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[Purplefluffybunny]

As the forum search tool is not fit for purpose and as it takes an age to search the clutter manually, I thought I'd just go ahead and ask.

Are we are allowed to have multiple accounts. Further, am I allowed to run multiple instances of the client on one box? Am I allowed to run the client on separate machines within the same household?

I have four machines in my room and I would like to have a client running on each of them. My girlfriend sometimes hops on one of the clients and so does my neighbor, when he comes around for a cup of tea.

So can I do this with out fear of sanction?

EDIT: My girlfriend, being a girl, is a bad pilot so sometimes she ends up just running against a wall or something the entire match!

Edited by Purplefluffybunny, 11 April 2013 - 01:46 PM.

[Roadbeer]

[buttmonkey]

Roadbeer, on 11 April 2013 - 01:26 PM, said:

xD

[Purplefluffybunny]

No seriously can we? I am not trolling here. It is a legitimate Q. I do have 4 machines in my room!

Edited by Purplefluffybunny, 11 April 2013 - 01:32 PM.

[Oni Ralas]

You don't multibox something like MWO. You can't control that many surfaces of movement at once reliably.

[Egomane]

It's a free to play game. You can create as many accounts as you like.

I strongly advise against any form of botting (which is clearly implied in the opening post). It will result in the closure of all related accounts. Aside from that, there is no rule preventing you from inviting friends over to play together.

[Purplefluffybunny]

Oni Ralas, on 11 April 2013 - 01:34 PM, said:

You don't multibox something like MWO. You can't control that many surfaces of movement at once reliably.

I see what you are saying. In a way I am preempting the possible CW system and what that means in terms of what I asked.

Egomane, on 11 April 2013 - 01:36 PM, said:

It's a free to play game. You can create as many accounts as you like.

I strongly advise against any form of botting (which is clearly implied in the opening post). It will result in the closure of all related accounts. Aside from that, there is no rule preventing you from inviting friends over to play together.

Cheers. CW is going to need testing with people botting to see if it is indeed possible to get advantages by taking an approach that swarms with free accounts.

Edited by Purplefluffybunny, 11 April 2013 - 01:38 PM.

[von Pilsner]

My friends play and we run 3 accounts on my computer (we take turns lol) so they don't ban for multiple accts at the same IP address.

Not tried multiple computers at the same time, but as long as everyone is playing they should not ban anyone.

[GODzillaGSPB]

Well he's asking for those multiple accounts to be played by multiple players.His girlfriend. His neighbour.

And I don't see why it should be forbidden. In this household, all the PCs are connected to the ww via one DSL router and thus every PC has the same IP in the internet. When I play MWO and my brother plays MWO...where is the problem?

(The only problem would probably be the ping ^^)

[DegeneratePervert]

Have had two friends over, we all played on our own accounts with three PCs on one network. No bans thus far.

[Purplefluffybunny]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

[GODzillaGSPB]

Purplefluffybunny, on 11 April 2013 - 01:41 PM, said:

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Show your appreciation by teaching your girlfriend how to drive a mech properly.


/edit: Oha, mod erased my initial post here. Cmon, it was meant as a friendly joke and even the topic starter got it that way. Maybe the word was a bit strong, I meant it like "being a macho".

Edited by GODzillaGSPB, 11 April 2013 - 02:02 PM.

[Purplefluffybunny]

GODzillaGSPB, on 11 April 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

[what you said]

I was not offended by GodzillaGSPB's remark. I found it funny.

[Tykelau]

Multiboxing in an MMORPG usually means one person controlling multiple characters using a script or other software so they all follow a primary and sometimes even have automated actions (heal, buff, rez, shield etc etc). It would be harder to do with MWO, aiming and shooting is a much more complex task. You would need an aimbot to get it to work, which is obviously not OK.

That said, I think the OP just used the wrong term to describe what he wanted.

[Volthorne]

GODzillaGSPB, on 11 April 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

Show your appreciation by teaching your girlfriend how to drive a mech properly.

He can't, he's too busy doing... Other things. Why do you think she's such a terrible pilot all the time?

[Captain Stiffy]

Oni Ralas, on 11 April 2013 - 01:34 PM, said:

You don't multibox something like MWO. You can't control that many surfaces of movement at once reliably.

I sure as hell could with autohotkey, no problem at all to instant switch with a KVM either

Plus you could do that thing where you land on another mech and have it carry you around and box them both

[Conraire]

I'm going to go with you probably can run separate accounts on different computers in your home. Pretty much every game I've played allows for that. You have to remember that every computer in your house has it's own unique MAC Addy attached to it's NIC, so even if they're all connected through the same internet connection. They can still tell it's 3 or 4 different machines. And from what I've seen I don't think you can run two instances of the program on one machine.

The only issue you may have with 4 people being on would be lag depending on the kind of throughput your connection has.

[Phaesphoros]

If you really want to know it, look into Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. That's about the set of rules I know (besides some additional rules in the forums). I can't find anything in there that prohibits multiple accounts (but I'm not a laywer and especially not your lawyer.... you know...), though they can close them for any reason (that's a very common clause btw).

[Nick Carlile]

I know what he's getting at, and it could be done. People used to do it in WoW and EQ.

Basic principal. Make 5 Shamans, set them all up exactly the same. Same hotkeys to do the same things. Then they would run multiple instances on the same computer and run a program that allowed their keyboard inputs to work on all instances.

So now you have 5 shamans, running the same direction, targeting the same person and then hitting nature's swiftness followed by chain lightning....from all 5 shaman.

Now this wasn't full proof obviously, but it did have it's advantages, since they were all in sync and obviously since one person was playing them he could make sure the damage went to one place.

Now the difference here is, unless you use lock on weapons you can't really "target" someone.

But the potential is there.

What I would do if I wanted to try and do this is make 4 accounts and use a Stalker variant with LRM's.

Basically what you would do is get them all next to eachother, then just move around slowly, find a target and let loose a huge volley of LRM's.

It would be a bit ugly with collisions, but since they are slow it wouldn't be a huge deal. It wouldn't be supremely effective. But if all you were doing was farming/exploiting it's feasible.

And it's not TECHNICALLY botting, because you are controlling all 4 instances.

WoW for instance did not ban people for doing it.

[Egomane]

Nick Carlile, on 11 April 2013 - 02:52 PM, said:

And it's not TECHNICALLY botting, because you are controlling all 4 instances.

No, this would probably be an exploit. Not allowed either way!