My understanding based on things I've seen people post before (and it could be incorrect, don't know for sure) is that the staff have various pieces of information that get logged by the .dll file that P99 uses, which includes things like your IP (and whether it's a VPN IP of not) and PC ID. They can also see the IPs that have logged into your account in the past I believe. (Staff, sorry if this isn't supposed to be discussed. If it shouldn't be, just message me and I will delete)
What that means is, if you're in a group with people who are boxing, they should be able to tell that you're not part of the box. The info they will have on your account, for instance, would show that you've never used any of the IPs or PC IDs that those boxing accounts have, etc.
I think. Again, I don't know how they track stuff so I'm just going off what other people on the forums have said and extrapolating from it. But essentially, I would not worry that you will be flagged as a boxer just because other people in your group are. As far as knowing your friend is boxing and not reporting it...I don't know. Assuming you admitted to being aware (otherwise not sure how they'd know...unless it was just super obvious), maybe you would get a suspension? Not sure, never seen the issue come up on the forums in my experience.
With respect to your last question, they would target the characters that are suspected of boxing and make them do the test. I can't speak for the staff here, but when I was CSR back in the live days and we were asked to stop some potential boxing if it was causing zone disruptions, we would generally go invis and watch for a bit to visually confirm whether their were suspect activities going on. I assume that if the staff are at the point where they're asking for a boxing test to be run, they have been there observing the characters in question already. It can often be relatively obvious that people are boxing once you are watching them in person; therefore, they would likely be able to tell that your character wasn't part of the boxing.
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