I understand now why multiboxing is "excepted"

No such word as "Excepted" i think you mean accepted. And yes multiboxing is cheating theirs no argument here, anyone who tries to argue its not is simply a cheater in denial.

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Sacada66 wrote:

No such word as "Excepted" i think you mean accepted. And yes multiboxing is cheating theirs no argument here, anyone who tries to argue its not is simply a cheater in denial.

Not to rain on your parade, but excepted is a word, and could technically apply in the title, although accepted certainly seems more accurate.

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Antarioc wrote:

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Sacada66 wrote:

No such word as "Excepted" i think you mean accepted. And yes multiboxing is cheating theirs no argument here, anyone who tries to argue its not is simply a cheater in denial.

Not to rain on your parade, but excepted is a word, and could technically apply in the title, although accepted certainly seems more accurate.

Not to rain on your parade either but their is no such word as "excepted" in the english dictionary unless you are refering to american english which in fact is not a language.

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Sacada66 wrote:

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Antarioc wrote:

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Sacada66 wrote:

No such word as "Excepted" i think you mean accepted. And yes multiboxing is cheating theirs no argument here, anyone who tries to argue its not is simply a cheater in denial.

Not to rain on your parade, but excepted is a word, and could technically apply in the title, although accepted certainly seems more accurate.

Not to rain on your parade either but their is no such word as "excepted" in the english dictionary unless you are refering to american english which in fact is not a language.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/excepted ?

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Sacada66 wrote:

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Antarioc wrote:

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Sacada66 wrote:

No such word as "Excepted" i think you mean accepted. And yes multiboxing is cheating theirs no argument here, anyone who tries to argue its not is simply a cheater in denial.

Not to rain on your parade, but excepted is a word, and could technically apply in the title, although accepted certainly seems more accurate.

Not to rain on your parade either but their is no such word as "excepted" in the english dictionary unless you are refering to american english which in fact is not a language.

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This thread has now become entertaining. I see your anal retentiveness, and raise it to the life of the party level anal retentiveness. So:

One said that "excepted" is not a word. I contend that it is. Let's look that up, shall we?

Okay. So, no. Stop.

Let's look up the definition of the word "word":

A commonly accepted definition of this word would be: "a combination of phonemes or syllables used to convey meaning."

You will not in fact find a dictionary that says "something in the dictionary."

Just a little FYI for all ya anal retentive types.

*chortle* *chortle* *chortle*

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Panda413 wrote:

I don't think you entirely understand the purpose or method of multiboxing.

It's not to fight mobs with multiple characters. They just stand there and add more loot for one main character.

Some people do it via one very high end computer, but other people have multiple computers side by side.

Man I must be doing something wrong. This computer seems slow to me and even with a pretty decent graphic card I have to play everything at low or medium settings depending on the game, but I can run 6 instances of poe at once with no additional lag. It's a pain in the butt though tabbing through all those accounts to move the chars back and forth. Not worth the hassle to me. I can farm faster without doing it or get more in one shot. Same difference either way I think.

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Lowlifepos wrote:

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Panda413 wrote:

I don't think you entirely understand the purpose or method of multiboxing.

It's not to fight mobs with multiple characters. They just stand there and add more loot for one main character.

Some people do it via one very high end computer, but other people have multiple computers side by side.

Man I must be doing something wrong. This computer seems slow to me and even with a pretty decent graphic card I have to play everything at low or medium settings depending on the game, but I can run 6 instances of poe at once with no additional lag. It's a pain in the butt though tabbing through all those accounts to move the chars back and forth. Not worth the hassle to me. I can farm faster without doing it or get more in one shot. Same difference either way I think.

Yeah, you're doing it wrong :P Windowed mode is your friend (though not necessarily your graphics card's).

Not sure if OP meant accepted or expected.

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Arisilde wrote:

The complaint most people have is because most multiboxing does in fact use botting, so the player manually controls one character while the rest of the accounts follow and attack via bots, which is just pain cheating.

lol Another person that don't actually understand that there is no botting in multitasking. it is allowed in D3, it is allowed in PoE . It is not botting, there are no commands generated from within the game. The command comes from outside the game to each character and they execute them. In a bot all the commands are from a script internal to the game. This seems to be a hard thing for some to comprehend. Of course it is easier to do in a ftp game.

...What are you talking about? You seem to be describing the definition of a MACRO, not a bot. An external program that feeds input to the game, without modifying the game process itself, is still quite clearly a bot and will definitely get you banned from PoE. Anything that automates gameplay is not allowed. This includes playing 1 character normally and having a bot control several multiboxed characters.

Manual multiboxing, where you actually move the characters from zone to zone 'by hand', is more of a grey area. From what I understand, it's basically allowed because it's next to impossible to prevent, not because it's widely accepted.

Macros are precisely how multi boxing is done. Nothing is ever automated. The other characters do not automatically move and attack whatever you are attacking. A multi box program simply relays a button press to all game instances running. So let's say I have a ranger, witch, and Templar. I set each one up with skills in the appropriate slots. when I click the left mouse button to move my ranger it also sends that click to the other windows so the witch and Templar move as well. I then set up lightning arrow on the ranger to Q, Summon totem on the Templar to Q, and I don't know fireball on the witch to Q. When I hit Q all 3 chars use their respective skills. Nothing at all is automated. I used to do this on wow when I was farming. Haven't done it on POE because I hate setting the damn thing up.