Monster 6-PC MMORPG Rig Quickens Farming

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"Have you ever tried playing a modern 3d game in a VM, the graphics drivers do not allow for properly rendered and speedy 3d, so this idea will not work sorry, would be awesome if it did, have tried this with lotro but no tickets soz!"

Damn you beat me to it!

Too bad VMware doesn't support 3d hardware acceleration yet!
 
to all the people bashing him maybe you should stop and think about it for a while.... I know someone who play MMORPGS all the time non stop. Wanna know why there on Disability and its a way for them to get social interaction. Not everyone can go outside all the time or hang out with people in fact he cant hang out with people very often why cause if he gets sick he GETS SICK as in hospital or worse.. So that means very limited social interaction. But thanks to MMORPGs and Instant Messengers it has opened new doors for people like my friend o and before you start bashing this guy about will he built his rig. How do you know he didn't have a friend build it for him? Hmm he could have designed it and a friend built it. So people need to stop being so critical before they know all there facts it just makes you look like a pompous asshole


PS and kinda on a off note if it brings the people joy who do it who are we to judge them for it.
 
[citation][nom]accolite[/nom]"Have you ever tried playing a modern 3d game in a VM, the graphics drivers do not allow for properly rendered and speedy 3d, so this idea will not work sorry, would be awesome if it did, have tried this with lotro but no tickets soz!"Damn you beat me to it!Too bad VMware doesn't support 3d hardware acceleration yet![/citation]

Vmware supports full dx9 hardware acceleration i use it for 4 clients on my wow accounts on my quad core i don't see any slow down.
It was put in around 2008 it was sort of working now its working great!.

 
This kind of thing is certainly not new. When I played Dark Age of Camelot they were multi account/boxing back in 2005 with homemade programs and hacked wireless keyboards/mice.

OFN.

And in EVE you can't powerlevel. This guy is a miner.
 
[citation][nom]xc0mmiex[/nom]impressive, you can't deny that... i wish though that people applied that much ingenuity to real world issues, not the issue of getting money in EVE[/citation]

I don't think taping six mice together is the definition of ingenuity.

Ingenuity would have been programming a PIC to broadcast the USB traffic across six USB lines to emulate five mice while driving one.
 
Also on a side note: Before you start "I don't get why he did this" comments please do a little research and go see how EVE works, or even *gasp* play the game.

I play EVE, WoW, Guild Wars, Aoin etc... I still go out, I still social with friends (in game and out). How can you tell someone to "get a life" and not know anything about them? Well he decided to pimp out is machine instead of spending that money on his car/whatever. It is HIS money, not yours, why whine about it? :)

Nice setup, I only have 4 accounts, but it would be cool to play them on a "4 account" version of this. ^_^

I count 8 Monitors, 3left, 2mid, 3right. So I would say, Hulk Pilots on the left & right, Booster on top mid, and hauler on bottom mid... This guy makes an insane amount of ISK...

Also, at $14 per month per account (8 x $14 = $112 per month) playing the game would be costly. "Monster 6-PC MMORPG Rig Quickens Farming" the farming (mining in this case) means to make money in game, but not necessarily for selling. +/-300mil ISK for a plex(30 Days), (8 x 300 = 2400) so he needs 2.4bil to buy game time for each of his accounts. He definitely makes more than that. So technically he is playing the game for free.
 
[citation][nom]pojih[/nom]Not sure how eve works, but if you just leveled 6 people to 80 or w/e in wow you could then sell each character.I'm hoping this is what he's doing.[/citation]

Actually no... he's probably mining. In eve you don't need to do anything to "skill" your character.
 
6 screens to watch the stock exchange for 12 hours is considered normal yet half these replies say this guy needs a life. Couple hours of mining with all that prolly pays for all his accounts on the right rock. then he can do whatever he likes for fun.
 
6 screens to watch the stock exchange for 12 hours is considered normal yet half these replies say this guy needs a life. Couple hours of mining with all that prolly pays for all his accounts on the right rock. then he can do whatever he likes for fun.
 
[citation][nom]marcus_br[/nom]Now i see a big difference between making a few dollars/month for a hobby and making many thousands dollars for a living.About the same, right?[/citation]

Well technically both cases consist of doing repetitious tasks for the purpose of accumulating a virtual currency that has a real world value. Whether this currency is called a "dollar" and a "w/e they call money in EVE" the only real difference is that one has a better conversion rate into a real world items.
 
He put his mind to something he wanted to accomplish. Does it say someplace in there that he has no life and spends all of his time in Eve? Has it been considered that maybe having this many boxes and toons actually decreases the time required to accomplish his ingame goals and given him more time out of game to do other activities? Last I checked, Toms is an enthusiast site, yet this individual needs to "get a life" because he did what an enthusiast does.

With the right skills in game, this person is paying for Eve without spending his cash, and in the end paying for the equipment used to create this.


I feel old - people keep bringing up individuals doing this in WoW. Yeah, so? Someone did this in EQ - does anyone recall Sam?

On a final note - i'd like to see someone with a multi-core box using Eyefinity-6 and see how it performs.
 
[citation][nom]marcus_br[/nom]Welcome to...2009?http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55 [...] ng_vm.htmlIt's been available for quite a while.It worked perfectly for me, so far so good...been like that for a while.So...yup, it does work, no slow down. Those (most) MMORPG games aren't even demanding either.[/citation]

Sorry, I like my video card doing the rendering, Not my processor.
 
Holy shit. super-gameritis. but very ingenious and thanks for sharing. i suspect we will see more of these type set-ups in the future.
 
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