I always tell people in my groups that the right hand path is full of pain and suffering and fire. If they get testy, I just tell them it's more traps and enemies, and thus more work for less profit. That shuts them up. :p

The only reason I knew what was down the right path was because the first time I went into the citadel, I did it solo and went right. That wasn't a fun run.

Also, isn't this multiboxing thing a bit of an exploit in line with looping? Don't they ban people for stuff like that? :|

The reason arenas were exploited by looping is because it costs no energy to reach the arena.

Even if one multiboxes, it still costs energy per level. Unless the accounts were split by paying on one, the 100 mist won't be enough for a full run. Nothing is being abused here. The 2x crown gain is misleading. The profit/energy is still the same. Only thing it saves you is time.

The ultimate reason to go left is that you're boring and don't want me to press all the buttons in the right room to make a giant zombie+trojan electron vortex in the middle.

Thats part of what I was saying. You constantly pay 10 energy for one arena, while people who don't loop have to pay for the floors before it, or join a random party and potentially skip it. Multiboxing makes you pay twice the energy per floor, for twice the crown gains.

All i know is that OOO doesn't like people abusing energy bypass without paying. I have no idea on their stance about time spent on the game.

Having alts afk with you is technically against the rules I believe. I would be careful posting these videos here.

Well, now I'll never wonder why people always go left. My first FSC run, my "guide" told me "always go left, the right side is hard," I guess I understand why. If/whenever I get to where I can solo FSC, maybe I'll do that side.

As far as multiboxing, I heard they don't support the multiboxing in the sense where you have set it up so that both toons use a single keyboard to do the same commands. I can understand that, have you seen those crazy 10-25 multiboxers in WoW... It's pretty messed up.
I don't see the issue with some dead-weight alt, because you have to manually make your alt go die, but maybe that would be a question to ask OOO?
OOO says they didn't mind alts, but they would get on your case if you somehow were playing 24/7 or were using it as a means of exploiting. I'd say it's no different if you played one toon then played the second after you used up your energy on the first toon.

@Mirei
Hm. I must admit, I've only inferred what multiboxing is from how Nicoya has used it, but now I'm actually informed.

AKAIK, most games have a loot system that splits drops, but each monster drops only so much. In this game, the monster drops so much, and the loot is duplicated for each party member (except for mats). As such, multiboxing has a much different effect on this game than others. Scripted boxes don't work too well here either since very little could be botted, and duplicating commands to other boxes means that if any of the boxes are desynched, they're rendered useless (say, one is flung farther than the rest after a nasty attack).

However, the big thing is how crown drops are duplicated instead of split among the group. The game is designed and balanced to have one person per party helping out. If you rig it so all the knights in the party funnel wealth to a central account, it kinda breaks how the game was intended to run. You do slightly more work for up to quadruple the raw crown drops.

Mat drops are unaffected.

Also, this is far from doing 2 runs back to back. This is doing two runs at once. You save a vast amount of time, spending only half the time it would take for two runs, but getting the profit of two runs. And remember, time *is* a resource. No one has an infinite amount of it.

Frankly, if OOO wanted to implement this, why not allow us to pay 10x energy per elevator and get x the crown/heat loot, depending on how many party slots are open?

S'interesting that you should comment on the path in FSC. My first FSC run with my gf a few days ago we chose the right path and did it easily enough. Later on, we tried the left path so we'd know what was down each. Decided that the left path was *so* much easier.

Since then have done a few runs with guildies and realised that absolutely everoney always takes the left path; at l understand why, but it's always nice to try the others just to break the pattern and try different things.

Dragging an alt along makes monsters harder and doesn't increase the materials dropped. Sure, you can use mist up twice as fast, but using alts to craft uses up mist in a small fraction of the time.

If I was OOO, I would worry about crafting alts long before I worry about alt dragging.

@No-Thanks:
The point is that all the alts collect the crowns, which are then given to the main character. And yes, it doesn't take any extra time, it is like a solo...except that you get double the crowns. Whether the monsters are hard or not is irrelevant, that's the crux of the issue that's getting the complaints.

@Nicoya:
Seems as good a threat as any to ask, but what software do you use to record your gametime? Have been wantin' to make some myself for various explanatory/for-show things, but no idea what to go with. Any suggestions, if you will?

Multiboxing??? I always have known that some people will harm the game...