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Mr. Epic
May 13, 2007
Words are just not enough.

One of the greatest griefing videos I've ever seen.

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Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Calenth posted:

Not the wildest or most extreme griefing ever -- no Eve shenanigans, and every MMO has had similar incidents -- but amusing to me because the game had so obviously been designed from the ground up to be completely grief-proof. A few days after we got rolling Disney shut down the beta and didn't open it up again for like a year.

And elevator jumping, don't forget elevator jumping. Hey there, random fourth player! Wanna have some fun? "Let's go defeat a Cog building!" "Okay!"

All four players on board the elevator, ready to go? Hooray! Aaaand just as the countdown timer hits zero and sends you up into the building, the three griefers jump off and send that poor schmuck up to certain doom. :byewhore:

I do believe they changed that real drat quick.

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

Beaky the Tortoise says, click here to join our choose Your Own Adventure Game!

Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens!

Calenth posted:

Best griefing I was ever part of was when Disney's Toontown did its first open beta.

The game was designed to be completely grief-proof, because it was targeted at little kids. Everyone's character was a disney animal, like a duck or a goofy-esque dog or a mouse or whatever. Unless you entered another player's passkey, you couldn't even understand what they were saying -- they'd just speak in speech bubbles full of animal noises ("quack quack wuack" etc.) Character names are picked from a menu. There's no way to trade items with other players. So on, so forth. Designed from the ground up so that you cannot grief other players.

The basic engine of the game was reclaiming parts of Toontown from a "cog invasion" -- robots, basically. The cogs took over houses, you freed the houses, etc. Some houses were tougher than others and so forth

So what we did was powergame the city zones so that all the entry-level zones so thoroughly that there were no cogs at all and people couldn't advance & the game ground to a halt. We got really good at ninja-grabbing the houses as soon as they spawned before other players could start them, etc.

After a while people got really irritated with us but there was nothing they could do except follow us around making "woof woof" "quack quack" "meep meep' noises.

Not the wildest or most extreme griefing ever -- no Eve shenanigans, and every MMO has had similar incidents -- but amusing to me because the game had so obviously been designed from the ground up to be completely grief-proof. A few days after we got rolling Disney shut down the beta and didn't open it up again for like a year.

I'll do you one better. At one point the main spawn point for the starts of the game only had a handful of exits. Myself and collaborators created multiple accounts and each ran multiple copies of the game, we completley blocked the entrance to the actual game from the spawn points. This was on the weekend and it seems there were no GMs about, we did not get booted and banned till monday afternoon.

Some Cool Guy
May 14, 2007

by angerbotSD

F201 posted:

The best part is that when they betrayed and killed the CEO, he was in a priceless, one-of-a-kind ship. That's a pretty big gently caress you.

But that's not all... they killed him with another priceless, one-of-a-kind ship. That is style.

Hold up, I thought the CEO was a she.

...well, probably not in real life. This is the Internet, after all.

Anyways, this is seriously making me want to go get into this game, as being a mercenary fighter pilot is a fantasy of mine. I assume you can run it on a low spec PC (Newest game I can run is Rise of Nations)?

Some Cool Guy fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jun 28, 2008

Liberal_L33t
Apr 9, 2005

by WE B Boo-ourgeois

Some Cool Guy posted:

Hold up, I thought the CEO was a she.

...well, probably not in real life. This is the Internet, after all.

Anyways, this is seriously making me want to go get into this game, as being a mercenary fighter pilot is a fantasy of mine. I assume you can run it on a low spec PC (Newest game I can run is Rise of Nations)?

I personally don't recommend it. I tried to get into it a few years ago but I never got to participate in any shenanigans, or pvp, or anything really, just a grind as soul-crushing as Star Wars Galaxies at its worst. Maybe its better with goons though.

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived
Can someone here explain WHY THIS IS FUNNY AT ALL?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R4dfaylxz1A

It's a small community, FF is on in 95% of the servers. There is no individual mute player option anymore, like other source mods, you have to mute everyone.

Is this clever? Fun? I don't get it.

Dr. Video Games 0050
Nov 28, 2007

zer0spunk posted:

Can someone here explain WHY THIS IS FUNNY AT ALL?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R4dfaylxz1A

It's a small community, FF is on in 95% of the servers. There is no individual mute player option anymore, like other source mods, you have to mute everyone.

Is this clever? Fun? I don't get it.

I always find it funny when no one leaves and instead they spam "SHUT UP" over the mics...whenever someone would leave on a Brittney Spears record I'd just leave the game and find a new one.

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived
There's maybe 5-6 servers with people in the first place. When these assholes come through, people just up and quit playing rather then try and find another full server with a good map and team work. That's the annoying thing, you'll be in a great game, people will be talking to each other, working to get objectives and then "one" (i say this because it's always 2 guys doing it, with almost identical private steam IDS) griefer comes in and tks everyone over and over in spawn while mic spamming the most annoying poo poo possible.

The sad thing to me is, because it's FF on everywhere, and there is no dead talk, as soon as they get shot, they aren't heard. So naturally, right away everyone just starts shooting them until they get bored and leave. Unless they set up an MG in the spawn, then you're going to die until they have to reload over and over.

I don't know, it's just, really lame. I can appreciate a good grief, something that takes creativity and has humor to it. Maybe it's all the funny evil poo poo I did in UO back in the day, but this just reeks of bored 10 year old who thinks he's so clever that he makes youtube videos to gloat. What's the point of just coming in and being a total rear end in a top hat? It irks me, on a human level, that's like some sociopath poo poo.

Funso Banjo
Dec 22, 2003

zer0spunk posted:

Can someone here explain WHY THIS IS FUNNY AT ALL?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R4dfaylxz1A

It's a small community, FF is on in 95% of the servers. There is no individual mute player option anymore, like other source mods, you have to mute everyone.

Is this clever? Fun? I don't get it.

Roomba are Mygot members.

There entire aim isn't to upset people in a funny way, but to create what they call rage. Where others stop enjoying the game and either quit or scream. A lot of what they do is griefing and funny, but raging is their main game. I think wikipedia covers the difference in their griefing article, if not check Mygot's website.

Their website is unintentially hilarious. Mygot members take everything more serisouly than most normal game players, and they show their new members in a gallery, which is equally fun because 50% of them are morbidly obese, and the other 50% are 12 years old.

For a forum/guild/organization committed to griefing it is funny. For me griefing is about having fun, not trying to get mentioned in articles, which for them it has become.


vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Mygot was around well before BF2, but anyway, yeh, Ishkoo who makes some of the videos at least is a member of Mygot. Though I'll give Roomba the credit for having a sense of humor.

Funso Banjo fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 28, 2008

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Funso Banjo posted:

Roomba are Mygot members.
What? Team Roomba has been griefing (or just abusing their own server anyway) since BF2. Myg0t is something else entirely.

Only Shallow
Nov 12, 2005

show
I enjoyed reading the Tribes 2 Annoying Bastard Guide.

Sigmund Fraud
Jul 31, 2005



quote:

/invite Persontoannoy
/script for i = 1, 20000, 1 do RandomRoll(1,100) end
Best part is that it goes thru ignore and a slow computer will start lagging and possibly even disconnect.

I like to drop my infernal in a low/midlev horde city (horde aswell), tell it to stop and run away, causing it to go hostile to everyone. It'll kill players, guards and quest npcs.

Mages love to create city portals in battleground games near the gate, and people will often accidentally click them, causing them to leave the arena and be locked out from a new match for 15 minutes. This was a bit more effective back when the wizard summon graphic looked like this, but it still works every now and then.

Infact, you can make people accidentally leave battlegrounds in many ways, leading to them being locked out. Going afk in a battleground would cause this, and it's possible to trick many people into doing this.

/battleground ***AFKicker HAS INITIATED A VOTEKICK AGAINST PLAYER Shallowgrave-Ravencrest FOR: Griefing. TO VOTE TYPE /afk yes OR /afk no. ***

It'd look kinda automated and like 2-3 people will fall for it whenever I do it.

One personal favourite in a ctf-type of battleground is to steal the enemy flag and use a broken piece of terrain to climb outside of the normal map, making yourself invisible to the enemy team. That way your team will be completely unable to score and win.

You can also be a huge jerk to some players. Just tell them you're gonna quit the game, and trade them several valuable items and a heap of gold, but don't click accept. Just tell them that you've got a phonecall and will be back in just a few minutes. Go take a shower and watch a movie. Sometimes they will keep the trade open, waiting for you and hoping for free stuff.

Griefing is real fun, but it's best to simply not kill a player, but to kite several mobs to him. If he uses a healing ability, they will all aggro him and he will take durability damage, which costs money to fix. Repeat until his gear is broken.

Sigmund Fraud fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jun 28, 2008

Turpitude
Oct 13, 2004

Love love love

be an organ donor
Soiled Meat

Sigmund Fraud posted:

Mages love to create city portals in battleground games near the gate, and people will often accidentally click them, causing them to leave the arena and be locked out from a new match for 15 minutes. This was a bit more effective back when the wizard summon graphic looked like this, but it still works every now and then.

Here's the best video ever of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n52v0bVpWis

massive spider
Dec 6, 2006

When I get bored in TF2 I've taken to going medic, changing my name to "The Needlegun Commando" and seeing how high I can climb up the scoreboard while never healing, ever.

Aside from that I actually do help my team, check for spies, escort people with the intel ect. I just dont heal, no one seems to appreciate my assistance however.

Zazamoot
Apr 2, 2005
During the Luclin expansion of Everquest a bug appeared that resulted in character strings resembling "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||" often crashing the clients of those exposed to it. You could snipe somebody across the world with a malicious /tell or waltz into a popular zone and /shout it out. Following the latter with a /who, you'd usually get a list with 90% of the names followed by <LINKDEAD>, meaning they were no longer playing, but their characters were stuck in the world for a short period of time. This was a good way to get your enemies killed, but more importantly, since this was Everquest, it was a good way to steal camps from others.

I recall it eventually being declared fixed, but it still had a good chance of crashing people a few months later, when I finally quit. Oddly enough, strings using lowercase L's had a similar impact. I discovered this on a raid, when I used /say to test it on my guild. I honestly didn't expect it to work, but people were furious with me when when everybody within twenty feet of me went linkdead, nearly wiping us.

Floor is lava
May 14, 2007

Fallen Rib
A bunch of griefs by Shawn Elliott of GFW. He is the king.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_UZ1jSXaF-Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6qJ2e_ED56U
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXuitQ_nY-E

Floor is lava fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jul 7, 2008

TITY BOI
Apr 4, 2008

A REAL HUMAN BEING
AND A REAL TITY BOI

I'm not exaggerating when I say that that was the funniest thing I've ever seen

mellowjournalism
Jul 31, 2004

helllooo

Shumagorath posted:

Back in the day, you and a friend could trap the entire terrorist team in their spawn on CS_Siege by standing in the doorway and air vent, and new players often didn't know about the vent. If I was having a bad day there would be five minutes of people bitching while I pretended not to speak english followed by one grenade that ended it all.

Ohhhhh man those were the days. One time we had the team practically locked down from map start until map end, and somehow most of them stayed on the server till the bitter end. Probly the only time I've ever seen the entire CT team quipped with grenades for the entire map rotation, I don't think they even bothered to buy guns, except for the occasional para for noise's sake.

It was like the goddamn fourth of july in there

Jer
May 23, 2003

nba balla/entrapenour

Funso Banjo posted:

Roomba are Mygot members.
hell no

death cob for cutie
Dec 30, 2006

dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4

Mr.Roboto posted:

Do you guys happen to remember the exact name of those guns and where you got them?

:laugh:

Hey, hey, you. I found the gun, but I can't find a place that sells them and they're not on SLExchange it seems. The gun's called the JR-Vanguard 1.15, some guy named Jiminy Roo made it. I found a site that sells other things he/she made, but not this particular gun.

Not an Anthem
Apr 28, 2003

I'm a fucking pain machine and if you even touch my fucking car I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU.
I had no idea Team Roomba made grief videos, those are loving hilarious as well as the Galad/etc UO stories.

clamiam
Mar 4, 2008

IF A ROBOT IS BUILT IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS IT IS HARAAM

Jer posted:

hell no

I still don't think anybody has made the connection, dude.

(I'm just going to wait until somebody does; it's funnier that way.)

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

Son, I play SS13

I know a thing or two about griefing, okay

Jibrish
Oct 1, 2006
My helicopter goes soi soi soi
Made some lovely free blog to host some grief's a couple friends and I do. It's for easy linking.

In my opinion, the WoW grief is the best.

http://griefing.wordpress.com/

CrazyJesus
Jun 6, 2008

setafd posted:

Son, I play SS13

I know a thing or two about griefing, okay

What he said.

Toolbox + Welder = bang BANG BANG bang bang

GetWellGamers
Apr 11, 2006

The Get-Well Gamers Foundation: Touching Kids Everywhere!
I'm surprised this thread got five pages without a mention of the "Sime apocalypse" in UO. I used to have a link to it but it's dead now.

Basically, some guy held the entire world for ransom and unleashed an apocalyptic tidal wave of slimse he'd grown in his house when they failed to pay up. :eek:

CheechLizard
Jul 1, 2000

It stays at 50%, goy!
I joined a French TF2 server the other day. My team were idiots, shouting for medics despite the fact that they weren't yet injured and there was no medic on the team so I switched to medic and started messing around.
Ubered engineers and medics, followed our spy around healing him, spammed "I am fully charged" and watched our pyros and heavies suicide, followed the heavies around spamming the medic key. Got bored of that, switched to engineer and set up a teleport trap outside our spawn.
A bunch of confused french people stuck in a teleport is funny.

Varkas
Apr 16, 2003

If I post before 5pm PST, PM my boss and tell him I'm fired.

clamiam posted:

I still don't think anybody has made the connection, dude.

(I'm just going to wait until somebody does; it's funnier that way.)

I made the connection right away when I saw the vid, but that's mainly because I played on the goon BF2/2142 servers with those guys a bit.

I'm not really into griefing, but that trivia portion was hilarious.

Major Burns
Jul 25, 2007

GetWellGamers posted:

I'm surprised this thread got five pages without a mention of the "Sime apocalypse" in UO. I used to have a link to it but it's dead now.

Basically, some guy held the entire world for ransom and unleashed an apocalyptic tidal wave of slimse he'd grown in his house when they failed to pay up. :eek:

I can't find the original post but the story goes that some guy found a way to lure a slime into his house in ultima online and trap it behind a stool.He then exploited a glitch to duplicate the slime hundreds of times over the course of a few weeks.Because the slime was trapped behind a stool,all the slimes were duplicated in the same square.The player then went to the main town with a list of items and threatened to unleash the slimes if he didn't receive the items on the list.
The other characters all laughed at him,so the player removed the stool blocking the slimes and let them run rampant int the town.The slimes slaughtered everyone in the town,causing chaos and confusion everywhere.
A month or so later the player tried the same thing again,he went to town with a list of rare and expensive items.This time he was given everything on the list because of what happened last time.
The player unleashed the slimes anyway :)

The Deadly Hume
May 26, 2004

Let's get a little crazy. Let's have some fun.

Major Burns posted:

I can't find the original post but the story goes that some guy found a way to lure a slime into his house in ultima online and trap it behind a stool.He then exploited a glitch to duplicate the slime hundreds of times over the course of a few weeks.Because the slime was trapped behind a stool,all the slimes were duplicated in the same square.The player then went to the main town with a list of items and threatened to unleash the slimes if he didn't receive the items on the list.
The other characters all laughed at him,so the player removed the stool blocking the slimes and let them run rampant int the town.The slimes slaughtered everyone in the town,causing chaos and confusion everywhere.
A month or so later the player tried the same thing again,he went to town with a list of rare and expensive items.This time he was given everything on the list because of what happened last time.
The player unleashed the slimes anyway :)
That is freaking awesome.

"Laugh at me, will they? I'll show them, I'll show them ALL! Go then, my loyal fungus, teach those fools the meaning of FEAR."

Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

dsage posted:

A bunch of Griefs by Shawn Elliott of GFW. He is the king.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_UZ1jSXaF-Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6qJ2e_ED56U
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TXuitQ_nY-E

I love how he was upset that Age of Conen didn't have more bridge areas so he could set up a toll booth and require newbie players to take off their loin cloths to get by.

Stick Figure Mafia fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Jun 29, 2008

Sled
May 20, 2004

Musashi not only wields a sword but also a pair of pistols.
I loved griefing the Chinese farmers in Tyr's Hand in World of Warcraft. As a horde druid, I had access to a quest which let me get an illusion of an Scarlet member (the faction of the mobs the Chinese farmers killed for their gold to sell). With that illusion, I could go around PK'ing farmers, and whenever some of them decided they wanted to kill me, I just had to go into travel form into a group of Scarlet Crusade members, and they would defend me from the Chinese farmers.

It was a lot of fun.

KatMan911
Jan 21, 2002
CHEAP FUCKASS. I HAVE NO COMPASSION. IGNORE ME. I AM WORTHLESS.

Diogines posted:

In the MMO Asherons Call there was an area called Fort Teth. At the time, it was one of the most populated areas in the game, always very crowded. Peopel were coming and leaving constantly, you might find 300 people there at peak time. There were in fact 300 people there at peak time. It was on the other side of the game world from most of the populated cities and in the middle of a (huge) hostile region, which took up roughly a third of the game world. Asherons Call did not have zones, it was one massive, seamless world.

Also in this game was the dread Killer Bunny. This bunny was not seriously meant to be killed, really it was a monty python joke. It had never been killed up to this point. The bunny was a an hour and 10 minute run from Fort Teth from it's cave. The rabbit could outrun well, anyone, though with a fast player, it might take some time to catch up. It always automatically targeted the closest player. Myself and a large group of compatriots got in fighting range and then, ran. It kept killing us but we had enough people in on this to keep it chasing after us the whole way.

Finally it got to Fort Teth... and the slaughter began. In AC if you died, your corpse dropped your a few of your best items, though no one but you could get the items for hours. Fort Teth being a hub of the game, people would bring their mules there, low level characters filled with loot to trade and no combat ability. The rabbit arrived and... the slaughter began. It went on for close to 5 hours. The game had poor path finding AI, once the rabbit was in the fort it coudl not get out, but it COULD attack anyone in range. The ground was so covered in corpses you could not see it in large patches. At first people were calling in allegiance(guild) mates to make an event out of it, to try to kill the dreaded rabbit. Then it turned to desperation. People died and starting losing seriously great loot but they could not go to recover them because the rabbit would one shot everyone who showed up. The rabbit went unkilled, but people kept coming in for hours and hours, just logging in, having no idea what awaited them and instantly dying. Most would come back after dying to see what happened and... die again.

It was a thing of beauty.
Haha, this is great. So how did it end?

Splendiferous
May 7, 2006

wah dee dah
Are there any MMOs out right now in which griefing is as awesome as it was in UO?

Just to add some content to this post, I played on official shards and then UO freeshards until 2007 as a rogue named Squeak. I was sort of known and maintained a really lovely website for my escapades, but my hat goes off to Galad and LUT, who I ran with briefly, and McFly, who I ran with until he quit. McFly's website was fantastic, but it's down now. There seriously was a ton of hilarious content there, and if anyone has it saved, I think most of you would enjoy it immensely. The site was www.agrandrogue.com, but it's down now.

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

Epsilon Plus posted:

I dunno mine exactly, what I do remember is that it's a huge fuckoff multigun - it does EVERYTHING short of sucking cock. Using chat commands you can change the color and what attachments it has, it has all kinds of fire modes, it can fire colored smoke grenades, blah blah blah.

I'll sign into SL tomorrow and see if it has a notecard or something.

Is it called a "Xi Multicannon" and made of black looking metal with wires and poo poo everywhere, by any chance? Cos if so, then that was one I made back when I played SL. :eng101:

I actually encountered a loving hilarious bug I griefed some people with using a failed attempt to make a new fire mode with it. I had a fire mode on it which fires small green bouncing balls which explode after a while. So I thought i'd make a version which fires a bigger, faster one - I tried to give it a gently caress ton of spin as well. But with the scripting engine, you can't make moving objects spin - which caused a bug where this bright purple, ominously humming ball would shoot out a few meters, then just stop and hover in mid air.

Now this was where the fun started - the scripting system basically poo poo itself when I told it to do something I didn't know it could do, so the ball stopped in mid air and started spinning at a ridiculous rate, even though you couldn't tell by looking at it - due to the physics system being a little... lacking, anyone touching the ball caused it to behave erratically in a number of ways - either the ball would move away from them and avoid them in a weird fashion like some kind of "keep away", it'd punt them a good few meters up in the air.

Most fun of all though was when to any observer, both they and the ball would instantly vanish on contact. What had actually happened was that it kicked the victim up in the air so fast and so far they basically ended up OUTSIDE the physics system of the game at some ridiculous altitude the height counter didn't have enough numbers to read properly. Since objects aren't meant to be so high, it'd basically break their ingame avatar rendering them invisible and breaking all objects attached to them, requiring them to restart SL completley to fix it - IF they could get someone to summon them back to the ground, since conventional teleports failed to work. Another amusing side effect was that the balls also broke the timing system and they'd never ever be removed by the game's spam filter - an area admin had to come along and find/delete them, which can be problematic when they start playing keep-away or end up at some insane undetectable height on the map.

So then I did what any self-respecting rear end in a top hat would have done. Made the balls invisible and handed the weapon out to as many people as I could give it to. :black101:

Budgie
Mar 9, 2007
Yeah, like the bird.
In Shadowbane it is possible with a very high defense character and a few necromancers to wipe out the occupants of a safe zone known as Sea Dog's Rest using a quirk in necro pet agro. The necromancers summon lots of pets on the high defense character who can barely be hit, just outside the safe zone around SDR. The high def character then slowly moves into the town and drops his defensive stance and dies to the pets.

Necromancer pets automatically agro whatever is closest to them when their target dies, so when the first guy died, loads of pets then ran around hitting others inside the town who were usually trade alts and afks who died very quickly.

Performing this every 5-10 minutes was enough to piss a lot of people off, and the technique became known as necro-bombing. They nerfed it slightly with a longer timer on necro pet summons, but it is still possible.

Major Burns
Jul 25, 2007

In any fps with vehicles like the warthog in halo I tend to fill it up with teammates and drive it off a cliff :)

Megazim
Jun 4, 2006

by Ozmaugh
I'm not sure if this has already been posted in the thread but in World of Warcraft if you play a Night Elf (a rogue's stealth can work too but Night Elves are better because they have a taller model, with this trick few escape to them) just go to Sunwell Isle and put yourself in the very same spot of any daily questgiver, preferably a Blood Elf female since they are smaller, and then activate your "shadowmeld" racial skill...

Wait there quietly in stealth mode and watch the hordes come in a hurry to deliver their daily quests... they are like buzzing bees recoleccting nectar, but suddenly they melee hit you instead of clicking the npc questgiver and they are 2-shotted by the sentries and guards before they can realise what happened.

- Here comes this mouthbreather than ganked me yesterday doing dailies, Blam! -5g repair bill.

- Look this rogue has the Warglaives of Azzinoth! his guid has Illidan on farm, Zas! -15g repair bill we have a winner!

It all started after my Druid was sodorangedmized by a s3 Beast Mastery Orc Hunter fag without reason or provocation by my side while doing dailies, this small griefing would surprisingly pump out a lot of steam.



Also in the pre-BC days I was in the process of leveling a priest just to spend entire days in Blackrock Mountain Mind Controling people and launching them to the lava... but then TBC came and nobody went there anymore.

Jetsetlemming
Dec 31, 2007

i'Am also a buetifule redd panda

I don't like the kind of griefing where it's just team killing or stepping on your team's landmines in ET etc. But the really creative, big stuff, the kind of stuff you hear people setting up in WoW and Second Life, is fantastic. Personally, the closest I've come to griefing is spawn camping. In ET spawn rooms aren't closed off areas- they're open rooms. Newly spawned characters are protected by a couple seconds of invincibility when they spawn that goes away if they shoot before it wears off. There's a map named Goldrush in which the Allies have to guide a tank through a middle eastern tank to a bank, the tank blows up the bank doors, then they steal the Nazi gold inside and flee in a pickup. The Axis spawn near the bank is in a back alley but has an opened roof- Allies could shell with area continuously with mortars or, if they were particularly devious, plant a field op nearby. The Axis spawn had a balcony overtop it reached through a crawlspace within their spawn, and a field op up there was pretty invulnerable unless the axis survived long enough to go up to the balcony. The field ops have cannisters of signal gas that call in air strikes. Good field ops would get up to the balcony between spawns, camp for a while and watch the axis spawn timers... then start signaling air strikes at just the right time so the bombs would be hitting the Axis spawn just as the new spawn invincibility would wear off. I've seen Ally field ops kill entire teams all at once dozens of respawns in a row like this, because the area's small enough that one bomb can get them all, but big enough that they can't get to nearby cover until it's too late, unless they're lucky enough to spawn at the far outer edge of the spawn area and flee to the nearest alley. :laugh:

The worst griefing type activity I've done personally was entirely accidental- the first time I played Battlefield 1942 I was on dial up, and fairly new. I joined a random server with people playing, with just a hair under 200 ping. My entire team, essentially, were in airplanes flying over the enemy base. I was doing my best, trying to bomb the enemy, flying around, taking pointers from the friendly teamates... and crashed head first, in midair, into a teamate who happened to be the server admin. I didn't stop laughing for at least ten minutes after I was kicked and banned from the server.

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Thesoldier
Aug 15, 2004

Seek not greatness, but instead truth, and you shall find both.
I've done my fair share

The Realm Online
One of the first MMO's created by Sierra, like Ultima Online, the interface and gameplay were simple so this game was a griefing playground

-False drops
Every player in The Realm had his/her own house that had a chest for storage. Players would hold events in their house known as a "Drop" where players would drop items/gold and everyone would scramble to pick it up. I would hold false drops where when I had like 30-100 people in the house, I would only drop useless poo poo like roses or dye bottles. Sometimes when everyone had showed up I would just say "Drop's over, sorry you guys missed it"

-Middleman Scamming
There was no such thing as a trade window in this game, when you wanted to trade with another player, you each had to hand over the item. This lead to massive paranoia and everyone for big trades would always rely on a middleman, someone who would take the items/gold and give them to another person. All one had to do was just say "HEY IM A HONEST MM CHECK MY PROFILE" and just put a bunch of fake references in their profile. When the trade was complete, you would just run off, and never had to worry about being banned.

-Forging Hot Items
There was a 2handed sword in The Realm known as "The Wrath", this was the only sword everyone ever wanted. In fact everyone and their mother used this weapon. Also it could be enchanted by people with a high level enchanting skill where they could add stats/effects on it that would last forever. Everyone would enchant wraths with FIVES or FIVED (Fire dmg, Ice Dmg, Venom Dmg, Electric Dmg, Strength, Dexterity) Problem with The Realm Online, you could rename weapons to whatever you wanted, and you could dye them. All you had to do was take a generic Two Handed sword and dye it purple and rename it. I've forged more wraths in my time than a counterfeit handbag ring.


Star Wars Galaxies
-Why u blo bike
This phrase was uttered by someone who had their speeder bike destroyed by a goon. If you went into a duel with a person, them and any of their pets/vehicles became an enemy to you. Once a speederbike was destroyed it was gone and needed to be replaced. However, goons being the jerks that we are would trick people into typing /due and destroy expensive AV-21 Landspeeders, and a goon event destroyed someones jetpack which was worth about 150-200 million in game credits (This was when the game was actually fun and the money was worth something)

-Suicidal Droids of loving Doom
Robot Engineers in SWG could program droids to explode on command. Upon explosion they would do a massive AOE to anything considered enemy within a certain radius. Mouse Bombs did 2.5K damage, and R2 units did 5.5K damage, so if you got hit by a R2 unit, you were going down. I ended up dressing up in a turban and desert looking robe, and would go on a campaign of terror to rebel towns on Tatooine. If I found any red rebel players inside a building I could not access, I would be able to send my droid in to do my dirty work.

-Blaster Launcher duels on Coronet
Coronet was the capital city of Coreilla, and was a huge player hangout. You would find over 200 people sitting outside the space port on any given day, and because of this Coronet was a lagfest and drain on most people's computers. There was a weapon commandos could use called a Blaster Launcher which was pretty much a small pistol that made a huge explosion animation. In SWG if you equipped a weapon you weren't certified on, you would do no damage with it. <GOON> members would equip them and duel each other outside of Coronet and watch the pubbie tears flow as the explosions got so bad it would cause people to crash.


World of Warcraft
-Mark of Shame
Mark of Shame was a Horde debuff from a level 30's quest that you got if you answered a lore question wrong. It made every Horde NPC red to you, that you could not interact with them for 1 hour, but you could also attack them. At level 60 you could do the quest and get the debuff. When I learned how to do this, I ended up doing alot of fun things including:

-Killing the org flightmaster when a dragon was up pissing off a bunch of guilds including EJ
-Training the Auction House Goblins to Thrall's throneroom and getting them stuck for 20 minutes
-Killing Kaja on a daily basis, the NPC that everyone goes to when they hearth back to Org to sell/repair
-Training the NPC that you turn Onyxia's head into to the WSG area, when a guild was going to turn it for the buff
-Doing the same when my guild was going to turn it in for the buff before a BWL raid
-Attempted to kill thrall while my entire guild remained green and could keep me healed, however the attempt failed because pubbies would run by and heal thrall. (I had the motherfucker down to 49% health too)

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