Preventing 3+Boxing (same ip)

[ChaosSlayer]

[QUOTE=Bishop4351;144930]Just out of curiosity why do you care if some one three boxes?

on servers where raid encounters specialy configured for 1 group - admins do not want people who 5-box or some times 10-box to 24/7 farm them while normal players don't have any chance to make a normal group and atempt the encounter

[Semedaien]

Just out of curiosity why do you care if some one three boxes?

Making a server just like classic, progression, and I want people to group with each other. I dont want 4 man guilds taking down big bosses :P

[Angelox]

It's not as easy as as limiting 1 ip per client - what if there where two people legit playing from a Lan? I know many people that play like that (Example:mother&son, brothers, my daughter and I).
I have also two boxed, and played with a hack called "Xylobot" (ceased working with later patches of EQ). I did this on SOE EQ. I can tell you anyone who 2-3 boxes off a few PC's (or windowed) with NO MQ2 or whatever help, is under great stress! it really doesn't change the game much, and if they want to do that, so be it. What you really need to worry about (and so does anyone else that wants to make some sort of game out of this), is the MQ users and other hacks - anyone who uses this on your server has access to a lot of things they aren't supposed to. If you research some on these forums, you might find some possible solutions.
I think I would run my server from behind a firewall, so I could IP ban anyone I caught cheating. You can do this with Linux, not sure about Windows. How would you catch them? I guess by watching them and luring them into preset traps on your server (do research).
EDIT:
The best you can do with good results (without any hacks such as MQ2) is two box, so you would not have much control guild-wise.

[Semedaien]

I dont understand why people have to use mq... they are dumb, lazy, low lifes that can't play the game the way it was made. I have asked daxum for various help and db suggestions (even for bits and peices of his db) but u know how that turned out :P ... But I can understand...

I just wish there was a way i could limit up to 2ips and detect mq easy. ;\ This is gonna suck when I host =\

[thepoetwarrior]

Originally Posted by Semedaien

I just wish there was a way i could limit up to 2ips and detect mq easy. ;\ This is gonna suck when I host =\

Welcome to the club

[erik_llewellyn]

Knowledge and hot keys can turn anyone into an expert reguardless of gear.

While you are totally right about the stress of multi-boxing Angelox, I personally ran 3 characters (comp A 2 boxes and comp B with the 3rd) for over three years on eq live with just simply making good hot keys, knowing my classes (cleric, mage, enchanter) inside and out, and learning incounters well enough. I was never in a raiding guild or even Tier2+ PoP flagged, but I could still take down all the mobs required to do the cleric 1.0 epic (and yes that includes the sarnak king), kill the Fabled Fungus King in old seb, and drop Grieg with just my 3. Stress during events like that was insane, and those that saw me do it in person never thought such a thing was possible at the time with my gear and limited spell repitoir since I didn't raid, but it can be done.

[Asphixiate]

Is this what are you talking about? http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24730

I just implemented and tested it on my server and it worked well.