Multi-boxing method

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> The n52 is set up to just ALT+TAB, hit the appropriate hotkey number and
> ALT+TAB back. There are some timing issues I'm still working out, such
> as occasionally for some reason the first line of the hotkey doesn't
> fire, causing the heal to land on the mob, but for the most part it
> works very well.

Personally if I was 2-boxing on one machine I would just install macroquest,
yes I know it is "cheating" but you don't need to use any of the things that
give you an advantage other than the spell casting.
Just make a macro that runs on the second machine that when it gets a tell
from you, to heal you. Or buf you etc. I two box on 2 machines so it is real
easy I use the n52 (great addition) hooked up to the second machine and
almost never look at the screen.

 

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"Lorad" <jeff_nospam@hotmail.come> wrote in
news:jLIOe.882$u_6.326@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

>> The n52 is set up to just ALT+TAB, hit the appropriate hotkey number
>> and ALT+TAB back. There are some timing issues I'm still working out,
>> such as occasionally for some reason the first line of the hotkey
>> doesn't fire, causing the heal to land on the mob, but for the most
>> part it works very well.
>
> Personally if I was 2-boxing on one machine I would just install
> macroquest, yes I know it is "cheating" but you don't need to use any
> of the things that give you an advantage other than the spell casting.
> Just make a macro that runs on the second machine that when it gets a
> tell from you, to heal you. Or buf you etc. I two box on 2 machines so
> it is real easy I use the n52 (great addition) hooked up to the second
> machine and almost never look at the screen.
>
>
>

I actually think that would require more effort from my primary account. I
would either have to actually type out a brief /tell, or sacrifice a hotkey
for each seperate command. With the n52, all necessary macros can reside on
the second account, and with 10 pages of hotkeys immediately accessible in
that manner, I'll run out of button possibilities on the n52 before I run
short of functional hotkeys.

I'm pleasantly surprised at just how well the n52 works for me.

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Rumble
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin

 

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:41:01 GMT, Rumbledor <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote:

>As I had stated, I'm running both instances on one PC but from different
>directories. The only reason I run from different directories is so that
>I can crank down all the graphic settings and turn the sound off on the
>second account.

When you're running multiple instances from a single directory you can adjust the window
settings independently. However, the EQCLIENT.INI will remember the settings from the
instance which was last to close - so you do have to retweak things each go around if
you're not attentive to which instance you close first.

 

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Seeq Endestroi <seeq@nospam.co.uk> wrote in
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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:41:01 GMT, Rumbledor
> <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote:
>
>>As I had stated, I'm running both instances on one PC but from
>>different directories. The only reason I run from different
>>directories is so that I can crank down all the graphic settings and
>>turn the sound off on the second account.
>
> When you're running multiple instances from a single directory you can
> adjust the window settings independently. However, the EQCLIENT.INI
> will remember the settings from the instance which was last to close -
> so you do have to retweak things each go around if you're not
> attentive to which instance you close first.
>

At well under 50 cents per GB, hard drive space is just too inexpensive
these days to be an issue. I easily have 4GB to spare for a second copy,
thus eliminating any need to worry about it at all.

Besides, you mention window settings in addition to the graphics, models
and sound settings to which I was referring. Sounds like an awful lot of
trouble to both go through the game options at the login screen as well as
re-tweak your window settings once you get logged each time. /shrug

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"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin