Controlling 6 characters? at the same time?Follow

That's so lame. You can not do it, so obviously he must be a hacker....


This is not uncommon at all, and really not that hard if you have a little dexterity. He plays all the characters at once, so it really does not take much more time than other people who play one character, except for selling and shuffling.

With 5-6 PCs set up and using the normal macros system of FFXI this would be easy actually. They make custom racks for seeting up multiple computers for one person use, complete with keyboard holders. You can position the keyboards anyway you choose and lock them into place. Use a sticky key program when you are in a camp to so that either CTRL or ALT is allways considered pressed. You now have ten macros per player in your little PT. That should be plenty for XPing. After that, it is similar to playing a piano and you only have to remember where you notes are.

Sounds pretty fun to me actually.

Really, with all the advances in computing these days, it could be even easier. 50 inch LCD split into six seperate screens for 6 PCs to use. A custom keyboard could be made just for 6 sets of CTRL ALT 1-0 (Engineer friends of mine could do this easy, it woudl just have 6 USB plugs).

This guy would be stupid to be botting, after posting here on Alla several times about his set up and giving his real character names. I believe you are legit Chainnspell, and the geek in me is impressed, and a little jealous.

Yeah I'm on Unicorn and I've seen the famous Chainspell many times. I often glance at all his characters following eachother and I think "great, gilsellers are going to ruin this party's exp..." but then I see it's him and I get very releaved ;)

Anyways he also leads one of the biggest social linkshell in Unicorn.

Yay for chainspell!

I think it is completely feasible. As discussed by previous posters, there's no technical problem. Also, it is not a financial problem if you have a decent regular income (and don't waste your money on other hobbies lol).

Remains the skill required to pull it off. Here I actually think it is easier to control an entire party than just 2 or 3 characters. Why? Because you don't have to watch what the other players are doing for reacting accordingly. You're in full control. Think of skillchains for example, you don't have to time them with others, but you execute them fully by your own.

Hiya Chainspell!

Not sure if you remember Beera and Beeraga when we were on Unicorn. We stopped playing for a few months and lost our characters. We're on Phoenix server now.

I remember you were in our linkshell, nice to see your still around!

^^

Edit:
Oh yah, and Hi to everybody on unicorn from Beera and Beeraga ^^

Edited, Wed Aug 24 12:25:11 2005 by Hemphogg

Ha ha, I remember a Beera on Unicorn.

I also remember the first time I saw Chainspell, etc running around Windurst doing quests - it was incredibly confusing... Now he's one of the most recognizable chars on the server.

Yah part of me misses Beera and Unicorn but once we lost our characters and couldnt get them back (prior to the whole return to Vana'Diel thing) we just decided to start fresh and landed in Phoenix.

Things I remember from Unicorn:

I remember starting Beera with my wife (well, she was my GF back then ^^), a chick character. She was taking a Beer class at the time at UCD. But then I got so hooked she never played so I took over Beera.

Then I remember waiting at the PS2 store in San Francisco at midnight for the release of the PS2 version/HD.

Then we created Beeraga for my wife.

I remember being one of the first people on Unicorn to beat all the lvl 20 avatars and ironing out a strategy for the battles.

I remember being in a really cool LS with Chainspell.

I remember someone giving me 10k gil when I started out just to be nice. And this was when you could get an Emp Hairpin for under 80k.

I remember the Dunes being a popular destination.


But hey, at least my character is a dude now!

Edited, Wed Aug 24 13:29:11 2005 by Hemphogg

People make that in an hour, guys...

lol now how did u figure that out :) that is exactly why i cant skill chain well in an alliance or lets say im leveling just 5 characters, the 6th guy goes... dude u missed a mb, or dude i needed stona and poisona. lol i dont really read ls lines when im exping, i dont read the text bar for statuses and stuff when im exping most of the time - to me it just plays entirely in my mind. i see a mob, call the play, push some buttons, look up, react, push some buttons, etc. lol



Beeraga! lol nanashiko still plays :) she said natalya payne and serris are playing a different game now :) lol so ur in phoenix now hehe.



lol nah that wasn't so hard... can u say maat x 6 lol. i dont do too well soloing since im so used to 6, i mean most of the job abilities takes common sense to use. but people who control just 1 character are used to surviving on their own - using every magic spell in their ******* to survive a fight. heck if mana got aggroed it would take me a sec to think about binding him then another second to find the bind spell. lol. i hav a macro that does elemental seal + sleep 2, and normally thats wat i would use, but if someone asked me to bind something it'll take a few secs lol.

Chainspell, I did the same thing in my last MMORPG ;D Nice work, I'd probably be doing it is as well with my sister if we had the money to do so ^.^

hehe its 6 characters now :)

and each computer actually has 5.1 surround, the surround speakers are on the back of the monitors and the volume controls are stuck at the right side of the monitors :) except for the laptop.

there is also a 7th account and i use an AVM switch on the left side of the table and the far right monitor switches between benediction and my 7th pc. i use this pc to look things up online or watch a downloaded movie. the tv on top can mirror wats on my 7th pc so i can keep watching movies or pull up a map while still having 6 screens on. the picture doesnt show but on the back on the right hand side is where my sound system is, so i can watch cable, dvd, vhs and whatnot on the tv. i can switch the sound to make it digital and hav chainspell's sound come out of my reciever too, but the thump and bass is too loud sometimes so i just stick with the 5.1 speakers ontop of the monitors.


Edited, Wed Aug 24 17:44:13 2005 by Chainspell

and here i thought i was playing final fantasy too much when i daydream of cloning myself 5x just to pull something like that off o.o

Pirates of the Caribbean! Woot, I have to give points to Johny Depp for that role ...