[UO Herald News] Official Response to Multiboxing

[Spaz Ferret]

Official Response to Multiboxing
   

Multiboxing is not illegal but Macroing is, and this is considered macroing in UO.  If you observe a player using multiboxing please report them and CS will investigate the report, per the TOS.
This message functions as the global reply to the recent discussion we saw on the boards.
 

     

http://www.uoherald.com/node/376
   

[gimlet]

What's multiboxing??

[Endless Night]

its when you get 3 or more opponents in a boxing ring .. its very popular in deepest darkest parts of the amazon but i could be wrong

[Masscre]

MultiBoxing

It is using one computer and having several clients open on the same computer.

[12TimesOver]

So their statement is basically saying:

"Our offical stance on multiboxing is that it is not illegal but it is illegal"

WTF does that mean??

I hate stupid people.

[Cerveza]

It's legal to do. You must be attended while doing it.

That's what I get from that.

[Ultima]

It's legal to do. You must be attended while doing it.

That's what I get from that.

How the hell do you get that? LOL!....

I'm with you 12X....Vague as all hell.

"Multiboxing is not illegal but Macroing is, and this is considered macroing in UO."

That statement reminds me of the Philosophy class I took in community college way back when much to my suprise the class was about logic and arguments and how to break down the meaning of statements.

The statement makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Someone needs to break it down into a math forumula

[Paulonius]

Seems like an explanation of whatever the specific instance, the "this", that inspired the response is missing. 

I am probably doing whatever she is talking about right now.

[gimlet]

Are they using EUO to do this?

[12TimesOver]

Seems like an explanation of whatever the specific instance, the "this", that inspired the response is missing. 

Hehehe...clear as mud!

[Masscre]

My understanding on this is. It is not illegal to multi client, but if you are scripting 2 or more clients to work together as a team from the same computer, then that is illegal. Kinda like having a dexer run around kill crap and having a mage follow behind and attack the same target and heal the dexer as needed.

[Cerveza]

sub DevsKnowSquat
If [Multibox <> Illegal] && [Macroing = Illegal]
return #TRUE
else
return #BANANA

[Ultima]

Seems like an explanation of whatever the specific instance, the "this", that inspired the response is missing. 

I am probably doing whatever she is talking about right now.

Sounds like legal mumbo jumbo to me.

@Gimlet - I think it's business as usual where it's up to a player to page on another player and get a GM inspect the suspected offender. I highly doubt EA/Dev Team are taking proactive measures to flush out any potential offenders. Maybe their response times will be better for a couple of weeks until the dust settles then it's back to business as usual.

It's really not in their best interest from a business perspective to enforce these type of policies which could potentially limit the amount of subscriptions a player would want.

[Ultima]

sub DevsKnowSquat
If [Multibox <> Illegal] && [Macroing = Illegal]
return #TRUE
else
return #BANANA

ROFL@ Banana!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

basicley its okay to multi box as long as u don t have anything automating the out accounts to do what the main account is doing. wich is total bull @$%^