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Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
He's the biggest nerd in the world
*DrugCheese rants*
that he managed to get all that hardware into his parent's basement.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
What's worse... he has both a job and a wife.
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
What is this "wife" thingy you're referring to? A cool interface addon maybe! I'll go google it!
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams [...]."
ACORN paid him $1 apiece to register his characters to vote.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
There aren't any 40 man instances in Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King so really he should have stopped at 25.
Actually MMOs, while being played, use a very small amount of bandwidth.
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but you forgot about the outdoor raid content like Doom Lord Kazzak that can be encountered by the max of 40 people raids.
But this is of course a bit old, there have been people Multiboxing (http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing) for some time now in WoW.
5k/year for a hobby actually isn't too bad when it comes to hobbies. The time he puts in is probably above and beyond most other hobbies though.
It's funny because I was just talking to a friend about a 'hobby' I and some friends do and he was floored at the cost. Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby lol...
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ripten.com links to the actual forum post: http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=14611&pageNo=1
Female elves don't count as wives.
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these guys were relying on elemental shaman's wrath of air totem, which gave 3% crit chance. crit chance gives the chance to do double damage. prior to patch 3.0.2, all totems' buffs for a group stacked. 5 wrath of air totem was dropped, it would increase the crit chance by an additional 15%, for all group members for example. therefore all the shamans he plays in that group had very high crit rates, and when they all shot at something they all did massive double damage.
patch 3.0.2 made it so that buffs do not stack. so if 30 shamans drop wrath of air totems each, the group wide bonus will be only 3%. this will reduce their power approx to half in terms of firepower.
he is called a multiboxer, and this activity was called multiboxing. now they wont be able to do it like before anymore.
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What is this "wife" thingy you're referring to? A cool interface addon maybe! I'll go google it!
It was an alright add on, but after 2.0 was released, it broke and had all these nagging error messages and no ones bothered to maintain it since.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Raids are parties of 6-40 people divided into 2-8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms raid and raiding primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and zones. If you're the party leader, you can convert your group into a raid group by accessing your "Social" Panel, selecting 'Raid' and choosing "Convert Group to Raid." From then on, anyone you invite will join your raid group (up to a maximum of 40).
Source, WoWWiki.
40-person: * Molten Core * Onyxia's Lair * Blackwing Lair * Temple of Ahn'Qiraj * Naxxramas
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Someone should consider pointing him at http://www.wowdetox.com/.
I'm not sure at which point a hobby becomes an addiction, but I think it's safe to say this guy is a bit beyond that.
"He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Duck Soup
Of course no - everyone knows that female elves are used as nubile slave girls.
I wonder if that air conditioner unit high on the side wall is enough to cool that room?
Doesn't he realize he can virtualize his 36 accounts and 11 computers into a single WoWoW account.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
`nuff said.
It's funny because I was just talking to a friend about a 'hobby' I and some friends do and he was floored at the cost. Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby lol...
By 'hobby' I assume you mean hookers. Hookers are a hobby now? Fuck stamp collecting, I'm doing that!
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
After checking it out, I must agree that it went on a downward spiral - the first year of releases was mostly fun (the internals were especially good!), then it all went to hell, as it's lua scripts started to over-check the db files for visual flaws, making the whole process sluggish. The 0.2.0 version (which was released two years after the first one) started showing all these nag-screens about your fishing/cooking/first-aid skills not being used at all (who the hell has time for that?). The interface got really cluttered around 0.4.2, and also the developers decided on a god-awful bright yellow design for it - you just couldn't look at it anymore without losing your eyeballs. I held myself tough for the 0.5.3 "Middle release", but after that, i just couldn't go on. I admit, i miss the entertainment features of this addon, but i simply will not tolerate all this trouble. I tried deinstalling it, but - for some unfathomed reason - it decided to take half of the other addons with it. My whole Gatherer database was split in half because of that stupid addon!
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams [...]."
It's not the download that's the problem in an MMO, it's the upload. I perused the original forum thread about this (linked somewhere here at /.) and one guy said he could get a max of 25 WoW accounts working properly on a 1.5Mb upload (any more than that lagged too much). So for 36, he's probably at about 2.0Mb upload, and that ain't cheap. Your typical 8Mb down /768Kb up cable connection ain't gonna cut it.
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If you knew more about how this kind of thing works you wouldn't be so quick to call fake. The blur on the screen edges is an effect you see with your own eyes when looking at an LCD screen from an angle. Those machines are perfectly capable of running WoW for what he is doing. Framerate is not a problem when multiboxing because you don't care about framerate on screens you rarely look at. The old books don't really mean anything either, I have old books laying around - stop the presses I must be a time traveller! Also, there is a reason why things are set up in an identical fashion between all the accounts.
Based on the your opinion that "2 is doable, but you'd be severely disadvantaged", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you either don't play WoW or haven't run into any multiboxers yet. There's a guy on my server who controls 26 toons at once. There are several people who are 5-boxing. Blizzard seems to content to accept the money and look the other way, but it really does violate the spirit of the Terms of Use if not the letter since these guys are all using 3rd party software to control the keystrokes sent to the game.
You're being funny ... but you're right. The people who frequent escorts do call it that.
Breakfast served all day!
Here is his set up. check out picks 2-5.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=498
open source sub sim. I might start coding again for this. http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/contribute/