That Sir, is absolutely correct.
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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.
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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.
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Most people run 15 accounts, so I just run 14 to keep it fair.
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Does this game have fair PvP fights? I’ve played less than 2 weeks, but haven’t seen that yet, but haven’t seen 90% of the game yet 
Once you are 31 days old, ask me again.
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Why would you care…when you’ve lost 5bn or so to NPCs…and only 310m or so to gankers ? I don’t see you posting NPCs as an issue, yet something that makes up just 1/17th of your losses is all of a sudden a big issue.
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Yes it does.
You get the crap kicked out of you by superior numbers, you come back with superior numbers and beat the crap out of them - that’s fair
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What’s the difference if you die to 5 Alts or 5 players?
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Bro… maybe I didnt mention… – In order to be competitive and not be a fkn noob-- one must be a multiboxer.
With idiot logic… no one is forcing you to be a loser, you just choose to be, Thx for the fools viewpoint on what it means to not multibox in eve online.
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/ it’s only about having fun.
Reason for linking that vod is that day an old friend and I had fun.
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Blizzard once said… Whats the difference if we went from 10 million subscribers down 1 million if we sell enough in the online store to generate the same profit? People really are that dumb.
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