Arthurdent

It's unfortunate you feel the need to seek validation for your own biased opinions, such as trolling for an argument where your own position has already been stated in previous posts. As far as multiboxing being permitted in the original game, the only limits imposed were the number of accounts you could pay for, and the number of connections your wallet could support with phone lines or discrete IP addresses. You are wrong, period. Live with it.

A yeh, Arthur is right on this. There was no ban on multiboxing LIve. If you wanted to pay for a second account and run two toons at the same time it was allowable. Most comps at the time couldn't handle running two off the same machine way back then or your connection was so slow (this was the dial up age of AOL folks..56k!) that it wasn't likely. But yes, wallet jockies were in game and allowed. I participated in a few LAN parties that were a hoot...could get a bit loud :). Where I played was a beta test site and even after it went Live there were a few that ran multi-accounts through DSL. There were WW employees (later EA employees) playing right next to them and nary a word was said...What WAS not allowed, and maybe this is what you are remembering, unattended botting (called modding now I guess). If a GM/Dev back then (as now) queried you and you didn't respond in a timely manner (usually like 10 min.) they could/did kick people and if it happened enough, banned for 30 days etc. What they didn't want was repetitive tasks taken on by a machine effecting real players game play. Like a bot hogging all of a spawn, when a player complained the GM would query, if no response it was a good sign of botting. Knowing they couldn't stop it all, they did do some funny things to stop the then primitive bots, like add that L66 dragon that was yellow that spawned in high botting kill spots. The bot didn't see the difference between a L6 chavez mob and a L66 dragon and would target/shoot to insta incap and 100% gear dmg When the botter returned to 0 xp gain, xp debt and ruined gear, that usually sent the message.