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SAHChandler posted:In bad company 2, when a friendly was darted, an enemy could lock onto them with the Gustav or RPG. A better way to grief wookies in BC2 was to go Assault with the smoke grenade launcher, find your useless teammate and then start popping smoke forever (because assault was the ammo class). Sometimes they would get the hint and move up, most times they would type angrily into chat that you were literally worse than hitler. My favorite is when they pull out the old "But you're being just as useless as me!" argument in an attempt to make you look like the rear end in a top hat. Then you just shoot a smoke grenade directly into their face. Also, whenever lazy snipers were taking cover in buildings, I'd just run around with C4 and destroy the whole building. Even if the building didn't collapse, killing all the snipers inside, it would ruin their cover and make them really obviously exposed to enemy fire. Bad Company 2 was the best  Also, in Battlefield 3, walking around in front of snipers with a bigass flashlight pointing directly at their faces, blinding them, was super fun. Or just throwing ammunition boxes down in front of them so they can't see past it. Or shooting right over their head in hardcore mode, which suppresses them (and makes their aim suck). One of my favorite things to do is, on servers with friendly fire enabled, you sit a ways away and just peg them in the rear end with a revolver. It will do a fair amount of damage (enough that any other shot from almost any other gun will kill them in one hit, now) and the only way for them to heal up is to find a medic. And since they are out in the middle of nowhere, that means they have to run for a long ways. Snipers will get super pissed at this and occasionally blame the guy nearest to them for friendly firing. If I say something like "Sniper X, I just saw Sniper Y shoot you in the rear end, wtf is going on stop FFing each other" they'll occasionally start killing each other, as I just watch and giggle. If I feel like being a hero, I'll run in with a shotgun and gun them both down, while shouting, "Come on you guys, the enemy is OUT THERE! We can't fight among ourselves, that's exactly what the Russians want us to do." Of course they just get madder and madder about this, until they start trying to kill me, and then I yell "WOAH, SNIPERS ARE TKING WATCH OUT GUYS" and then it's just a civil war of every non-sniper versus every sniper on the team. Guess who wins those fights 
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SpookyLizard posted:I meant specifically griefing. There's a recruitment n thread in MMO HMO regularly, but Games are public, so you can't necessarily post the best stories because you might reveal some critical info or something, or have a characters name get out and ruin their ability to run future scams and stuff. It's a loving video game, what's the point of griefing if you can't even tell anyone about it?
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Mar 24, 2013 21:19
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QuarkJets posted:It's a loving video game, what's the point of griefing if you can't even tell anyone about it? Because they do tell other people about. There's a whole subforum dedicated to scam stories and hatemails/killmails on the gsf forums. Maybe I'm just giving pubbies too much credit to hunt down free information but I'm the paranoid sort at times I guess? Here's a story that got published up on The Mittani.com From themittani.com posted:In EVE Online, the female population makes up only five percent of all accounts (in theory). Some women hide their gender through voice modification or by simply not speaking on comms. Some are vocal about their gender. Some use their gender to their advantage. In EVE, with all the metagaming that goes on, any advantage you have over others can reap huge rewards. More in the article itself. In short, after being explicitly told that this girl would try to scam him, some pubbie invites a girl to his corp because she's a girl and he's a nerd. Whereupon in short order she 'seduces' him and he gives her roles in his corp, she kicks everyone out, steals 50bn worth of poo poo .
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Mar 24, 2013 21:28
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It's been years since this EVE grief was posted so I think it's okay becauseNerdyMcNerdNerd posted:I forget exactly why they decided to antagonize this one corp, but they found out one of the big guys within it had a death in the family. As the story went, his son ( Smokse, in game ) was high and decided that riding a scooter on the autobahn was a great idea. Unfortunately he failed to dodge the grill of a semi-truck. His father in turn named a space station after his dead son. A light clicked in Remedial and FNLN's head, and they waited until they saw his father idling in the space station named after his son.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:13
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Note that Remedial is no longer in Goonfleet, and last I heard he was facing a million dollar fine for unlicensed mortgage readjustments.
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Handgun Harlot posted:It's been years since this EVE grief was posted so I think it's okay because Apparently goons ran this into the ground and people were getting suspended or banned for even mentioning Smokse. But that guy and his dad were in BoB so gently caress 'em.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:34
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SpookyLizard posted:Apparently goons ran this into the ground and people were getting suspended or banned for even mentioning Smokse. But that guy and his dad were in BoB so gently caress 'em. I don't know anything about EVE except what I read here, which is why I like this story: it's not really about EVE, it could happen in any game. It's the total lack of mercy that we have for anyone who opposes us.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:37
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Tulip posted:It's not really about OPSEC, it's about the fact that it would completely take over everything about the thread. Like here's a classic from James315's history. It's a little long but it's kind of an amazing payoff. His ongoing griefing involves hundreds of people in dedicated griefer squads and an entire website documenting it. So did he give it all back? The link is dead.
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Mar 24, 2013 22:58
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Phobophilia posted:Note that Remedial is no longer in Goonfleet, and last I heard he was facing a million dollar fine for unlicensed mortgage readjustments. He thumbed his nose at the court, said ""It's not going to happen [paying the fine]" "Number one, I don't have a half a million dollars or whatever to pay" and joined the Army. I hear he posts in GiP now. Spooky: What's next, you're going to tell Mittani he can't post his supercap scams on TheMittani.com? I get the feeling you're just a line-member making up rules on your own. Stop that. There's nothing OPSEC about posting completed scams.
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Mar 24, 2013 23:05
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Handgun Harlot posted:I don't know anything about EVE except what I read here, which is why I like this story: it's not really about EVE, it could happen in any game. It's the total lack of mercy that we have for anyone who opposes us. It's also from the time the Goons were the uppity underdog of EVE and EVE was dominated by Band of Brothers. In the end, after years of space war, we managed to turn the CEO of BoB and he defected with a pile of poo poo and disbanded BoB, which basically dismantled all of their space stations and poo poo and caused some serious havoc and grief.
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Mar 24, 2013 23:07
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Is the goonswarm using masses of Dust 514-playing goons to further its objectives? I probably don't have the patience for EVE but I like the idea of shooting at other people's precious stuff and winning planets for goon glory.
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Chamale posted:Is the goonswarm using masses of Dust 514-playing goons to further its objectives? I probably don't have the patience for EVE but I like the idea of shooting at other people's precious stuff and winning planets for goon glory. Dust has sweet gently caress all impact on Eve at the moment, so no. There is a goon group playing though that you can find in the thread in games.
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Soulex posted:So did he give it all back? The link is dead. Hm i forgot to check that, i just went with the most readable version of that story i could find. This work links. Though if you want to understand the true depth of the trolling this man caused, i found these links via bitcoiners. His story strikes fear into the hearts of all who work with fake currencies.
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Mar 25, 2013 00:38
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SAHChandler posted:In bad company 2, when a friendly was darted, an enemy could lock onto them with the Gustav or RPG. A better way to grief wookies in BC2 was to go Assault with the smoke grenade launcher, find your useless teammate and then start popping smoke forever (because assault was the ammo class). Sometimes they would get the hint and move up, most times they would type angrily into chat that you were literally worse than hitler. I won several games of BC2 by doing this. Some of the collection of half a dozen (or more) useless wookies would ragequit and open up slots for useful players. Sometimes it was enough to turn the round around and win.
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Mar 25, 2013 00:53
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I love wookies. I would go wook and just lay in front of them, facing them. STARING CONTEST
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Theres another Goon corp made in Dust 514, Immobile Infantry. Theyve been running ads on SA. Right now there isnt anything really tied to EVE. Dust is in Beta and theyre slowly integrating it into EVE. Eventually its supposed to be fully connected and planetary battles will be influenced by space stuff and vice versa, and eventually Dust's economy will be just like Eves. There is no real knowledge as to how muh a corp in space can affect ground battles, though i think it will mostly be limited to Corp Battles (there are also regular, randoms vs randoms battles). With any luck goons will be able to use our massive wealth to commit more clones to a battle, lettin us win through our usual war of attrition tactics.
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Mar 25, 2013 01:01
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Handgun Harlot posted:It's been years since this EVE grief was posted so I think it's okay because It wasn't remedial, it was dungar, and also it was 'smoskefusedwithbike'
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Mar 25, 2013 01:37
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Since we're on EVE I guess this would be a good time to ask for a certain story that I can't find anymore. It obviously involved a guy and some big, long con and at one point another player asked to phone him for some reason. Instead of giving away his house/mobile number he gave the number of his local library or some poo poo and had to sprint down there to answer the call in order to keep the con going. Any help with this one?
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Mar 26, 2013 00:52
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I remember that one and I think I read it on some other site rather than in this thread. Beyond that I can't help- it was great though. It was the first EVE scam I ever read, I think.
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Mar 26, 2013 01:07
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Lugaloco posted:Since we're on EVE I guess this would be a good time to ask for a certain story that I can't find anymore. It obviously involved a guy and some big, long con and at one point another player asked to phone him for some reason. Instead of giving away his house/mobile number he gave the number of his local library or some poo poo and had to sprint down there to answer the call in order to keep the con going. I think I know what one you're talking about. You'll need to dig back some/use google, as I'm fairly certain it was a guy who ended up scamming a shitload of investors out of one of he first BPOs for some new class of ship/never before built class of ships. He ends up stealing their money/ or selling it/something for billions and billions of isk or something like that. He ended up sneakily creating a new character and setting it up with his ill gotten gains and immediately lost interest in the game because he 'won' it.
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Mar 26, 2013 01:17
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Pretty sure it's this one. http://www.wirm.net/nightfreeze/part1.html
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Mar 26, 2013 01:26
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It's the one I'm thinking of.
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Mar 26, 2013 02:08
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If we're talking EVE scams, I once scammed a guy out of 80 billion isk, worth around $2500. Here is a thread about it: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=18037
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Mar 26, 2013 22:35
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Good Lord. A guy in my area is possibly going to be jailed for stealing a 300$ runescape hat, albeit they met IRL and he hit the dude in the face and ran. Im mobile and not able to read the whole thread, but did the scamee post in there?
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Mar 27, 2013 03:05
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:Good Lord. A guy in my area is possibly going to be jailed for stealing a 300$ runescape hat, albeit they met IRL and he hit the dude in the face and ran. Im mobile and not able to read the whole thread, but did the scamee post in there? I imagine that he's probably going to jail more for the assault and battery than for stealing the virtual item
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Mar 27, 2013 03:33
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QuarkJets posted:I imagine that he's probably going to jail more for the assault and battery than for stealing the virtual item At least no one will mess with him in prison when they find out he's in for virtual hat theft.
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Mar 27, 2013 04:21
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:Good Lord. A guy in my area is possibly going to be jailed for stealing a 300$ runescape hat, albeit they met IRL and he hit the dude in the face and ran. How do you steal a virtual hat by punching a dude and running away?
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Lutha Mahtin posted:How do you steal a virtual hat by punching a dude and running away? You have to punch really hard, and hope RNG gives you the item drop.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:How do you steal a virtual hat by punching a dude and running away? You gotta make sure he attacks you first so he gets flagged for PVP so all his items drop when he goes down.
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Mar 27, 2013 07:43
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Zaodai posted:At least no one will mess with him in prison when they find out he's in for virtual hat theft. Valve would have to run some kind of Johnny English style prison, if this were a real crime.
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Orv posted:Valve would have to run some kind of Johnny English style prison, if this were a real crime. All those hours of playing Jailbreak will finally pay off!
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Mar 27, 2013 12:48
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It's ok to make fun of dead people except for Vilerat that's crossing the line. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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^^^Can't say that wasn't deserved. I just wonder what the gently caress you were thinking when you hit that submit button.QuarkJets posted:I imagine that he's probably going to jail more for the assault and battery than for stealing the virtual item Is there an article on this somewhere? This whole situation sounds hilarious. Nerolus fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 27, 2013 |
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Nerolus posted:^^^Can't say that wasn't deserved. I just wonder what the gently caress you were thinking when you hit that submit button. That being said, I've always thought "making fun of dead relatives" kind of crosses some sort of line when trolling. I personally cringed when I read the story about how they griefed the dad about his dead son.
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robodex posted:That being said, I've always thought "making fun of dead relatives" kind of crosses some sort of line when trolling. I personally cringed when I read the story about how they griefed the dad about his dead son. Agreed. Like someone could say "Oh well it was their fault for doing Xyz in a game like this" but that just makes it sound worse for the side saying that. This person we don't like in a game might have done something not entirely thought-out after their son was killed in an accident, we should go and be assholes about it. 
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I've only played Eve sparingly, but is it possible to "steal" money back? Like say I give you 1 billion Isk and you run off with it. Can I kill you and get it back or hack your bank or whatever? Or is there no way for me to legitimately get the money back other than blowing up your poo poo and making you pay to replace it? I'm not saying there should be kid gloves on scams, but there should be SOME way to track down a thief and get it back. Also these Eve scams with the ponzi schemes...how are those any different than real legitimate businesses int he real world>? 
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Jastiger posted:
They're not. There's actually some places where the executives play EVE when they have some spare time and use it as job credentials later.
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Jastiger posted:I've only played Eve sparingly, but is it possible to "steal" money back? Like say I give you 1 billion Isk and you run off with it. Can I kill you and get it back or hack your bank or whatever? Or is there no way for me to legitimately get the money back other than blowing up your poo poo and making you pay to replace it? Destroy a ship, and half of it becomes ruins and the other half drops as salvage. But no, there's no way to beat money out of people--just as well. Imagine trying to get started in the game if a larger guild could roll in, use it's superior numbers/equipment to win a confrontation, and simply take all of your money. There would be one guild and a server full of victims.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Destroy a ship, and half of it becomes ruins and the other half drops as salvage. But no, there's no way to beat money out of people--just as well. Imagine trying to get started in the game if a larger guild could roll in, use it's superior numbers/equipment to win a confrontation, and simply take all of your money. There would be one guild and a server full of victims. You hean EVE vs. Goonswarm?
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