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Pope Guilty posted:How do you manage to pull a bunch of stuff from the bank without somebody going "Hey, fucker, what do you think you're doing?" Because it doesn't alert anyone when you do it, they would have to go check the log. Any guild leader with a lukewarm IQ can set up a new member rank without bank access in 10 seconds, you would have to be stupid to immediately give anyone access the moment they join.
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Poopy McTurds posted:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5455275718237476919&q=team+monstrous&ei=QUFmSNXxDJGIrQKm0rDjBA Quoting this from earlier. Anyone can piss off someone else, but creativity is much more interesting to read. Cheating doesn't matter, its about how you use it. Aimbotting is most definitely griefing, it just makes a lame story, but getting attacked by a swarm of forklifts is hilarious.
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Spiffo posted:I love this. On one of the other pages, there was a story about some boss with a super-powerful attack that you can avoid by diving underwater so he'd use water walking on his allies so they can't. If you make your character face straight down you fall through water like normal, a lot of people don't know that I don't think, I have had some of my friends accidentally survive my attempts to kill them.  Also in Mauradon, for many groups after you kill the main boss at the end you usually jump off a cliff into water for another boss or two, another prime opportunity. In Underbog after you fight the hydra the party has to jump off a platform into water, its not far enough to kill at full health I don't think, but someone that is low on health after the boss fight is a prime target.
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Zenodice posted:However, it should be noted that once griefers start having standards and ethics (a "griefers code" if you will) they can and most definitely will find themselves on the receiving end of some griefing. Standards and ethics has nothing to do with anything in any way. Not having rules to follow doesn't make you immune to griefing in some mystical way. All someone has to do is interfere with what you are trying to do, or do something that makes you mad. I mean, we talk about coming up with unique and interesting griefs not out of some kind of griefers code but because this thread isn't entertaining with 5 pages in a row of people grenading a spawn point or something else old and done to death. Getting someones account banned isn't griefing. It isn't in game and has nothing to do with playing the game, I could probably make an account online and file false reports on somebody without ever owning a 360, or at least without ever owning or playing the game. And judging by this last page, I think teabagging in Halo 3 must be the ultimate grief if it gets someone mad enough to try and get your account banned. I guess it was a griefing story after all.
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This one is more for long time Horde players in World of Warcraft. People will devote so much effort into helping me they will fly into a rage. The longer it goes the worse my spelling and grammar get and the more I misunderstand them. I've told people you cant link quests and argued with them over it, all over a quest I'm having trouble with.
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:So he lost...nothing? I'm a little confused about this whole xbox thing. Can't he just open up a new account for free? Or is it like steam where all the games are tied to your account? There is quite a few things that are tied to account, like all the downloadable content for some games like Fallout 3 like Operation Anchorage. So with a banned account you can maybe log in offline and play them, maybe not, but when the new DLC for Fallout comes out you will need to make a whole new game on a new account and hope your old account can be kept around to view the other DLC for it. So yeah, depending on what you buy it can be very much like Steam. There are indie and old school games for purchase too, like Popcap games. gently caress the achievements and scores and junk, I just wouldn't want to beat someone in a game and have to repurchase a bunch of stuff because they got me banned. I mean, if he wants to play Halo 3 online again he will have to buy map packs over again and stuff like that besides the actual account. Edit: I think an silver account is completely free, I didn't think anyone needed a gold account to play Halo, but there are games out there that do require a gold account. It's entirely possible the guy that got banned had no map packs or DLC or anything and just has to make a new silver account, but I kinda doubt it. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 14, 2009 |
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Reverend Dr posted:Guild Wars Good god, and I thought they were trigger happy killjoys on second life, this is twice as bad. And on WoW you get a warning at the most for foul language, and that's extreme and unusual.
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coyo7e posted:Not true, if you use strong enough verbiage you can certainly expect a GM to whisper you with one of their patented RP-macros which translate to "10 seconds until you are banned for X hours." If it's exceptional, such as a really fantastic stream of epithets and curses, you will probably get hit harder than that. Maybe you got a bad GM or something, especially if it went straight to a suspension. Cussing is just as much against the rules as anything else and blizzard checks chat logs before they punish. Either that or I've gotten really really lucky. You are always supposed to get a warning before any actual punishment is incurred, and I believe different incidents are their own seperate thing. I know this from my days spamming trade with advertisements for Pen Island and that time I molested an orcish war oprhan. I've never been suspended ever and both of those is worse then saying 'fag.' This chart is from blizzard's support website:
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Zero Star posted:Has someone got a working link to the Goon Dating Game screenshots from the first few pages? I've seen a few links in this thread but none of them are valid anymore. I lost it when my hard drive failed last year, someone needs to repost the huge zip file with over 300 images in it.
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I'm a bit late, but I'm really surprised no one said this. Disrupting Chess and card games isn't griefing because you aren't playing the game, moron. Thats the point, when griefing in TF2 you are actually playing TF2 and using things that exist inside TF2, not unplugging someones computer when you walk by or swatting the controller out of their hands. WoW The best thing I've done is 'steal' guilds in WoW. The original was a guild by the name of Tren de Dolor that existed on my old server 2 years ago. The guildmaster was some kind of overserious shithead that I used to be in a guild with before they made Tren. Long story short, they defeated Illidan, the best thing you could do at the time, and they run all kinds of easier previous raids for fun. In the process of loving around they all wipe on an older fight. From what I heard he completely lost it over voice chat, an officer complained behind his back and he found out, kicked the guy out of the guild, main tank quit, people got pissed and left, top guild on Horde side dissolved overnight. Funny thing about WoW is, an uppercase 'i' looks exactly like a lower case 'L'. Queue the formation of Tren de DoIor. Me, friends, and random people that got the joke remade his character at level one with character codes to replace letters in his name, and I remade the tabard and we ran around the major cities bragging and poo poo talking to everyone we could find. We are the best guild on horde side! We downed Illidan! Bet you wish you were in our guild! People went nuts, sent us hate messages for stealing the guild, stealing the character, thinking we were the real guy and bragging, spamming trade chat, or just plain hated the guild. Recently we tried the same thing when a guild left our current server, top guild Farm Status left and I made Farn Status. The guild leader was a tank, so we remade his character and found ways to outfit level 1s in full sets of gear with shields and everything to run around with. Pretty much the same effect, not quite as good as the first though.
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In wow you dont need to type, you can just left click their name in the chat window. And I invited all my friends characters to the guild by shift clicking their names into the guild invite window. Right clicking a name brings up a menu with options like 'invite to group' or 'put on ignore.' We were all talking with headsets over ventrillo, it was mostly people I know in real life, hell if I'm gonna figure out if the guy with the funny 'e' is whichever friend. The best thing about this, is that many people didn't notice the differences and would put one of us on ignore and get furious when it didn't seem to work. We couldn't get reported for spam because individually none of us spammed anything, it was only spam if you thought it was all one guy and not eight bored people. Edit: Oh, we also got a couple starstruck people with no common sense to quit their guilds and join ours for a shot at raiding with the top guild. Of course, several of us are standing right next to one of the victims obviously not the guild leader, not level 70, and not an individual person and he joined anyway. We fully promoted that guy all the way up and down the guild ranks, which were named after the guild leader, and logged out into other characters leaving him all alone. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Dec 13, 2009 |
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Eyebrows Mulligan posted:Yeah sorry about being pretty late about this but Epicurus u r poo poo. The main difference between griefing on the internet and being a dick irl is that if you don't have a reasonably sized crew to back you up, if you try to do stupid poo poo people are going to think you're some kind of sociopath and kick the poo poo out of you. Otherwise if you're with friends you'll just look like a punk The real difference is internet victims can just usually use ignore features, contact admins, or change servers, those options don't exist in real life. I can turn off some guy blasting music into my headset, I cant turn off some guy blasting music at my chess match. That's why griefing isn't that harmful, some guy raging and screaming into his headset about someone could have changed servers or tactics and dealt with them in moments, instead of trying to attitude the other person into stopping. (Reposting one of the best videos in this thread)
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Eyebrows Mulligan posted:What I meant to say is that if you do this kind of thing in real life, people will stare you down and judge subtle, even unconscious changes in your body language, and if you show any sign of weakness they can easily dominate you psychologically. But this isn't that easy over the internet, hence why griefing is more effective and popular online, and the only kind of irl griefing that really works is when you've got groups of punk kids loving poo poo up, in which case numbers work as a psychological shield. Armchair psychology either has nothing to do with anything or has to do with everything and doesn't relate specifically. If you are trying to say its easier to be an rear end behind a computer, then yeah, you are right, but that has nothing to do with psychologically dominating punk kids at the first sign of weakness or whatever. Psycho. quote:And griefing is harmful, or at least effective griefing is. The more harmful it is, the more effective it is. Hence the name. No, it isn't, unless you are some fragile snowflake that breaks down mentally and emotionally at the drop of a hat. In which case you couldn't handle defeat, and there would be no way you would be online playing competitive games. If it isn't in a game it isn't griefing, I'm just going to state that again. Thats what griefing is, giving people grief in games. The term was coined inside games, and is about playing games. If you are that butthurt about a game its time to find a new game. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 17, 2009 |
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Eyebrows Mulligan posted:I'm sorry, I guess I'm not man enough to play your internet games. And please stop trying to tell me that griefing is somehow about being nice and harmless to people and just giving them a good chuckle, because you know and I know that's a lie. Shoving people down in a padded room isn't as cruel as shoving people down in a concrete parking lot. I can laugh at injured pride easy, I cant laugh at broken bones. Ok, maybe its theoretically just as cruel in principle based on some kind of mental state of whatever, but in practical application it isn't. It's not so much that you aren't man enough, you are just way too fragile. If you can't get over games what do you do in a real life? Probably just take it and say nothing, because the thing that gives me the balls to gently caress with people is the same thing that gives them the balls to get upset about it. That's it, I'm done posting for awhile.
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Zelmel posted:It takes the raid icons, which are normally used to mark attack priority, and instead assigns them to other players, their pets, and targets randomly. You'd be surprised how angry this makes people. The mod doesn't just give everyone an icon over their head, every second it gives them a new one over and over until its turned off. I've seen someone in a guild raid flip their poo poo over a single static icon placed over their head. I cant even imagine how angry that kind of person gets when its constantly changing and bouncing all over the group.
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Uncle Fumbles posted:But what does any of this mean to somebody who has never used second life? Why is this a big deal? These guys were sharing and storing information on people griefing the game? I don't see why there's talk of legal action over this. It all seems so harmless and insular. In one of those linked articles, it said these guys would message a GM directly whenever they wanted someone banned. One of the GMs was in their pocket and would act on anything they told them, and all of this was documented in their special wiki, along with their reporting tactics. They could basically punish anyone they wanted for any reason. At least that's what I got out of it. Second Life has the touchiest players I've ever seen and it should be the most laid back, carefree game ever. I played it briefly a long time ago, W-Hat was a cool area but the rest of it was all super serious and lame. Most reports should be just responded to with 'its a game deal with it' instead of indulging all the idiots.
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RoadCrewWorker posted:Wow is loving weird. You have no idea. Trial accounts aren't allowed to talk in chat, and most gold trading web sites are filtered out in all game chat and messages as well. Some industrious gold sellers just spell out the name in level 1 corpses in front of the main auction house to get around this without spending the money on an actual account. Any purchased account would be banned within a day. The sold gold also comes from compromised accounts too, which is why they crack down so hard on sellers.
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Has no meaning posted:WoW engineers can also craft a couple different upgrades that turn their cloak into a parachute, preventing other players from killing them with a knockback. I was playing my Horde Shaman and punting players off the Alliance airship in Icecrown when an Alliance Shaman decided to try the same trick on me. I wish I could've seen the look on his face when I flew right back up and killed him. They even added a new version of the old mind control cap that you attach to your helmet. I have it attached to a useless wizards cap and I use it to run people into players of their own faction in pvp. I once controlled a hunter and used him to help me kill his own pet. I also use it when I heal sometimes and it backfires and I wind up controlled by the npcs which immediately make me Bloodlust, heal, and attack my party. For those that dont play, shamans also have a knockback that blasts people much farther then a druid's Typhoon and in a full 360 degrees around the shaman. In the Arathi Basin battleground you can stand up at the lumbermill and launch people out over the map. If they have a slow fall effect and use it soon enough they wind up at the other end of the map. Otherwise they wind up like Wile E Coyote.
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Death Bot posted:Hell yeah sometimes you just gotta play a game of portal roulette, good luck! *ends up in Darnassus, swearing loudly the whole time* And for those that dont play, it honestly is roulette. The mouse tooltip while you hover over it changes wildly to all the different locations. Its pretty easy to travel nowadays though. Several years ago hearthstones, that players use to teleport back to their home location, had twice as long of a cooldown and there were no 'hub' citys with portals, so unsuspectingly sending someone to the unpopulated asscrack of the world like Darnassus could blow 20 or 30 min of their time to get anywhere. This was also when mages could put down a portal like that in a battleground and people would click it like idiots and get dumped out there and have to travel back to the main town to queue up for PvP again.
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FoF posted:Not really roulette. Each portal has its own unique animation (not just the middle) so with enough practice you can hover around the corners and slowly pick one out. Yeah, but for the random guy that runs up and clicks the big blue thing, its random as hell. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Aug 29, 2010 |
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I think he means they compressed them to share to each other, then uncompress them to 4 gb and seed them in bittorrent.Barent posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSGUf1xbF8 Here is the original video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewP1zfm_Yqg&feature=related Scatman John is better music for this I think. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Sep 8, 2010 |
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I'm pretty sure they only punish for profanity to cover their rear end so when some angry parent sees the word 'gently caress' on their kids screen, they cant sue blizzard for letting it happen. They allow the filter to be turned off because they know many people would be more bothered by the filter then actual swearing.
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Manslaughter posted:Are you sure he wasn't talking about EVE for that last one? I believe it was a thing to kamikaze really small ships into bigger ones since the small ones were so cheap and with enough of them you could destroy a big enough ship which was a huge investment for that player. I remember trying EVE out during the recruitment drives several years back. I never got into it, but the jist of the strategy is that 3 or 4 people with crappy ships could tangle an advanced ship up long enough for more powerful people to blow it up. Ships could be outfitted with devices that would scramble the warp drives and weapons and prevent ships from escaping. So you get a half dozen cheap ships, strip out all the weapons and excess equipment, and load them up with scramblers. Then you pass them out to new players and have them suicidally swarm a bigger ship. A couple players die, but enough get through to lock the enemy down, then more established players would make it there and finish off the stronger ship. This worked because the cheap ships cost less then the drat ammo for the advanced ships, so who cares if most of them get destroyed, just buy (or build) a hundred more.
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Endorph posted:Yeah, but the voidwalker was for SOLO PvE. The Voidwalker has an ability that it autocast unless you specifically turned it off, that made it try to get the target's attention. Which means the target might attack it, instead of the designated tank. Back in the day good warlocks rarely used the voidwalker for even solo PvE. Until the recent nerfs one of the warlock's strong points was the ability to drain the health out of enemies, replenishing his own. It was a class where you could load draining spells onto entire areas of enemies and come out on top with full health. I can sum up that big long story for anyone that didn't read it: SpookyLizard used his pet to get his party into combat while he teleported out of the dungeon. Fun warlock griefing in WoW was during the first expansion. Warlocks can enslave demons, and the expansion was largely demon based. There was this PVP area, called Halaa, where Horde and Alliance could fight over control of a town. Right down the road was an area packed full of Elite demons, that normally are killed with a group for various quests. Any warlock worth their salt could head there, pick out a demon several stories tall and strong as the gods, bind it to their will and march down to Halaa and start decimating the opposing players. This is a bit of setup, so bare with me. Healthstones are consumables warlocks can make, that are basically free health potions. To make many at once a warlock can start a ritual, involving two other players that click a portal, this summons up a font that anyone can grab a healthstone from. Now back in the first expansion instead of a portal, the ability would plop down an altar everyone would click, and your average player was(and still is) conditioned to click for free health items. The ritual at the time was copy and pasted from a little known warlock ritual called Ritual of Doom, that would drop an identical altar. This ritual was obtained by doing obscure quests, so 90% of warlocks didn't have it or know about it, let alone your average non-warlock. It took a full party of 5 to perform Ritual of Doom, at which point a random party member, including the warlock, is sacrificed to the ritual and killed and a Doomguard is summoned that would immediately start attacking the party. In groups I would drop my Ritual of Doom instead of the healthstone ritual, and like Pavlov's Dogs the party would immediately click, killing someone, and causing confusion, anger, laughter, and demon attack. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jul 25, 2011 |
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Mordaedil posted:It's more surprising to me that Gabe appears to be new to the concept, despite Tycho pretty much griefing him on a daily basis, especially in the old days before he started playing D&D. It makes sense. People that are easily griefed are always surprised, whether it's the first or hundredth time. The gmod roleplay servers prove the point over and over.
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Before anyone asks, rats are the name for npc pirates.
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This quote encapsulates my feelings on EVE scams.Cardinal Ximenez posted:How does everyone they attract end up thinking this massive forum filled with a zillion subcategories and mostly non-MMO stuff is just a guild?
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Kerbtree posted:Well, many It never confused me when I used it. I think a lot of people just cant handle not being in absolute 100% control of their character. I've seen people in raids completely wig out because a raid leader just put a plain mark on their character. I never really understood that.
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Zaodai posted:Shamans could do it too with Waterwalking. The funniest part of that grief is that prior to Wrath, if you had waterwalking on and fell off a drop into water, you'd actually hit the water normally and swim until you jumped up on to the surface. So they specifically added that functionality just to be dicks in the expansion. I'm pretty sure I've been killing/injuring people with water walking long before Wrath, I know it worked in BC for sure and I think I remember using it in Mauradon in vanilla, and last I checked it still works. I don't think they have ever really changed anything about fall damage and water walking, it's just that only shamans used to be able to do it and it used to be annoying to gather the reagents so few shamans ever played with it. (Priests could levitate over water, but it prevents falling damage.) There is another instance, Utgarde Keep with drops into water. After killing the boss, there is a shortcut to the entrance with two drops into water. I used to water walk people with my shaman and kill them on the first drop. Then I would resurrect them, reapply water walking, and kill them again on the second. Even better is one of the raids, The Argent Tournament. The raid isn't really a dungeon, its a string of boss battles in a colosseum while an audience watches, but for the last boss The Lich King shows up and shatters the floor, dropping players down into tunnels to fight the last boss. Like most drops, the entire raid falls into water. A death knight bestows his water walking aura to the whole 25 man raid group and mobs of people all go splat. To top it off, when your raid group fails on the boss and has to run back into the instance, they zone in up in the air and have to drop again. So if you can be the first one back you can stand down on the water with the aura turned on while your own guild members run in and suicide. This kind of damage, by the way, causes durability damage on people's gear. People doing the fight at that point had lots of nice gear that had a nice repair bill to go with it, and even though it really wasn't that much gold, some people rage over that kind of thing. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jun 10, 2012 |
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Howard Beale posted:Fish oil was easy enough to come by and was worth it. In BC I used to hang around the entrance to Coilfang Reservoir with my shaman and hit the cool kids who jumped off their flying mounts to dive into the tunnel. When they complained, I'd simply tell 'em "NO DIVING, LIFEGUARD NOT ON DUTY." In vanilla fish oil wasn't hard, but it was annoying to get. It didn't drop off all the aquatic enemies like it has since Burning Crusade, you had to go out of your way and farm it, instead of having bags full of it by accident. I kinda wish I was around to raid in BC. There were so many chances to kill people with water in places like Serpentshrine. For those that don't play WoW, it's a dungeon that's all platforms over water. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Zaodai posted:Tauren could get on one of the Mammoth mounts and do the same thing, and actually get so big it would block out the nameplate of some of the smaller NPCs. You cant block nameplates. They show up over anything, and they dont even overlap each other; they will organize horizontally and vertically if there is several people standing in the same spot. A lot of people know that pressing 'V' will turn on enemy nameplates, but not as many know the Shift + 'V' will turn on friendly nameplates, so it works anyway. I hate it when Taurens on big mounts cover mailboxes so you cant click them. There is no nameplate or anything for objects, so if someone does it right, the only way to click is to try wedge the camera up next to the mailbox so you can try and get the cursor to register. Edit: vvvvvv I don't do that because I'm dumb. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jun 20, 2012 |
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Crumpet posted:I've personally never seen anyone (or been) banned for being in the zone he was talking about when it was unfinished, even when GM attention was drawn to them/me; I've even been in many other zones you could jump creatively to/use skills creatively to get to, and I've never seen a GM actually care. There's a few places you can get banned (though this is still unlikely, usually it's a 3 day suspension) for just being in, but none of them are reachable without actually hacking/breaking the ToS anyway. Yeah. They don't do a lot of real bans in WoW unless you are hacking, botting, selling gold, or scamming account info from people. Everything else you usually have to get warnings, suspensions and put in a lot of effort to work your way up to a ban. http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/account-penalties The only restricted place you could maybe get a straight up ban for being there would be if you managed to get to GM Island. Which is a test island that really isn't used for anything, but sometimes GMs idle their character there while dealing with reports. I haven't checked for a long time but I know a while ago you could type '/who gm island' and occasionally get to see the name of a GM. You had to exploit to get there by modifying airship paths in your game files or some weird thing like that so it would fly you off the map, so you were pretty guilty if you managed to get there. Edit: The Horde capitol of Orgrimmar was redesigned in the most recent expansion. Before the redesign there was a wooden palisade you could jump over in a certain specific spot, that required a tricky jump to get to and it would land you into the generic world terrain that is underneath the city terrain. I would run around under the ground yelling at people and jumping out of solid walls at random passerbys. I used to climb the rocky cliffs around the outside of the city and get on top of the main city gate. You weren't supposed to get up here, but I found out I could get onto these couple pixel wide ropes that were suspended over fatal drops. So obviously I helped get some friends up there, and I brought my warlock with. We started inviting random people and summoning them up to the narrow, hair-width rope were they would immediately run off and die. People would bitch us out, but some of them were in awe that we could get up there and thought it was really cool. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Jun 23, 2012 |
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I think the idea is that the no quitting points is all the loser gets.
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Sanctum posted:EVE is the only MMO I've played, and spaceship games sure can attract the most purebred of sperglords. But both the legal threats manchild and the creepy beyond words guy are leagues beyond the worst I've ever seen. Its not just spaceship games. World of Warcraft has had an item for years called the Piccolo of the Flaming Fire that makes people around you dance when you use it. Nowadays most wow players are pretty chill (relatively) but a long time ago it was pretty easy to find someone that would get enraged for being made to dance. There is a type of player that goes into a total meltdown rage if anything happens to their character that they aren't in complete control of. I've guessed that as any MMO gets really big these people tend to ragequit and drift over to smaller MMOs where developers and players are more willing to put up with their poo poo.
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Nyyen posted:Unfortunately, responses like that are exceedingly rare. The community is extremely paranoid and exclusive, and getting banned from a parcel, or plot of electronic real-estate that make up the game world, is just about the easiest thing imaginable. Most people will just boot you from their land at the slightest provocation, and for every single responder, 1000 will just send you off without saying a thing. Not sure what it's like now, but years ago the admins on Second Life completely pandered to the weird shut ins that played the game and would ban players over anything that could be remotely construed as griefing. I remember reading about a bunch of goons dressing up in mob outfits with guns and pretending to take over a casino and pubbies throwing a raging fit over it and reporting everyone. I tried the game out almost a decade ago when there was an SA presence and never got into it. The SA area was a sprawling eyesore that filled other players with rage because it wasn't some super serious recreation of the sad lonely fantasies of shut ins. I dont have any of my own pics, and the Second Life Safari videos don't work anymore but it was an impressive 'town' SA built. http://www.somethingawful.com/second-life-safari/secondlife-history-pictures/1/
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Yeah, those were good years for stories coming out of SL. I feel like the grief potential really went downhill when they started allowing private rental of entire islands, since you couldn't be the next door neighbors from hell anymore. The goon shenanigans around John Edwards's presidential campaign stand out as a really funny example of what was possible when people couldn't just buy their own private island empire. In order to insulate themselves against the outside world people can just buy private areas? Second life really attracts a special kind of pathetic. So some guy had this beautiful house next door, and a river ran through the border between his place and ours. On the W-Hat side of the river was the cotton candy factory. The inside of the factory was what could be described as a gore covered assembly line where sheep were fed down a conveyor belt to be chopped up and packed into boxes with the 'crazy machine' music from Looney Tunes playing on constant loop. On the outside the factory belched smoke into the air nonstop, and had pipes going into the river spewing out pollution. This include whole barrels of toxic waste that you could ride down the river. The barrels flowed past a bread truck that was backed up next to the river with the rear doors open. The back doors of the truck continuously sprayed out an enormous number of empty plastic six pack rings into the river, and around the truck and in the river are dead and dying fish and dolphins with their snouts stuck in the beverage rings. On the other side of the factory was this billboard:  Behind all this was giant robots, the death star blowing up the twin towers, and gaudy, technicolor mayhem. If I remember right, the guy next door eventually removed the windows on the that side of his house. Edit: I only played for a couple days, I don't really have any of the good stories, unfortunately. I should probably dig through archives and read the old threads for kicks. FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Dug up the old threads in archives and there is a quote that pretty much nails SL. "I've said it a million times, but SL is a wonderful but inherently crippled idea. Build anything you want, but heaven forbid if you dare offend someone's delicate sensibilities.. even if they're on your land in an "adult" zone. Realistic dolphin cocks for hot gay dolphin on dolphin action? A-OK! Dress up like Charlie Tuna and frown menacingly at people engaging in said dolphin sex? BAN." Edit: Oh my god, a Saddam Hussein Going Away Party, http://www.sluniverse.com/snapshots/126462.jpg FuzzyPickles fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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