How to 2 Box in MMORPGS:
This 2 boxing guide for online gaming will show you how to 2 box multiple characters in most MMO games privately through your LAN. We will explain how to control multiple characters (2 Box) from one computer in games like Everquest, EQ2, Vanguard, World of Warcraft, SWG, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, Dark age of Camelot and most others. The tools we will use work great in all these games. In this example we will use the Control Assistant on your main PC to control 1 or more Boxing Assistant's on your second, third fourth... PCs. This setup will give you full control over multiple characters and will allow you to easily box an entire group (or even a raid!) from your own keyboard. No scripting or macro knowledge is needed. Most games today have no active log file so we will create our own log file private and secure through our network. For this example we will play a warrior and 2 box a priest in world of warcraft.
When you purchase the Boxin Assistant we allow you install it on all the computers you own. So you only need to buy one to box an entire raid. That is fine with us. It is yours. You bought it. The control assistant works the same way but it was written to control the Boxin Assistant. You should have a shared network drive on one of the PCs to store the log file on. In this example we will call that S drive for server. All the computers should be able to see an S:\logfile.txt. There are lots of detailed guides on sharing a folder so we will not go into details here. Just google file sharing.
Most of this 2 boxing guide will apply to other games as well. First lets cover the basic steps and then we will cover it in detail below. There are 4 basic steps to 2 boxing in most games:
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Install the Control Assistant on your main PC, create a profile and do a basic setup of game title and log file path.
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Install the Boxin Assistant on your bot PC(s), create a profile and set the game title and log file path.
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Control Assistant: Remote Box Control: Set up hot keys to tell your bot(s) commands like start and stop combat.
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Boxin Assistant: Log File Triggers: Set up the triggers to watch for and the commands to execute when found.
After this you can press the hot keys you defined and the bots should follow your commands. One gotcha to look out for is that the game title should be set or the hot keys you set up will not work. The hot keys in the Control Assistant work when ever the "game title" window is active. This allows you to set up as many hot keys as you like and they will only work in your game and not in things like your web browser.
Now lets cover these steps in detail. It is pretty simple once you have grasped how it works: