Key Clone, and how it fails compared to Pwnboxer

[criticalmage]

Okay, now for many people reading this you will have already ventured into other multiboxing programmed and/or used some of them.

Today i want to talk about (a programme that cannot be mentiond) or as i refer to it (the programme that stopped me multiboxing because i thought it was to hard)

Okay so when i first got the programme i thought ooo here we go multi boxing yay this will be great, so after the initial thrill of making my 3 guys (mage priest paladin) spread out evenly and start dancing i got to the multi boxing part. Now then unlike with this programme where there is not only a live stream to ask for help, and im sure tim would spend any amount of time out of his killing mobs schedule to help people and explain things, there is also a community that helps people and can answer most questions. Okay so ive got the programme and no help, i started by simply setting it to cast key 1 as cast frost bolt on my mage, heal on my priest, and concercrate on my pala. This however didnt work as if something got past my pala i would have to switch screens run him over aggro then run back and by that time usually die due to having total utter mess of controlls.
This is where i gave up, i tried 15 times in a row to run hell-fire ramparts (my guys were level 70 mage, 64 priest and 64 pala) This shouldn't have been a hard instance to run. I gave up and then tried again and then gave up, this continued for a few weeks untill finally i deemed the programme useless, The only thing i saw it useful for was boosting my alts from my mage without having to alt tab. So all in all i had a really bad experience with this programme. Don't get me wrong im sure if they offer help and advice to new commers that this would be at least usable.

This programme had its problems, for instance you could only have 1 main screen. No switching between toons when you needed to grab something, or sell or what have you. And there was no macro help or advice page.

Thats just my 2 cent on this programme. Anyone else's opinions or views on this programme post away. (not just a flame fest) =D

[criticalmage]

Okay i didn't know that word was blanked out... i saw in Tims post that posting about other software wasn't bad, i just wanted to discuss this.

[Catreina]

I am sure you were talking about Key Clone (8 stars in the void). I don't know why it is still being censored because I know Tim said he would not censor other software, just the Other Forum.

Anyway, I found myself in a similar situation. I liked some of the software I tried using, like AutoHotKey, Maximizer, even ISTwoBox Toolkit. I still have the AHK scripts I was using.

Part of the issue for me was I always found bugs or issues with the way my keybinds were. I was trying to do alot with multiple broadcasts (hit A broadcast B to 1, C to 2 & 3, D to 4 & 5 etc). The scripting itself had a bit of a higher learning curve.

Because of the learning curve for most of the software (and the cost for IS that I was not willing to pay), I essentially gave up on boxing.

Pwnboxer gives me the chance to simply "Get Gaming" instead of taking time scripting or setting up keybinds. The default is just launch and go. This means I can spend my time in game instead of in code.

Some people might like the granularity of Key Clone or AutoHotKey or the other software, and if they do, good for them! For me, Pwnboxer is EZMode for getting into boxing, and I am perfectly happy with that.

[Tim]

This is exactly why Pwnboxer exists - to make multiboxing simple.

In fact, this is exactly why I'm doing the multiboxing video stream, to help answer peoples questions about multiboxing.

Notice a trend here?

I've been multiboxing since, well, forever. Right now multiboxing is sort of a mysterious method of gameplay, shrouded by secrecy and mystery. I know lots of people who want to multibox or are curious about it, however, they think that it takes a super computer, or the methods to do it are far too complex for the average person.

That sort of mystery needs to be debunked and that is my goal. I want to educate everybody and make multiboxing really simplified for any person to be able to jump right into it without any hassle.

Also to note, Pwnboxer is a constant, living, breathing application. There is a full time team dedicated to it with the goal to make this continually the best multiboxing program that there is. This means both in features and in intuitive and simplistic design.

But really, I can't do this alone. I'm just 1 guy who multiboxes, and loves doing it, and no matter what I do myself, I always have to give thanks to people like Criticalmage for his original post, and Catreina for her honest response. It is people like you that truly help others, and it is people like you that give me the energy to continue trying my best to lift the veil of secrecy around multiboxing.

[criticalmage]

I really want to start a live stream for us english peeps over the pond but untill my internet gets updated in 1 week (probabbly means more like 5) i can't try, don't know if you saw my last failed attempt at a video stream . And i know what you mean about trying to help people, every night ive been going to sleep with the feint sound of "okay so i have my pwnboxer application, and i have these windows right? you see how i have 5 of them up" lol its soo soothing now

[Tim]

Yea man soon as you get it upgraded let me know, I'll help ya out

[Smithnweson]

I currently use key clone, and I will say this. It is frustrating to use. Its seems very limiting. And trying to make it do what I want it to do usually ends with me in a ball crying in the corner... but honestly I still use the program, I do plan to purchase Pwnboxer.. seeing its practical applications and use has piqued my interest, as it seems to provide everything that I have been looking for in Multiboxing Software. I really am intrigued at the utility of mouse broadcasting.

Alas, I must wait for the money to roll in and then I can be happy.

Just my 2 copper in this thread

--- Smithnweson aka Iboxmadoran

[criticalmage]

yeah smithnweson, this programme in comparison is 1000000% better, its so easy to set up, even for the more complicated things. Plus the fact you can swap screens in what... 0.01 seconds delay, the mouse broadcasting feature aswell is amazing, i only recently got flare on my hunters but just setting it up around the flags in AB is sooo fun

[necrimus]

KC can do the same things that Pwnboxer does, including screen switching. So far it just seems to me that Pwnboxer does many of those things, like mouse broadcasting, a bit better. The trouble I had with KC is dropping keys and losing follow on toons due to lag. It just seemed more cumbersome. I used KC for a year and still do for 10 boxing, since I use 2 machines. I may have to go back to using KC as I am considering trying hardware boxing.

[Tim]

There are a lot of multiboxing programs out there that do the same thing really. All of them broadcast your keys.

The big thing that Pwnboxer does which others can't touch is its simple and easy to use, especially the mouse multiboxing, which is where I started development on multiboxing myself personally.

Further, Pwnboxer is constantly under development, taking in ideas from ANYBODY who wants Pwnboxer tailored to fit them. Because of this, Pwnboxer is quickly becoming the multiboxing program of choice because it isn't so much MY program, as it is created for YOU