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Free accounts and modern clients change things significantly relative to 20 years ago. EQ wouldn't even alt-tab in the early days. That's why it's called "multi-boxing," people literally needed multiple computers. Hence boxing existed but tended to be the exception rather than the norm. As other posters have mentioned, look at what happens on other emulators that permit multi-character playing--in all cases it runs rampant and leads to dead or near-dead servers with miniscule communities. P1999's no-boxing rule attracts and keeps a lot of players including some who prefer other eras of the game better than the classic period. It's the right rule for the environment and conditions.
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Dear "I just want to know why" people....not sure if you realize it or not but what you're doing/asking is known in the psychology world at "Normalizing Behavior". Start out asking questions that are known to be against the rules, societal norms or even against the law. This doesn't only apply to P99 but it applies to dam near every type of behavior that living creatures do. The more times the question is raised the more normal it becomes. Once the ice has been broken continue to chip around the edges to find a weak spot in hopes of gaining traction somewhere. In this instance you're acting like a victim when people tell you to knock it off. Many of us here have heard the same crap over and over. We're basically tired of telling you to knock it off. You could have used search and found answers to your question several times over. Your "agree to disagree" is tiring. This is Rogen and Nilbog's house. I personally am very grateful they're letting me and others in here. Hell, I even bring a case of beer (ie, paypal donation) on top of agreeing to behave respectfully (ie, follow their rules). Nothing is saying I have to share a beer with the house owners but it's called respect; reap what you sow. If you disagree with a stance you're welcome to get the hell out of the sandbox they are providing is wonderful; we like this sandbox! If you don't like the rules of this sandbox go make your own sandbox or play in a different sandbox that allows you to throw handfuls of mud at each other....shit doesn't fly here. | ||||||||
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You seem like an angry guy. If I ever need to hire a lawyerquesting attorney, I’ll put you on retainer. You have a real knack for taking down strawmen.
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I'm in the process of moving over from an eqemu server that permits boxing. It literally kills the game. I despise boxing. Let me rephrase that. I despise trying to run more than one character myself, as it just sucks all the fun out of the game for me. Grouping was the best part of EQ. (Also the worst if your groupmates sucked.)
I personally don't care if people want to box, I'd just rather not be on a server with them because it kills any chance of finding regular groups. Post about how you want to group, you get a bunch of PMs responding how to install veryvanilla or kissassist and which toons to level up in order to make your own group. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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If you are interested in boxing, head on over to the TAK Project website - its not Velious locked but its the nearest populated emulator thats boxing friendly up to 3 accounts.
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It's not classic...
I didn't notice anyone mention this so I will, PC's back in 1999 (when I started playing) were not capable of running multiple instances of EQ at the same time for a few reasons. They just weren't fast enough for one thing and secondly you couldn't even run EQ in windowed mode because it would CTD. I had popups from viruses crashing EQ constantly which was rampant back in '99. On top of that most (if not all of us) were playing over a dial-up connection that couldn't handle the load of boxing. I would get kicked off the internet if someone made a call to my house phone. My point is boxing ruins an EQ server and it definitely is not classic.
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I remember I couldn't run with spell effects showing back in the day or my computer would overheat and freeze up.
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