Well, it wasn't an intentional troll but still hilarious nonetheless. Back in SWG, I was running the Geo Caves. It was a pretty large, maze-like dungeon and I already get lost easily anyway. After killing the Acklay(main boss), I got lost and frustrated trying to make my way out so thought "screw it" and just made a run for it. I must of had half the dungeon agro'd which I eventually brought with me to the entrance. I was a smuggler which had feign death, so naturally I FD after I make it out. Of course, there's dozens of players near the entrance meeting up that I got killed. Even one of my groupmates got killed but still thought it was funny. My other groupmates managed to make it to nearest spaceport alive. Someone even sent me tell asking if it was me that brought that train to the entrance. I lied and completely denied it.
In the spirit of "fun" I would sometimes visit the outside of Vault 76 and offer new players emerging for the first time some "help" in the form of free weapons, armor, used power armor cores, recipes and purified water.
Invariably the new player would find themselves terribly overweight and moving slowly or rooted in place.
They would then agonize what to discard as most had not been down the hill yet to learn how to set up a camp.
The smarter ones would run away in terror without accepting anything.
The only two cheats I used in the solo game where the unlimited weight and the one that made your jump about two times higher than normal. I just found constantly going back or managing items a chore and the jump helped get you out when you were stuck in ruins.
I do wonder if the really anti social behaviour in games is more part of a misspent youth, would they do this sort of thing today? For a hardcore guy who teases carebears I can say I have never done anything like this. There were decisions made as a guild which put gameplay before roleplaying, which I was always in favour of, but nothing like what has been mentioned.
This goes back to what I always say about MMOs, find yourself a good guild, suss them out before you join, check their website and so on. I used to send in a low level alt to a prospective guild to check them out before I joined, these days you have to contend with "global names" so every alt has the same parent name and all alts join together, so not something you can always do now.
In Everquest people used to give beggars copper coins that weighed them down and they could not move at all. Sounds like what Ky did in Fallout76.
This reminds me of the
"Type /d to enter donate mode"
Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.
Yah.. this was a total troll thing that higher level assholes, (which at one time, I was firmly among the ranks of, I have mellowed a lot over the years) would do to noobs, where if someone was begging for handouts or what have you, we would do the following.
"Target me and type /d to enter donate mode"
Then when they did that, which would challenge us to a duel, we would quickly accept and kill them right on the spot.
Depending on how well they took their beating, we would give them gear, often a lot better then anything they were going to get on their own.
The other one was in DDO, where we would say "If you type /Death Count, it will tell you how many times you have died"
There is no /death count command, it's just /death and would kill you on the spot.
Yah.. we were assholes..
Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.
in DDO, there is a raid called the 13th Eclipse, often called Shroud. At one point, you have to jump into a portal, that will kill everyone in the raid, but we will all get raised in a different location for the final boss fight. This is a mechanical feature, and functions as a means to buff strip us, so that the final fight is harder.
The joke we would play, is we would tell new players that they needed to hit the exact center of the portal or we would all die... yah.. that was a lie.. but new raid members didn't know any better, so they would do their best to jump to the middle.. and BAM we are all dead.
Sometimes we would be like "OMG you Wiped the Raid" and, some minor chiding and such, we would all pop alive, and continue on the fight.
We had someone quit the raid and the game for a week, from what I understand they had a crying panic attack that they we all hated them, and some such, and we all had to explain, for the most part, in discord, that they did nothing wrong, and we didn't hate them... When they finally came back, know what they did.. that's right.. we were doing shroud and they were like "is anyone new" the little shit.. which is why I love my band of loons!
Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.
in DDO, there is a raid called the 13th Eclipse, often called Shroud. At one point, you have to jump into a portal, that will kill everyone in the raid, but we will all get raised in a different location for the final boss fight. This is a mechanical feature, and functions as a means to buff strip us, so that the final fight is harder.
The joke we would play, is we would tell new players that they needed to hit the exact center of the portal or we would all die... yah.. that was a lie.. but new raid members didn't know any better, so they would do their best to jump to the middle.. and BAM we are all dead.
Sometimes we would be like "OMG you Wiped the Raid" and, some minor chiding and such, we would all pop alive, and continue on the fight.
We had someone quit the raid and the game for a week, from what I understand they had a crying panic attack that they we all hated them, and some such, and we all had to explain, for the most part, in discord, that they did nothing wrong, and we didn't hate them... When they finally came back, know what they did.. that's right.. we were doing shroud and they were like "is anyone new" the little shit.. which is why I love my band of loons!
That's a great story, reminds me of a cruel office trick we used to play on the new high school interns.
We used to send the interns to get a fellow officemate who was a Jehovah Witness to sign the various birthday cards always being circulated around.
He would always give them a withering admonishment about how people of his faith don't celebrate birthdays which did send a few crying as they fled from his stare.
While he didn't sign cards, he really wasn't upset either, just going along with the joke is all.
He did get a bit whiff when he broke his arm trying out his son's new skateboard and we kept telling everyone he fell off a ladder hanging Christmas lights.
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Go way back to EQ 1. My 3 favorites were probably giving weapons to the skellies outside Freeport and watch them beat the crap out of new players. For those who didn't play eq1 you could eqiup weapons on your necro skelly summons to boost the damage. And it worked on mobs too if you were high enough level they wouldn't aggro you.
I would make trails of coppers bags to the shadow men from the spire.
And I may or may not have given levitation to ppl then wait till they run off the top of the wizzy spire then dispell it.
Granted I know it was dickish but when your killing time at the tunnel it gave you something to do while shopping.
Renaissance had just released for UO. I made a chest with my tinker, trapped it with a greater poison trap and went to Trammel. I placed it at X Roads and dropped some lock picks next to it, then hid in the bushes. People would grab up the picks and try to pick the locked chest and die.
I thought it was amusing that trick still worked in carebear land.
Renaissance had just released for UO. I made a chest with my tinker, trapped it with a greater poison trap and went to Trammel. I placed it at X Roads and dropped some lock picks next to it, then hid in the bushes. People would grab up the picks and try to pick the locked chest and die.
I thought it was amusing that trick still worked in carebear land.
Many Carebears were hurt in that post, you should be ashamed.
Mine was back in Everquest 1. We were raiding Terris Thule in Plane of Nightmare... and did I cause a Nightmare lol
I /ooc "If you type /ex you will see all of the experience points you have accumulated over the raid".
I did that not knowing the Raider Leader would pull 10 seconds later.
Half the raid logged...including a few Officers and Guild Master. The Raider Leader was livid because it was our first ever pull lol. The Officers and GM sent me a /tell and was like, best thing I've seen all day. Raid Leader wanted to kick me but I didn't haha
Mine was back in Everquest 1. We were raiding Terris Thule in Plane of Nightmare... and did I cause a Nightmare lol
I /ooc "If you type /ex you will see all of the experience points you have accumulated over the raid".
I did that not knowing the Raider Leader would pull 10 seconds later.
Half the raid logged...including a few Officers and Guild Master. The Raider Leader was livid because it was our first ever pull lol. The Officers and GM sent me a /tell and was like, best thing I've seen all day. Raid Leader wanted to kick me but I didn't haha
Ohh man, that brings back memories.
Guildchat:
Me: Does the command /gquit still work? Fellow guildie 1: Please guys, don't try typing it, it does. Me: Don't type what? Fellow guildie 1 has left the guild Other guildies: whahahaha
Good times.
/Cheers, Lahnmir
'the only way he could nail it any better is if he used a cross.'
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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Healing mobs in Darkfall Online.
Probably more, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Bridges
Age of Conan
You know
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
This goes back to what I always say about MMOs, find yourself a good guild, suss them out before you join, check their website and so on. I used to send in a low level alt to a prospective guild to check them out before I joined, these days you have to contend with "global names" so every alt has the same parent name and all alts join together, so not something you can always do now.
"Type /d to enter donate mode"
"Target me and type /d to enter donate mode"
Then when they did that, which would challenge us to a duel, we would quickly accept and kill them right on the spot.
Depending on how well they took their beating, we would give them gear, often a lot better then anything they were going to get on their own.
The other one was in DDO, where we would say "If you type /Death Count, it will tell you how many times you have died"
There is no /death count command, it's just /death and would kill you on the spot.
Yah.. we were assholes..
in DDO, there is a raid called the 13th Eclipse, often called Shroud. At one point, you have to jump into a portal, that will kill everyone in the raid, but we will all get raised in a different location for the final boss fight. This is a mechanical feature, and functions as a means to buff strip us, so that the final fight is harder.
The joke we would play, is we would tell new players that they needed to hit the exact center of the portal or we would all die... yah.. that was a lie.. but new raid members didn't know any better, so they would do their best to jump to the middle.. and BAM we are all dead.
Sometimes we would be like "OMG you Wiped the Raid" and, some minor chiding and such, we would all pop alive, and continue on the fight.
We had someone quit the raid and the game for a week, from what I understand they had a crying panic attack that they we all hated them, and some such, and we all had to explain, for the most part, in discord, that they did nothing wrong, and we didn't hate them... When they finally came back, know what they did.. that's right.. we were doing shroud and they were like "is anyone new" the little shit.. which is why I love my band of loons!
We used to send the interns to get a fellow officemate who was a Jehovah Witness to sign the various birthday cards always being circulated around.
He would always give them a withering admonishment about how people of his faith don't celebrate birthdays which did send a few crying as they fled from his stare.
While he didn't sign cards, he really wasn't upset either, just going along with the joke is all.
He did get a bit whiff when he broke his arm trying out his son's new skateboard and we kept telling everyone he fell off a ladder hanging Christmas lights.
I did most of my griefing in real life it seems.
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I would make trails of coppers bags to the shadow men from the spire.
And I may or may not have given levitation to ppl then wait till they run off the top of the wizzy spire then dispell it.
Granted I know it was dickish but when your killing time at the tunnel it gave you something to do while shopping.
I thought it was amusing that trick still worked in carebear land.
I /ooc "If you type /ex you will see all of the experience points you have accumulated over the raid".
I did that not knowing the Raider Leader would pull 10 seconds later.
Half the raid logged...including a few Officers and Guild Master. The Raider Leader was livid because it was our first ever pull lol. The Officers and GM sent me a /tell and was like, best thing I've seen all day. Raid Leader wanted to kick me but I didn't haha
Guildchat:
Me: Does the command /gquit still work?
Fellow guildie 1: Please guys, don't try typing it, it does.
Me: Don't type what?
Fellow guildie 1 has left the guild
Other guildies: whahahaha
Good times.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer