Can I run two accounts at the same time?Follow

I have two comps and was wondering how feasable it is to run two accounts and make my own group every time I log on.

I heard its too hard to do so, but I dont want to buy two accounts just to find out its not possible to have two toons running together at the same time.

I used to run my own group of two in EQ and was just wondering if it could be done here as well.

If you have 2 monitors, keyboards and mice, I don't see why not.

As RPZip said though, this game is a twitchfest. You would have to coordinate your numbered keys and fingers and just use them as you were playing a piano. With the proper training, you should be able to do it.

From a set up like this it would be better to duo since your priest/warrior will have a lot more to do keeping players healed or creatures taunted. It would get pretty hectic and if anyone died because of it...

I used to do this all the time on DAOC. I would use either two side by side computers, or a windower program.

Just min and max the character you need to use, and do what needs to be done. Granted it was a lot easier to do this on 2 computers, because you can just flip back and forth quicker.

I don't know what combo would be best here on EQ2, but on DAOC you could make a warrior and a bard, and level them both to 45-50 together without help.


Edited, Sun Nov 21 02:58:21 2004 by redrowen

Windowing
No way unless you manage to get the game to run on on a SGI development platform, not going to have the power to run two copies of the game at once.

Dou-Boxxing (two seperate computer)

Prepare for carpal tunnel :-) you will NOT be as effective as a single, but 'healer-n-warrior' combos should still work.

Try to keep the 'second' account as a back-up / non-major play. (healer/buffer)

Warrior - Priest I find doable (tested with a friends account)
Warrior - Bard might work (dont have one high enough to know how 'active' the bard can be or if he can concentrate on a few songs and stand back)

Warrior - Rogue would be hard to keep effective but a 'master' might be able to

Warrior- Mage would be easier then warrior rogue (since position of mage does not matter) but still alot hard (unless mage was nothing but a 'pet attack' bot)

Things to note:

As people above mentioned a 'well setup' secondary toon is very important. Make sure you can switch to them hit 1-2 keys get them to do what you want, then go back to the 'main'

Second on being feasilibe .. understand this will very on how much you can multi-task yourself.

For persepctive I regularly ran Monk-Shaman-Wizard combo in EQ, and on occasion ran SK-Monk-Shamna-Wizard (though 4 boxxing was a pain)

I would say EQ2 is about twice as hard. Dou-boxxing is somewhere between as hard as running three to four EQ accounts at once.

Peace