9x EVE Multibox Bomber Setup

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I thought I'd share my latest setup which I just finished a few days ago.

-Identical videofx feeds to all clients (If one dies another can take over as the 'main')
-Mouse pass-through access to mods, hp bars etc
-Overlapped clients - The windows on bottom and right are whole-screen videofx streams with focus enabled (Works similarly to swapping)
-VideoFX stream to show selected item from each client (helps me know what each character has selected at the time)
-VideoFX for broadcasting armor/shield with mouse pass-through (Not for bombers obviously, but useful for other ship compositions)
-Second monitor with 8x overview streams from each client
-Align and warp buttons from each client. While torping, I can warp out each client individually if they take damage without swapping screens

Depending on the situation I have action target groups set up for:
-8x bombers(hounds or purifiers) + 1x Redeemer (Most common)
-7x bombers, 1x Flycatcher/Sabre + 1x Redeemer
-7x bombers, 1x Dictor + 1x Bomb Truck
-9x Torp DPS bombers
-1x Cheetah/Loki prober FC, 5x bombers, 1x Bomb Truck, 1x Covert cyno, 1x Redeemer (FC setup)




I'm pretty happy with how everything works now. The biggest problem I'm having is some quirkyness with window swapping. It doesn't always swap properly when I click the windows, and I haven't figured out why yet. Sometimes the mouse randomly jumps across the screen as well.

Overview refresh is a big problem too. Whenever I switch overview tabs, the overviews on the other characters sometimes don't update properly (all targets get greyed out but don't get removed) I have to move my mouse across all of the overviews on my second monitor to force a refresh. If I try swaping back and forth between tabs again everything ends up getting doubled (??) and then I'm really screwed. (Requires an overview reload to fix) I suspect that's some crappy :ccp: thing that is exposed by something in the way isboxer works.

(Wrong forum! )

I thought I'd share my latest setup which I just finished a few days ago.

-Identical videofx feeds to all clients (If one dies another can take over as the 'main')
-Mouse pass-through access to mods, hp bars etc
-Overlapped clients - The windows on bottom and right are whole-screen videofx streams with focus enabled (Works similarly to swapping)
-VideoFX stream to show selected item from each client (helps me know what each character has selected at the time)
-VideoFX for broadcasting armor/shield with mouse pass-through (Not for bombers obviously, but useful for other ship compositions)
-Second monitor with 8x overview streams from each client
-Align and warp buttons from each client. While torping, I can warp out each client individually if they take damage without swapping screens

Depending on the situation I have action target groups set up for:
-8x bombers(hounds or purifiers) + 1x Redeemer (Most common)
-7x bombers, 1x Flycatcher/Sabre + 1x Redeemer
-7x bombers, 1x Dictor + 1x Bomb Truck
-9x Torp DPS bombers
-1x Cheetah/Loki prober FC, 5x bombers, 1x Bomb Truck, 1x Covert cyno, 1x Redeemer (FC setup)




I'm pretty happy with how everything works now. The biggest problem I'm having is some quirkyness with window swapping. It doesn't always swap properly when I click the windows, and I haven't figured out why yet. Sometimes the mouse randomly jumps across the screen as well.

Overview refresh is a big problem too. Whenever I switch overview tabs, the overviews on the other characters sometimes don't update properly (all targets get greyed out but don't get removed) I have to move my mouse across all of the overviews on my second monitor to force a refresh. If I try swaping back and forth between tabs again everything ends up getting doubled (??) and then I'm really screwed. (Requires an overview reload to fix) I suspect that's some crappy :ccp: thing that is exposed by something in the way isboxer works.

I've been boxing bombers only for launching bombs for taking out chunks of fleets, I have not put on torps (those toons can only launch a bomb in a manticore ). I have other toons for pvp.

But the problems you are having I have some ways to fix them;

Mouse moving rapidly across the screen happens normally after swapping. To prevent this don't swap . I used to have that problem when I used a swapping setup. You could change your video feeds to not need to swap ever and play each client 100% while using your stacked setup. That is what I've adopted at least and it works great. Whenever I lose a ship i still have full functionality even though my primary character is dead. Also I use hot keys to switch between characters, keys beats mouse clicks and I don't ever seem to get the mouse going crazy when you use hotkeys to swap.

Overviews not updating fast enough: Right click in space to bring your drop down to reset all guns/active modules that would generally flash without a target then click in space again (not on an option from the drop down), that may not fix your issue but after that I spam my control key (control + mouse 5 locks for me) and that generally gets it cleared up. I've been doing that for a long time and works 95% of the time for me. It seems like that gets the clients to refresh the overview, your lock key can also freeze your overview as well which can cause them to not update quickly or in sync for that matter (hence the control spamming ).