Multi-Boxing. Finally. The facts.

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imtheshane wrote:

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valarias wrote:

If they move in a direction where multiboxxing/multilogging has not only the advantage of simply by doing so but is furthered by ingame mechanics, yes I'll simply leave.

Multilogging IS a big issue. Multiboxing not so much. GGG already has several systems in place that really would make multiboxing difficult. I'll explain it so that people might understand a little better.

There's player unit collision. That means that two players can't occupy the same space, they move around each other rather than through each other. In addition to this, there's no targeting system that's conducive to multiboxing. It works in games like WoW because you can tab target to what you want, and then issue an assist command to your other characters. It works in Diablo because you can stack all of your characters right on top of each other. PoE has none of these features.

Let's take a look at what would happen if you tried to multibox PoE. You can't stack your characters, so each character has a slightly different field of vision on screen. This is HUGELY important to a multiboxer. What this means is that if you click to move on your main account, your other accounts click to move to a slightly different location. If you shift right click to attack, your other characters are attacking a slightly different location.

Why is that important? It means within a few movement clicks, your characters are now farther away from each other then when they started. In order to get some semblance of sync back, you'd have to turn off broadcasting, and manually move all of your characters closer together again. You'd have to do this every 3-5 movement clicks at a minimum.

Also, each character would need the same movement speed or these issues become exacerbated. Find a good pair of boots with 15% movement speed? You need five other pairs of boots with 15% movement speed, or those good boots now become a headache that's not worth using. Armor movement penalties? There's another huge headache. Get hit by a cold attack? There's another headache. A character runs into a game object and gets moved off his path? There's another headache. A character dies? Good god, that's a headache you don't want to deal with. THIS IS JUST FOR MOVING.

This also means if you're using a single target spell that not all of your attacks are going to hit, even if you're grouped fairly closely. Some of your characters will be whiffing their attacks.

In order for each character to hit their attacks, you have to be grouped as tightly as the game allows you to be grouped up. This requires CONSTANT MANUAL REPOSITIONING of each of your characters. Every 3-5 movement clicks, you're manually moving five characters out of six. Now, you could use AE attacks to alleviate this issue, but that's not always as efficient.

So, in order to have any degree of efficiency, a multiboxer has to do 5-6 times the work that you do, and gets a 250% item quantity increase as his reward. Someone who's doing 6 times your workload doesn't deserve something extra? 5-6 times the work for 2.5 times the reward? Yeah, multiboxers will ruin PoE.

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valarias wrote:

How do you think GGG will actively verify participation from all accounts, to date i haven't seen anyone who has done that great effect.

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valarias wrote:

How do you think GGG will actively verify participation from all accounts, to date i haven't seen anyone who has done that great effect.

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xXkoverasXx wrote:

Mybe they can cap the number of clients running in one pc... this is not a solution but will be harder to get 6 pc... haha.

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xXkoverasXx wrote:

Mybe they can cap the number of clients running in one pc... this is not a solution but will be harder to get 6 pc... haha.

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Fluttershypony wrote:

If you're gonna allow cheating like multibox, please allow RMTing as well.