People Boxing

[nymphloa]

Originally Posted by regatta [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you can talk to each player just have one count to you in tells from 1-50 and the other count from 50-1 simultaneously. You'll know if they are boxing.

Dude....seriously

[Omica]

Originally Posted by Lagaidh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Threads like this make me paranoid of the inevitible day when my wife and I are asked if we are boxing.

Yeah I was a little bit apprehensive in getting an IP exemption when my GF decided to give this game a shot. Now that I see there are people on an active witch hunt for boxers, it's making me just not want to even play at the same time as her. I don't even know how I'd respond if someone asked me to count from 50 backwards to prove I'm not breaking the rules.

[nymphloa]

Originally Posted by Omica [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't even know how I'd respond if someone asked me to count from 50 backwards to prove I'm not breaking the rules.

True that some nights I find it hard to walk a straight line from the fridge to the Pc if ya know what I am saying [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Glaani]

Originally Posted by Omnimorph [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you're suspicious of someone boxing, pay close attention before reporting it though. If in any doubt, don't report it would be my advice.

Yes. ^^

Like Lagaidh, my husband and I are resigned to the fact that we'll probably be challenged some day as being boxers. I'd hope that someone who suspects us would talk to us before reporting, to rule boxing out and save the GMs the time and trouble.

[Eyry]

If I see people boxing I report it. It's disrespectful to the GMs because they came up with the rules and they expect the rules to be followed. It is cheating and it takes away from the social aspect of the game....

[nymphloa]

Originally Posted by Eyry [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I see people boxing I report it. It's disrespectful to the GMs because they came up with the rules and they expect the rules to be followed. It is cheating and it takes away from the social aspect of the game....

You a hater boy..its haters that take away the social aspect of this mofo "game" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Loke]

Yea, I've been accused of boxing before because I had a friend log my alt in and afk him in a group with my main (both have similar names).. or because a friend was using my wizard to port for $$ while I was raiding on my main. Basically if you have two characters with similar names and they're on at the same time, people automatically assume the worst.

Unless you have more than mere suspicion - I would avoid wasting the GMs time personally.

[karsten]

if i see someone that is obviously autofollowing i don't report it because I just assume it is a husband/wife team and the wife is following around doing nothing because women are terrible at video games

[Loke]

Originally Posted by karsten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

women are terrible

[Omnimorph]

Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea, I've been accused of boxing before because I had a friend log my alt in and afk him in a group with my main (both have similar names).. or because a friend was using my wizard to port for $$ while I was raiding on my main. Basically if you have two characters with similar names and they're on at the same time, people automatically assume the worst.

Unless you have more than mere suspicion - I would avoid wasting the GMs time personally.

There's abit of grey area on that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Example - friend logging on your toon and afking him in group for you to exp. Technically not boxing but will certainly look like it.

And then there's people boxing from multiple IP addresses.

It IS hard to enforce the no boxing rule, and then there's certain things like what loke is doing, which if questioned over it at the time would have come across as very suspicious (ie. someone sending him a tell and then the alt who is similarly named and the simarly named character is afk, albeit being played by a separate person who is afk)

And now my head hurts... but yeah, it is hard for gm's to enforce it, and i imagine the only people who do get banned are the ones the gm's are sure about.