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Old 03-20-2012, 01:46 PM
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A 4 boxer? How is that even fun for anyone?
On Live, when my friends weren't available to group with, I would 6 box a group in RSS. Bard, Cleric, Mage, Paladin, Enchanter, Druid. It was better than sitting in PoK passing out KEI.

If I could, I certainly would 2 box on P99... and use SEQ. However, with it being classic, and me playing a Paladin, that's a lot of time to risk over things that I can live without.

But if it comes to a point where I can't find a group on a regular basis, I certainly will make a go at boxing (flag my account now). I'd rather enjoy playing until I'm banned than be sitting with my thumb up my butt in EC.

SEQ on the other hand, well it isn't required for me to play and have fun so whatever.

Just my thoughts on the subject.
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Old 03-20-2012, 03:09 PM
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Is this why 90% of groups I have been in are unbearably quiet? Lol I hate voice chat in mmorpgs heh and so far it's usually white textwall in my groups..
Can join one of those starter guilds to make some friends.


Should help in finding groups also.
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Old 03-20-2012, 03:52 PM
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Log off if you're going to AFK a long time.. simple enough... don't give them any reason at all to suspect you of boxing.
Obviously you never played a Magician and had to endure 20 casting and 20 malachite to summon a decent pet.

Not to mention, summoned weapons, bags, etc.

And exactly what is considered a "long time"? 5 minutes, 10, 15... where do you draw the line?

I believe this is a witch hunt as well. While some boxer's may be doing some negative things to the server, (i really have a difficult time understand what the fear mongering is about), I have to imagine there would also be good things about boxing... like having a port for your group when needed, missing a healer? Ill bring on my box, missing a tank? etc.

My friend and I boxed on live and we were very social and only used a box character when a real one wasn't available.

In the end the choice was made not to allow boxers for whatever reason, and we should all respect that no matter what our individual feelings are. I can also say that many of my friends stopped playing on this server because of fear of being falsly accused as boxing.

I stopped helping lower level people, out of fear of being labeled a boxer... and now I am afraid to go AFK, knowing that I may be deemed a "boxer"...

Frankly, I think if we put as much effort into developing the server as we do hunting for witches, we could make this more enjoyable for all.

In closing, I fear this will never happen since like most MMO, its not about you, its about what the other guys does or has that you should have... right?[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

**Edit** Oh god, I managed to quote someone on my ignore list... if only I had logged in first I could have avoided trying to have an intelligent conversation with someone who is less than.... sigh.
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Old 03-20-2012, 04:12 PM
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I support the bannings. Send a strong message.


and no I'm not a rabid anti boxer... I just think they should go somewhere that its within the ruleset.


I was tossing out the log off if afk a "long time" as an option if somebody was seriously worried... to me a long time would be 20+ minutes.


If you can't see how it would be considered suspicious to have one IP exemption account afk for hours at a money / loot / dragon camp while another is out questing / exping / whatever... then you are trying to twist words give boxers some wiggle room to squeeze through.
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Old 03-20-2012, 04:47 PM
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I blame this on the British and Canadians. They even have a holiday celebrating it called "Boxing Day"! Pure evil.
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Old 03-20-2012, 05:01 PM
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I am still baffled how there is so much hate towards 2 boxers. Yes it is against the rules, and there should be consequences. But from the sound of some people on here, it's almost as if those 2 boxers personally offended them IRL. I'm sure a few of you on this thread are going to call me a boxer just because I don't agree with you guys! I have a much greater issue with people who purposely train (happens quite often it seems), powerlvlers who move into a zone and just take it over (happens 100 times a day in unrest!). And don't get me started on trading/selling accounts. I mean seriously, we are against people playing 2 characters (even though it was CLASSIC), but we aren't against people trading/selling accounts( which WAS against classic).....this logic baffles me.

On live I boxed all the time because my first character, which I loved, was a ranger. Could never find a group until I had my pocket cleric to bring along. When the group needed a healer and had a spot open, I'd play both in group, but just as often as not I would heal outside group just so i could get xp on my ranger.

I recognize there are certain things about 2 boxing that are an issue:
- Leave one character camping Jboots, and other similar camps.
- People paying 2, 3, 6 characters at once. Where does it stop?
- People never grouping because why group when you can duo with yourself? (powerlvling has the same affect)

Just my thoughts. When I am playing I am almost ALWAYS watching a movie or tv shows because unlike 80% of the server(seems to be that high), I don't get high, drunk or do other stuff to alter my mindset so I can play this game.

Also the 4boxer Amelinda talked about.... HILARIOUS, especially when he admitted and asked to be unbanned.
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Old 03-20-2012, 05:34 PM
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You boxed on live and you paid for 2 accounts to do it . Here this is free which means people would box much more then 2 if they were allowed to do it. boxing clutters up the social aspect of the game as well it hordes camps.
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Old 03-20-2012, 05:58 PM
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from the sound of some people on here, it's almost as if those 2 boxers personally offended them IRL....

I'm sure a few of you on this thread are going to call me a boxer just because I don't agree with you guys!
This is the forums, welcome - things are spun out of control here. Well done for trying to make it even more out of control with that second comment.

What you exaggerate I can exaggerate further. Before you know it, half the server is boxing and everyone posting here is doing it...and its totally true that the more hardline someone is against boxing, the more certain we all are that they are also definitely boxing.

Meanwhile, on Fox News...
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Old 03-20-2012, 06:05 PM
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Id just like to say that the douche bags who spend their whole day on these forums putting people down to make their e-peens feel bigger hurt the server population worse than 2boxers.
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Old 03-20-2012, 06:14 PM
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This is the forums, welcome - things are spun out of control here. Well done for trying to make it even more out of control with that second comment.

What you exaggerate I can exaggerate further. Before you know it, half the server is boxing and everyone posting here is doing it...and its totally true that the more hardline someone is against boxing, the more certain we all are that they are also definitely boxing.

Meanwhile, on Fox News...
Sarcasm is hard to detect online, so I will give you the benefit of the doubt. If you have read through all the posts in the thread though, you will see comments were actually made like that (which may or may not have been sarcasm). Thanks for contributing to the discussion.
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