Do I need to type in /maxinactivefps # every time i box?

[kelika2]

On one hand, it is a really hot day and got a heat warning on my PC for multiboxing CoX

On the other hand, i typed in the command and heat went down to acceptable levels

 

but i typed in the command before

[Indystruck]

Click the little gear on the homecoming launcher and go to "Homecoming," then under "Extra Launch Parameters" write in "-maxinactivefps 5" 

[kelika2]

1 hour ago, Indystruck said:

Click the little gear on the homecoming launcher and go to "Homecoming," then under "Extra Launch Parameters" write in "-maxinactivefps 5" 

what do i use for multiple parameters?  the quotes?

[AboveTheChemist]

2 hours ago, kelika2 said:

what do i use for multiple parameters?

 

If you are referring to multiple launch parameters in the HC Launcher, you can list them sequentially separated by a space as below:

 

 

The last one is cut off due to the width of the window, but it is the -assetpath assets/mods parameter needed for pigged mods (such as those from City Mod Installer).

[kelika2]

2 hours ago, AboveTheChemist said:

 

If you are referring to multiple launch parameters in the HC Launcher, you can list them sequentially separated by a space as below:

 

 

The last one is cut off due to the width of the window, but it is the -assetpath assets/mods parameter needed for pigged mods (such as those from City Mod Installer).

oh good i dont have to give up my nude mods

[Sovera]

14 hours ago, kelika2 said:

On one hand, it is a really hot day and got a heat warning on my PC for multiboxing CoX

On the other hand, i typed in the command and heat went down to acceptable levels

 

but i typed in the command before

 

If it's an in-game thing you can bind it to your movement keys (or whatever). For example my w is /bind w "+forward$$playerturn$$visscale 5" so that visscale is reapplied (since it resets when we log off).

[Xalon]

I'm surprised multiboxing is allowed. It's the most blatant way to be cheap and lazy at the same exact time. Want to level more characters? Then take the time to do so like the other players do. 

 

Is this a thing that a lot do? Everyone I spoke to won't ruin their experience or sabotage their fun by multiboxing. But I know there are others. You do you of course. I just personally like to play the game the way it was intended to be played.

 

How many do you box at once? 2? 4?

[Octogoat]

1 minute ago, Xalon said:

I'm surprised multiboxing is allowed. It's the most blatant way to be cheap and lazy at the same exact time. Want to level more characters? Then take the time to do so like the other players do. 

 

Is this a thing that a lot do? Everyone I spoke to won't ruin their experience or sabotage their fun by multiboxing. But I know there are others. You do you of course. I just personally like to play the game the way it was intended to be played.

 

How many do you box at once? 2? 4?

Sometimes I multibox to rp multiple characters? You can play a mirror mutant with two more illusion chars.

[lemming]

Quite a lot of people do.    I do it a lot when transferring stuff between characters that's painful via email.

I do it a lot during testing phases.  One account is on beta and the other live so I can do some direct comparisons.

Plenty of people do farming on alts while either PLing a char or while playing and the farmers just do AFK or sluggish farming.

[kelika2]

24 minutes ago, Xalon said:

How many do you box at once? 2? 4?

3 is the limit

And no, it vastly improved my play experience.

 

People over time just become shitty to deal with and be around, people with excessive knockback, people rushing objectives, people afking huge amounts of time, getting into a +4 itf but theres only one incarnate

Other days its a time issue, like burning off 10 bars of patrol in maybe 15 minutes or so quickly and easily

Other days I am the one who needs to AFK, and when you are multiboxing there is no one else around to give a fuck.  a 10 minute phone call is like half of yin or a third of itf or a couple of floors in frostfire or a couple of missions in a paper/radio team

[Zhym]

On 7/25/2025 at 11:04 PM, Indystruck said:

Click the little gear on the homecoming launcher and go to "Homecoming," then under "Extra Launch Parameters" write in "-maxinactivefps 5" 

Thanks for this.  I prefer my camera distance to be a little bit father back than the default so I can see mobs coming up behind me.  I've been typing "/camdist 25" every time I log in for about five years now.  Finally, it happens automatically!

 

Of course, now that it's a habit I'll probably keep typing it.

[macskull]

5 hours ago, kelika2 said:

3 is the limit

3 per server, so technically 18.

[Neiska]

5 hours ago, Xalon said:

I'm surprised multiboxing is allowed. It's the most blatant way to be cheap and lazy at the same exact time. Want to level more characters? Then take the time to do so like the other players do. 

 

Call it a wild crazy hunch that it takes skill to multibox 3 Masterminds effectively. The pet AI does much of the heavy lifting, but not all. You still have to manage pet commands, buffs, debuffs, so on and so forth, at least if you want to maximize your power and efficiency. Personally, I consider multiboxing a solo activity. And I find it to be quite fun. No one is asking you to accept it or even play it yourself, but "cheap and lazy?" I think not. Not all setups are 3 spines/fire brutes with 1 power on auto-use. Besides, experimenting with different team makeups, primary/secondary parings and so on is quite fun. 

 

"Take the time to level like other players?" You speak as if these things are mutually exclusive of one another. If I am making another /time MM, then I know quite well what I am doing and if I want to speed level them to 50 in an evening that's my business. But by the same token, I have only just started playing the /marine secondary. And since it is new to me, I am leveling almost entirely solo and primarily through Ouros, doing all the contact/story missions that I missed. I'm not even using EXP boosters either. I am trucking along at level 24 now and still learning the set. I do this explicitly because I am un-experienced with /marine, and I don't want to power level myself and not have a clue how to play it at high level play.

 

People are allowed to do both things. And neither one is wrong. If someone rushes a set or build they are unfamiliar with, dumps the time and inf in gearing it up, but have absolutely no idea what they are doing with it, then I say that's their problem. And to be blunt, not anyone else's business. "But then we are stuck with them on a team" some like to say. To that I would point out that I have been stuck on teams with unskilled people who most likely DONT multibox. If anything, there are MORE of them. And more people who were not power leveled either. Just because someone "played the game" in a manner you approve of, does not magically make them a high skilled (or low skilled) player. Not everyone plays at the same skill level. And that's okay. I would even say, that is the normal state of things and to be expected. Want to know what I think is even cheaper/lazier? Wanting to do all these team activities, but not being willing to start or lead them, and then complain about it. Want to enforce rules and hold people to standards? Start your own team. And do everyone (including yourself) a favor and announce the terms if there are any. So people who don't meet them (as well as don't care for them) can avoid joining, in which case everyone will likely enjoy the game more.

[Ghost]

Wasn’t there someone on here who once claimed to multibox 8 toons at a time, when he farmed?

[Glacier Peak]

14 hours ago, macskull said:

3 per server, so technically 18.

*"If the status indicator for a shard is red (3 dots, 1,100+ players) you may only play with a single account."

 

So Excelsior is probably not going to work in that 18 total very frequently, except outside of peak times. 

Edited Tuesday at 04:33 PM by Glacier Peak
Superfluous

[golstat2003]

I run two accounts on my laptop at once when farming a new toon only, when my lowbie can't get on a farm. And only on non peak times.

 

You'd be surprised how many folks do this in Pocket D.

Edited Tuesday at 04:39 PM by golstat2003

[Sovera]

3 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

*"If the status indicator for a shard is red (3 dots, 1,100+ players) you may only play with a single account."

 

So Excelsior is probably not going to work in that 18 total very frequently, except outside of peak times. 

 

Just to add to this (not to you in particular who is aware of it but others may not and are reading this) transferring servers is painless, instant, and can be done 5 times a week. I was leveling a Sentinel with a buddy over Excelsior despite my main home server being Everlasting. I was constantly transferring back and forth to either grab IOs or dumping my old IOs from my base.

 

So someone who does want to go through the trouble of setting up a multbox system they can transfer their level 50 characters over to a quieter server, farm away, and then make a level 1 disposable alt there who can transfer goods and cash.

[Jawbreaker]

On 7/25/2025 at 7:15 PM, AboveTheChemist said:

 

If you are referring to multiple launch parameters in the HC Launcher, you can list them sequentially separated by a space as below:

 

 

The last one is cut off due to the width of the window, but it is the -assetpath assets/mods parameter needed for pigged mods (such as those from City Mod Installer).

Is there a list of commands you can enter here and what they do anywhere in the forums? I couldn't find anything

[AboveTheChemist]

1 hour ago, Jawbreaker said:

Is there a list of commands you can enter here and what they do

 

This page on the wiki should get you where you are going:

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/List_of_Command_Line_Parameters

[WanderingAries]

On 7/28/2025 at 9:54 PM, Zhym said:

Thanks for this.  I prefer my camera distance to be a little bit father back than the default so I can see mobs coming up behind me.  I've been typing "/camdist 25" every time I log in for about five years now.  Finally, it happens automatically!

 

Of course, now that it's a habit I'll probably keep typing it.

 

Isn't that something you can adjust in the settings so that it's account wide?