Ever a chance of allowing double boxing?

[Tuan]

Alawen: Have you tried to start a character in time-zones where there aren't many people around?

It's easy to say there's no problem when that isn't the case, and maybe the only time you login and there aren't many people around is random times and you are already high-enough that your character is at least somewhat self sufficient and there are different things to do.

What I was trying to get at is that it wasn't much fun for me attempting to start leveling up a character when there is no one around to group with at a very low level. My first night, which was around a month ago, I started a cleric in Butcherblock, I saw maybe 2 different people in the span of 4 or 5 hours. I started a necro in Akanon, I saw no one in the span in a few hours. What is the fun in that? It isn't going to drive people to actually want to play on this server.

The point of the game is to play with people. And I can understand that the very low level zones have little-no population, it's not as if every stays level 1 forever. So what I think would be helpful is to allow two-boxing so players can get characters up to at least a level where they can actually find people playing, and if no one is around they can at least do their own thing in the meantime.

If I was even just level 15 or so I could have wandered to some different areas to try to find people. Good luck doing that at level 1!

Hell, just let people two-box up to level 10 or 15 or something. Good enough for me, it's just not fun playing such a low level char alone.

And the main point is that this drives people to not play at all, which the community should be aware of.

But hey if you want to argue more people wouldn't play if two boxing was allowed, then be my guest. Perfectly valid argument. You could have attempted to make a non-jackass comment like that, but you chose not to. Or you could have just moved on to the next thread since you have no interest in any discussion.

[Excision Rottun]

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

Hell, just let people two-box up to level 10 or 15 or something. Good enough for me, it's just not fun playing such a low level char alone.

Interesting idea, pretty sure that would be near impossible to code /monitor tho.

[Tuan]

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

Interesting idea, pretty sure that would be near impossible to code /monitor tho.

Not that I'm particularly suggesting that as a viable solution, but the coding/monitoring would be just as simple as whatever they are doing now. Just have a monitoring process to find more than 1 unique IP connected and then do a lookup vs the characters the IP is attached to.

[Humerox]

Well, since peak player averages have moved from 300ish to 600ish the last couple of months, I can certainly see how the no 2-box rule is keeping people from coming here.

Give it time. Seek out the off-peak guilds. Bring RL friends. Most of us don't demonize 2-boxing.

I'll let you in on a secret. I'd LOVE to 2-box.

I'm so highly against it because I truly believe it's detrimental to the health of the server for many reasons. Camping, non-socializing, bringing general asshattery players to P99 - not that quite a few haven't snuck in as it is - just to name a few. Combined with the fact that yes, you are forced to socialize.

Working as intended.

[Tudana]

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

I should have mentioned I am in Europe time. There are no where near 500+ people on the server.

The best Solo server on emo is THF (The Hidden Forest) great server and you can have 1 bot per group, along with all the boxing you can do..

Here, I like "no boxing rules".

This may make it that casuals will not like it here really, but so be it...it is what it is.

Classic EQ was tough and unforgiving.

[Tuan]

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

This may make it that casuals will not like it here really, but so be it...it is what it is.

Classic EQ was tough and unforgiving.

Fair enough.

[Ferok]

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

Classic EQ was tough and unforgiving.

...and multiboxing was allowed (though, due to limitations of the pc's and connections of the time, as well as the expense of operating multiple accounts; prohibitive.)

[stackbabber]

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

All I have to say is look what happened on PEQ. Is that an indication of something being severely overblown?

I don't know PEQ. Fill me in?

[stackbabber]

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

And now anonymous guy with low post count is backing up other anonymous guy with low post count. This is a troll.

Hehe, says the guy with 19 posts? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Somekid123]

^ If you knew anything abou the "Guy with 19 post" Alawen is one of the servers top druids in Inglorious Bastards, hes not a random troll such as yourself.

You not knowing who Alawen is only points more to you knowing nothing of our server.