It’s actually not, until what people choose to make of each fight imo.
Eve is thankfully varied and complex enough to make interesting mixes of content, not just a “pile on - you lose”…
Say, let’s just imagine for a minute that I had the singlehanded power to field 5000 ships into a battle and annihilate an entire nullsec coalition in one stroke, just from my own one supercomputer, would you still fairgame this as legit and part of the game ?
Im pretty sure a lot of people would ■■■■■ about it being slightly unfair …
You really stirred up a hornets nest with this one. Excellent job!
I cant find the clip of the guy who had (I think it was 20) accts with a room with 20 monitors set up and a 3rd party software that let him control all the ships as one. I ran across him and his fleet once in game. I went the other way. If still possible, that might be an exploit?
Nah, he would simply propose you were the only 1 person in his 16 years of experience to have a problem with such a thing. Even though I am already that 1 person, apparently (and so are lots of other people).
Don’t ask me how that works.
Your opinion that it was unfair would be based on you being some kind of insane 5g / flat Earth loonie person.
Hardly, because its no different than 5000 people doing it, if you have the resources to do that then fair play to you, and you would actually have a lot of people very impressed given the massive amount of inputs required to manage that feat, i would still deem it entirely fair and valid and part of the game
Not in the least, if you want to come and gank me with 30 catalysts as a multiboxer then fair play to you, i’m not going to be more upset to learn it was a single player compared to it being 30 players than i would be from losing the ship in the first place, and i’m no stranger to unfair numbers being used against me its all part of the game and the risks i take by undocking
Good point! I am always more pissed at myself that I let them catch and pop me than I am at them for doing it no matter if it be a multiboxer or just a bunch of players.
The 3rd party app that would allow him to control all accounts as one.
Yeah, I knew that there were people that didn’t like multiboxing, but I wasn’t aware of many there were or how adamantly they felt about it. Turns out it’s a very polarizing issue.
Since it is far easier to get one player manning 10 ships than 10 players manning 1 ship, certain ship losses (freighters) would probably be significantly reduced in HS if the total number of ships able to be multiboxed was reduced. It wouldn’t be reduced to zero, but the number of people wanting their characters at -10 would have to significantly grow from its current ammount to be able to man a fleet capable of dealing the appropriate amount of damage. IS and NS would also see a reduction, although not nearly as large, as just gathering the needed number of ships/players individually would be burdensome for many.
Lets go a step further into the ridiculous then, see if theres movement in there still.
Say i managed to get hands on an alien supercomputer that could quadruple that ammount of ships and enforce a complete embargo on the entire games economy and playerbase. No one undocks without being instaganked, nowhere to run.
The game would completely tank unless my ability removed.
You would not be able to play your game until then, that would still be cool ?
You would be upset if it meant you not even being able to undock unless my ridiculous ability gets removed from me.
Even if you had such a computer its still easy to circumvent given game mechanics, but lets ignore that part, what you’re asking is, would i be mad at you for being a multiboxer, then the answer is no, would i be annoyed that you killed the game, probably, but you being a multiboxer wouldn’t be the reason
Aslong as you weren’t breaking any actual rules or actually cheating then sure, that is still fine within the confines of the games mechanics, annoying sure, but not for the reasons you seem to want to blame
Again, not because of how you were doing it but only that you were doing it, you having a super computer and being able to do it single handed isn’t going to make me any more annoyed than if it were the population of a large country all having characters logged in 24/7 doing it
Again, it doens’t bother me more knowing it was a single person compared to 5 million people, the end result is the same
