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Since the TLP section of the forum is fairly lightly active I did want to at least chip in as a TLP player and say adding it with relaxed Truebox (the early version) would be good. There's already plenty of cracked copies of MQ running around on these servers Truebox as is. The MQ community taking it a step further and opening it up to a wider audience with the relaxed Truebox setting really won't be an escalation or severely increase issues that are already present. Gives us TLP folks more options. I know this feedback does not have to be taken/agreed on/even read. But wanted to at least put the feedback out there for consideration as someone who does play on, and enjoy, these servers.This has been talked about in a few places like the thread about the producer's letter and discord, so i'll try and link/relate the general consensus.
The MQ devs will have to determine what that looks like.
Truebox is still truebox, so I'd suspect, at least out the gate for MQ to not work nor have the protections in place
Here is @Knightly fielding this question yesterday (tagged so he can speak for himself and/or the mq devs)
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this is likely going to be a fluid question/answer until more definitive things are decided.
for context for those curious about what this weird truebox -> relaxed truebox -> non-truebox setup will look like
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"cracked copies of whatever" - keep in mind, circumventing things that mq has in place has the potential of removing protections that mq provides when it should.Since the TLP section of the forum is fairly lightly active I did want to at least chip in as a TLP player and say adding it with relaxed Truebox (the early version) would be good. There's already plenty of cracked copies of MQ running around on these servers Truebox as is. The MQ community taking it a step further and opening it up to a wider audience with the relaxed Truebox setting really won't be an escalation or severely increase issues that are already present. Gives us TLP folks more options. I know this feedback does not have to be taken/agreed on/even read. But wanted to at least put the feedback out there for consideration as someone who does play on, and enjoy, these servers.
I'm not trying to criticize the product. I'm just pointing out there are people who have it figured out to use there. I don't get the sense that you, who primarily respond to things, are particularly interested in TLPs from some of your comments. There's nothing wrong with that. But it also doesn't give you great insight into what happens on them. So I felt like there was some value in adding some context for adding it earlier."cracked copies of whatever" - keep in mind, circumventing things that mq has in place has the potential of removing protections that mq provides when it should.
of course people *want* mq on truebox.
ya know what. it is pretty tiresome people telling me what i do and what i don't. you have no clue. you don't know me.I'm not trying to criticize the product. I'm just pointing out there are people who have it figured out to use there. I don't get the sense that you, who primarily respond to things, are particularly interested in TLPs from some of your comments. There's nothing wrong with that. But it also doesn't give you great insight into what happens on them. So I felt like there was some value in adding some context for adding it earlier.
Sure thing. I'll keep it on topic. My feedback above stands, and I'm just adding my opinion to the discussion for consideration.ya know what. it is pretty tiresome people telling me what i do and what i don't. you have no clue. you don't know me.
I know quite a bit of things that happen everywhere - I was a pretty big participant in Rizlona happening - I could probably make a much longer list of ways folks circumvent and utilities and tools they use to do so - but we're not talking about me or your rude assumptions or delivery.
we're talking about the mq devs and about RG being in a current state of "respecting the spirit of truebox".
what i'm responding with is that what folks are circumventing and using is potentially not the same thing (with the same protections) that mq has in place for servers that are supported.
Currently, and until it changes, MQ is not supported for truebox servers.
Of course some (and i say some for a specific reason) people who find ways to circumvent things want to use mq on truebox servers. it is a continually asked for thing. I talked with people nearly every day who play on TLPs who want to run on truebox. so yes, i do understand the desire, yes i do understand that people find work arounds.
if you want to talk about the matter - keep on topic. don't start talking about me.
ya know what. it is pretty tiresome people telling me what i do and what i don't

Having had a brief conversation about it earlier in the week, that’s the way we’re leaning.Since the TLP section of the forum is fairly lightly active I did want to at least chip in as a TLP player and say adding it with relaxed Truebox (the early version) would be good.
While I think this response misses the mark because you (possibly) missed the word “relaxed” and are speaking about Truebox rather than Relaxed Truebox — even then it’s a matter of rule sets not being available outside of the Truebox side of things. There are many simple things that MQ offers even a single player that are huge Quality of Life improvements. TLPs are unique, lately in their ruleset but also often in the population and community surrounding them.I personally don't understand the insistence of people who want to play on truebox and use software to box them when there is plenty of servers available for you to box on.
Thank you for bringing this up. I didn't want to feel like I was trying to cause further friction in clarifying this and risk a suspension or ban. But yes, opinion is for relaxed, I have not and am not asking for it on regular Truebox and support it being in for that.Regardless, the opinion was for Relaxed Truebox which the EQ developers have recognized as a time when boxing needs to occur for the server to maintain life because of the huge falloff (and the likely release of the next TLP). And I can agree with that being a good time to let MQ in.
I personally don't understand the insistence of people who want to play on truebox and use software to box them when there is plenty of servers available for you to box on.
My statement was merely to put to rest the request for Macroquest on truebox as for a great many of years it's been said that the response to such a request was no. Relaxed or not. I was unaware of a discussion about it in any form and simply wasn't after a debate on the matter because at last discussion on the matter it was just a flat out no. I can only relay what I've been told, and so that's what I did. So if the minds of the development team has been swayed then I recant my previous position and leave the updates on the matter to those with direct control of it.While I think this response misses the mark because you (possibly) missed the word “relaxed” and are speaking about Truebox rather than Relaxed Truebox — even then it’s a matter of rule sets not being available outside of the Truebox side of things. There are many simple things that MQ offers even a single player that are huge Quality of Life improvements. TLPs are unique, lately in their ruleset but also often in the population and community surrounding them.
Personally, I don’t enjoy Classic and I wouldn’t have fun repeating Classic to PoP over and over but there’s a large part of the EQ population that really enjoys that. Not for me, but I do enjoy a TLP every few years myself (even without MQ). It’s also great for people just getting back into the game who feel “behind” in the modern era.
TLPs, changed rulesets or not are unique experiences so I don’t begrudge anyone wanting to play their way on them. I won’t support it on Truebox mainly because I think it will be abused for boxing and that’s (sort of) against the spirit of true box. Of course, it could be argued that the spirit of Truebox other than Aradune is because DPG has stock in oil for energy and pharmaceuticals for carpal tunnel meds since you can run as many computers as you can control by hand. Still, I like to think us not supporting MQ on Truebox does limit it (and the people dumb enough to pay for a spyware laden closed source bypass deserve what they get).
Regardless, the opinion was for Relaxed Truebox which the EQ developers have recognized as a time when boxing needs to occur for the server to maintain life because of the huge falloff (and the likely release of the next TLP). And I can agree with that being a good time to let MQ in.
This isn't a change in policy -- a Relaxed Truebox server has never existed before (and as of right now, still doesn't). That's EQ terminology, not our terminology. Truebox is one character per computer. Relaxed Truebox is like...3 characters per computer or something like that. They're essentially completely different philosophies when it comes to "Truebox." So, in this thread, we're talking about something new -- not anything that existed previously.My statement was merely to put to rest the request for Macroquest on truebox as for a great many of years it's been said that the response to such a request was no. Relaxed or not. I was unaware of a discussion about it in any form and simply wasn't after a debate on the matter because at last discussion on the matter it was just a flat out no. I can only relay what I've been told, and so that's what I did. So if the minds of the development team has been swayed then I recant my previous position and leave the updates on the matter to those with direct control of it.
Neither here nor there--but I think you're conflating different things. While we don't get into specifics about it here, simply getting MQ running on a truebox server is relatively straightforward now that it is open source and you can probably use a non-Redguides resource to figure that out [note--there are risks involved to yourself if you do this in regard to your accounts and DPG]. What people are paying those high fees for, at least the ne'er do wells I know who have paid it, is a truebox bypass--that is something beyond just MQ that runs on a Truebox server, that is software that actually allows you to bypass DPG's truebox code and run multiple clients on a single machine. There are people who maintain versions of MQ (remember, anyone can maintain a private branch) that have this capability and there are other completely non-MQ applications that people are spreading around that bypass truebox as well. Several of them are absolutely distributed by people with a long history of not being very trustworthy, and I think you'd have to be very foolish to run their closed source program on your personal PC.What's silly to me about disabling mq2 on truebox is that people are going to do it anyway.
There are truebox versions of MQ2 being sold for $350 with a $30 fee for additional updates. Who do you think is paying that? It's the 40 mage Krono farmers that everyone complains about ruining the economy.
The guy simply wanting running his own group or to use /nav to get to the bank are SOL.
At least in my case, pointing out that this is happening already isn't so much a "hey look, why can't we do that?" It's more of a way of communicating that MQ2 usage popping up on these servers when the rules relax isn't going to be a big revelation to the server or bring additional heat to the MQ community. People are on edge with the suspensions, so I could understand apprehension to introduce MQ with relaxed Truebox bringing more heat down, but it's already happening now so it's not going to change the reality of what's happening on the server. I'm pro-EverQuest, people on TLPs in these later expacs want boxing, it adds longevity. Not just basing this on my own bias, but the post made about it on the official forums is the most liked post in forum history, so that says something. Especially as these rulesets become increasingly diverse that's going to only increase the desire to play there. So it's good to see DPG taking that feedback to heart. If it's going to infuse more subs in these servers that benefits me whether I want to play there or not. I agree, bringing it to Truebox is not good, and not something I will ever personally advocate for. But as the rules relax and boxing becomes more the norm that's a good point for reassessment.Neither here nor there--but I think you're conflating different things. While we don't get into specifics about it here, simply getting MQ running on a truebox server is relatively straightforward now that it is open source and you can probably use a non-Redguides resource to figure that out [note--there are risks involved to yourself if you do this in regard to your accounts and DPG]. What people are paying those high fees for, at least the ne'er do wells I know who have paid it, is a truebox bypass--that is something beyond just MQ that runs on a Truebox server, that is software that actually allows you to bypass DPG's truebox code and run multiple clients on a single machine. There are people who maintain versions of MQ (remember, anyone can maintain a private branch) that have this capability and there are other completely non-MQ applications that people are spreading around that bypass truebox as well. Several of them are absolutely distributed by people with a long history of not being very trustworthy, and I think you'd have to be very foolish to run their closed source program on your personal PC.
Also technically speaking MQ isn't "disabled" on Truebox, it just isn't supported on Truebox by the MQ development team or Redguides. But it is an open source software project and open source software used in your own branch can do any number of things that you intend and that other people don't intend, that is the nature of open source. Now that we are fully open source, there is no one telling you what you can or can't do with MQ. Redguides isn't offering a paid product that works on Truebox, and the primary MQ devs aren't supporting truebox in the main repo of the project, but it's a fully open product that you can do with as you please if you're so inclined.
FWIW I agree philosophically, at least at this point, with the position that you probably shouldn't use MQ on truebox, shouldn't be bypassing Truebox, and certainly the community does not benefit for either of those things to become widespread and widely disseminated. I have been part of a lot of TLPs and I was one of the people running a mage box crew back on Lockjaw in Classic. I saw firsthand (and was complicit in) many of the things that lead to the creation of Truebox, AoC, and MoTM. While of those three, I think Truebox is probably the least well done / well considered, I do think to maintain the sort of game play experience a large portion of their customer base wants, some "limiter" boxing is necessary for most of their TLPs (I think special servers like Rizlona make sense since they offered it at the same time as a regular TLP for the anti-boxing crowd.) I also have always strongly felt that just how MoTM and AoCs really address deficits in early EQ as it relates to modern TLPs, and both become irrelevant over time (the final MOTM expansion is PoP and the final AoC expansion is PoR--but after GoD AoC is mostly not super relevant), Truebox for some reason they choose to keep until the servers hit live (or at least they did until now.) I have always thought that was ill considered. But anyway, we all know it's been a rough first four months of 2022 for the MQ/Redguides community with the suspension waves, but being honest the total % of accounts affected has still been low. Truebox is seen as very, very important by DPG for the success of their TLPs, which are a major source of revenue to them. I think if we got into a war about bypassing Truebox things could get really ugly, beyond that I also think it's bad for the early era TLP game (excepting situations like Rizlona), and while I am obviously and always a rulebreaker who uses MQ to play EQ, I do actually want what's best for EQ--it's a game I've played for many years and don't want to see bad things happen to its community, and I think blowing up their Truebox system would not be good for the EQ community as a whole.
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I know we can box 3 on the same computer on Vaniki after August 3rd, but I can’t find any information that tells us if we can use MQ at that time. I’m trying to determine if at that point I will just be able to box 3 manually, or if we can use MQ to box them. Sorry if this has been answered, but I just read for 2 hours and couldn’t find it.
That was actually the point of this thread was to find if it would be allowed. And from Reading above, it seems as if it hasn't been decided when the relaxed rules or even when the true box is dropped are when it might be allowed.MQ is never allowed.
it does not currentlyHas anyone confirmed if MQ works on Relaxed Truebox yet? I’m assuming it doesn’t, but with the suspensions going on lately, I didn’t want to chance trying.
