No, it is not the same thing. Hacking/botting is cheating. Dual-boxing is allowed by Nasomi himself. He has set the rules in place. No more than two accounts out of town at a time. No more than one account allowed to HELM at a time. Nothing more. This is not retail. This is Nasomi. He has come forward and stated that it is okay and until he says otherwise, it's not the same thing. As I said, adapt or die.

Somewhere I'm pretty sure I read a line about using a single input device to control two characters is prohibited, in fact, dual boxing is technically prohibited according to the official rules.

"• Controlling two characters at once through any means at all is prohibited."
http://nasomi.com/wiki/index.php?title=New:Rules

99.99999999% of dualboxers are using one PC, and alt-tabbing

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That rule outlaws one command controlling both characters. You can’t press 8 one time and both characters step forward.

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I see, I'd like to see the wording on that rule regardless. And also, in the official rules, "• Controlling two characters at once through any means at all is prohibited." should trump that all regardless. There's a reason that rule was written in the first place. I believe certain things weren't in place or weren't enforced due to server population. In the recent Q&A, Nasomi said the field manuals were removed once the population got high enough. The population is now high enough that you don't need to dual box content.

Anyways, nobody's brought up any reason to support dual boxing or point out why being able to claim on multiple characters or PCs vs a player playing the game as intended is fair.

Nobody's attacking your ability to walk around and PL your own character (even though if this is what you want, retail exists), simply someone with 2 characters using them to gain an unfair advantage over someone who's playing the game as it's meant to be played.

If you’re alt tabbing, then you’re not controlling them at once.

I’m not sure, but I think if you were to control two characters on two separate computers then that would be illegal. Because you could do things simultaneously.

Things explicitly allowed by the person creating the rules is the definition of fair. It’s the simplest response possible.

The only thing I could get behind, and even then I don’t really care because it’s not really unfair, is not allowing alts at auto-claim mobs.

Edit: controlling two characters on two PC’s is allowed... you’d just be an idiot for bothering.

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How about the person who has the two characters took the time and effort to level two characters to a high enough level to claim and kill said mobs therefore they've earned the right to do so. Using your own logic, do they not deserve more claims as a result seeing as they put more effort into the game compared to the person that only leveled a single character? And as long as it's not against the rules and they're not breaking any further rules, then more power to them.

Also, the "playing the game as intended" stuff doesn't hold water here. Again, this isn't retail. This server is built and maintained around Nasomi's vision, not retail. If you want the retail experience, then there's always retail.

I know people on retail who 3boxxed everything. I paid for 2 accounts on retail at times so that I could 2box.

You're going to lose this fight based on that alone.

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Nasomi doesn’t have time to enforce that. It is all too much up to interpretation. The HELM restrictions are much more easily defined and enforced.