So first off, to anyone who claims that having 2 characters in a zone on an NM that can spawn over a large area isn't an advantage, you're a total idiot. (Stray Mary, VE, for low level example)
If I have 2 laptops with FFXI running with 2 characters a 20 second run away from each other, I literally have twice the chance the NM will spawn in front of me. I don't need to alt tab anything, I just move my hands to the second keyboard and hit a claim macro, if you can't do that in less time than it takes to run 20 seconds, I'm not really sure what to say. If I'm camping against you, I'll have my alt far away at another NM spawn point you need to run to, then I'll shadow you on my main. If it spawns in range of us, it's a 50 50 on who gets it assuming we have the same skill. If it spawns by my alt, I just move my hands a foot and a half and the spawn is mine 100% rather than a race for us to get to it. If you're trying to tell me being in 2 places at once isn't an advantage, you're lying to yourself and this discussion.
And to the few people I noticed that said I'm butthurt I was outclaimed on an NM and need to git good, I'm actually new on the server and I've never been outclaimed by a dual boxer, but I've ran past NM spawns and seen matching names many times.
Wolffhardt wrote:
Sorta surprised he didn’t take me up on it too
Regardless of current interpretation of rules or what's allowed, I firmly believe that now that this servers population is more than 80, dual boxing is an issue that destroys entire portions of the economy.(high level players dual boxing low level content such as mining Zeruhn while doing stuff on their mains that they wouldn't normally be bothered to do because they can make more money elsewhere, but when dual boxing it's a little bump to overall profits with minimal work, this tanks and takes away profitable options away from low level players, etc) This is why you see posts of new players asking why early game economy is so bad compared to back in the day. It's largely due to dual boxing and partially due to the 100 cap on AH.
No amount of gil will change the fact this is an issue, plus, I don't want your greasy dual boxed gil lmao. I'll keep farming it on my single character the way the game was meant to be played
Honestly I didn't read many of the pages on here because I know there's a lot of people who are going full defense mode because they feel like they're getting attacked, but people reacted the same way when they found out their Fisher Price obtained ZNM items were getting taken away by daddy. Nasomi changed his mind on letting people keep their gear, and maybe he's willing to change this outdated rule as well.
If this subject has been settled in the past, that's the past. The server is populated now, and new discussion and a change is needed. That's what forums are for
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