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Phoix
Jul 20, 2006




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Phoix fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Feb 4, 2009

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Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
okay how do I get to what island

Rudiger
May 2, 2007

by Fistgrrl

The Cursed Seeker posted:

okay how do I get to what island

Bring up the map and under landmarks search for what, it'll show you where

Virxas
Apr 1, 2007

In addition to other things I did, I also had fun "griefing" GM-run quests on an RP UO server I played on. The GMs on the server followed the school of thought that all plot in an MMO should be done via plot trains, with all plot progressing along the rails of the course of events that the GMs had come up with, and that all solutions for problems had to be done exactly as the GMs had conceived it. They ran quests exactly as if we were playing a single-player game where everything has to be set in stone beforehand, rather than taking advantage of the nature of an MMO where everything can be done in real time and can be totally dynamic and free form, with as many solutions and possible courses as people can think up.

Their way of running quests, and their solutions, were often really bizarre. They also had this weird habit of making almost anything but fighting monsters into something that NPCs had to handle. Your character could be one of the most respected mages in the world as far as server history went, or a famed master smith, but if there was a magic enchantment on some book, or if someone needed a particular tool made for a quest, you always had to take the book to some obscure NPC mage who would tell you all about the enchantment, or some blacksmith who would craft the item you needed. So you had to fart around guessing what the hell to do when the obvious sensible solutions didn't work, and eventually they would start emoting over you, with things like "you remember hearing about this good blacksmith in Trinsic" until you figured out what they wanted.



So of course, I decided I wasn't having any of that crap and did things my way. There's a quest where someone got a magic fire of some sort started in their house from some magical object they had gotten from some mage, and now they want help putting the fire out? The players show up and try various spells, emoting that they're gathering water into buckets from the ocean nearby and throwing it on the fire, summoning water elementals, everything they can think of, but the GMs kept emoting that it wasn't working, eventually having some other NPC mage show up to tell them that the fire is some special magic that can't be put out, and will never go out on its own, unless a special group of mages living in the bottom of dungeon Shame, who made the magical artifact to begin with, make something to put the fire out. Hence all the players are supposed to slog through Shame to talk to these mages and all that retarded crap. Not me. My character gets quite excited about this infinite energy source that can be tapped into. Screw the house, let it burn down and we can harness this eternal flame! We need to make use of this great windfall, not seek to get rid of it! Sadly, of all the players there at the time, none went for my course of taking the principles the GMs had provided to their logical conclusions.


There was a quest where some NPC is looking for endangered animals for a zoo, but of course, something always goes wrong with just catching the animals and bringing them back for cash prizes. We couldn't just emote that we had grabbed them or tied them up or whatever, because they would "struggle free" until we figured out what crazy dream logic the GMs had for how the quest was supposed to be done. So I stripped my character naked, polymorphed into a troll, and started bashing animals heads in for struggling, and otherwise using brute force to plow over whatever nonsense the GMs wanted us to do, quickly driving them to abandon the quest, about the same time I was heaving a walrus over a wall into a pit with a hungry giant cat, and telling the zookeeper that I was just a friendly troll who was helping him keep the animals fed.


On another quest, a group of anti-human gargoyle rebels would launch hit and run attacks against groups of players, part of a big lead up to storming the rebel's hidden base in the abyss. During every one of these attacks, the gargoyle leader was there, and when he was taking serious damage, he'd start using GM commands to start blasting people with infinite numbers of flamestrikes to drive them off, then heal himself and continue the attack or flee. So one of these times, I polymorphed into a dragon as he's flamestriking everyone, and I rush up to him and start tearing into him, and he starts flamestriking me over and over. What he didn't remember was that when people were polymorphed into a dragon, they were immune to fire attacks, and he wasn't damaging me at all, and his health was dropping fast as I tore into him. So he tries to heal himself, but must have been targeting his character, rather than his health bar, because he healed me instead, since my character as a large dragon was covering his character up. He tried to flee, but it was too late, and I killed him, which prompted him to go into a rage and use GM commands to kill every player present for killing his character when he wasn't supposed to die yet.


At one point, I was traveling via a teleporter junction, and happened to be polymorphed as a dragon. This one player sees me there and starts telling me that I'm not allowed there, being a dragon, and that the local leader who he served as a knight for had banished all dragons. As this guy was clearly not being in character if he's sitting there arguing with a dragon, I tell him I'll go ask the lord myself, knowing that at the moment he'd just be a brainless NPC. So I start heading over to this lord's castle, with this player attacking me and the auto-counter attack in my dragon form is taking off 2/3 to 3/4 of his health with each hit, while he's barely able to dent me. I get to the castle, and using a bug that allows you to open locked doors, I went through all the normally locked doors and into the lord's bedroom, saying, "sup doest thou liketh dragons???", which enraged this guy attacking me for not taking his crappy play at RP seriously. However, a GM showed up and took control of the lord, and sticks me in a jail cell in the castle.

I sit in the cell for awhile, until some other players wander by and decide to try and free me, in character. So they go through all this ridiculous setup, getting lockpicks and explosive potions, setting up lookouts and distractions, and staging an impressive jailbreak. However, the GMs weren't having any of that, and they took control of a guard who ran around blasting crazy spells off everywhere(note that magic is supposed to be outlawed for everyone in this region except the lord himself), and he drives everyone out with his onslaught. So I got on ICQ and messaged the biggest griefer in the game(the same guy I who taught the trick of preventing access to banks with animals named bank) to go pk the player knight who had bothered me to begin with, then loot the keys off him and free me, which worked like a charm, and off I went. It always amused me that the GMs that were so pro-roleplaying, and against out of character "kewl doods" would always effectively penalize real RP and reward or at least not hinder stuff like that.


And on a simple quest which was a setup to a big quest(that ended up being griefed by an admin) to get some wood from the Silver Tree of Life, as soon as we get to the tree(just a rehued yew tree), and everyone is standing in front of the tree wondering what to do, I walked behind the tree and said, "Hail, mortals!", and everyone immediately starts greeting the tree they think is talking to them, much to my amusement before the GMs kicked me from the server for several days.



And not related to the GMs running quests, one of the custom items on the server was a "carpet deed" that GM tailors could make which allowed you to place a 2x2 section of carpet on the ground wherever you were standing. So I got another player to get his girlfriend whose character was a GM tailor to make me up a ton of carpet deeds, and I then used some creative teleporting to get outside of the normal bounds of a dungeon into an undeveloped section, and used the carpet deeds to make a path for myself from the edge of the dungeon to Green Acres, where the GMs had set up their own personal areas, in-jokes, curiosities, quest items, special scripted items to do tasks for GMs, special quest NPCs, and everything else that was supposed to be only for those in the GM Club. I even left a book in the main GM area with an "I was here" message.

But I wasn't done yet, I still had more carpets. So using my knowledge of old dungeons that were now blocked off and inaccessible to players, and the teleporters in them that lead to various other dungeon areas that I could use as staging points to access other blocked off places with more secret stuff, I ran around in all the behind-the-scenes sections of the game, leaving a vast network of burrows all over the gaps in the map between the GM-only areas, and all these burrows were themselves hidden to any players that didn't break out of the normal bounds of the map to begin with.

Virxas fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jul 12, 2008

Baofu
Jun 15, 2007

I'm Baofu Shan on Second Life. I haven't touched the account in a while, but if anyone sees me online, I'm always up for some griefing.

GetWellGamers
Apr 11, 2006

The Get-Well Gamers Foundation: Touching Kids Everywhere!

Virxas posted:

UO Faggotry

What is it about MMos that spawns tinpot dictators like mushrooms in poo poo?

GetWellGamers fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jul 12, 2008

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

I Said No posted:

I'll have to hit her up for the avatar, maybe we could have some kind of sudden giant spider infestation barge in on amorous couples.
Count me in as another giant spider volunteer if you do. I've never been tempted by SL before, but giant spider avatars and humongous loving mecha on the dancefloor are too great to ignore.

Virxas
Apr 1, 2007

GetWellGamers posted:

What is it about MMos that spawns tinpot dictators like mushrooms in poo poo?

Whatever it is, it also makes them incredibly easy to enrage, which was very entertaining. The main admin on that server refused to visit the server's IRC channel, referring to it as "#BritannianSewers", yet he'd have someone spy on it, so he could get enraged about comments people made there and post on the forums about how there "would be consequences". Amazingly, there was a community of good players that somehow stuck together on that server, despite the terrible administration, as they're the ones that kept each other around. There were also the sycophants who delighted in nothing more than supporting the nonsense of the admins in return for special recognition in quests, and eventually joining the GM Club.

The admins took themselves so seriously yet ran things so poorly and were so easy to grief, especially the head admin, who was a griefing goldmine. He'd post hilarious frothing-at-the-mouth rants because someone commented in IRC that their biggest contribution to the quest was leaving a GM-controlled character to die, or because they questioned some server policy. And if you argued with him on the forums, he'd explode with more rage and throw tantrums, posting pictures of manure and telling people that was their very essence, and also informing them that he wasn't reading their posts, because he doesn't listen to liars and troublemakers, only to explode again in response to their next post. He'd also frequently ask the forums administrator to delete the topics he didn't like, despite the fact that the forums admin never did. His insanely rage-filled posts had a very strong resemblance to those Derek Smart rants on that one site, almost enough to make me wonder...

Sadly, one day he said he was leaving and never coming back, and true to his word, he completely disappeared from the internet without a trace. However, he did leave behind a collection of poor admins and GMs to continue running the server into the ground, which they did, but none were nearly as amusing to grief as he was.

Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Here's another greifing story from SL. It's about 3 am and for some reason we actually have a decent amount of goons on. We have about 8 all just sitting around chilling (that's pretty good for SL) and someone came up with the idea of hosting Dateline NBC: Second Life. I would go in as an underage girl and take someone to a house we..ah..ahem...acquired and we would get him.
I went to an orgy club which was amazingly easy to find as SL is full of fat virgins and horney MILFs. I found this guy who looked like he spent about 5 minutes making his character wandering around hitting on random girls and started flirting with him in IMs. After a few minutes of stalling since one of our members went AFK and we had to get him out of the house, I tp'd him in.
We headed over to the bed and I asked him if he was sure he wanted to do this. Once he said yes I gave the go-ahead to the guy who was directing it, MrDutch Dezno. The entire crew busted into the house and our Chris Hansen asked him to take a seat.


The one on the right is our pervert



Here's a pic of my avatar compared to a normal one



and here's our diligent officer ready to haul him off


I also uploaded the text if anyone feels like reading through 5 minutes of bullshit
http://www.ngsam.com/dtnbc.txt
After that he logged off

Here's a little bonus. We all got bored and broke into a house of some cyber fuckers. but they wern't home :( We decided to play with some of the poseballs and wound up getting some softcore porn going!



Great Success

Blast of Confetti fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Jul 12, 2008

Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
gently caress double post

YOTC
Nov 18, 2005
Damn stupid newbie

Girdox posted:

gently caress double post

Doesn't matter, I'm laughing my rear end off at that story, you should do that all the time. Especially since its a violation in their terms of service to try and hump underage AV's or some stuff. You could get tons of people banned.

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

MrDutch posted:


a lot of poo poo about sucking a horse off

You're not doing this right.

The point of Second Life Safaris (and griefing in general) is to catch other people in the act of stupid or reprehensible things, not do them yourself.

You're weirding me out please stop posting pictures of yourself sucking virtual horse cock thanks in advance.

Girdox posted:

Here's another greifing story from SL. It's about 3 am and for some reason we actually have a decent amount of goons on. We have about 8 all just sitting around chilling (that's pretty good for SL) and someone came up with the idea of hosting Dateline NBC: Second Life. I would go in as an underage girl and take someone to a house we..ah..ahem...acquired and we would get him.
I went to an orgy club which was amazingly easy to find as SL is full of fat virgins and horney MILFs. I found this guy who looked like he spent about 5 minutes making his character wandering around hitting on random girls and started flirting with him in IMs. After a few minutes of stalling since one of our members went AFK and we had to get him out of the house, I tp'd him in.
We headed over to the bed and I asked him if he was sure he wanted to do this. Once he said yes I gave the go-ahead to the guy who was directing it, MrDutch Dezno. The entire crew busted into the house and our Chris Hansen asked him to take a seat.


The one on the right is our pervert



Here's a pic of my avatar compared to a normal one



and here's our diligent officer ready to haul him off


I also uploaded the text if anyone feels like reading through 5 minutes of bullshit
http://www.ngsam.com/dtnbc.txt
After that he logged off

Here's a little bonus. We all got bored and broke into a house of some cyber fuckers. but they wern't home :( We decided to play with some of the poseballs and wound up getting some softcore porn going!



Great Success

See this is how you do it.

MrDutch
Jul 9, 2008

Yes they are shoes made of wood. Nothing weird about it, please stop taking my picture. I am NOT a tourist attraction!
Yeah the first one was pretty good, we got a second guy, and made him take a seat, but he left soon after.

Here is the chat in image form plus another picture:

Cabelin Gustav is the perv.

I am a security guy.
FalconBK is Chris Hansen.
Girdox is the jailbait.
Others were the camera crew and police.




Here is where the guy is in the house, Girdox took him to the bedroom, and he was hoping for some love:



Here he is trying to twist the blame around by pretending he is 12... Pretty sure he is lying about that.


More talking about its not his fault, that we are the perverts, that he is so young.




Ahhh. He had to leave becouse his mom had hot milk for him.

We are trying to get a perv which has voice chat enabled and taking a video of it. That would be pretty fun.

Cant believe these guys even take a seat, its hilarious to watch, 8 orso goons bust into the bedroom, while mr Chris Hansen introduses himself in the classic way and asking him to have a seat.

At that point you can almost feel the anxiety these guys are feeling.



Edit:

Petey posted:

You're not doing this right.

The point of Second Life Safaris (and griefing in general) is to catch other people in the act of stupid or reprehensible things, not do them yourself.

You're weirding me out please stop posting pictures of yourself sucking virtual horse cock thanks in advance.


See this is how you do it.

I know, i was there im the guy in the white shirt.

FUCK SNEEP
Apr 21, 2007




I played the part of Chris Hansen on the Dateline NBC griefing. Here's some behind the scenes photo's from when we were bored waiting for our next pervert.

MrDutch
Jul 9, 2008

Yes they are shoes made of wood. Nothing weird about it, please stop taking my picture. I am NOT a tourist attraction!
Oh and thanks to groin magic for coming up with the idea, think his forum name is "i said no".

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
I was the camera.. animu thing for the Hansen bit, then while we were in the house I was just randomly walking around with pink hair.

Derth
Dec 6, 2005

SA is remarkably similar to middle-earth.
Basically a bunch of people i knew from the internet and a few from real life made a Counter Strike Source clan. We played on all of the major ladders in Australia at that time and we all, of course, cheated our asses off with aimbots and wallhacks whenever we could get away with it and were renowned for losing games then disputing for forfiet victories. Which is how we became infamous.

We challenged to number one side on what was then the largest ladder in Aus when we clearly had no chance of winning. The ladder worked that if you beat a team you went above them and everyone moved down one. The game was being spectated so we couldn't cheat so we decided to throw the game to waste the spectators time. We all hid as a team every round and forced the other team to play hide and seek. One particular round we all suicided at spawn, causing a member on the other team said "lol" in global chat which we appealed as an abuse of global chat and won, projecting the new kids on the block to number 1 and making our clan tag from that day forth #rQ Best in Aus.

This led to a lot of threats being thrown around and a lot of abuse being hurled at us.

We took it further by making a post 2 days after the win claiming a member of our clan had died in a car accident when out celebrating the win. The thread reached 20 pages of condolences and wishing us well (which itself was full of drama because some of the players that new us better and didnt like us called bullshit leading to them being abused for being heartless monsters) before our forums got hacked and someone leaked that it was a hoax.

After that I was getting abuse everytime i logged into steam. joining a server was out of the question because i'd just have players follow me around yelling at me and had to stop playing friendly fire servers people were that pissed off. It also lead to us all being banned from the forums.

We went quiet for a while after this because it's hard to do anything when everyone recognises your name but we waited patiently and eventually worked our way back onto the forums and people started playing games with us again so we decided we wanted to get back on top of the ladders with legitimate victories.

Obviously that was impossible for players with such little talent so we began to blatantly cheat in games. We tried to make it look legit we were raising eyebrows everytime we played. We also had admins spectate us every game but they were all hesitant to ban us due to community backlash.

Eventually we got to challenge for number one again but that we would have to play with a program called nova cap running (an anti cheat program that took screen shots at random intervals). Luckily we had a programmer in our clan who changed the program to allow us too take the screenshots whenever we wanted to, allowing us to toggle.

The saga ended when we won again, everyone thought we were going to be the next big thing and then we posted our version of novacap and a goodbye thread. Not that we needed it because we got banned from everywhere.

Calenth
Jul 11, 2001



GetWellGamers posted:

What is it about MMos that spawns tinpot dictators like mushrooms in poo poo?

It's a combination of the fact that people care about things they invest time into and the fact that MMO's attract people who don't have anything else in their lives to care about.

30 Second Artbomb
Apr 16, 2006

call the police

Derth posted:

:jerkbag:

Good job cheating at counterstrike and getting banned. You sure showed them!

The Deadly Hume
May 26, 2004

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

30 Second Artbomb posted:

Good job cheating at counterstrike and getting banned. You sure showed them!
Well at least in Australia you're not going to get hunted down in real life for it. Sometimes it's more about the metagame.

Derth
Dec 6, 2005

SA is remarkably similar to middle-earth.

30 Second Artbomb posted:

Good job cheating at counterstrike and getting banned. You sure showed them!

Butthurt? I should clarify we got never got our accounts banned from any servers, just banned from every single community site

Cy
Jul 24, 2004

by Tiny Fistpump

Sentient Toaster posted:

Achaea stuff.

Man, you sure have an ego considering all the pro doll griefers were Jesters. Who were you?

I (almost) single-handedly got a puppetry/vodun skill removed from Achaea. What it basically did was that once you got a full puppet/doll of a person (which took a while of you just standing there hitting your "fashion puppet of person" button) on a very long balance (once every 10 seconds), you could shake the target, which would drop a random item from their inventory. This was the only kind of theft that could be done while the target was incapacitated, and which wasn't stopped by the skill "selfishness." I locked down a dozen or two people, held them in hard to get to rooms, and shook their entire inventories out. Since I could also fight, people were hesitant to come try to help their buddies, because it would usually end up in them dying/losing all their items.

Really, the skill wasn't so bad, because there's a skill in achaea to suicide, so no matter how hosed up you were, unless you were constantly asleep, you could just suicide out of it. IN addition, you could protect any item for about 500 gold (takes like 30 seconds to get). However, Achaea's playerbase is hilariously whiny and incompetent, so they removed the skill (the threads on the forums whining about me were numerous)

Some guy I shook had bought a poo poo ton of credits (the in-game super-currency, basically, that lets you learn skills and buy super items with RL money), and he never logged back in. This was at least a 300 dollar character that I griefed out of the game.

RIP shake.

Cy fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jul 12, 2008

Pretty Little Rainbow
Dec 27, 2005

by T. Finn

I Said No posted:

In response to the "I might be a spider" thing, a friend of mine once created a very intricate and large tarantula avatar since she's a bit of a spider enthusiast. Proper proportions and everything, really detailed including pedipalps, spinnerets, toes and thick fur on them. Basically as close to a real tarantula as you're going to get in SL. Plus it also had invisiprims (which hide your lovely base avatar), and it was properly animated so it walked and crawled in a proper spidery manner.

I don't know if it comes as a suprise or not how many people absolutley freaked the gently caress out at the mere SIGHT of this 3ft high tarantula crawling around. She'd just skitter into a crowd and some people would run the gently caress away, give her a poo poo ton of verbal abuse or start firing tons of poo poo at her (negated by simply sitting down). I'll have to hit her up for the avatar, maybe we could have some kind of sudden giant spider infestation barge in on amorous couples.

Count me in for horrible spider griefing.

30 Second Artbomb
Apr 16, 2006

call the police

Derth posted:

Butthurt? I should clarify we got never got our accounts banned from any servers, just banned from every single community site

Marginally so. I'm one of those "cheating isn't griefing" faggots, you see.

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av
Spider avatar available now, courtesy of my friend. Here's a pic:


It's actually bigger than I remember, maybe 4-5 feet tall. Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula (Brachypelma smithi if you're a spider enthusiast) ready to strike horror into the masses... with masses of spiders. Hopefully.
Hit me up ingame if you want it, i'm under the name Groin Magic.

Derth
Dec 6, 2005

SA is remarkably similar to middle-earth.

30 Second Artbomb posted:

Marginally so. I'm one of those "cheating isn't griefing" faggots, you see.

You're right! That's why I didn't post that! The cheating was just a means to grief people in other ways.

That spider is fantastic.

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

Signing up to SL to be a giant spider right now, hope the lag doesn't make playing it from Australia impossible. I'll check out w-hat tomorrow.

Woogles
Mar 23, 2007

hello
Going back to the TEAM FLARE tomfoolery, I'd love to get in but nobody's in chat. Can someone give me a shout if you're still reading the thread?

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Facebreaker

massive spider
Dec 6, 2006

I Said No posted:

Spider avatar available now, courtesy of my friend. Here's a pic:


It's actually bigger than I remember, maybe 4-5 feet tall. Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula (Brachypelma smithi if you're a spider enthusiast) ready to strike horror into the masses... with masses of spiders. Hopefully.
Hit me up ingame if you want it, i'm under the name Groin Magic.

I dont know if you can make sound in SL but it needs to make some horrible noise like the poison headcrabs in HL2.

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

I Said No posted:

Spider avatar available now, courtesy of my friend. Here's a pic:


It's actually bigger than I remember, maybe 4-5 feet tall. Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula (Brachypelma smithi if you're a spider enthusiast) ready to strike horror into the masses... with masses of spiders. Hopefully.
Hit me up ingame if you want it, i'm under the name Groin Magic.
Ooh, priddy! OK, I'm downloading the SL client now so let's see if I can make this bugger work.

e: OK, I'm on as Quaxx Xeltentat and wandering round Orientation. All seems pretty simple so far....

Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 12, 2008

m2pt5
May 18, 2005

THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

I Said No posted:

Spider avatar available now, courtesy of my friend. Here's a pic:

Sweet. Send me one, please. My name in-game is Emtu Pfeffer. This might get me back into SL for a little while.

Mniot
May 22, 2003
Not the one you know

Derth posted:

One particular round we all suicided at spawn, causing a member on the other team said "lol" in global chat which we appealed as an abuse of global chat and won, projecting the new kids on the block to number 1 and making our clan tag from that day forth #rQ Best in Aus.

This is a good one. How could the tournament be run this stupidly?

The only thing better than this would have been if you got multiple jackass teams in on this and stuffed the top 10 with forfeit winners.

Edit: You pissed people off in an unexpected way and wrote a funny story about it. Ignore the whiners.

Mniot fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jul 12, 2008

Covert Ops Wizard
Dec 27, 2006

Derth posted:

Butthurt? I should clarify we got never got our accounts banned from any servers, just banned from every single community site

cheating is lame as gently caress.

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌

Virxas posted:

rear end in a top hat Admins

When I was younger I GMed for a free UO server called the Darkside Shard (or TDS for short). TDS was ran by a cool enough guy and was a pretty strong server for a while. One day someone DDoSed the server and crashed it for a while. This prompted the dude to go off on a rant and quit admining, essentially leaving a ton of people without an admin or server. So in comes a new admin from Vietnam, a whole new crop of GMs (me being one of them), and a whole lot of grief. Each GM would spy on the other looking for poo poo to dredge up on each other.

For instance I was pegged for building a huge stairway to heaven in a friends house that wasn't really game breaking at all, having a huge house in an unreachable island that was custom made, and running too many pvp events which apparently flooded the server with custom prizes. These people would literally spy on each other all day just to get each other fired. I'm pretty sure it closed down but whatever.



Your quest griefing wasn't that bad though. My guild on Catskills used to have special event days for PKs that would award prizes to whoever ruined the quest in the best way. One time a GM was running a quest where you had to feed a giant war machine with iron from a specific mine north of Britain. So basically whoever fed the most in like an hour worth of mining would win, which meant a ton of mules with no magery or the ability to recall out of the mine being followed by a bunch of pack mules fighting over a relatively large mine. The hard part was that they restarted catskills before the server and made that area a city zone complete with guards, which meant no one could pvp them.

The other catch was that the GMs forgot about wall of stone. A group of guys set up outside the mine and inside it and kept walling in the miners over and over and over. Even if they could mine, which was really hard because wall of stone couldn't be seen through, they couldn't get out to deposit their iron at the end. The GM being very dumb as well, was no where near the mine while this was happening and was RPing next to a boat that was the war machine. Eventually one person got by with like 3 magic iron ingots and won the event which was a very rare (at the time) orange robe that he sold for millions.

Drox
Aug 9, 2007

by Y Kant Ozma Post
But the point isn't that they went "lol aimbot headshotted nubs" the point of the story is that they upset an entire competitive league, and not entirely through cheating. It's a good story, I like it.

MrDutch
Jul 9, 2008

Yes they are shoes made of wood. Nothing weird about it, please stop taking my picture. I am NOT a tourist attraction!
Spider skin looks good, im up for it later today, im just sitting at w-hat being afk, but i check in every now and then.

Isometric Bacon
Jul 24, 2004

Let's get naked!

I Said No posted:

Spider avatar available now, courtesy of my friend. Here's a pic:


It's actually bigger than I remember, maybe 4-5 feet tall. Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula (Brachypelma smithi if you're a spider enthusiast) ready to strike horror into the masses... with masses of spiders. Hopefully.
Hit me up ingame if you want it, i'm under the name Groin Magic.

This reminds me of another story from a few years back...



We had a new neighbour move next door, who preceded to build a 'skyhouse' on the edge of the sim, bordering ours. Goon Scudmunkey and I decided to pay her a visit in her new home and welcome her to the neighbourhood. It was about around the time we decided to raid her virtual fridge that she got very angry at us, and kicked us from her land.

Fine then, we thought. We'll make our own goddamn house.

We then preceded to re-build her house, prim for prim, directly opposite hers. Except instead of the modern furnishings and clean design, we decided to make ours old, decadent and rusty. It pretty much just looked like a Silent Hill Dark world version of her house.

We then filled our house with these automatic crawling walking spiders to patrol the grounds.


Here's a shot of our house.



And the two houses together.





I think she eventually got the hint and moved...

Isometric Bacon fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Jul 12, 2008

Sherry Bahm
Jul 30, 2003

filled with dolphins

Derth posted:

:words:

Ok, this was funny. Some people need to realize the difference between "aimbot lol" and creatively sowing chaos among the ranks of a gaming community.

And I want pictures of all those spiders once they begin to invade buildings.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


I have never played an MMO or anything before online, but I am signing up for Second Life tonight to become another EIGHT LEGGED FREAK

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MrDutch
Jul 9, 2008

Yes they are shoes made of wood. Nothing weird about it, please stop taking my picture. I am NOT a tourist attraction!
Well we got the spider avatars, now all we need is goons.

If your online come to w-hat or IM me, MrDutch Dezno. Ill be online for a few hours, but mostly afk, ill check in every now and then to see if there are people.

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