Will definitely have a look, thanks.
Lucky then, the cheapest ours go for is about £700 thanks to import duties and the like.
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Multi-boxing is something that makes significant aspects of the game pay-to-win because it allows a single player the ability to multiply their contribution of various BGS mechanisms, as well as get cheaper rebuy and other benefits from multi-crew.
I certainly think it should be prohibited, but I don't expect it to be easy to catch people doing it.
Edit: regarding technical hurdles, there are essentially none of any significance. As long as you have a about ~4GiB of memory per client, you can run as many as you care to from the same physical system (virtualization helps, but is hardly required), not that the issue is running them from the same physical system, it's any mechanism by which a single player has more than one CMDR active and under their command concurrently.
I certainly think it should be prohibited, but I don't expect it to be easy to catch people doing it.
Edit: regarding technical hurdles, there are essentially none of any significance. As long as you have a about ~4GiB of memory per client, you can run as many as you care to from the same physical system (virtualization helps, but is hardly required), not that the issue is running them from the same physical system, it's any mechanism by which a single player has more than one CMDR active and under their command concurrently.
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I disagree there. Sometimes multiboxing is the quickest and most convenient way for getting your mates some gameplay when they come round for beers and space ships
It's far simpler for someone to just jump into a seat and grab a HOTAS than it is to boot a machine, log into an account, and spend anything from 5-20-infinite minutes getting together in-game. Even better, with controlled remote access, it allows friends to get their preferred account and bindings set up before they even leave home to get here
Unfortunately FD probably never considered people doing this, and probably rightly assumed many people wouldn't do it. But of course, there are always those that will.
In NWN2 i once tested multiboxing on the server i ran, 4 copies running under Wine instances. Had a main with 3 characters set to follow and defend the leader. Worked ok. Made grinding easier and was actually a bit like playingg the single player game then (where you can control up to 6 characters.
Personally, the only reason i might consider multiboxing is to create the second commander look like my NPC co-pilot and have her sat is a seat next to me. It annoys me a bit that I can't see the NPC.
I've been tempted to do that as well with my alt account. That second seat looks mighty lonely, without an NPC co-pilot sitting in it. I've got an old lap-top that can (barely) run Elite: Dangerous, so I don't even need to use my Desktop.
Zero desire to have another player in my ship, unless it a serially commanded ship on an exploration journey. That would require proper multi-crewing with non-pew-pew things to do, as opposed to the abomination-which-shall-not-be-named we have today.
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"Multiboxing is a spreading pestilence...."
If none of you have turned this into a lewd joke yet, then shame on all of you.
If none of you have turned this into a lewd joke yet, then shame on all of you.
What if you're wrong?
What if it is four different people in different parts of the country (let's say, Leicester, Derby(who'd want to be there though!), Nottingham and Coventry) playing together, winging up, to complete the CG or taking part in PowerPlay.
Does that change things for you?
If it is one person, playing with four account on one or more computers (I guess each computer having HOTAs), then:
A) They have way too much money to waste in 'real life'
B) They deserve all that money as they must be fantastic at multitasking over so many computers when I sometimes find it difficult enough to fly one ship at a time let alone FOUR!
C) Feel sorry for them that they have no other life.
Alas no one has.
And last dirty joke I posted got me into trouble, so I'll leave it to you