buildmyrigdotcom posted:Probably about half the time I invested into Battlefield 2 was variations of suicide bombing with C4 strapped to a vehicle. I could usually manage to jump out of the vehicle and save myself before setting it off. Driving explosive laden jeeps into tanks was probably my favorite. I did this a lot, but not really for griefing. As a spec op, straping your C4 onto the front of a keep or buggy and ramming a tank, jump the last second and click, was a great way to take them out. 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. Diogines fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jun 27, 2008 |
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John Edwards getting pwned in second life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48iIihmKSo4&eurl=http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Patriotic_Nigras
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It happened at Teth a year and a half before AB was even in the game. By the time AB was added, Teth stopped being a real player hotspot. To answer the earlier question, how did it end? When the rabit had no target it would automatically run to the direction of it's spawn, which was blocked by a wall. Eventually some people managed to lead it out the main gate and after they died, it ran back to it's spawn.
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The first year and a quarter or so of Asherons Call after the game came out, there was no trade mechanism. Trades occurred by droping stuff on the ground, for the other person or anyone to get. Everyone else was playing a game called Asherons Call. I was playing "steal things and make people cry". Every day when I got home from school I would log in, go to Arwic or Gual. I would buy some fancy looking but worthless equipment from a vendor, and throw it on a new character to look like a mule. I had robbing people down to an artform. I did not really care about what I got, so much as simply ripping people off. I received a great, great amount of enjoyment from it. The most common scam would be to argue over the price for an hour and work out the most absurd minutia, haggle past the point of absurdity, then demand half up front because *I* did not trust them, most people would be so tired from haggling they would just hand over half the deal. Of course taking peoples items was not enough. Then you claim this character did not have the item and you had it on another mule and you would be RIGHT back in a second! The method for finding thieves at the time was generally this: Whoever publicly screamed in a crowded town first, "X IS A THIEF!", wins. So after wasting an hour or more of someones time and then robbing them, I would run back to town to cover my rear end. I would scream "X IS A THIEF! X STOLE Y FROM ME! DON'T TRUST X! HE IS A THIEF!" then I would rapidly switch between throw away characters and yell out things like "Z IS RIGHT! X IS A THIEF! HE ROBBED ME LAST WEEK DO NOT TRUST HIM HE IS A SCAMMER!", do this with 3 or 4 characters. I was flabbergasted how often this worked, which seemed to be most of the time. The best part was hanging around town later on an another character, say 10 or 15 minutes later when the person finally caught on they were robbed. Then they would run to town and scream that my character was a thief.... and then hearing total stranger yell back "Don't trust X! I heard he is a thief, he robbed my friend!" etc. A lowercase M looked a lot like an r and an n next to each other. The shenanigans with this were unending. Another good scam would be to make a fake name and impersonate people with a lower case m in their name and join their allegiance(guild), then rob other people claiming to be them. Even more fun would be to impersonate guild leaders with a lower case m in their name. In a crowded town no one could tell who was talking by finding them, they simply heard the chat. So, if you had a fake lower case m, you could accuse people of being thieves etc. Eventually a group of "honest brokers" called the FTF, free trade federation opened on my server. I had one respected character and I was invited to join. The FTF acted as middle men for trades and were seen as the only legitimate trade brokers for the server. Once I joined..... it became so much easier. I would rob people constantly and then scream how THEY were thieves, with my neat little membership in the FTF, their reputations were destroyed in an instant, people were thrown out of their guilds for being scammers. I kept on at this for months and months and months, I was proboably one of the wealthiest players on the server, but I just kept stock piling the loot, I never leveled much, I would just log in most days to rob people. A lot of the UO crowd missed out on AC, the first year and a half were incredibly fun. My thief throw away characters got a notorious reputation as scammers and I would get contacted by people who wanted to learn to steal and scam other players. I would demand absurd, exorbitant fees and the majority of these idiots were willing to pay. They would pay me and I was then to give them an in game book with instructions on how to rob people on it. They received a book, but the only thing written in it was "Just how stupid are you?" I got so many threats of real life violence against me. I was well, an rear end in a top hat. Not only did I rob many people, I then ruined their reputations for no particularly good reason except that it was really, really funny. All of that occured on one of the no pvp servers. On darktide, the asherons call PVP server I robbed blood and other people.... oh boy that was fun. There were a handful of mechanical glitches in the game which very few players new about, they did not do anything useful but it made you look like you knew some great secret. A scam I pulled near a hundred times was to show someone "the dupe bug". There was a trick to make it seem like you could dupe a stackable item, like arrows, when in reality nothing happened. I would tell them I was new to the server and needed some stuff worth duping and if they would help provide the original items, either I would dupe for them, or teach them how. Far less people on the PVP server threatened to track me down and murder me, which is the opposite of what you would of expected. Some poor bastard bought 4 special gems you needed to make the best armor in the game on ebay for nearly $600. I strung this guy along for a week before I finally robbed him and he gave me everything for some bizarre and incredible loot I promised him. That was the only time I really felt bad about robbing someone, he was able to prove he really was stupid enough to pay all that money for something in a video game, it was so pathetic that I gave him back 3 of the 4 gems and did not try to ruin his reputation. Diogines fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jun 28, 2008 |
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Calenth posted:Best griefing I was ever part of was when Disney's Toontown did its first open beta. 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.
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stuckeys posted:I loved that game. What I would do was rename potions. Having a low alchemy skill tends to yield a lot of "Potions of Death" that would damage/kill you. Just rename them to "Healing Potion" and give them to your friends! Hahahaha remember guano dropping? Every player in the game had a house with a password on the door, but you could go to their yard. So people would buy large quantities of rat poo poo and absolutley cover peoples lawns with them. Many people decorated their lawns so this REALLY pissed them off. It would take a while to drop all the crap but there was NO way to pick it all up at once, so you to manually click every item to pick it up. Dropping was also much quicker then picking up. One player with 2 or 3 accomplices might totaly cover a lawn in 5 or 6 minutes, but it would take someone an hour to clean the mess up. Of course they did not know who did it, which made it more infuriating. Doing it to the same jackasses over and over.... many hours of laughter. Many peoples doors had passwords which were really, really easy to guess. I cannot even guess how many houses I broke into, but it was a lot. Diogines fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jul 3, 2008 |
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Isometric Bacon posted:I laughed so hard my stomach is actually hurting, my face is wet from tears. I demand more! Isometric Bacon posted:
......can't..... breathe....... diaphram.... broken! Need.... oxygen! Aahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaaha. I demand more! Nostratic posted:Holy crap, one of my high-level guildmates took me to Teth a couple of days before that happened and I logged in right in the middle of the bloodbath. I think I was level 30? I almost pissed myself it was so funny. I am happy to have had a hand in murdering you  .You enjoyed it so I don't think it counts as griefing, but this seems to be the first time in this thread a griefee managed to find their griefer!
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effloresce posted:Yeah, I was a UO griefer as well. There used to be a dungeon spot (Deceit? forget which) that had a room that spawned bone knights, which had a lot of HP and high weapons skill but didn't really deal a lot of damage. So, people would line up at the entrance and crossheal, hitting the BKs with daggers and low damage weapons in order to grind their weapons skills and healing up. It was really cool, everyone got good gains and everyone cooperated. This thread has many incredibly funny stories of good humored griefing. I laughed so hard I cried dozens of times, more then a handful of times till my stomach hurt. I have to be honest, this one is a failure. It is not comical or entertaining, just mean. Let me summarize: A goon gained the trust of some gulliable young girl and then hosed her in a very boring manner. Apparently this gullible young girl was also a cripple whose only joy in life was UO. We robbed her of this joy and ruined her life. Real cool.
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Sentient Toaster posted:Oh, the wonders of MUDs. They have so many features that graphical online games can only dream of. I still feel a MUD is a prime griefing environment because of this. Some of you have probably at least tried Achaea. I think it's the first Iron Realms game. This game world actually sounds fairly interesting, my interest at least has risen. Does anyone still play Achaea? Is it fun?
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Spamming voice commands in L4D is not griefing, it is just irritating. If it happens, I quit the game, hurr, yeah, real griefing.
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JewBrown posted:I dunno if some of this is really griefing, but anyway. Back in the day, I played The Realm which is an MMO released in 1995. Now, one major flaw in this game was that there was no way to trade items securely between players. You simply handed gold/item to another player, and pray they made good on the deal and handed you an item/gold. So to get around this, people used middle-men to do the deal. You hand everything to this person, they make sure it checks out, then hand the stuff to the respective parties. Cue my friend and I taking gross advantage of this system and ripping people off with level 1 characters that we would vouch for as middleman. When they teleported away with the items and gold, we'd pretend we got ripped off, but then later split the booty. I joined the Angels guild, a big middle man group, just so I could rob people. I stole large amounts of stuff from people and then ruined their reputation by reporting them, so no one else would trade with them or group with them.
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I think people should show at least a basic amount of civility online, it bothers me that when I play an RTS or a FPS the overwhelming majority of people playing are total jackasses. Heroes of Newerth is the worst of the bunch, all DOTA assholes. What have I been doing whenever I run into some jackass who goes ape poo poo over a video game? I often see "big" release movies the night or the day they come out, so I see them before a lot of the general public. I type out spoilers of every movie I have recently seen as quickly as I can manage, or just copy paste them from a notepad file. This has generated buckets of tears from deserving jackasses in heroes of newerth. Diogines fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 13, 2010 |
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Jadz posted:Oh boy, are you ever in the wrong place Nah, SA is fine. At least people are coherent when they are being jerks here. What gets to me are the 12 year old kids who cannot type a single complete sentence and constantly yell that you must play the way they command and then bitch and moan the entire game about it.
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A minor thing to take out my frustration on the legion of jackasses who play heroes of new erth. I only play unranked games because I am sick of the endless team stacking in ranked games. Still, people try to stack absurd teams even when there is no score. I do not care if I win or lose but playing on such one sided teams are no fun. When I see these games, I wait till the game starts and tell the host I am quiting because of the team stacking, then ctrl alt delete to close heroes of new erth. There is no in game button to quit out, so most people do not quit till the match starts, a few minutes later. Once one person quits, the whole team usually quits, forcing the host to start all over.
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Yet another griefing technique from heroes of newerth. When my team mates are domineering assholes who yell out their rage at the poor performance of others, I lead my team in breathing exercises over the microphone in as soothing a voice as possible. quote:In with the good air... I am not sure why but this seems to drive them to nuts, they often rage quit after I get through it twice.
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