my own raid forceFollow

what would it take, how much pc power, ram, video card monitor etc just curious would 32 toons be enough.

Good luck with that man.

In my opinion, 32 characters even at lvl 100 will not be sufficient to deal with current or even ROF or VOA raid content..

Harder yet if boxing the entire raid force due to the inefficiency when boxing so many characters.

What are you trying to "raid"?

Anything 80+ I don't think is very viable.

If you are doing lower old raids with overpowered characters... that changes the equation.

If it is just you... pet classes with mercs in the groups (I know mercs can't go in raids, but you would just be kill-stealling yourself if you take several groups) could probably do a lot of stuff. Have 1 core group with the tank/healing, rest as mostly ignored dps?

Not that I'd recommend it, but the logistics is solved with a KVM and VMs. I'm supposing he/she has the cash to build a box or boxes that could support such loads; as to HOW to manage it all, that is indeed, something I'd rather not consider as I have enough on my hands with me, my warder, and a merc (when I use a merc).

Edited, Feb 3rd 2014 12:16pm by nekokirei

Other old-timers (like me LOL) may remember a guy used to post gameplay videos, as well as pix of his setup, when he played an entire raid force himself. I remember he simplified things by having at least 3 groups entirely filled with rangers, since autoshot is a totally game-legal way to automate dps, and rangers are such good dps, especially at that time. He did admit, though, when he wiped, it took him something like 2 hours to recover, rez and rebuff his entire force. Didn't strike me as such a fun time in a game to spend 2 hours on tedious tasks like those, especially in the "old days" when medding up took forever. If I was going to even attempt to manage 8 or 9 raid groups I'd insist on an evac-capable class in each group just to minimize recovery time with the sh*t hits the fan. (Aside: When I was a raid leader I was a big proponent of evacing the survivors when a raid event starting moving obviously toward wipeout, in opposition to other guild officers who thought that a raid force should stand and die all together. Heck, not even real armies shy away from retreating when things go real bad, right!?)

Back then also no F2P so he was spending some crazy amount like $600 A MONTH just on sub costs.

It's certainly been done, though, and probably more than any of us realize.

Edited, Feb 4th 2014 6:06am by Sippin

found this out there of a guy 24boxing... http://i.imgur.com/QjnNC.jpg his system System:
Core i7 3.4GHz 16GB RAM 2xGeforce 680's. 4 monitors in a 2x2 configuration. Windows 8.