EVE Online Economics Part 2 The Post ISBoxer World of New Eden

--Read Part 1 Here--

 

What ISBoxer brings to mind

Coming off my post about EVE Online Economics and the pursuit of fun, there's been some changes to the way CCP views input broadcasting, an often important part of the process of "multiboxing".  That is to say, running multiple clients on effectively the same machine and using software to push inputs from a single keyboard and mouse to dozens of clients at once.  CCP has flatout banned the practice of input broadcasting.  Now this will not stop the more complex multioboxers.  But it will have some effect.

Multiboxing has always been a somewhat difficult to understand practice.  As the players who did it typically have other motivations besides enjoying the game.  Aside from outliers, there is a stigma that many multiboxers are allegedly engaged in RMT (trading in game assets for real money).  This accusation however is not the subject of this post.

There have been no serious attempts by the EVE community to gather data on these multiboxing players, and not many of them come forth willingly and admit they do it.

CCP updates it's EULA and policies for input broadcasting

Playing with multiple accounts at the same time has a long history within EVE Online, and has always been permitted. There are various ways to do it, and since there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding what is and isn’t allowed, we’d like to clarify a few terms and exactly how the EULA and our Policies must be interpreted and how some things are shifting.

Over the last few weeks we have gone through an internal review process to clarify what exactly the EULA and ToS require in terms of input automation, input multiplexing and input broadcasting. This is the result of that review process and an outline of how we will interpret things going forward.

Firstly we’d like to go over a few terms.