Multi-Boxing. Finally. The facts.

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ricar wrote:

GGG do not allow Multi-Boxing

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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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zankioh wrote:

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ricar wrote:

GGG do not allow Multi-Boxing

As of right now, it is allowed.
It's not actively encouraged though.

Honestly, it's probably too good.
I care for the game and can say so myself. It's too good.

Just look at this picture, that's an average kill.

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Now note that I can do a kill like this every ~5-6 minutes

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Bullshit that's average. The amount of rares and loot yes. But the 2 uniques and that amount of jewelery is not average.