About the useful features in the mod

[Echo 7-7]

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So my question is - why it's suddenly outlawed? What is given to complement this feature?
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It's quite simple: Multiboxing was banned because players were abusing the priveleges they were given.

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[Curios]

I wasn't abusing anything. So why I am, personally, banned?

[Mímir]

Does it really matter that you cant transfer stuff without a second player or a PoB?

I found it gave me incentive to build a PoB just to have the option of transferring if I wanted.

Unless of course you are transferring stuff between ships on opposed IDs, like swapping armor from a Legate to a Liberty Dread. It would be odd to see those two ships dock up at the same place, it would be much better if the oorp equipment transfer happened in an oorp area like Conn.

If you own a large collection of ships and you change and update them frequently, it can be a drag having to ask people to help you out all the time. I've got 5 or so ships docked up that I never use because I need to swap around gear on them and I can't be bothered to ask someone else to give me half an hour of their gametime to help me sort something out that I might go and change in 2 days.

They should have kept it as it was, and made multiboxing sanctionable everywhere but in Conneticut. Besides I am sure it is still possible to multibox for those that really want, I recall having seen a sanction notice lately, so in effect you are mostly harming those that want to legitimately transfer gear between their own ships.

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[Kazinsal]

I wasn't abusing anything. So why I am, personally, banned?

Go yell at the people who abused multiboxing instead. They ruined it for you, not us.

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[Mímir]

But you haven't stopped the abusers clearly:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=111707

Would it be worth reconsidering removing the anti-multibox filter in the light of it not stopping multiboxers and being a pain in the rear to quite a few regular legitimate players?


P.S. I don't care if a few new players multibox and get into their Libby dreads twice as fast, I think the economy is over-inflated anyways, so if they have to spend 5 hours instead of 10 to get that cap it really doesn't make much of a difference. Besides multiboxers are fairly easy to spot in game anyways.

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[Kazinsal]

There are different levels of multiboxing. The filter blocks two instances of FL on one computer. We cannot block multiple FL instances on one IP because then we'd be saying "no you can't play on the same LAN as your friends/family/distinguished guests of honour".

The linked case is of the latter type.

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[Mímir]

Alright so if I install Disco on my laptop, would it be ok for me to go to Conn to outfit my ships via multibox?

I know it would be against the rules, but would anyone make a big deal out of it?

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[Kazinsal]

That is not my call, as I am not (contrary to apparent popular believe) a member of the administration team and therefore do not make judgements on the server rules.

I simply write plugins to enforce them in certain cases where necessary.

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[Curios]

I wasn't abusing anything. So why I am, personally, banned?

Go yell at the people who abused multiboxing instead. They ruined it for you, not us.

Ah, so you make someone's separate problem into the shared problem? I repeat - it's not my problem that someone is multiboxing. It's their problem - so ban them, not me.

It's like burning the warehouse to get rid of mouse in it.

[Kazinsal]

Turns out that mouse was a particularly nasty breed of hybrid mouse-rat-alien-xenomorph that people were cloning for nefarious purposes and the only way to kill it was to light its surroundings on fire with an acetylene torch, sorry.

We simply can't grant certain people immunity from the rules (or place certain restrictions upon people) just for having a good record. The lack of an anti-multiboxing system was not a right held by the community.

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