The Dark Side of Brell: Another Nostalgia Thread

[Partha]

Boy, is this thread so shocking.

[Ddrak]

I just used the Earth pet to root stuff. Wasn't terribly overpowering, at least not compared to the fact that mages could single pull any mob they wanted to, even from a whole bunch of social stuff standing on top of each other.

I know there were other ways to root stuff and I'm probably not even aware of Akhbar's method.

Dd

[Alluveal]

Wasn't that Furor asshat banned for duping? Or some exploit that had to do with no-drop items you could put in a forge and trade?

[Ckador]

I remember when I got Sol Ro (the zone) nerfed with my kiting antics.

[Vulgarr Disruptor]

Never cheated and never knew of anyone close to me that did... and just because the chowderheads in your guild exploited and cheated, doesn't mean every guild did.

[Ickhor]

Fair I guess. I'm not going to name the people in your guild who did because I don't want to incriminate anyone, and you'll say that I have no proof since I won't reveal it. Maybe someone will come forward though.

[Robyn the Ranger]

i have a feeling i'm not the only one thinking:

god damn it i wish i knew about all this shit when i was playing!

[Kulaf]

I knew an item duping bug in EQ2......never used it......./petitioned it.

[Arathena]

I reported a bug that allowed me to get 5 stacks of the instant cheal / gather mana potions from one of the expansions. I should see if it ever got fixed...

[ethelwolfe]

Never used cheats to advance my character. It really takes the fun out of the game. Heh, now I know why some people can get all the pp and uber items in such a short span of time.

[Arclan Cirel]

To the poster, the 25k you refer to may be this which I thought was old news.

Someone wrote a program in early EQ days that made a little platinum per transaction which, when you have five accounts running the macro, adds up quickly to a lot of plat.

That program was sold for 25K through a mediary (as in the buyer did not know who the seller was and vice versa) to a guy who ran a business selling game money and equipment on the web.

I only know this because a friend of mine (who I did not play EQ with) likes to play haxor and was part of a couple haxor communities and had several transactions with that guy who sells game stuff on the web.

[Njorls]

Then there was exploiting features in the game that weren't really bugs, but caused you to leverage a huge advantage if you knew about them and kept them secret. My champion exploit and the accomplishment I am most proud of in EQ is when I made a level 1 mage one day, and then raided Rallos Zek with Enshadowed at level 63 with her that night.

Damn, Ickhor, I remember being impressed when you said you didn't get a res when soloing PoCrypt because it took longer to heal/med up than it did to get the exp back.

I remember thinking a certain member used ShowEQ until I learned the /pet assist trick he was using. I was never sure if anyone in Enshadowed used ShowEQ but it coulda been done right in front of me, call me Mr. Gullible.

[Ickhor]

Haha I actually wasn't cheating in Crypt of Decay either.

[Ickhor]

To the poster, the 25k you refer to may be this which I thought was old news.

Someone wrote a program in early EQ days that made a little platinum per transaction which, when you have five accounts running the macro, adds up quickly to a lot of plat.

That program was sold for 25K through a mediary (as in the buyer did not know who the seller was and vice versa) to a guy who ran a business selling game money and equipment on the web.

I only know this because a friend of mine (who I did not play EQ with) likes to play haxor and was part of a couple haxor communities and had several transactions with that guy who sells game stuff on the web.

This is not what I was teasing about.

[Bahd Zoolander]

ShowEQ? I thought that died when MacroQuest came out.

It's still around. http://www.showeq.net/forums/index.php?

It's a fun program to fool around with. The most interesting thing was seeing how Sony went about trying to limit it's usefulness or break it. I'd be willing to bet most of the server side filtering and lag fixes came about from a desire to stop ShowEQ.

[superwalrus]

lol Njorls, I used to think of the same thing about Tukodo as well... but when they nerfed it and he couldn't check spawns anymore, I believed him.

I never once cheated or knew of any cheats in EQ, not sure wtf is wrong with all you people. I learned my lesson in Diablo 1. Diablo 1 was the most fun game I had ever played up to that point in my life. However, 2 weeks in and all the cheats started showing up on the net, I quickly got bored with the game. It really takes the fun out of it.

Walrus

[Ddrak]

Who needs to go to forums for ShowEQ? 'emerge showeq' works just fine!

Dd

[Narith]

Never cheated a day in my life of EQ, never used an outside program and if I found an in game bug I reported it (though only if I found it myself, I keep my mouth shut if someone else tells me).

However I did have a friend of mine who doesn't play anymore, she only played EQ to see what she could hack, and enjoyed writing programs to cheat in EQ. After she quit she told me about a bunch of bugs... One apparently let you manipulate some program on your end to pull up a bank screen any where in EQ, when you did this on a boat it would not record what you put in or pulled out. So you ride the boat in OoT and simply withdraw all of your money each time you cross then place it back doubling your cash each trip. Another allowed her to enter Anguish 2 days after OoW was released (instanced zones back then could be gotten with 1 person). Seen her use and make warp hacks, speed hacks, dupes, she could get into any zone in eq and was not flagged or keyed for anything...

Other bugs I knew about (but were fixed) were if you handed in items to certain NPCs in certain instanced zones they would hand you back a fully charged one. People used this to recharge thier exp potions, gate potions, ect. This was done in ikkinz 4 to the first golem, inktuta to the spammer at zone in, and a few other instances, basicly any instance that had a non-kos npc.

Yet another where you handed a certain froglok an item (I forget what it was you handed him, he actually asked for it) you could buy for about 5 cp from a vendor close by he would hand you back 2 gold.

Finally of course there were the tradeskill items that vendors paid more for the final combine than they sold material for. People would macro these combines and make millions of plat. The biggest one I saw was for ethereal temper, it cost about 3p to make and back when PoP was released it sold to vendors for 63p, only catch was the minimum required level so wasn't as widely used by macroers.

I don't like cheat programs and I veiw anyone who has to use them to level or do certain things as rather inferior (forgive the ego). My feeling is that if you have to use a cheat or a bug to play your character you obviously don't have the skill to do it normally.

[Arlyh]

One day, in Uqua, we downed Vrex Barxt Qurat and wiped right after, so I /zoned back to uqua and at this point it wasn't possible, atleast to my knowledge, to move between unconnected zones so I went from every zone between potranq and uqua as fast as my computer could load the zones in the middle, warped back down, checked his corpse, died, sent the loot to my guild leader, /zoned back to uqua and about 30 seconds before the corpse was going to rot I got the okay to loot the gear. I got a Crescent-Emblazened Jerkin, Polished Cerimonial Mask, and Swirling Fire Diamond Stud for free. This was a day after I spent all of my dkp on a timeless leather tunic pattern and it made me really wish I knew how to pass no-drops on to other people.

I'm that girl Narith is talking about, but I only did a few of those things. The boat thing in particular was before my time. When I quit I was working on getting the server to let me loot other people's corpses. Not much came of it though, I was able to right click them and get a loot window with nothing in it, and after that I was able to get a loot window with stuff in it but I wasn't able to actually loot anything, the client would crash when I tried. The other thing I was working on was tricking the server in to letting me zone to anywhere from anywhere. My first plan was to try to tell the server that I'd casted a druid/wizard spell that'd put me where I wanted to go, but it didn't work out at all. My next plan was to just to call the function that changes zones and tell it where I wanted to go, which worked fine on my end but the server didn't like it and I'd get disconnected.

[Xican]

I don't like cheat programs and I veiw anyone who has to use them to level or do certain things as rather inferior (forgive the ego). My feeling is that if you have to use a cheat or a bug to play your character you obviously don't have the skill to do it normally.

EverQuest was mundane. I cheated to level a few times, because to be honest with you, it just wasn't worth killing x mob y amount of times just so I could get Z spell. That's not skill at your character, that is enduring a boring treadmill. I was a damn good druid, and nothing will take away from that. I just didn't have the patience, desire, or interest in the game to level up. Which is probably why I never even made 60. I don't think I really liked Everquest at all, for that matter.