multiboxing in general is under serious threat.

I've watched videos of people "farming" in WoW using bots. They're presented as though the one doing it is being oh, so clever and smarter than everyone else. Personally, I don't think it's either. I think it's rather infantile and demonstrates a colossal approach to immaturity. It's always struck me - if they don't want to play the game - DON'T. This simple logic seems beyond these people so they can be called neither clever, nor smart. Only intelligent people can be stupid, so that doesn't count. (If an unintelligent person is doing something unintelligent, it's "normal" behavior.)

Were they attempting similar behavior in a bar, for instance, some of my Harley driving friends might wish to discuss it in the parking lot and there'd be a lot of shouting for MOMMY going on from some precinct, or another.

Those have lost most of their authority if you were following things.

That makes the game practically unplayable.

Not really. I've trained up new traders on 2 of my alt accounts, I'm scrapping faction warfare, 50% of my T1 production, all of my T3 production and consolidating everything down to just 3 accounts and am working on reducing that to just 2. I'm currently already booked up for fanfest again this year, but once fanfest is over I'll be taking a serious look at whether or not EVE is really entertaining me enough to be worth sticking about. CCP seem to be almost completely incapable of communicating with their players, the community is growing more toxic by the day and the new releases leave much to be desired.

I've been enjoying Elite:Dangerous, and as it stands, their teams seems much more able to respond the their community in the right way. The fact that there's no subscription costs is a massive plus too.