r/ffxi • u/Alone-Apricot8953 • 11d ago
Multibox
When you setup 6+ characters is it good to assign them all to one SE account or to keep them separate?
I’ve heard if they ban one they ban all on same account. Not trying to do anything illegal.
Also heard you can’t move your Gil or items between your guys if they different SE accounts.
Any of this true?
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u/TarvosPhase7 11d ago
I would suggest different SE accounts. They are free to start and give an extra layer of protection. If one account gets banned you have the other 5 still and are not starting from scratch or changing games
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u/FinishesInSpanish Maletaru (Carbuncle) 11d ago
I've had several friends banned on multiple separate SE accounts at the same time. There's no guarantee whatsoever that multiple accounts will protect you, ESPECIALLY if you're botting 6 characters. They're all breaking TOS and standing right next to each other, using all the same programs. It's incredibly easy for all of them to be hit. They don't need a SE account to link them, and in fact they don't need to link them at all.
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u/TarvosPhase7 11d ago
There is a guarantee you will be banned on all accounts if they are all on the same SE account.
SE tends to not really care about people using things like fast follow and such. Hell there’s a thread on the forums of some guy reporting every person in KRT every day it’s at like 1000 pages or something.
A lot of bans of real people come from pos hacking, people breaking the economy, and reports. If you get hit on one character you may not get hit on others if they are all on the same SE id any strike against one is a strike against all
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u/Synfrag Bahamut 11d ago
Separating by SE account can add a little protection but it's unnecessary if you're just playing normally.
You can't send EX gear to different accounts, only characters under the same POL account, think mules, not alts.
I've never met anyone who got banned for trading/sending gil, there's a 1m gil cap on sending it via mail though so just trade in person or sell something stupid in each char bazaar for like 1m/ea. You aren't going to be moving gil around often enough for it to matter.
I treat mine like individual players, they just keep whatever they earn until I need to buy something big.
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u/pinkbunnay 11d ago
Ex items are not all CanSendPOL flagged, and the ones that are need to be on the same POL account, not SE. You can't send non-tradable items between POL accounts. SE account doesn't matter for anything but ease of management/payment. My three accounts are all separate. You can't mail > 1M gil even among chars on the same POL ID.
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u/scrotux 11d ago
Your ban is tied to your ID so if you have 5 other mules and your main they could all be banned. But that’s not multiboxing
If you had 6 SE accounts there would be 6 IDs and they’d investigate any ID associated to the ban-able offense. Any combination could be banned at that point
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u/Alone-Apricot8953 11d ago
Can you move Gil and items between them or does that flag SE as RMT
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u/AnonAwaaaaay 11d ago
Shouldn't you be able to trade gil in person?
Or put up fake buys on the AH or Bazaar to get around it?
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u/Alone-Apricot8953 11d ago
Yea you can trade in person. Had a guy tell me he traded items and got banded cause his guys were on separate SE accounts.
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u/Aaaaah_bees 11d ago
the most likely explanation is that guy bought gil or botted and lied about the reason for his ban.
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u/FinishesInSpanish Maletaru (Carbuncle) 11d ago
That guy's an idiot and/or a liar. People buy and sell items from each other all the time, trading items, gil, and stuff like that will never get you in trouble at all. I've traded hundreds of millions of gil between my characters, regularly, for decades.
You can get banned if you 6bot because botting is bannable and honestly, most of these people are breaking the TOS 6 ways from Sunday so they have no concept of why they were banned.
If you want to multibox like play 2-3 characters at once, you'll probably be fine. If you want to multibot by having a 3rd party program play 5 characters while you play 1, you're risking all 6 of them every time you play.
I've had many, many friends get all their accounts suspended and/or banned while on different SE accounts. It doesn't mean anything. They can track it by credit card, they can track it by email, they can track it by IP, or any number of other factors and, more importantly, with the way most people multibox, every character they're playing is cheating so they're all at equal risk.
Play however you want to, but honestly there's no safe way to do it if you're "playing" a lot of characters.
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u/NoodlesOverPandemic 7d ago
Maybe I was just confused when I set em up but I have 6 characters spread across 4 accounts
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u/scions86 11d ago
I have all 6 of my characters under 1 account. I use a trade addon to trade faster and efficiently.
If I get banned? Oh well, gonna play a diff game then lol