Minilogin Woes

[sdtuasrt, MD]

I apologise if this has been rehashed somewhere before. I haven't been able to find it. I also have had no help with the Wiki.

This is the problem I am having.

I am attempting to play EverQuest using a correctly functioning server. Everything works. I repeat, everything works. I can login to the server, run around, kill things. The problem is when I attempt to run more than one character.

I am using minilogin. Minilogin does not give a damn about what account name I enter, it seems. It only cares about IP. If I create two different accounts, say, mini1 and mini2, both see each other's characters. This creates a large problem.

When logging in, I appear to be considered to be one account -- account and IP are correlated. Therefore, when zoning, there is an insanely high amount of disconnection. I can normally run four separate copies of the EverQuest client on my computer, and used to do so regularly on certain of the public servers I played. As long as I had enough separate accounts, there were no issues.

As I understand it from what I have read on boxing, there are issues with the emulator with having multiple logins from the same account. This is the crux of the problem.

It is impossible to box from one computer, be it for testing or playing purposes, with minilogin. I find it quite ridiculous that I need 4 separate computers if I want to play four separate accounts with minilogin. Half the attraction of minilogin to me is that I thought I could use it to test modifications to the PEQ database without having to go through the hassle of getting the server connected to the public login server, and having it display for everyone, something I should not like to do, as it is possible that the idea I have for a server may not work.

Is there any solution to my problem using minilogin? I'm fairly sure there is none. If I am mistaken, I beg apology. However, everything I have read and been told, and from personal experience in boxing, tells me explicitly that this is due to the fact that I am attempting to play several different characters from one account, something I cannot seem to avoid doing with minilogin.

Thank you for your time.