This happened in WoW when BC was just released. I had been leveling a BE paladin. I was on a Zep going to the undercity when I noticed my blessing of freedom spell. I toss it on someone and tell them its a slow fall. They state that they don't think it is, I and told them not to worry. So I say, just go for it, you wont get hurt. Next thing I know I see 3 people jump off, all of which die thinking I had cast the spell on them. Ofcourse blessing of freedom doesnt give you slow fall it just gives you something that looks like it could be a slow fall. They did get very mad at me.
Where after he goes through all that effort and all that insanity to complete the scam, all he does with the credits is hand them off to some random guy because he realized the game isn't fun for him any more.
At varying points I've had 5 60-70s, and one of these was a Shadow Priest. If you've played Alliance, you're quite familiar with Menethil Harbor, and the long waits that that place has. Whenever flying into that area, I would begin talking a whoooole lot of smack - even from level 40, I would just start bragging and talking shit about my duel skills. This lead to quite a few duels, but every single one ended the same way.
I throw on Power Word: Shield before the duel starts, and the second it starts, I start casting Mind Control. Normally, it gets them, and that's where the fun begins.
Because, you see, the boats at Menethil are pains in the asses. Unlike the rest of the game, the boats/zeppelins function on a patrol-esque system, so they'll show up once every ten minutes or something. Also, the docks are very, very long.
Anyway, once my enemy was Mind Controlled, into the water he'd go. And normally that was enough time for the boat to come and leave, particularly if I bothered to time it right. Got a lot of cussing out for that one, and it was a pretty good prank - wasn't aggressive, wasn't overly hurtful, just a waste of time for someone.
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At varying points I've had 5 60-70s, and one of these was a Shadow Priest. If you've played Alliance, you're quite familiar with Menethil Harbor, and the long waits that that place has. Whenever flying into that area, I would begin talking a whoooole lot of smack - even from level 40, I would just start bragging and talking shit about my duel skills. This lead to quite a few duels, but every single one ended the same way.
I throw on Power Word: Shield before the duel starts, and the second it starts, I start casting Mind Control. Normally, it gets them, and that's where the fun begins.
Because, you see, the boats at Menethil are pains in the asses. Unlike the rest of the game, the boats/zeppelins function on a patrol-esque system, so they'll show up once every ten minutes or something. Also, the docks are very, very long.
Anyway, once my enemy was Mind Controlled, into the water he'd go. And normally that was enough time for the boat to come and leave, particularly if I bothered to time it right. Got a lot of cussing out for that one, and it was a pretty good prank - wasn't aggressive, wasn't overly hurtful, just a waste of time for someone.
One of my priest buddies was dueling another priest in the same situation. Only he did something a bit more clever. He ran up to the other priest, psychic screamed to break his Mind Control cast, and cast Mind Control on him. It was pretty clever and funny, but the other priest logged for the night.
I have a tale that transcends "prank" to become an all-out scam. I'm sort of proud of it, if only because I got away with it in the end. Spoilered for huge:
EverQuest circa 2002 was a tough game. I was a druid, level 51, and epic weapons had just come out a few months earlier. I was fairly far along in my epic, held back from finishing it by the Jade Reaver, a rare drop off of mobs that destroyed just about anything my weak guild could throw at them. I didn't have the 40kpp to buy one, either. I was frustrated, because I couldn't figure out a way to make that kind of money. White dragon scales were going for more than 50k, which was just ridiculous. I felt lucky not to be a bard.
I went on a Vox raid just for kicks and noticed how obsessed everyone was over claiming the book (for pally epic) or the scale (for bard epic) if it dropped. We spent a half hour in chat post-buff and pre-kill figuring this crap out. I was floored at how intense the discussion got. I was sure there was going to be message board drama after the kill because the scale was going to a bard who didn't "deserve" it according to other bards. Whatever.
The raid went off without a hitch and no epic piece dropped. Much bitching, but no drama. I did, however, come away with an idea.
I went on another Vox raid, led by the same guy, and this time I mentioned to him that I was planning on leading a raid rotation myself in the coming weeks. He was all too happy to walk me through what I needed to do, as his guild needed him to stop leading pickup dragon raids; they'd buy him the chain of his book (he was a pally). This raid went flawlessly and happily he got his frost book. He wished me good luck on my raid next week. I reserved the spot on the message board, noting that the scale, should it drop, was reserved. Got enough signups to go, things were looking good.
Next Thursday rolled around, Vox spawned, and the raid started to gather in Everfrost. It was a mess, and leading raids is something I'll never want to do again, but somehow I got us all organized enough to get through Permafrost, kill the giant, do the buffhall, and get us into chat for strategy. Strats were outlined, loot rules were made clear, and nobody blinked an eye at me, a druid, reserving the scale. For myself.
We log in, the rush begins, Vox starts going down. Then the raid starts going down after she gets off a CH and nukers run out of mana. I switch from healer mode to nuker mode. I end up getting the killing blow with about 12 of the original 60+ raiders still alive. I lock the corpse by looting it, and what do I see? Two scales. And the shitty bard horn, but whatever.
It's at this moment that I know I'll get away with this. There are 3 bards on the raid, one of which is in one of the top guilds on the server and is just trying for his epic. He won't care. The others get loot.
Rezzes happen, loot rolls go, one bard gets a scale, one gets the horn, and the uberguild bard walks away empty handed.
And I got my white dragonscale.
It's shortly after I TP my group out to South Ro that someone finally notices I'm not a bard, and have no conceivable use for the scale. I mentioned that I was doing it for a friend and they seem to accept that. I transfer the scale to my mule via my brother's account and start hocking it in EC. I get a few offers, but I'm asking 60k, which is pricey, but it's rare enough item that someone with the cash and the need won't have antoher option. Takes me two days to get someone seriously interested, or so it seems.
Then he tries to pull a "gotcha." After asking me where I got it (I told him from a raid) and who my main was (I didn't tell him) he checks the boards, sees one Vox raid where scales dropped and a non-bard got it, and calls me out. He says he'll post that I'm a scammer, that I shouldn't be trusted, and that he'll make sure I never get in a guild and never sell that scale.
Whatever. I laugh at him, log out, and spend a few months trying to get that damn Jade Reaver. The scale sits in my bank. The boards were rife with rants and flames, our server was legendary for that kind of drama, and I knew I just had to wait for it to die down.
Months later I'm still short on cash and still without my Epic, so I strike a deal with one of my friends who's in a guild that regularly raids one of the other sources for white dragonscales. He can pass it off as "guild excess" or something, I leave the details to him. If he gets me 50k for it he can keep anything extra. He agrees.
Within two days I'm 50kpp richer, he banks an easy 5k for himself, and I'm laughing all the way to the bank (and it's a very long, slow walk from the EC tunnel weighted down with 50kpp). This was a small fortune at that time, when the most expensive wearable items you'd find (Fungi Tunics) went for 35k or so. Epic pieces were the only way to make serious cash.
What, you might ask, did I do with the cash? One of my previous excuses for the raid was that I wanted a white dragonscale cloak, one of the finest druid items in the game for that slot at the time. I bought one for a paltry 8k, and used it as "proof" that I just made the scale into a cloak. Bards got bitchy out of a sense of entitlement; their excuse was that I should offer to trade the scale for a cloak (trade a 55k item for an 8k item? No thanks).
I twinked out a monk with great gear. I spent piles of plat getting my tradeskills up. The 50k lasted me a good four months and brought my gear up to a respectable level.
And the jade reaver? I wasn't about to pay for that stupid thing. My guild eventually got strong enough to farm Black Reavers, and after a harrowing 11 consecutive spawns of one that nearly killed us, it dropped the axe and I had my epic within a week.
I've known people who pulled scams more lucrative than this, but I was always proud of getting 65 other people to spend 6 hours of their time just so I could make a quick buck.
So you're proud of dicking over a whole guild for an item you didn't even need?
The first time I introduced my friend to RTS gaming (Age of Empires 2, great game) I convinced him that I (set on a seperate team) was the CPU ally and the CPU ally was really me. Anyway, he figures out the basics of the game, and decides that he's going to launch an attack on me (who he thinks is the CPU enemy.) I tell him that I've also got an army ready to go, but I don't know where he is. I suggest he show me his location on the minimap so our group can work together. When my army marched into his camp and began slaughtering him, he started shouting from the next room, "Dude, help me! I'm under attack! They found me!" To which I responded, "I'm on my way, just try and hold them off."
Needless to say, he got wise when I had toppled the last of his buildings and heard me cackling from the next room. He was partly to blame though; he could see the CPU's field of vision, so he should have noticed that the CPU wasn't sending help and was indeed without an army and clueless to his plight.
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In City of Heroes, the teleport power used to pull a person in your party from anywhere in the world to several feet in front of you. Me and a friend would climb the highest building we could, then invite a new player to our party under some ridiculous pretense. He'd stand on the edge and we'd teleport him several feet in front of us, and they'd fall all the way down.
This wouldn't kill them, because CoH had a rule that falling damage would only take you down to 1hp. So we'd teleport them up again with 1hp. Then they'd die.
Same friend, bit of an asshole, used to duel people in WoW, but only if they were fighting out in the wild. They'd accept, he'd stealth and just wait about 5 minutes for them to get bored. Provided they didn't leave their area (they usually didn't), they'd go back to killing. He'd wait for them to pull, then he'd beat them within an inch of their life and let the mob finish them.
Forgot one, before sap had diminishing returns/reduced time, it used to last nearly forever in PVP. He'd go to somewhere like the Badlands at level 60, and follow around a level 30 and sap them until they eventually logged off.
In City of Heroes, the teleport power used to pull a person in your party from anywhere in the world to several feet in front of you. Me and a friend would climb the highest building we could, then invite a new player to our party under some ridiculous pretense. He'd stand on the edge and we'd teleport him several feet in front of us, and they'd fall all the way down.
This wouldn't kill them, because CoH had a rule that falling damage would only take you down to 1hp. So we'd teleport them up again with 1hp. Then they'd die.
Someone once tried that on me.
I hit hover about half a second before I would've splattered.
I have a tale that transcends "prank" to become an all-out scam. I'm sort of proud of it, if only because I got away with it in the end. Spoilered for huge:
EverQuest circa 2002 was a tough game. I was a druid, level 51, and epic weapons had just come out a few months earlier. I was fairly far along in my epic, held back from finishing it by the Jade Reaver, a rare drop off of mobs that destroyed just about anything my weak guild could throw at them. I didn't have the 40kpp to buy one, either. I was frustrated, because I couldn't figure out a way to make that kind of money. White dragon scales were going for more than 50k, which was just ridiculous. I felt lucky not to be a bard.
I went on a Vox raid just for kicks and noticed how obsessed everyone was over claiming the book (for pally epic) or the scale (for bard epic) if it dropped. We spent a half hour in chat post-buff and pre-kill figuring this crap out. I was floored at how intense the discussion got. I was sure there was going to be message board drama after the kill because the scale was going to a bard who didn't "deserve" it according to other bards. Whatever.
The raid went off without a hitch and no epic piece dropped. Much bitching, but no drama. I did, however, come away with an idea.
I went on another Vox raid, led by the same guy, and this time I mentioned to him that I was planning on leading a raid rotation myself in the coming weeks. He was all too happy to walk me through what I needed to do, as his guild needed him to stop leading pickup dragon raids; they'd buy him the chain of his book (he was a pally). This raid went flawlessly and happily he got his frost book. He wished me good luck on my raid next week. I reserved the spot on the message board, noting that the scale, should it drop, was reserved. Got enough signups to go, things were looking good.
Next Thursday rolled around, Vox spawned, and the raid started to gather in Everfrost. It was a mess, and leading raids is something I'll never want to do again, but somehow I got us all organized enough to get through Permafrost, kill the giant, do the buffhall, and get us into chat for strategy. Strats were outlined, loot rules were made clear, and nobody blinked an eye at me, a druid, reserving the scale. For myself.
We log in, the rush begins, Vox starts going down. Then the raid starts going down after she gets off a CH and nukers run out of mana. I switch from healer mode to nuker mode. I end up getting the killing blow with about 12 of the original 60+ raiders still alive. I lock the corpse by looting it, and what do I see? Two scales. And the shitty bard horn, but whatever.
It's at this moment that I know I'll get away with this. There are 3 bards on the raid, one of which is in one of the top guilds on the server and is just trying for his epic. He won't care. The others get loot.
Rezzes happen, loot rolls go, one bard gets a scale, one gets the horn, and the uberguild bard walks away empty handed.
And I got my white dragonscale.
It's shortly after I TP my group out to South Ro that someone finally notices I'm not a bard, and have no conceivable use for the scale. I mentioned that I was doing it for a friend and they seem to accept that. I transfer the scale to my mule via my brother's account and start hocking it in EC. I get a few offers, but I'm asking 60k, which is pricey, but it's rare enough item that someone with the cash and the need won't have antoher option. Takes me two days to get someone seriously interested, or so it seems.
Then he tries to pull a "gotcha." After asking me where I got it (I told him from a raid) and who my main was (I didn't tell him) he checks the boards, sees one Vox raid where scales dropped and a non-bard got it, and calls me out. He says he'll post that I'm a scammer, that I shouldn't be trusted, and that he'll make sure I never get in a guild and never sell that scale.
Whatever. I laugh at him, log out, and spend a few months trying to get that damn Jade Reaver. The scale sits in my bank. The boards were rife with rants and flames, our server was legendary for that kind of drama, and I knew I just had to wait for it to die down.
Months later I'm still short on cash and still without my Epic, so I strike a deal with one of my friends who's in a guild that regularly raids one of the other sources for white dragonscales. He can pass it off as "guild excess" or something, I leave the details to him. If he gets me 50k for it he can keep anything extra. He agrees.
Within two days I'm 50kpp richer, he banks an easy 5k for himself, and I'm laughing all the way to the bank (and it's a very long, slow walk from the EC tunnel weighted down with 50kpp). This was a small fortune at that time, when the most expensive wearable items you'd find (Fungi Tunics) went for 35k or so. Epic pieces were the only way to make serious cash.
What, you might ask, did I do with the cash? One of my previous excuses for the raid was that I wanted a white dragonscale cloak, one of the finest druid items in the game for that slot at the time. I bought one for a paltry 8k, and used it as "proof" that I just made the scale into a cloak. Bards got bitchy out of a sense of entitlement; their excuse was that I should offer to trade the scale for a cloak (trade a 55k item for an 8k item? No thanks).
I twinked out a monk with great gear. I spent piles of plat getting my tradeskills up. The 50k lasted me a good four months and brought my gear up to a respectable level.
And the jade reaver? I wasn't about to pay for that stupid thing. My guild eventually got strong enough to farm Black Reavers, and after a harrowing 11 consecutive spawns of one that nearly killed us, it dropped the axe and I had my epic within a week.
I've known people who pulled scams more lucrative than this, but I was always proud of getting 65 other people to spend 6 hours of their time just so I could make a quick buck.
So you're proud of dicking over a whole guild for an item you didn't even need?
are you really going to come into a prank thread to be a dick about people committing pranks?
Well, there are pranks and then there are pranks. One of my favorite moments regarding pranks was in the early days when I used to play PSU: there was a guy who paid someone one hundred dollars on Ebay for 1,000.000 meseta (game money).
One million meseta was a lot of money.
One thousand meseta was chump change.
Take a careful look at the punctuation on the 1,000.000 to see which he bought.
Strangely enough, people were not sympathetic, given that the only way to get 1,000,000 meseta that quickly in the game was to hack.
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Way back in the day after Tibia had gotten rid of the player owned houses system, they left the empty buildings there. So me and my friend pretended to be player housing NPCs, sold a couple of empty rooms, and people came and started putting all of their stuff in the rooms. Then the server reset at midnight and they lost all of their stuff.
I remember talking to a gaming couple who were playing. . . I think it was Anarchy Online. . . and the girl logged on, created a character, and suddenly guys started giving her free stuff because she was a chick. The guy said, "Fuck that noise," created a female character, and went around using emoticons and saying things like "tee hee" and acting like a complete naive newb to get free gear and money, which he then passed on to his main character. I think he called it "farming nerds for gold."
it was just well-written, and has probably the only ending I could've liked. It was pretty funny....at the beginning, I was like "man, I should consider getting back into this game", as he started to talk about the cruiser warfare I was thinking "man it sure does take a lot of time to skill-up" and by the time it was over I had no intention of even starting a trial.
It's probably just because of my personal experiences, but the story kept pace with my thought process pretty well.
There was another EVE story posted, I only ever saw it as huge jpeg scans from a magazine.
Basically, it's about a guild that specializes in "revenge" cases, infiltrating a target guild's infrastructure and fucking them over from the inside. Does anyone have that link?
Me and my brother used to play Counter Strike and be on opposite sides and make sure to be the last two living people and then not kill each other instead gather up all the guns and put them in a pile and jump around them until the time ran out.
Also, a general thing we did especially whilst doing the above is when you would run out of ammo with the shotguns in CS and keep clicking it would make this really annoying racket so we would change our names to like "[RACKET] what's all this racket!?" and people would often join in and if we got enough people we could crash the server doing it. Ahh, good times.
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There was another EVE story posted, I only ever saw it as huge jpeg scans from a magazine.
Basically, it's about a guild that specializes in "revenge" cases, infiltrating a target guild's infrastructure and fucking them over from the inside. Does anyone have that link?
It includes a story where it took someone a year to get into the Vice President position of the target guild or some shit. It was pretty epic.
Also, I was just told that the ZZZZ Best story is apparently fake.
I figured it mighta been. There were a few places that raised an eyebrow (like how unbearably fake the false scammers sounded (honestly it was shit out of a investment company's FAQ page)) and a lot of it just seemed far too convenient.
Forging a map in Halo 3 that had one team spawn in an enclosed area where 5-6 fusion cores rained down on them to smite the whole team. Hilarious, only if you were on the right team...
Yeah, the ZZZZ Best story is known to be fake. Still a great read.
There have been many other scams in EVE, I believe the record is still held be the EVE Investment Bank, the CEO of which made off with 700 billion isk. To put that in proportion, It's possible to pay for your eve subscription with isk (by using an official system to purchase game time codes from players who want to sell them for isk instead of use them). At current rates, 700 billion isk is enough to pay your subscription for 388 years. He made off with the long term savings of some of the largest corps in the game.
The Guiding Hand Social Club scam is also a good one, if only for the sheer coldbloodedness of it all. This is why corps in EVE have to be very careful over who has access to their assets, Merch Industrial used to have a huge amount of low value stuff available to all members, but someone stole it (even though nothing was very valuable, the sheer numbers meant they got away with about 300m). Now only a few trusted members have any access to corp assets at all.
The game is CS:Source. I played quite a bit back in the day.
I was getting bored. I wasn't the greatest player around, I usually hovered above the middle of the server, usually the 3rd or fourth best on my team when I was having a decent run, so I often looked for ways to spice up the game.
I'd hopped on one of my regular servers (usually filled with people with a sense of humor, no "Pro" shit), and the map was Office. I jumped on T and ran around with the starting Glock for a while, with some amusing results.
Then I bought a Deagle. When the buy-time was over, I walked over to the hostages and Globaled:
"Okay CT's, back off and listen to my demands or a hostie buys it!"
Some Terrorists die, and some CT's die, and some random CT tells me to shove it.
*BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
"I said back off!"
(other Random CT) "Okay! What do you want?"
"First, stop killing my guys!"
A terrorist dies. *BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
I'm starting to get quite a few "lol!" comments now.
(Third CT): "Okay! We're backing off!"
Me: "Good. Now I want $16,000, a flashbang, an HE grenade, and an Aug."
Now, I figured the fun would end here, but the CTs told me to wait, and soon enough, one of them came running up, threw down his gun for me in the T spawn, and ran off. I'm quite enjoying myself, as is the rest of the server.
I pick up my gun, and "Where's my money?"
"We're trying to figure out how to give it to you dude! Just standby!"
"No! It's a trap!" *BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
"Okay, how do we give you your money?"
"Alt-F4, and select me on the player list, duh!"
Half the CT's and a few terrorists dropped. The rest of us laughed. The CT's rushed, so I killed the last hostage. And died gloriously in a hail of bullets while laughing.
The guys who reconnected had a good laugh and admitted they should have been smarter than that.
It's not the greatest thing ever, but hey, it was spur of the moment, and everybody on both sides enjoyed it.
The leader of the GHSC posts occasionally here on Penny Arcade.
He stopped playing EVE for the longest time. Just recently he came back, and made a post consisting of something nonsensical codephrase sounding on the main politics discussion board. I forget what it was, but something like "All agents: Code Alpha".
Had all the major alliance heads running around having fits all day, worried that GHSC sleeper agents were about to tear their corps apart.
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Wow, I played EvE for a while but never knew anything like that happened in the game. I never really got past newb space though.
I can't believe the wailing and gnashing of teeth that caused about how that would 'ruin the game' and 'no one would trust corps again'.
I found an old thread discussing that whole thing and I got to thinking what those doom and gloom people would say now, especially when some are still playing the game.
Anyway, the kind of execution it would take to to that...THAT is the kind of game I want to play!
Too bad EvE has to be that game, I can't stand the interface.
He stopped playing EVE for the longest time. Just recently he came back, and made a post consisting of something nonsensical codephrase sounding on the main politics discussion board. I forget what it was, but something like "All agents: Code Alpha".
Had all the major alliance heads running around having fits all day, worried that GHSC sleeper agents were about to tear their corps apart.
God that is so funny after two years he can cause that kind of panic. I LOVE THAT GUY!
In City of Heroes, the teleport power used to pull a person in your party from anywhere in the world to several feet in front of you. Me and a friend would climb the highest building we could, then invite a new player to our party under some ridiculous pretense. He'd stand on the edge and we'd teleport him several feet in front of us, and they'd fall all the way down.
You could also teleport people into the freeway map-change routes -- basically you can take someone anywhere on the map as long as it wasn't a hazard zone and they had auto-accept team TP on.
Someone went AFK in the top left of Independance Port and when they came back they were stood in the fountain at Founders Falls with the rest of the group in swimwear raving away.
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The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
back when i used to play WoW (Troll Rogue, at the time) i used to have a few macros that consisted of something like "/me pickpockets you for 34 Silver and 52 Copper" (a few with different values, for variety)
this would produce something like "Kejzhak pickpockets you for 34 Silver and 52 Copper" on the screen of everyone near earshot. it probably helped that i was a rogue.
of course if you knew anything, you knew it wasnt possible, but to to newbs (and a LOT of higher level players, suprisingly) they had just lost some money..
used to get a lot of angry tells after a few of these of the "giv me bak my money u bastard" "i know a GM" "i'll get you banned" etc etc.
nothing special, and probably fairly common, but a good laugh.
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back when i used to play WoW (Troll Rogue, at the time) i used to have a few macros that consisted of something like "/me pickpockets you for 34 Silver and 52 Copper" (a few with different values, for variety)
this would produce something like "Kejzhak pickpockets you for 34 Silver and 52 Copper" on the screen of everyone near earshot. it probably helped that i was a rogue.
of course if you knew anything, you knew it wasnt possible, but to to newbs (and a LOT of higher level players, suprisingly) they had just lost some money..
used to get a lot of angry tells after a few of these of the "giv me bak my money u bastard" "i know a GM" "i'll get you banned" etc etc.
nothing special, and probably fairly common, but a good laugh.
Now I have something to do when hanging around lowbies.
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Yes, that was indeed quite worth it.
I love the ending. . .
At varying points I've had 5 60-70s, and one of these was a Shadow Priest. If you've played Alliance, you're quite familiar with Menethil Harbor, and the long waits that that place has. Whenever flying into that area, I would begin talking a whoooole lot of smack - even from level 40, I would just start bragging and talking shit about my duel skills. This lead to quite a few duels, but every single one ended the same way.
I throw on Power Word: Shield before the duel starts, and the second it starts, I start casting Mind Control. Normally, it gets them, and that's where the fun begins.
Because, you see, the boats at Menethil are pains in the asses. Unlike the rest of the game, the boats/zeppelins function on a patrol-esque system, so they'll show up once every ten minutes or something. Also, the docks are very, very long.
Anyway, once my enemy was Mind Controlled, into the water he'd go. And normally that was enough time for the boat to come and leave, particularly if I bothered to time it right. Got a lot of cussing out for that one, and it was a pretty good prank - wasn't aggressive, wasn't overly hurtful, just a waste of time for someone.
One of my priest buddies was dueling another priest in the same situation. Only he did something a bit more clever. He ran up to the other priest, psychic screamed to break his Mind Control cast, and cast Mind Control on him. It was pretty clever and funny, but the other priest logged for the night.
So you're proud of dicking over a whole guild for an item you didn't even need?
Needless to say, he got wise when I had toppled the last of his buildings and heard me cackling from the next room. He was partly to blame though; he could see the CPU's field of vision, so he should have noticed that the CPU wasn't sending help and was indeed without an army and clueless to his plight.
I just hit the hook of the story.
MUST CONTINUE READING!
This wouldn't kill them, because CoH had a rule that falling damage would only take you down to 1hp. So we'd teleport them up again with 1hp. Then they'd die.
Same friend, bit of an asshole, used to duel people in WoW, but only if they were fighting out in the wild. They'd accept, he'd stealth and just wait about 5 minutes for them to get bored. Provided they didn't leave their area (they usually didn't), they'd go back to killing. He'd wait for them to pull, then he'd beat them within an inch of their life and let the mob finish them.
Forgot one, before sap had diminishing returns/reduced time, it used to last nearly forever in PVP. He'd go to somewhere like the Badlands at level 60, and follow around a level 30 and sap them until they eventually logged off.
Someone once tried that on me.
I hit hover about half a second before I would've splattered.
are you really going to come into a prank thread to be a dick about people committing pranks?
think this one over.
One million meseta was a lot of money.
One thousand meseta was chump change.
Take a careful look at the punctuation on the 1,000.000 to see which he bought.
Strangely enough, people were not sympathetic, given that the only way to get 1,000,000 meseta that quickly in the game was to hack.
I wired the credits to him and logged off.
I never logged back in again.
It's probably just because of my personal experiences, but the story kept pace with my thought process pretty well.
Basically, it's about a guild that specializes in "revenge" cases, infiltrating a target guild's infrastructure and fucking them over from the inside. Does anyone have that link?
hmm...here we go
http://eve.klaki.net/heist/
Also, a general thing we did especially whilst doing the above is when you would run out of ammo with the shotguns in CS and keep clicking it would make this really annoying racket so we would change our names to like "[RACKET] what's all this racket!?" and people would often join in and if we got enough people we could crash the server doing it. Ahh, good times.
It includes a story where it took someone a year to get into the Vice President position of the target guild or some shit. It was pretty epic.
Also, I was just told that the ZZZZ Best story is apparently fake.
Holy shit. That is amazing.
There have been many other scams in EVE, I believe the record is still held be the EVE Investment Bank, the CEO of which made off with 700 billion isk. To put that in proportion, It's possible to pay for your eve subscription with isk (by using an official system to purchase game time codes from players who want to sell them for isk instead of use them). At current rates, 700 billion isk is enough to pay your subscription for 388 years. He made off with the long term savings of some of the largest corps in the game.
The Guiding Hand Social Club scam is also a good one, if only for the sheer coldbloodedness of it all. This is why corps in EVE have to be very careful over who has access to their assets, Merch Industrial used to have a huge amount of low value stuff available to all members, but someone stole it (even though nothing was very valuable, the sheer numbers meant they got away with about 300m). Now only a few trusted members have any access to corp assets at all.
I was getting bored. I wasn't the greatest player around, I usually hovered above the middle of the server, usually the 3rd or fourth best on my team when I was having a decent run, so I often looked for ways to spice up the game.
I'd hopped on one of my regular servers (usually filled with people with a sense of humor, no "Pro" shit), and the map was Office. I jumped on T and ran around with the starting Glock for a while, with some amusing results.
Then I bought a Deagle. When the buy-time was over, I walked over to the hostages and Globaled:
"Okay CT's, back off and listen to my demands or a hostie buys it!"
Some Terrorists die, and some CT's die, and some random CT tells me to shove it.
*BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
"I said back off!"
(other Random CT) "Okay! What do you want?"
"First, stop killing my guys!"
A terrorist dies. *BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
I'm starting to get quite a few "lol!" comments now.
(Third CT): "Okay! We're backing off!"
Me: "Good. Now I want $16,000, a flashbang, an HE grenade, and an Aug."
Now, I figured the fun would end here, but the CTs told me to wait, and soon enough, one of them came running up, threw down his gun for me in the T spawn, and ran off. I'm quite enjoying myself, as is the rest of the server.
I pick up my gun, and "Where's my money?"
"We're trying to figure out how to give it to you dude! Just standby!"
"No! It's a trap!" *BLAM* "HOSTAGE DOWN!"
"Okay, how do we give you your money?"
"Alt-F4, and select me on the player list, duh!"
Half the CT's and a few terrorists dropped. The rest of us laughed. The CT's rushed, so I killed the last hostage. And died gloriously in a hail of bullets while laughing.
The guys who reconnected had a good laugh and admitted they should have been smarter than that.
It's not the greatest thing ever, but hey, it was spur of the moment, and everybody on both sides enjoyed it.
The leader of the GHSC posts occasionally here on Penny Arcade.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
He stopped playing EVE for the longest time. Just recently he came back, and made a post consisting of something nonsensical codephrase sounding on the main politics discussion board. I forget what it was, but something like "All agents: Code Alpha".
Had all the major alliance heads running around having fits all day, worried that GHSC sleeper agents were about to tear their corps apart.
Wow, I played EvE for a while but never knew anything like that happened in the game. I never really got past newb space though.
I can't believe the wailing and gnashing of teeth that caused about how that would 'ruin the game' and 'no one would trust corps again'.
I found an old thread discussing that whole thing and I got to thinking what those doom and gloom people would say now, especially when some are still playing the game.
Anyway, the kind of execution it would take to to that...THAT is the kind of game I want to play!
Too bad EvE has to be that game, I can't stand the interface.
God that is so funny after two years he can cause that kind of panic. I LOVE THAT GUY!
You could also teleport people into the freeway map-change routes -- basically you can take someone anywhere on the map as long as it wasn't a hazard zone and they had auto-accept team TP on.
Someone went AFK in the top left of Independance Port and when they came back they were stood in the fountain at Founders Falls with the rest of the group in swimwear raving away.
this would produce something like "Kejzhak pickpockets you for 34 Silver and 52 Copper" on the screen of everyone near earshot. it probably helped that i was a rogue.
of course if you knew anything, you knew it wasnt possible, but to to newbs (and a LOT of higher level players, suprisingly) they had just lost some money..
used to get a lot of angry tells after a few of these of the "giv me bak my money u bastard" "i know a GM" "i'll get you banned" etc etc.
nothing special, and probably fairly common, but a good laugh.
Now I have something to do when hanging around lowbies.
wow, this is a great read.
Ok, now I am getting the urge to try this game out.