Is it possible to run several player characters at the same time using multiple computers?

Elmour0Fudd

Before I start I did run a search to see if this has been asked previously.
I was wondering if this is possible.
Was thinking of using 3 PC's at the same time each with there own launcher installed and running through the same modem/router ( I.E. same IP address), is this workable, having only one login account on the main NA server would it only accept the first system and reject the rest or as you bring each launcher up would it automatically connect as the account was open from the first pc... allowing a single person to control several active characters in a server so you don't have to rely on other players and get the smaller group tasks do without waiting on other's.

Just a thought.

Maotti

Not on same account, but if you have a different one that is.

I was just on with my muleaccount and said hello to my main character.

milkbox

Recremen wrote: »

yodased wrote: »

Possible to do yes. Against terms of service yes. Get all accounts banned yes.

Honey everything you said is wrong. You need different accounts to log in, you can't log in to the same account from multiple machines. There's also nothing wrong with having multiple instances of the game running and you won't get banned for it. You're either confused or you're assuming that OP would be using a third-party program or hardware setup to control all the characters from one keyboard. Now THAT is quite against the ToS, but otherwise there's nothing fishy going on.

nope.

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23701

"Multiboxing is NOT allowed in The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited in any of its forms, whether software- or hardware-based. Any accounts found to be multiboxing will be considered in violation of our Terms of Service and actioned swiftly and decisively, up to the permanent deactivation of the account along with any other associated accounts. To be clear, players are welcome to have multiple accounts. However, using hardware or software to play them all at the same time is not allowed on any ESO service.

Multiboxing is the practice of playing multiple accounts simultaneously, including, but not limited to using either hardware or software to facilitate the coordination between the accounts. This violates the intended nature of the gameplay mechanics we've created for ESO."

NoRagret

Owning multiple accounts is not against the rules, using them at the same time by using third party software (bots) is. You can open 2 clients at the same time by opening the x64 and x32 bit clients.

Wollust

You can't login on 3 different computers at the same time with the same account.

Vipstaakki

You have to buy ESO three times, one for each computer and log into different accounts on each to play.

SirDopey

No you can't share your account with your wife and kids....

Duukar

This used to be a BAD thing in DAoC.

You almost used to HAVE to have a 2nd box with a 2nd account to run an exclusive buff bot character.

At times I would pvp with my cleric bot /stuck to my Wizards ass spamming spread heals. I got my cleric to RR5 doing just that then started to play him as a main in pvp.

Fun days the old days!

manavortex

You can login to one instance of ESO on one server at the same time. If you try to login to the same account twice, you'll get an error that you're already signed in.
You can open multiple instances of ESO on one computer to try it out, just run the executable from the folder instead of the launcher.

Bromburak

It's possible and legit by playing 3 different accounts at the same time as long you are the owner (no sharing accounts) and play active and not using automation (multiboxing).

Heal/Buff accounts are working in every MMO for several grinding objectives, but you cannot just stick like in DAOC for support and heals without moving. Some Boss mechanics will teach you real quick why this is a bad idea playing 3 accounts the same time in ESO.

You don't need several accounts in ESO since solo = godmode already.

Elmour0Fudd

As an expansion of the question then, what if it was the public server which is supposedly free (lol) and you had the patience to set up the link using several nearby wifi hotspots to link each separately (so different IP.)
and so if I place the launcher on a NAT and link each to the nat but was connected to different hotspots for the net using a different account ID ( ef1, ef2 ect.) .

this is a "what if" question, just trying to see if there is a way to do this within the rules of the game,
although it might get a little costly for the connections lol

And thank's to all that have commented, good to see most don't go on a whine fest when both servers are down for maintenance (big game and needs lots of TLC or it cr*ps out .)

Plus it might allow me to finish some dungeon's without anyone taking all the item's and shard's that might be there as i'm killing the dam*n monster's ect. LMAO

purple-magicb16_ESO

Can't do it. The second time you go to log in, your 1st pc will get logged out if they are using the same account.

Elmour0Fudd

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

Can't do it. The second time you go to log in, your 1st pc will get kicked.

that is taken as a given fact ( found that out the first day playing lol)

SirDopey wrote: »

No you can't share your account with your wife and kids....

lol would have to dig my wife up and daughter would not be interested unless it had pokemon wandering around lol[


quote="Bromburak;3263832"]It's possible and legit by playing 3 different accounts at the same time as long you are the owner (no sharing accounts) and play active and not using automation (multiboxing).

Heal/Buff accounts are working in every MMO for several grinding objectives, but you cannot just stick like in DAOC for support and heals without moving. Some Boss mechanics will teach you real quick why this is a bad idea playing 3 accounts the same time in ESO.

You don't need several accounts in ESO since solo = godmode already. [/quote]

now this is an avenue I can explore cheer's good thought
might save my butt if I walk into a room of storm atroch's

drakhan2002_ESO

There are programs you can buy (ISBoxer, for example) that will create virtual machines and "instance" your accounts in a separate VM. In turn you create macros to and assign them to hotkeys, so that you can play all of the toons. Of course, this will take separate accounts, as you can't log in multiple times on a single account.

I've used applications like this for years and years in MMOs, as I normally have multiple accounts. However, with ESO, I have just one account. This may or may not be agains the TOS, so check before you decide to use a program like this...

milkbox

Back when things were hard, a friend with 2 accounts would log into a low level character to scale a dungeon, form a group with his other character and myself, then go idle and never actually enter the dungeon while we 2-manned it.

We found out that this is against TOS and ban-able, so never did it again. Sounds like what you're describing falls into the same category- so beware!

camknox

Back in the days of EverQuest I ran 6, sometimes 7 accounts. Simultaneously on the one PC.

In ESO I've had 2 accounts running on the same PC. One parked and the other doing all the killing. The issue with ESO is most everything is fast paced. So flipping between instances is time consuming and if you're healing on one and hitting on the other things will be slow going. At least in EverQuest you could turn on auto-attack.

Running on multiple PC's with keyboards close to each other is feasible. Though there's honestly not much a solo player can't do on their own anyway.

Elmour0Fudd

milkbox wrote: »

Back when things were hard, a friend with 2 accounts would log into a low level character to scale a dungeon, form a group with his other character and myself, then go idle and never actually enter the dungeon while we 2-manned it.

We found out that this is against TOS and ban-able, so never did it again. Sounds like what you're describing falls into the same category- so beware!

is why the question is being asked, but from what I've seen so far a single person could run upto 3 characters in manual mode via 3 separate accounts if they have the hardware and data access from multiple ip address's.
whether anyone would want to try it is another matter lol,
but yep can see a method..... and h*ll no am I going to do it, controlling one character in a large battle is bad enough, you'd have to have a whole load of macro's on a keyboard and a game pad to manage 2,
3 would be going into the VR Glove level lol .... need to win a lottery

Greysun

Also a former multiboxer here, both DAOC and WoW for years, the main feature why it is not feasible in ESO is there is no FOLLOW command, and no amount of software/hardware solutions can keep 2 toons tracking the exact path be ISBOXER or one of the more "not quite legitimate" programs. YOU can buy another copy of the game form a second account and have a mule(storage space) or even better level up a few toons for crafting writs and crafting assistants to get tempers etc. but beyodn that it is not really possible to play/micro manage, 2 or more accounts the same time in ESO.

Master_Fluff

It's a pain in several body cavities to play characters on two or more accounts simultaneously in ESO. Unless you have multiple multi-core CPUs, multiple 8 GB GPUs, multiple displays and 64+ GB RAM in the same MAC/PC, you have to play ESO in windowed mode. The lag becomes as bad as in Cyrodiil, even in an instanced group dungeon. I know, because I tried.

Avenias

Not the same account. But if u buy 3 games with 3 accounts, its all good.

CapnPhoton

Bromburak wrote: »

It's possible and legit by playing 3 different accounts at the same time as long you are the owner (no sharing accounts) and play active and not using automation (multiboxing).

Heal/Buff accounts are working in every MMO for several grinding objectives, but you cannot just stick like in DAOC for support and heals without moving. Some Boss mechanics will teach you real quick why this is a bad idea playing 3 accounts the same time in ESO.

You don't need several accounts in ESO since solo = godmode already.

I use to run into people multi-boxing back in my EQOA days. We use to kick them from groups when we found out because they were never very good at it.

yodased

Possible to do yes. Against terms of service yes. Get all accounts banned yes.

Recremen

yodased wrote: »

Possible to do yes. Against terms of service yes. Get all accounts banned yes.

Honey everything you said is wrong. You need different accounts to log in, you can't log in to the same account from multiple machines. There's also nothing wrong with having multiple instances of the game running and you won't get banned for it. You're either confused or you're assuming that OP would be using a third-party program or hardware setup to control all the characters from one keyboard. Now THAT is quite against the ToS, but otherwise there's nothing fishy going on.

AlnilamE

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

Can't do it. The second time you go to log in, your 1st pc will get logged out if they are using the same account.

Yeah, as I found out last year when I downloaded it on my laptop before I travelled and decided to start the game to see if it would run. I was still logged on my main computer and got immediately disconnected. Ooops.

The good news is that my laptop was able to run it on minimum settings so I could play while travelling (this was before they forced DirectX 10 compatibility)

Lumenn

CapnPhoton wrote: »

Bromburak wrote: »

It's possible and legit by playing 3 different accounts at the same time as long you are the owner (no sharing accounts) and play active and not using automation (multiboxing).

Heal/Buff accounts are working in every MMO for several grinding objectives, but you cannot just stick like in DAOC for support and heals without moving. Some Boss mechanics will teach you real quick why this is a bad idea playing 3 accounts the same time in ESO.

You don't need several accounts in ESO since solo = godmode already.

I use to run into people multi-boxing back in my EQOA days. We use to kick them from groups when we found out because they were never very good at it.

On a side note before mercenaries all you'd need was a druid bot. Sow, regen, ds, heal bot. But yeah, better if you're "soloing" than grouping.

On the subject eso is so solo friendly why would you need to multibox?

Dreyloch

OP,

I'm not really sure WHY you would want to do this. ESO has no such thing as a "follow" command. So unless your trying to run all three toons with macros, or your just trying to get them all in the same spot, I would say it's kinda pointless. Third party software or hardware being used to macro or move multiple toons at once is also highly against the EULA. You'd only be asking to get banned. Maybe even permanently.

Enslaved

I guess this is necro, but just wanted to ask, out of curiosity.

I am thinking of making a single player guild, just for me and my alt account, that I use as a mule. I asked ppl in my main guild but no one could answer me. Do I have to be online with both my main and alt account at once to invite alt into my guild?
If the answer is yes, is it possible to launch multiple accounts at once on the same PC? I am not interested in multiboxing or anything, just to be able to somewhat connect my main and alt account. Also, I never used invite to guild command, since I do not have that ability in my guild, as I ain't officer or something lol.

LadyNalcarya

@Enslaved
Well, friends requests can be sent if user is offline, so I guess its the same for guild invites.

Danikat

So to summarise:

One account

This is not possible. I don't mean it's not allowed, I mean it's not possible. Once you're logged into your account any further attempts will just produce an error message. Doesn't matter if it's a different PC, different IP address, different server, whatever. You can't do it.

Multiple accounts

This is possible, but you're not allowed to play them at the same time. I think it's ok if one is standing afk while the other is moving around but if you control more than one character at once you can be banned, whether it's done through macros or manually.

andreasranasen

SirDopey wrote: »

No you can't share your account with your wife and kids....

Of course you can. If it's under the same ID Address ZOS CANNOT ban you if you share your account with a sibling under same household who has his/her own character on your account. You're legally not allowed to ban a player for account sharing with someone under same ID Address.

If you're on a PS4, in certain sates in the United States, ZOS is not allowed to ban ANYONE if you're on a subscription with a game (ESO plus). SONY law.

Ilsabet

Enslaved wrote: »

I guess this is necro, but just wanted to ask, out of curiosity.

I am thinking of making a single player guild, just for me and my alt account, that I use as a mule. I asked ppl in my main guild but no one could answer me. Do I have to be online with both my main and alt account at once to invite alt into my guild?
If the answer is yes, is it possible to launch multiple accounts at once on the same PC? I am not interested in multiboxing or anything, just to be able to somewhat connect my main and alt account. Also, I never used invite to guild command, since I do not have that ability in my guild, as I ain't officer or something lol.

An option to consider is having a helper join your new guild, give them only enough power to be able to invite, and then switch accounts and have them invite your alt. Then they leave the guild and you're all set.