Thank you for taking the time to message me. I appreciate the chance to answer your questions, especially because myself, and several people I play closely with, were deeply impacted by the January 1st changes.

First off I would like to say that yes I am a supporter for the use of input duplication in eve-online. It had been used for so long that I find it almost necessary to the current economy of eve-online.

All of my experience with multi-boxing comes from the use of is-boxer. So I would absolutely say that I am for the use of such tools/programs.

I believe that the design of eve in an of itself demands the use of multiple clients; weather that be moving a freighter and using a webbing alt/scout, or the ability to move your capitals with a series of cyno alts. This game was designed to have every player have multiple accounts, which has even been unofficially pushed by ccp by running the power of two promotions etc... As to there being a limit I think it should be just as everything else in eve is, the only limitation should be the players ability.

To be honest eve becoming a 1:1 game would take some drastic changes to game design and ship balancing by ccp. The advantage of having a second character to scout/market trade/ or just 1 of thousands of things alt accounts are used for is just to greatof an experience to expect players to give up willingly.

If ccp is truly intent on limiting multi-boxing, and not just trying to prevent the use of a mechanic they accidentally created to be overpowered, then I would suggest they introduce new mechanics that either prevented the use of multi-boxing or establish game designs that encouraged the use of a single character that would render the use of multiple toons unnecessary. The use of banning is just an easy way for the developer to get away with punishing people for exploiting the weaknesses in sloppy game design.


Thank you for mailing me and giving me the opportunity to answer your questions, and fully explain my stance on multi-boxing during this campaign season. If you have any questions feel free to eve mail me or email me at aeonboirelle@Gmail.com

-Aeon Boirelle