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1. Is there still in fact a policy against the use of 3rd party software.

14. RULES OF BEHAVIOR OF RYZOM
You acknowledge that the proper functioning and success of an Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game such as Ryzom and/or Ryzom Ring depends on a delicate balance which Winch Gate Property Limited has to maintain.

The User is therefore strictly forbidden:
(a) to use any program or method to change the content or functionalities of the MMORPG;
(b) to cause the server to be overloaded;
(c) to use any procedure to make it easier to obtain any instruction faster than through the ordinary course of play;
(d) to modify the user interface or any other component in order to obtain objects, experience points, currency, characters' attributes, ranks, etc., other than as the result of proper normal use of the MMORPG;
(e) to buy, sell or transfer MMORPG characters or their attributes.

Furthermore, the User must at all times observe the Code of Conduct, the Courtesy Policies and the Ryzom Naming Charter displayed on the MMORPG's website at www.ryzom.com, whose contents are hereby declared an integral part of this Contract. We reserve the right to take any emergency measures on your account (including suspending or canceling it) which we think fit, if we believe that your use is contravening the above prohibitions.

We are all playing rift, over 1 million accounts on head start launch day, you can find us on Keenblade PvE server, they allow multiboxing and use of multiboxing programs :D

I really dont care about anything but getting the answers that will stop more players from leaving.

Beeficus

I really dont care about anything but getting the answers that will stop more players from leaving.

I can say one thing about this. Stop being a jerk. All you do is badmouth everyone. I have NEVER heard you say One nice thing about anyone. Let it be Kara, Kami or CSR. You keep demanding stuff and badmouthing everyone.
No wonder nobody likes you.... Your own guildies don't like you they tolerate you because you been playing Ryzom for a while that is the sad truth of it.

Zipp it sit in a corner and do your foraging with your 4 Bots.

So any software that it can make auto keying, or spreading keypresses into multibox is forbidden and will be dealt with by our team. So if CSR have conclusive evidence, or witness such activities all accounts concerned can be subject to sanctions

To those of you new to Ryzom:
You can have as many accounts and (alt)ernate characters as you like.
It is forbidden to use technology that assists in playing the game unattended.
It is forbidden to use technology that can make auto keying, or spreading keypresses into multibox/clients.
Back in January 2011 Yumeroh (Head of Support and Community Manager) made this statement here

On provision of evidence that players have breached these game rules will be (and have been) sanctioned.
Evidence ,Judgements and sanctions are all confidential.

Mokoi, thank you for your response, could you please clarify what will be accepted as "conclusive evidence"? This is the issue. Due to your policy of steering well clear of OP battles, CSR's have declined to show up to "witness such activities". The topic here is the alleged use of 3rd party software to control many accounts during OP battles, to gain a substantial advantage that is proving extremely difficult to overcome.

What I have seen as well as many others cannot be explained by things like "uber gaming setups". No matter how many PC's and how much you spend on them you can only press keys on so many keyboards at once without growing extra arms. We feel that If it was witnessed from our point of view it would be undeniable.

Just to clarity, one key press per client is the ruling factor then?

All of these things help the advanced player significantly speed up activities, and could be seen by the unwashed masses of mouth-breathing keyboard-turners as God-like synchronization that must be illegal.