what are DDO rules on multiple accounts for this DungeonCrawl code?

[sadge]

I'm not sure if it's 1 account per player or if you can have multiple. I figure since the code is going to expire in a month, even if I have no intention of using a 2nd account, if it's legal to do so then I might as well create it and apply the code?

[Opal Knight]

Should be fine. I have different accounts for my kids and apply the code to them all even though they rarely play.

[Doug]

I have two accounts and I've applied the code to both. I use the 2nd account for a couple of things:

1. To share quests (about 5 levels worth at a time) to my main, so I don't have to run all over picking up quests, and if I click on a 'Public' quest, I often already have it, so I don't get that annoying popup.
2. Opener for various quests. Specifically the finals in Necro 1-3 (Bloody Crypt, Shadow Crypt, and Cursed Crypt). I hate running some of the flagging quests for these, but the end quests are excellent xp.
3. Back when I was still making first-life toons, the F2P account provided an elite opener. Any quest where the questgiver IS the quest entrance, the opener has to enter the quest. Otherwise, if they're eligible because they themself have run the quest, they can remain in some central location and don't have to run around opening.
4. If I'm farming something specific, having 2 toons in the quest doubles my chances of having it drop.

Might've been some other reasons at some point, but that's what I can recall atm.

[AbsynthMinded]

So far as anyone knows, you can run multiple clients at the same time on the same computer, resources permitting. I typically manage 2, to efficiently farm Faction for DDO Points. Ran into a fella who said as a Fraternity thing, he was managing like 6+.. He let me in on a Token farm on Devils Assault, so 5 at that moment. Said they regularly held 12 man raids with only 2 people to farm tokens, materials, items..

Id never recommend it but if you have semi slave labor available, why not.

[Myriad]

The Dev's of DDO are far less greedy than those of Eve Online :p

[sadge]

Originally posted by Doug:

I use the 2nd account for a couple of things:

1. To share quests (about 5 levels worth at a time) to my main, so I don't have to run all over picking up quests, and if I click on a 'Public' quest, I often already have it, so I don't get that annoying popup.
2. Opener for various quests. Specifically the finals in Necro 1-3 (Bloody Crypt, Shadow Crypt, and Cursed Crypt). I hate running some of the flagging quests for these, but the end quests are excellent xp.
3. Back when I was still making first-life toons, the F2P account provided an elite opener. Any quest where the questgiver IS the quest entrance, the opener has to enter the quest. Otherwise, if they're eligible because they themself have run the quest, they can remain in some central location and don't have to run around opening.

I'm still doing the tutorial so I don't think I understand these, but I guess I'll make some alt accounts and apply the code to them. Seems I don't actually need to install the client twice to do that, just log out?

[drunken.dx]

Multiaccounting is allowed, but don't use 3rd party programs to control multiple accounts at once, that's bannable.

Client allows multiple accounts logged in on same time and I've been multiboxing often recently (extra loot pull).

Alt+Tab FTW.

[Doug]

Originally posted by SCAP:

Originally posted by Doug:

I use the 2nd account for a couple of things:

1. To share quests (about 5 levels worth at a time) to my main, so I don't have to run all over picking up quests, and if I click on a 'Public' quest, I often already have it, so I don't get that annoying popup.
2. Opener for various quests. Specifically the finals in Necro 1-3 (Bloody Crypt, Shadow Crypt, and Cursed Crypt). I hate running some of the flagging quests for these, but the end quests are excellent xp.
3. Back when I was still making first-life toons, the F2P account provided an elite opener. Any quest where the questgiver IS the quest entrance, the opener has to enter the quest. Otherwise, if they're eligible because they themself have run the quest, they can remain in some central location and don't have to run around opening.

I'm still doing the tutorial so I don't think I understand these, but I guess I'll make some alt accounts and apply the code to them. Seems I don't actually need to install the client twice to do that, just log out?

Correct. You only need install the game once. If you have multiple accounts logged in, the last one to log out becomes the default next time you run the client. Watch for that.

Lots of people run two toons at the same time in Hardcore. Often they make one a bard/buffer and the other actually runs the quest(s). Can be annoying when moving from quest to quest because they have two toons to run between.

[AbsynthMinded]

Originally posted by Doug:

Originally posted by SCAP:

I'm still doing the tutorial so I don't think I understand these, but I guess I'll make some alt accounts and apply the code to them. Seems I don't actually need to install the client twice to do that, just log out?

Correct. You only need install the game once. If you have multiple accounts logged in, the last one to log out becomes the default next time you run the client. Watch for that.

Lots of people run two toons at the same time in Hardcore. Often they make one a bard/buffer and the other actually runs the quest(s). Can be annoying when moving from quest to quest because they have two toons to run between.

Facts. And it's that irritation of playing catch up, that tempts people to use some bot program to have an auto follow option.

[Myriad]

I can't really see a whole lot of value in multiboxing DDO to be honest. Correct me if I'm wrong. There's too many servers, and creating multiple toons for the purpose of buffing, or opening, doesn't seem as efficient as just continuing with your main, which would allow you to open anything, and likely not even worry about buffs so much after past lives.

I understand being an altoholic, trust me I'm one, and that's reason alone. But for arguments sake, I don't see any real reason to do so, unless you just want to.

[Toramino]

Originally posted by Myriad:

I can't really see a whole lot of value in multiboxing DDO to be honest.

Multiply chests. Trapper/opener for pure classes.

[drunken.dx]

Originally posted by Toramino:

Originally posted by Myriad:

I can't really see a whole lot of value in multiboxing DDO to be honest.

Multiply chests. Trapper/opener for pure classes.

Exactly.

Extra loot pull for something you want.
last Mabar i was swimming in mabar mats because I triple boxed that event.

Also it's faster to run long and tedious quests with multiple toons once (best strategy is to kill off alts at start and raise them at end next to named chest) than each toon separately.

And having trapper that can disable traps/open locks next to, let's say, pure barb is nice bonus.

and cleric focused on buffs is always good deal

[Doug]

Originally posted by Myriad:

I can't really see a whole lot of value in multiboxing DDO to be honest. Correct me if I'm wrong. There's too many servers, and creating multiple toons for the purpose of buffing, or opening, doesn't seem as efficient as just continuing with your main, which would allow you to open anything, and likely not even worry about buffs so much after past lives.

I understand being an altoholic, trust me I'm one, and that's reason alone. But for arguments sake, I don't see any real reason to do so, unless you just want to.

I've posted some reasons, others have posted some reasons.

Here's one more: With an alt who has all the quests to share, you can avoid some pretty annoying quest pickups:
VoN4
Restless Isles: Ghola Fan and Slavers of the Shrieking Mines (If you don't have them, you have to travel thru half the isles to get to the questgivers. If you do have them, the Wildman and Ogre Guides will teleport you to a couple of branches from the quests.)
A Relic of a Sovereign Past
Even Offering of Blood and Chains of Flame are more out of the way than ideal
And there's two of the L19s in Shavarath whose questgivers in Amrath are in the outer ring, iirc

Probably a bunch more that idr atm.

[sadge]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Originally posted by Doug:

Correct. You only need install the game once. If you have multiple accounts logged in, the last one to log out becomes the default next time you run the client. Watch for that.

Lots of people run two toons at the same time in Hardcore. Often they make one a bard/buffer and the other actually runs the quest(s). Can be annoying when moving from quest to quest because they have two toons to run between.

Facts. And it's that irritation of playing catch up, that tempts people to use some bot program to have an auto follow option.

so basically you can hook up two keyboards (or joysticks) and pilot 2 characters at once but you can't pair the commands so it will show they have subtly different command inputs for timing/direction if done ambidexterously

[Doug]

Originally posted by SCAP:

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Facts. And it's that irritation of playing catch up, that tempts people to use some bot program to have an auto follow option.

so basically you can hook up two keyboards (or joysticks) and pilot 2 characters at once but you can't pair the commands so it will show they have subtly different command inputs for timing/direction if done ambidexterously

No idea. I just Alt-Tab between them. Then again, I also don't have a multi-monitor or multi-input setup.

Let us know how it works.

[Grexus Blacksun]

As long as you're not using third-party apps that interfere with the code or do any scrupulous activity (*cough* duping *cough*), it should be fine to have multiple accounts. Heck, the launcher even has a native option for multi-boxing.