How to handle adding RL players to a boxer group

[wartooth]

Hi, anyone have any tips or methods for handling adding other real life players to your boxing group and dropping one or more of your drones out? I ran into this the other night playing LOTRO, a couple of people wanted to do an instance but I knew we needed a full group. I was not sure how this would be handled. I would have liked to be able to have some dynamic way to add in players and drop a couple box toons to accommodate that type of scenario. Thanks!

I personally avoid doing this unless I know the other players well. Many people don't appreciate Multiboxing, or simply don't comprehend the amount of extra player-processing power required to manage a group instead of just one character. Also, often you can't heal or buff/debuff other players as well as your own team which can lead to frustration on the part of the other player(s).

If you decide to go ahead and do it, however; I recommend that you put your team in the group first and then fill out the rest of party with the other players. That way the 'dynamic' part of the party are the other players, who can then drop, change characters, etc without totally messing your team's config.

Hope that explains how I would handle such a situation.

[lax]

As far as Assist/Follow capabilities go, MiRai covered this topic in his Variable Keystrokes video -- http://youtu.be/Nl6MZxHXAoA. It can be a bit of a pain since your group is altered and the keys to target each of your guys via party targeting (F2, F3, F4, F5 etc) may change, but you can take a minute to correct it on the fly during play, and the video shows how to do that

[wartooth]

Thanks for the replies!