Does this include miners and mission runers?
The New Halaima Code of Conduct states that multiboxing is fine , but you might require a mixed doctrine permit depending on what ships you use. Bot-aspirant behavior though, is not permitted
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Charon | JaguarLee | Killmail | zKillboard here is a freighter ganked by 1 ship, seems the correct play is to leave highsec *wink wink.
Nice try , but ganking only occurs within the domain of Princess Aiko - High Sec
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Are you saying their are boundaries to her domain and to her influence? Is this not high treason in and of itself hmmm.
High sec is all that matters. In low sec you have little yapping chihuahuas like @DrysonBennington, in Null, you have the F1 monkey.
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That is true, and sometimes the Gods decend from their pochven domain to gaze apon the mighty highsec in its true glory.
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That’s not a ‘ganking’, and I suspect the target may have been a suspect or war target as I don’t think the shooter’s Drekavac ( looking at his previous losses of it ) would have survived gate guns at 10km long enough to do 200K of damage. He doesn’t actually have a huge amount of tank.
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I think the most damaging aspect of CCP pushing all of us to multibox is simply the fact it totally changes how you play and enjoy the game.
When you fly a solo ship and do it with your friends, you will find the game at its best played this way for fun and immersion. When I am forced to run 7 accounts in fleets, which i do when im active, the game play is tedious, repetitive, and is a total pain to even play. Multiboxing sucks because its not fun. You cant even get into a real group of players without having at least two accounts. This does major damage to the current and future player base. Its a net-negative in my 15 years of Eve experience. There are very few people who are willing to sit and play all day while multiboxing and thats unfortunately the only way for most players to be an asset to the group. Its just another short-sighted failure from CCP to create this environment.
PS= (10 days so far with zero reply for my Help Ticket)
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That Sir, is absolutely correct.
Nobody’s ‘pushing’ anything. It’s entirely up to you whether you multibox or not.
Likewise, nobody is ‘forcing’ you to run 7 accounts in fleets, and if they are then you maybe need a less dictatorial corp. I am sometimes asked to multibox, and more often than not I don’t as I honestly think I do better solo. In a fleet where there’s rapid changes in targets, multiboxing really isn’t all that useful and can even be a hindrance.
In F1 monkey type fleets I’d agree. But then we come back to the issue of being ‘forced’ to do it…which I have never been. But for things like real time scouting, I find multiboxing absolutely essential. You simply can’t beat knowing, in real time, what is in the next system.
Meh…I’ve taken part in hundreds of fleets with just one char, ganked with just one char, suspect hunted or sat outside Jita with just one char. Nobody has ever said ’ hey…you can’t be part of us with just one char ’ and any group that did would be silly to lose even your solo contribution.
It doesn’t have to. You just warp away and come back, the gate guns won’t shoot at you again. Meanwhile the freighter is going nowhere as takes forever to align.
Sounds like you are an F1 monkey that just likes to hit his F1 key
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Ah yes…a trick I’d heard about but forgotten.
The issue is how easy and thus more likely it is to encounter a 6 multiboxer fleet rather than a regular 6-man fleet. So, solo roaming doing your own thing, even if you’re open to the occaisonal PvP, will discourage people from doing these activities due the vastly increased risk of unfair fight/gank.
Why is meeting one person running 6 chars any more ‘unfair’ than meeting 6 people running 6 chars ? Logic really doesn’t seem to have any part in all this. I’ve always suspected the real gripe about multiboxing is a sort of ‘bwah…someone can afford to do something I can’t afford’
Their main issue is that if there wasn’t enough players online to gank them, they wouldn’t have died if 1 player with alts wasn’t there to gank them. This can be true , an example being that 1 ship can not gank a freighter in high sec before concord arrives.
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Yea exactly you have multiple pings around the gate so you can warp up and down quickly and just ram the freighter first so it takes longer to counter the inertia then start aligning, by that time its over you’ve already warped back down and gotten point again.
But conversely a 6 man multibox fleet costs the one person individually 6 times more that it would cost each of 6 individual members…not to mention the extra cost of running 5 extra accounts. It’s not like there is ‘no’ penalty for the multiboxer. Those extra 5 accounts are costing £62 a month…which is around 9 billion ISK a month.
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CCP is happy as 6 omega accounts as opposed to 1. Nothing stopping the whiners getting 6 omegas themselves or bringing along 5 buddies.
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I was referring to the likelihood of being ganked - it’s increased tenfold with multi-boxer around. The ‘unfair’ part was about looking for a fair PvP fight and not constantly be outnumbered as a non-multiboxer.
Most people run 15 accounts, so I just run 14 to keep it fair.