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100 HOGS AGREE
Oct 13, 2007
Grimey Drawer

Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:

Isn't it still bannable to admit you play it on sa, though?
I've never even heard of this mod. Why was (is?) it bannable to say you play it? Some sort of huge drama storm or something a while back?

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bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

Ho ho ho! I'll have the same again!
Nap Ghost

Hamelin posted:

I've never even heard of this mod. Why was (is?) it bannable to say you play it? Some sort of huge drama storm or something a while back?

You know how the red spot on Jupiter is a giant, endless storm? Like that, but with drama.

Spiffo
Nov 24, 2005

Hamelin posted:

I've never even heard of this mod. Why was (is?) it bannable to say you play it? Some sort of huge drama storm or something a while back?

There was a huge drama storm with people posting cocks and stuff so dota threads were banished to YCS. Eventually getting caught saying you play DotA was also pretty much punishable in there too. It's not like that anymore though.

Big Mad Drongo
Nov 10, 2006

Spiffo posted:

There was a huge drama storm with people posting cocks and stuff so dota threads were banished to YCS. Eventually getting caught saying you play DotA was also pretty much punishable in there too. It's not like that anymore though.

It's not bad as it used to be, but it's still pretty awful whenever a thread pops up once every few months. A pity, because DotA has the worst community in existence, and would be hella fun to grief. Even without bans, the threads get trolled to death within hours anyway.

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich
My friends played DoTA way too much back in the day. One of them stopped and the other I haven't talked to in a while. I saw him the other day and apparently he won 500 Best Buy bucks for playing in a 3 day DoTA tournament.

I think people are waaaaaaaaaaay too serious about it.

Death Bot
Mar 4, 2007

Binary killing machines, turning 1 into 0 since 0011000100111001 0011011100110110

Thirst for Savings posted:

My friends played DoTA way too much back in the day. One of them stopped and the other I haven't talked to in a while. I saw him the other day and apparently he won 500 Best Buy bucks for playing in a 3 day DoTA tournament.

I think people are waaaaaaaaaaay too serious about it.

I've never played a game without getting yelled at.

Ever.

Like I said, a guy quit because an opposing team made a comeback, and told us we sucked. In the next game, we weren't doing so hot, and another guy ON OUR TEAM basically said we were all horrible and it was our fault, not any of his, that we lost.

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av
DotA easily has to be one of the worst communities around. WoW, CS, Runescape, they don't have poo poo on the amount of drama DotA generates - all the more ironic since it's not even a game of its own right really. Plus the balance is terrible in that one player on your team doing badly (not even intentionally) can potentially throw the entire game out - and of course since the community consists of a bunch of rage queens, mistakes while learning the game just aren't tolerated whatsoever.

And yeah, DotA threads even here just magically turn into something akin to a tidal wave of poo poo colliding with an industrial extractor fan factory. People just forget how ridiculous they look. The sad thing is that DotA in my experience is actually fairly difficult to grief due to all the countermeasures built into it. The only way to really grief is with staggering, intentional incompetence. Though that's usually enough to set them off, to be honest.

mutata
Mar 1, 2003

Anyone have any good CS griefing ideas that wont get me banned too fast or at least wont trip some random auto-ban scripts? I was trying to do the thing where you follow a teamate around until you see an enemy when you start shooting them instead of the enemy and blaming it on them stepping in front of you, but there was a couple admins actually playing.

Mindlessly killing the hostages gets you auto-banned so fast...

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?

mutata posted:

Anyone have any good CS griefing ideas that wont get me banned too fast or at least wont trip some random auto-ban scripts? I was trying to do the thing where you follow a teamate around until you see an enemy when you start shooting them instead of the enemy and blaming it on them stepping in front of you, but there was a couple admins actually playing.

Mindlessly killing the hostages gets you auto-banned so fast...

Flashbanging is always fun. You have to do it in a way to where it doesnt look like its intentional, and you can't do it every round, but if youre smart, you can go to a combat area and try to throw one through the door and miss on purpose and flash your team.

You can hug people's rear end and get in the way, that way people just think youre loving retarded and not a griefer.

TKing won't go unnoticed for long. Also, throwing smokes into high combat areas is also fun. Smoking snipers won't get you kicked the first few times you do it. The idea is to make it seem like you're a loving idiot, and not a griefer, so mix it up a little.

Mainwaring
Jun 22, 2007

Disco is not dead! Disco is LIFE!



The last DotA thread in games got so bad it was moved to YS and renamed something like "Post DotA and warcraft related porn ITT"

CaptainStag
Sep 29, 2004

Good acting is a practiced craft, one that suggests subtlety and nuance.

blackguy32 posted:

Flashbanging is always fun. You have to do it in a way to where it doesnt look like its intentional, and you can't do it every round, but if youre smart, you can go to a combat area and try to throw one through the door and miss on purpose and flash your team.

You can hug people's rear end and get in the way, that way people just think youre loving retarded and not a griefer.

TKing won't go unnoticed for long. Also, throwing smokes into high combat areas is also fun. Smoking snipers won't get you kicked the first few times you do it. The idea is to make it seem like you're a loving idiot, and not a griefer, so mix it up a little.

If FF is on, you can do 1 damage to a teammate and slow him down whenever you hit him with a smoke or flashbang, so I always load up on 2 flashes and 1 smoke when I'm loving with people. It's especially effective if you hit him just as he comes out of a corner to shoot at enemies, as once he's slowed down he's usually much easier to hit and ends up getting shot to hell.

That and you can do the timeless disgusting spray which cannot be un-seen. A lot of servers have them blocked or the admins will be able to tell who sprayed it though.

Or just run around knifing some guy and block him when he tries to peek around corners. There really isn't a lot of stuff you can do in CS these days unless you're creative since a lot of really common griefing methods are either watched for or blocked in some way.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

blackguy32 posted:

Flashbanging is always fun. You have to do it in a way to where it doesnt look like its intentional, and you can't do it every round, but if youre smart, you can go to a combat area and try to throw one through the door and miss on purpose and flash your team.

You can hug people's rear end and get in the way, that way people just think youre loving retarded and not a griefer.

TKing won't go unnoticed for long. Also, throwing smokes into high combat areas is also fun. Smoking snipers won't get you kicked the first few times you do it. The idea is to make it seem like you're a loving idiot, and not a griefer, so mix it up a little.

My strategy for flashing is this:
(this all tends to fall apart on those servers that track teamflashing)

1. Find open top maps, especially like dust - you can wait for your team to rush into the next area while you hang back, and huck a flashbang skyward, blinding everything everywhere.

2. "accidental" door bounces are great, no one has any idea. There's a door in dust that serves as a great choke point - and usually ends up being one of the big firefights of the map - and I've figured out just the right timing to "accidentally" bounce a grenade off the edge of the door and blind everyone sniping/rushing the door right as it gets heavy. Oh, the screams. :D

3. Dropping a flash can be good if done right. Dust has that hole in the wall that can be used as a lookout over one of the bomb sites; I leisurely roll a flash against the inner wall of the hole so that it ends up mostly on the bomb site side, then hop down the opposite way. Bang! "WHO DID THAT BLARGHGHH *BANGBANGBANGBANG*"

But perhaps better than flashing is just playing like a retard when you've got one or two dedicated 13 year olds. I always buy the M249 because it infuriates people. I've had a few more instances of a nasally prepubescent voice telling me to STOP SPRAAAYING! UGH! because people will line up all strategically waiting to rush a spot, and I'll run in spraying bullets everywhere.

e. Smoke is good too, like you said, and it's less "obvious" than flash and potentially just as annoying. again, in choke points like doors, make sure that while everyone else is tossing their smoke grenades inside the door, you're oh-so-accidentally bouncing them off the outside so they land right in the entry.

Spirit Tree
Jan 22, 2007
Photosynthesising

Code Jockey posted:

But perhaps better than flashing is just playing like a retard when you've got one or two dedicated 13 year olds. I always buy the M249 because it infuriates people. I've had a few more instances of a nasally prepubescent voice telling me to STOP SPRAAAYING! UGH! because people will line up all strategically waiting to rush a spot, and I'll run in spraying bullets everywhere.

Problem with flashing is that there is the "Fire in the Hole!" message that often gives you away. However spamming can be a beauty.

Especially after midnight on local server time, you get the loudest gun you can get, usually the ak47, galil, m249 or an unsilenced m4. Awps less because they can't fire as fast. And just trail someone as close as you can, and fire one bullet at a time. The sound can easily be deafening and eventually you'll find someone who'll say something like "WOULD YOU CUT IT OUT YOU'LL WAKE UP MY PARENTS". Oh no they won't turn down their speakers, they'll just yell at you, over a microphone. Once i've done this and heard the argument in the background after he woke up whoever, still holding down the mic button. It was tops.

Mozzie
Oct 26, 2007
smoke spamming in red orchestra I remember to be hilariously effective.

If you are spawning close to the front you can launch both smoke grenades, kill yourself and be back before the smoke has dissipated. I know on many maps you could create giant walls of smoke along all the objectives this way and I tell you it drove people loving nuts

I remember what must have been years ago absolutely ruining danzig for the russians by dumping smoke onto the bridges on 24/7 map servers. I loving hated that crap.

Sanctum
Feb 14, 2005

Property was their religion
A church for one

Mozzie posted:

smoke spamming in red orchestra I remember to be hilariously effective.

If you are spawning close to the front you can launch both smoke grenades, kill yourself and be back before the smoke has dissipated. I know on many maps you could create giant walls of smoke along all the objectives this way and I tell you it drove people loving nuts

I remember what must have been years ago absolutely ruining danzig for the russians by dumping smoke onto the bridges on 24/7 map servers. I loving hated that crap.
There are a lot of ways to grief in RO and I wouldn't recommend any of them because the servers are all heavily administrated by honest-to-god nazis. For like a year now I remain permanently banned from one server for swearing, no warnings, no kicks, just BAN.

On top of shooting weapons out of peoples hands and being a complete dick with arty and smoke, you can always micspam. RO lets you talk on public to everyone on both teams and there is no way to mute a player, so they either disable their voice entirely or put up with you. Driving a transport/tank full of people off the map so everyone gets auto-killed. Teamwounding people in spawn by shooting the legs or arms without killing them. Being a worthless sniper/squad leader. Dropping panzerfausts/satchels for the enemy team to pick up. Standing on a sniper/MGs head, or bumping from behind them so they can't aim.

Just remember that it will mean you either never play on that server again or put up with high pings as a result of playing through a proxy until the next time you move.

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
I was playin' X-Men vs. Street Fighter online a little while back and fought a dude with bad lag.

Not, like, "woah he's a minute behind me", but the whole game would lock up for 15 seconds every now and then.



I beat him because I did Charlie's Somersault Justice when he was jumping forward and there was a lagspike. Cue shitstorm in the main lobby.

[9:43:10 PM] Nagato1992: BULLSHIT CHARLIE DID UNBLOCKABLE ATTACKS
[9:44:12 PM] Nagato1992: SHUT UP, THIS IS BETWEEN ME AND ARCANE
[9:44:20 PM] shintenzu: wtf?
[9:44:35 PM] Nagato1992: THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN MAD OVER A GAME IN YRS

Then we played another game, because he was pretty much making GBS threads himself with rage in the main lobby.

Unfortunately, halfway through the first match, his phone rang. He typed "BRB", something that is not enforced or even really expected, and I brought out the bastion of destruction men can only call "Dhalsim".



Note that the characters he's using in these matches are the absolute two top tier characters. In these games, this is like being beat using Mags/Sent/Storm by Roll/Ryu/Guile or something silly like that.

Dosvidanya
May 28, 2004

I don't advertise for free ;-*
I wonder what the 1992 means in his case.

Araganzar
May 24, 2003

Needs more cowbell!
Fun Shoe

Dosvidanya posted:

I wonder what the 1992 means in his case.

According to his Youtube Channel, he's 24, so it's not his birthdate. Also, the 3rd video on his list of favorites is a clip of Ash checking out Misty's butt.

quote:

I'm a fighting game fanatic who likes all fighting games, but KOF!
My fav is MVC2, and I also play mugen, which I love like a child.

It has to be satisfying to know you griefed someone this eaten up by fighting games...

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?

Araganzar posted:

According to his Youtube Channel, he's 24, so it's not his birthdate. Also, the 3rd video on his list of favorites is a clip of Ash checking out Misty's butt.


It has to be satisfying to know you griefed someone this eaten up by fighting games...

He usually whines about how he doesn't have enough hentai in the main lobby and whines about how people play KOF.

He's also got a satellite internet connection and has foil over his router. Not even kidding.

Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.
I just found a great way to grief in TF2:
Join a server where they take poo poo seriously and if you're the only medic, use the kritzkreig (It's the alternative healing gun, the special grants infinite critical shots for its duration rather than invincibility like the normal one). People get incredibly mad when they hear that ubercharge go off and realize "oh the mother fucker is using the OTHER heal gun"

HORSE RAPER
Mar 21, 2004

by WorstAyatollahEver
TF2 is a riot if you just use a given class as incorrectly as possible. As the Medic, save up an Ubercharge and then never use it, ever, or refuse to heal anyone other than Engineers and Snipers (or, best of all, Ubercharge an Engineer while he's puttering around building things in the middle of nowhere). People also get super pissed if you use an Ubercharge, but don't put it on anyone else, and then waste it by switching to your syringe gun. And it's always fun to find a disguised friendly Spy and then follow him everywhere while healing him.

I've also managed to get people hilariously angry by playing as a Spy and not ever disguising or turning invisible. I had some 4chan-meme-spouting kid screaming "SPY WHY AREN'T YOU DISGUISING" until his voice cracked because I ran around alongside his Heavy, heroically shooting at sentry guns with the revolver and attempting to knife Pyros in the face.

Cheesus
Oct 17, 2002

Let us retract the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wirebrush of enlightenment.
Yam Slacker

HORSE RAPER posted:

TF2 is a riot if you just use a given class as incorrectly as possible. As the Medic, save up an Ubercharge and then never use it, ever, or refuse to heal anyone other than Engineers and Snipers (or, best of all, Ubercharge an Engineer while he's puttering around building things in the middle of nowhere).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ

Go to 3:50.

"Just trying to help!"

Mathemagician
Aug 21, 2003

tell me some more

HORSE RAPER posted:

I've also managed to get people hilariously angry by playing as a Spy and not ever disguising or turning invisible. I had some 4chan-meme-spouting kid screaming "SPY WHY AREN'T YOU DISGUISING" until his voice cracked because I ran around alongside his Heavy, heroically shooting at sentry guns with the revolver and attempting to knife Pyros in the face.
Whenever I end up in a game against less-than-skilled players I do this. No one on my team seems to mind though; it's usually the other team because they keep getting pistol'd. Sometimes I can get a bunch of people on my team doing this, it's pretty funny.

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot
I don't think I've seen it in this thread yet, but the COD4 goons have developed some pretty entertaining methods of griefing both pubbies and fellow goons.

"Team Smoke": Self explanatory. You can only carry one smoke grenade in COD4, but most goons I know have smoke on most of their classes, and we're allf amiliar with how effectively you can hose a roomfull of peolpe by throwing assloads of smoke grenades, dying and respawning and throwing them again.

"Hush": Originally started as "wouldn't it be awesome if our entire team used silencers?" The "Hush" mode of play grew quickly in popularity and complexity, eventually coming to encompass the entire team of goons (mostly) using a Silencer, UAV Jammer, and possibly Dead Silence perks. I can perasonally verify that a team decked out like this is loving IMPOSSIBLE to deal with, as I've come ..into some games on the wrong team, and got my rear end royally handed to me while the pubbies on my team cried tears of "Why are NONE of them showing up on my radar!?"

Eventually, Hush (also known as "Team Shush") mode became a game of hide and seek, culminating in the entire goon team putting on Radar Jammers and Ghilly Suits and hiding in bushes and tall grass, since the ghilly suit effectively makes you invisible if you don't move at all.. For the entire game. Rules are simple: Don't get found, last one hiding wins. We've had our entire group of goons lying in the grass listening to the other team's voice chatter, and literally had people from the other team stepping on us and walking through our entire team, while asking "Where the gently caress did they all go!?"

"Pro-Pipers": The M203 Grenade launcher in COD4 pretty classic, a single-shot grenade launcher with an arc and a smoke trail, which can take some practise to accurately hit and kill opponents in normal games, since the splash damage is not highly effective. However, in COD4 there is Hardcore Mode - no HUD, no health regen, all weapons effectively 1-shot-kill. While it's not an easy weapon to use, the M203 is available to level 1 players, so it quickly became the "Noob Toob" and a weapon of scorn. Until some goons figured out that you can start with two rifles equipped with M203s, which also allows you to have FOUR grenade rounds. Now, put this in hardcore, and give pro-pipes to every goon in the room, and you'll hear pubby rage like nobody's business. RPGs work well also, but are less effective than grenade launchers.

"Clan Imposters": Generally the COD4 goons' rule of thumb is, "Whatever clan has the most people or is the most annoying, steal their clan tag ASAP." Usually at least a couple goons will change clan tags to that of our opponents befoer a game begins. This often generates huge amounts of pubby tears as some 14-yr-old kid who's an "officer" in his clan, attempts to "out" us as being imposters, while we either accuse them of being the true imposters, or claim that a fictitious person told us we could join.

If your timing and voicework are particularly good, it's not hard to say in a falsetto voice, "Hey guys, I didn't get in the game in time, can you back out and invite me?" and you will generally get the opposing clan to leave about 60% of the time, and they then spam you with game invites until one of them gets a clue. My personal favorite mode of clan-cloning attack is to excitedly ask the people in the clan for their website because I'm so excited to join since bobby told me you guys thought I was a great player," generally accompanied by a great deal of TKing, apologies of "whoops!" and a huge amount of "FEAR MY CLAN [insertnamehere] WE'RE GONNA ROCK YOUR WORLD LOSERS YOU ALL SUCK!" which generally gets most of the other pubbies in the room rating down the clan I am "representing," while they are laughing at the same clan being teamkilled by one of their "members" while the rest of them all scream and shout in anger..

coyo7e fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Aug 19, 2008

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

coyo7e posted:


"Pro-Pipers": The M203 Grenade launcher in COD4 pretty classic, a single-shot grenade launcher with an arc and a smoke trail, which can take some practise to accurately hit and kill opponents in normal games, since the splash damage is not highly effective. However, in COD4 there is Hardcore Mode - no HUD, no health regen, all weapons effectively 1-shot-kill. While it's not an easy weapon to use, the M203 is available to level 1 players, so it quickly became the "Noob Toob" and a weapon of scorn. Until some goons figured out that you can start with two rifles equipped with M203s, which also allows you to have FOUR grenade rounds. Now, put this in hardcore, and give pro-pipes to every goon in the room, and you'll hear pubby rage like nobody's business. RPGs work well also, but are less effective than grenade launchers.


You son of a bitch. The noob tube unbalances that game all to hell, especially in the smaller levels.

Also, there's a big clan (or there was) called 40oz. I don't know what the deal with those guys was, but they were some kind of weird CoD4 famous, within the game. I thought it was a funny clan tag so I ganked it and the whole time I used it I got a crazy mixture of 40oz. fanboys and scalding hatred.

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

ImperfectNirvana posted:

You son of a bitch. The noob tube unbalances that game all to hell, especially in the smaller levels.
Naw it's perfectly fair, ask the goons who got 4 kills in the first 3 seconds of a match on Bog or Countdown, or killed the entire other team on Pipeline of all maps, by lobbing a single potshot across the map with his "noob" tube.

To paraphrase Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from cheating." :c00lbert:

Edit: God, I'm getting all my citations wrong today..

coyo7e fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Aug 20, 2008

Sestze
Jun 6, 2004



Cybernetic Crumb

coyo7e posted:

"Hush": Originally started as "wouldn't it be awesome if our entire team used silencers?" The "Hush" mode of play grew quickly in popularity and complexity, eventually coming to encompass the entire team of goons (mostly) using a Silencer, UAV Jammer, and possibly Dead Silence perks. I can perasonally verify that a team decked out like this is loving IMPOSSIBLE to deal with, as I've come ..into some games on the wrong team, and got my rear end royally handed to me while the pubbies on my team cried tears of "Why are NONE of them showing up on my radar!?"

Eventually, Hush (also known as "Team Shush") mode became a game of hide and seek, culminating in the entire goon team putting on Radar Jammers and Ghilly Suits and hiding in bushes and tall grass, since the ghilly suit effectively makes you invisible if you don't move at all.. For the entire game. Rules are simple: Don't get found, last one hiding wins. We've had our entire group of goons lying in the grass listening to the other team's voice chatter, and literally had people from the other team stepping on us and walking through our entire team, while asking "Where the gently caress did they all go!?"
This type of hilarity makes me want to actually play COD4 Multiplayer. I own CoD4, I just can't stand the community behind it.

Khorne
May 1, 2002
In Ragnarok Online if a boss monsters gets hit by an attack and can't fight back or move toward you it teleports away. On most private servers people are bad, or try to do end game bosses with 2-3 people and end up wiping a lot. I played a game called you die, it flies. Every time the party would wipe I'd teleport the boss, and then they'd have to find it again and train it back to the portal where they warped in. By this time it'd heal to full again and the awesome adventure would repeat itself.

People freak out. They bring friends, mass report you, and the GM comes to watch it and then does nothing because you aren't maliciously interfering with their gameplay. I even got peoople banned for repeatedly training it to the portal because it was preventing me from leveling. If they had tried to mvp it with an appropriate party they could just mvp it where they found it, and they wouldn't have wiped at all. The GM agreed with my calmly expressed sentiments while the people I was griefing resorted to calling me a fag and threatening that my guild would never hold a fort or be able to step in to pvp. The joke was on them. We wanted them to hate us so we would have people to pvp against.

Another good way to grief people is to join the latest high rate 99/70 server and bot for zeny. Mail the zeny to yourself in 150-200m increments. People will often vend valuable items at 999m zeny if the highest person on the zeny ladder has very little zeny. They expect people to send them item offers in private message. Once you accumuluate enough money and find something particularly good retrieve your mail and purchase the item. The drama it creates is hilarious, especially if they do it with very rare items that should only drop once every two months.

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

Rex Deckard posted:

And posted 2 pages back. Sigh.

OK, I for the life of me couldn't find any linked stories to the "Slime Invasion" in Ultima Online?

And believe me, I tried, I'm really interested.

Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!
TF2: I just went Spy on a Heavy achievement box map and backstabbed everybody several times. Record was five in a row before a Pyro helping with the Rasputin achievement wised up and started chasing me around.

The best part? It was on my "home" server, so all the punishment I got was people saying "Oh, you," and "Dammit, DeliveryMcGee!" in chat.

rec
Oct 8, 2004
BACK - RUNNING THIS SHIT

Death Bot posted:

I've never played a game without getting yelled at.

Ever.

I feel you. I have no idea what is wrong with the people who play DOTA but they are seriously the biggest bunch of butthurt raging kids I've ever seen & I played CS for a few years.

Back when I used to play wc3 I was never into custom games. A friend of mine asked me to come play Dota, I had heard about it and thought it would be fun. The 1st game I played I obviously didn’t know what the gently caress I was doing and everyone one my team was pointing at me on the map with that wc3 exclamation point x10000 along with people in my team chat saying "OMG, WTF!? NOOB!".

Then I got banned, which I didn’t know was possible in a custom game. Along with PM's of people telling me I should kill myself because I'm so poo poo.

Tried to play another game, did the same trying to find my gears and then half my team quit because I was a "stupid noob".

I really feel sorry for any young kids out there with no experience in online games, who have heard about dota from friends at school - gone out and bought wc3 only to be absolutely punished by strung-out geeks threatening to rape their mother & eat their pets.

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

MageMage posted:

OK, I for the life of me couldn't find any linked stories to the "Slime Invasion" in Ultima Online?

And believe me, I tried, I'm really interested.
It's in this thread, at least twice, and yes one of them was a link to a webpage if I remember correctly.

If I can recount it correctly, some dude trapped a slime behind a chair in his house and duped it a shitload of times, then tried blackmailed people/the server and noone believed him, so he let the slimes free and they hosed a ton of stuff up. I think he did it at least once more, too.

It's not nearly as funny with my retelling, but take an hour and read through this whole thread, some of the stories will have you crying from laughter, they certainly have done so for me! :D

rec posted:

I really feel sorry for any young kids out there with no experience in online games, who have heard about dota from friends at school - gone out and bought wc3 only to be absolutely punished by strung-out geeks threatening to rape their mother & eat their pets.
It's funny, overall I feel sorry for young kids/new gamers playing games today for almost the exact opposite reason: they'll never have the chances to grief people (and be griefed,) that so many of us have had, and they'll never know the real thrill of risk and feelings of accomplishment that those old games with slack PvP/etc rules could impart. poo poo, some of my greatest gaming experiences of all time were nothing more than surviving to escape from powerful pvpers and griefers in myriad MUDs, MMOs, shooters, and various other online games. :)

coyo7e fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 20, 2008

m2pt5
May 18, 2005

THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

coyo7e posted:

If I can recount it correctly, some dude trapped a slime behind a chair in his house and duped it a shitload of times, then tried blackmailed people/the server and noone believed him, so he let the slimes free and they hosed a ton of stuff up. I think he did it at least once more, too.

I seem to recall that the second time he did it, everyone gave him what he wanted, but he released the slimes anyway.

Drox
Aug 9, 2007

by Y Kant Ozma Post

m2pt5 posted:

I deem to recall that the second time he did it, everyone gave him what he wanted, but he released the slimes anyway.

Which was the best part of the story, of course. This is why you shouldn't negotiate with terrorists.

FuriousThird
Jul 24, 2006
second third same as the first

Khorne posted:

Another good way to grief people is to join the latest high rate 99/70 server and bot for zeny. Mail the zeny to yourself in 150-200m increments. People will often vend valuable items at 999m zeny if the highest person on the zeny ladder has very little zeny. They expect people to send them item offers in private message. Once you accumuluate enough money and find something particularly good retrieve your mail and purchase the item. The drama it creates is hilarious, especially if they do it with very rare items that should only drop once every two months.

This just reminded me. A few years ago I got into RO pretty heavily for about four months. At first I played it legit, but even with xp multipliers the grind was too much for me so I resorted to botting. I got away with it for about a month before an admin found my bot in some obscure area (an underwater place I think), whereupon he kicked and banned me. I wasn't too concerned since I had been getting bored with even botting the game, but I tried to save my character anyway. I logged onto the server's forums and claimed the admin who banned me was coerced into doing it by some other guy who had a personal vendetta against me (I didn't know either of them).

For some reason I've never been able to figure out the guy who owned the server claimed he checked the logs and confirmed what I said and reinstated my character. I can only assume he wanted to get rid of that admin anyway or something. A while later the owner spawned a bunch of sasquatch things out of nowhere during an 'event' which slaughtered everyone in the area and crashed the server.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

When I used to play EQ, I would talk up peoples armor and weapons and be real nice and ask if I could examine them in the trade window. "WOW TAHTS AWESOME CAN I LOOK AT IT!!!!". When I saw it unequip off them, I would start moving all around causing them to miss me to drop it on the ground. I'd pick it up, run away and hide. I got a "Brown Chitan Protecter" off a druid once and gave it to one of my friends. The druid caused a massive bitchfest about it and got the gm's involved. He got his item back and next patch a confirmation box would come up, and you had to pick "Yes" or "No" before it would fall on the ground.

Maybe not directly related to me but I like to think so. Always thought I was one of the few to actually change something in a MMORPG.

AuMaestro
May 27, 2007

Sometimes on TFC, my team would be in kind of a sweet spot of snipers/engineers/whatever that they didn't really need medics (usually on 2forts, where health kits were always within ten feet). So, if someone on the other team was paying attention, I could get infected by an enemy medic, and then run back to my spawn and get everyone else infected with the disease. Usually, someone else would join in, but mainly it just caused a bunch of problems for everyone. Predictably, about a third of the team would be medics after that.

Can you still do that in TF2?

Hyphen-B
Nov 28, 2004

by Nyc_Tattoo

AuMaestro posted:

Can you still do that in TF2?

Sadly, medics can no longer infect people.

30 Second Artbomb
Apr 16, 2006

call the police

AuMaestro posted:

Sometimes on TFC, my team would be in kind of a sweet spot of snipers/engineers/whatever that they didn't really need medics (usually on 2forts, where health kits were always within ten feet). So, if someone on the other team was paying attention, I could get infected by an enemy medic, and then run back to my spawn and get everyone else infected with the disease. Usually, someone else would join in, but mainly it just caused a bunch of problems for everyone. Predictably, about a third of the team would be medics after that.

Can you still do that in TF2?

No, but you can play battle medic and not heal anyone ever.

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Constantine XI
Dec 21, 2003
omg turk rush
Oh God. Infecting people in spawn and blocking the spawn doors in TFC were such dick moves, but the rage they produced was hilarious.

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