SgtFreakshow
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Hello all.
There's been alot of discussion all over the boards for or against multiboxing. (just for clarity what I define as multiboxing and what this petition is about is multiboxing done with key-copying software that allows a player to control several characters without having to alt-tab between different windows of WoW)
I'd like to make a petition to put a complete ban upon this kind of multiboxing, there are several reasons why I think this should be done, so bear with me, this might become a wall of text:
1. A WoW server is a big community of different players or rather two opposed communities (horde and alliance), these communities run through the activity of many different players, to achieve something in WoW you generally have to work with or against other players, any activity performed that engages other players than yourself is strengthening one or both of the communities that are a WoW server.
This is where multiboxing goes contrary to this, while a player multiboxing can be an active part of the community many of the activities performed by a multiboxer does not engage any other players of the server.
2. Most multiboxers can be put into two broad categories:
The harmless multiboxer uses multiboxing software in order to create a challenging and engaging experience for himself, this kind of multiboxer will spend most of his time trying to 'solo' various 5-man content to challenge his abilities as a multiboxer, while this kind of multiboxer does nothing wrong really, he doesn't engage any other players either and thus does neither strengthen nor weaken the communities of the server he is playing on.
The malicious multiboxer is another beast entirely, this kind of multiboxer uses the multiboxing software to gain an edge on other players, this is both the 5 man elemental shaman team that obliterates all opposition in WSG & AB with the click of a single button and the 5 man team of farmers that is able to farm 3-4x as fast as a single character, it is because of the second type of multiboxer, the malicious kind that I'd like to see a full ban to multiboxing.
My conclusion is that while the first kind of multiboxer is harmless to the server, he is also useless, he does nothing to make the server better or worse, whereas the second kind actively disrupts server economy and PvP balance and in worst case he may result in contributing players quitting the server and thus he may actively also disrupt server population.
3. As my conclusion above is that a multiboxer will never be beneficial to the server in any way I propose that multiboxing be shut down completely, while you can make band-aid fix like prohibiting multiboxers access to PvP this is much more difficult to regulate than a complete ban and will do nothing to stop a multiboxer from farming, or even from grieving other players by shutting down important NPC spawns or small farm areas in an attempt to provoke them to attack him, whereupon he can participate in PvP as self defense.
4. With the recent discussion that have been going on about the 'Character Auction' feature of Twinstar (something I'm personally impartial about, I will never use it myself), multiboxers may be even more harmful to the server, while a multiboxer levels slower than a single character it's not 5 times slower and a crafty multiboxer can level 5 characters to level 60 in approximately 10-12 days /played and then auction off 4 of those 5 characters.
So there you have it people, please discuss.
(Edited to make the wall an easier read)
There's been alot of discussion all over the boards for or against multiboxing. (just for clarity what I define as multiboxing and what this petition is about is multiboxing done with key-copying software that allows a player to control several characters without having to alt-tab between different windows of WoW)
I'd like to make a petition to put a complete ban upon this kind of multiboxing, there are several reasons why I think this should be done, so bear with me, this might become a wall of text:
1. A WoW server is a big community of different players or rather two opposed communities (horde and alliance), these communities run through the activity of many different players, to achieve something in WoW you generally have to work with or against other players, any activity performed that engages other players than yourself is strengthening one or both of the communities that are a WoW server.
This is where multiboxing goes contrary to this, while a player multiboxing can be an active part of the community many of the activities performed by a multiboxer does not engage any other players of the server.
2. Most multiboxers can be put into two broad categories:
The harmless multiboxer uses multiboxing software in order to create a challenging and engaging experience for himself, this kind of multiboxer will spend most of his time trying to 'solo' various 5-man content to challenge his abilities as a multiboxer, while this kind of multiboxer does nothing wrong really, he doesn't engage any other players either and thus does neither strengthen nor weaken the communities of the server he is playing on.
The malicious multiboxer is another beast entirely, this kind of multiboxer uses the multiboxing software to gain an edge on other players, this is both the 5 man elemental shaman team that obliterates all opposition in WSG & AB with the click of a single button and the 5 man team of farmers that is able to farm 3-4x as fast as a single character, it is because of the second type of multiboxer, the malicious kind that I'd like to see a full ban to multiboxing.
My conclusion is that while the first kind of multiboxer is harmless to the server, he is also useless, he does nothing to make the server better or worse, whereas the second kind actively disrupts server economy and PvP balance and in worst case he may result in contributing players quitting the server and thus he may actively also disrupt server population.
3. As my conclusion above is that a multiboxer will never be beneficial to the server in any way I propose that multiboxing be shut down completely, while you can make band-aid fix like prohibiting multiboxers access to PvP this is much more difficult to regulate than a complete ban and will do nothing to stop a multiboxer from farming, or even from grieving other players by shutting down important NPC spawns or small farm areas in an attempt to provoke them to attack him, whereupon he can participate in PvP as self defense.
4. With the recent discussion that have been going on about the 'Character Auction' feature of Twinstar (something I'm personally impartial about, I will never use it myself), multiboxers may be even more harmful to the server, while a multiboxer levels slower than a single character it's not 5 times slower and a crafty multiboxer can level 5 characters to level 60 in approximately 10-12 days /played and then auction off 4 of those 5 characters.
So there you have it people, please discuss.
(Edited to make the wall an easier read)
