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This is NOT multi boxing. Multi boxing is using a single command stroke to control multiple clients simultaneously. For example:Running several accts at once on 1 monitor. So several small game windows. And then set the clients to follow the one you are controlling. Mainly at idocs and em events You can see some videos on YouTube showing people cheating this way. Idoc cheats I think they are called. 4 videos
Running several accts at once on 1 monitor. So several small game windows. And then set the clients to follow the one you are controlling. Mainly at idocs and em events You can see some videos on YouTube showing people cheating this way. Idoc cheats I think they are called. 4 videos
Yeah... after reading that paragraph I could only sit here... look at the screen and think.. wtliteralF??You might want to read the second paragraph of the newsletter. Mesanna has provided yet another fun outlet for griefers. Keep your houses private.
If theToS is violated in your house you get actioned too. Lock those doors.
She cannot bother looking at 20 entries in the last keep contest to make 3 players happy but she can help the griefers one more time. (no I did not enter)
Lock your doors.
IF they meant it applies only to co-owners or friends of the house they should have said so.
All it needs is a tool that works just like the training but removes things... every single property has a weight when it gets added... you subtract it by removing the same weight... and adding it back to the pets spending points to reallocate.If someone gives me a pet at any level, Using a piece of paper or the Pet Planner on Cah, I could remove the points that were added and the pet would be the same base pet. The exact HP str and resist would be different but it would be the same built pet when done. The pets have starting ranges for each value. This is not a mystery.
Either they do not know how their own game mechanics work or they are too afraid to say, we have said no to that request over and over and we are saying NO again.
3. Is it possible to add a pet-respec token?
All creatures, including pets, spawn with a random set of starting stats. This is how variation within pet species is simulated in the game world and how pet training accounts for some pets being on the cusp of one slot level vs another. The starting stats of a pet are not tracked and training progress is not saved. Due to this we unfortunately cannot offer pet-respec ability.
random set of starting stats.
They are random within a known range.
not quite, but close: it's controlling the accounts simultaneously usually with a few simple commands. not just following which, technically, would be legal. and officially this confusion, about which is which, is one reason why it's hard to combat. hard to tell certain allowed things from non-allowed things.Running several accts at once on 1 monitor. So several small game windows. And then set the clients to follow the one you are controlling. Mainly at idocs and em events You can see some videos on YouTube showing people cheating this way. Idoc cheats I think they are called. 4 videos
For 5 slot pets:All it needs is a tool that works just like the training but removes things... every single property has a weight when it gets added... you subtract it by removing the same weight... and adding it back to the pets spending points to reallocate.
My guess as well that it means those who have boxes out on the front and script miners are recalling in and out all day everyday sort of thing... but yeah... seriously would be a griefing tool to use to get people you don't like banned.My guess: the new rule is meant to cover cases where the house owner is a willing accomplice, e.g. providing safe storage for ore mined by a throwaway scripting account.
I doubt that they're planning to ban house owners for illegal actions committed in their house without their knowledge or consent...
But the wording of the rule is way too vague, a clarification would be in order.
From a coding standpoint, what they're saying makes sense. When a pet is trained up the old stats are overwritten by the new ones. So there's no way of knowing what a pet started with. Sure, each pet has a range, but where was that pet in the range?Pet respec token: Nope not doing it ... even though many of us tamers would be ok to buy this token and get a random pet back but IMO there ought to be some way to add into the game a way for the game to actually know WTF your pet started at... seriously LAME excuse...
The ranges are not that large and its based on points. You can deconstruct a pet with a spreadsheet or on paper. If you use all the points when building, a 2 slot pet that ranks 89% will rank 89% at 5 slots. If the pet re rolls to 89% it will build the exact same way when you put the points back on. Try it on the Cah pet planner.Sure, each pet has a range, but where was that pet in the range?
isn't that what I said? Using main char and the others are set to follow? At least that's what I was trying to say. Having 3 monitors up and having 3 clients running is legal as you can switch from one to the others. But having multiple accts auto following in not......... Prob me just articulating badly as usualThis is NOT multi boxing. Multi boxing is using a single command stroke to control multiple clients simultaneously. For example:
You hit a macro for Ebolt and 4 clients cast it at once. Playing multiple clients at the same time as long as they are controlled independently is perfectly legal.
Naa you said running three client on one monitor and them following. Having three clients on one monitor is perfectly legal as long as each client is operated solo by switching between each open client. As others have said it is when you have characters on multiple clients (either on one monitor or several monitors) all doing the exact SAME ACTION by pressing one set of keys. So cast ebolt on client A and the characters on client B and C also cast at the same time with ONE keystroke.isn't that what I said? Using main char and the others are set to follow? At least that's what I was trying to say. Having 3 monitors up and having 3 clients running is legal as you can switch from one to the others. But having multiple accts auto following in not......... Prob me just articulating badly as usual
I did not include to say, auto looting or like above, main acct fires weapon, the others auto fire following main acct. at EM events, etc multiple hits for the price of 1
I have lots of enemies, and continue to make more every chance I get. I hate all of you.I feel like some of you are behaving slightly paranoid about these changes. What have you done that is so egregious you think people will waste their time to try and get you banned? My thoughts, if you have that many enemies in a game then you probably did something to deserve it. Just make the doors in your public house accessible to only your friends. Problem solved.
Mesanna and company definitely missed the mark- I get it. Their attention should be spent less on the Gen Chat Trolls, people farming iron and lumber AFK, or unattended training skills and WAYYYY more time watching the events, idocs, and certain areas where high tier loot can be farmed without punishment.
You are delusional! The fact that there are scripters running at all at places like events and idocs is evidence that there are unscrupulous people playing this game for personal gain. These kinds of people are exactly the kind who would see a nice prime property or museum whose owner might not be actively playing right now and decide to use the newly announced system to get the account banned so they can loot it or sell a newly placed house.I feel like some of you are behaving slightly paranoid about these changes. What have you done that is so egregious you think people will waste their time to try and get you banned? My thoughts, if you have that many enemies in a game then you probably did something to deserve it. Just make the doors in your public house accessible to only your friends. Problem solved.
Mesanna and company definitely missed the mark- I get it. Their attention should be spent less on the Gen Chat Trolls, people farming iron and lumber AFK, or unattended training skills and WAYYYY more time watching the events, idocs, and certain areas where high tier loot can be farmed without punishment.
exactly.You are delusional! The fact that there are scripters running at all at places like events and idocs is evidence that there are unscrupulous people playing this game for personal gain. These kinds of people are exactly the kind who would see a nice prime property or museum whose owner might not be actively playing right now and decide to use the newly announced system to get the account banned so they can loot it or sell a newly placed house.
And you believed them?exactly.
last night someone asked me how I was (in General Chat) and I asked if they had seen the newsletter.
they hadn't, so I told them.
And right away someone else mentioned time to get rid of... (named someone who has a Luna house & known to have Castles)
what gets me is that they are more worried about this... when afk people at Dungeon Blackthorn gets a reprieve, but they take the spawn away.
I wounder how many of those were paying accounts, my guess is that the majority of them were EJ AccountsI went back through the last 1.5 years of the newsletters, back to when the TOS violations started being reported, and put the numbers in a spreadsheet. The results are a little interesting. The way the numbers jumped in the last period makes it look like there might have been a hefty increase in (cheating) players, something happened to the GM staff (increased numbers? different tools? started paying attention to player reports?), and/or the reporting period was longer than in previous newsletters.
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