[EQ] Cheaters Nostalgia; EQ1's Greatest Exploits/Rumors.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by OneofOne

The biggest hype/failure game in the industry, with the boss on drugs, the co-boss cheating with someone in the office, and pissed off ex-employees pointing fingers and venting steam when the dust clears, and you want us to watch Days of Our Lives? Sorry, this is much more interesting.

(You do know which forum you're on, right?)

The Development of Vanguard sounds ripe for a Movie Deal!

[Malakriss]

Originally Posted by Vinen

The Development of Vanguard sounds ripe for a Movie Deal!

The failure can only be complete if Uwe Boll takes the helm.

[Nazbuk]

We had the linux version of ShowEQ running at our apartment and would just go around the zones finding the rare spawns to kill.

I think it was for the mage quest but we made an Euridite mage and killed the actual mob and told people he was up. People would try and give us the items and we would reply back with BS quests to go on. A GM showed up and told us to go away.

I played on Veeshan, does anyone on there remember the guy named 'TwoYakcs' or something like that and then Kunark came out and he was the LOL of the server?

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Nazbuk

We had the linux version of ShowEQ running at our apartment and would just go around the zones finding the rare spawns to kill.

I think it was for the mage quest but we made an Euridite mage and killed the actual mob and told people he was up. People would try and give us the items and we would reply back with BS quests to go on. A GM showed up and told us to go away.

I played on Veeshan, does anyone on there remember the guy named 'TwoYakcs' or something like that and then Kunark came out and he was the LOL of the server?

Hmm I played on Veeshan, but don't remember anyone like that. Any more details? Was it just his name? 2 Yaks and 2 jagged bands and fbss ftw.

[Nazbuk]

Twoyaks was his name, I think. He had the brown warrior armor from hate, two yacks, and an fbss. It's been a long time. I just remembering seeing him a week after Kunark came out and got a good laugh out of him. I never saw him again after that.

[Valkyn]

Does anyone know whats going on with the EQ Classic server? Today their website got changed to this message:

Site down until further notice.

It seems like we have run into a road block along the way of development. Simply put, many aspects of the site will be down due to legal issues which are currently being resolved. Feel free to stop by the forums to stay in touch. Note: The forums are currently down but will be put up in the next few days. Please know that the old forum posts are 100% safe and have not been removed for good, only temporarily. Also, please feel free to stop into IRC and talk with others about classic EQ, but please do not ask about the circumstances that we are currently facing or discuss our project. We thank the EQC community for its support through this all and we will let you know as soon as things have been resolved. Thank you.

Somewhere in the FAQ of the old site there was a thing about the legality of the project, and it said that Sony didnt care about it as long as they didnt modify the client...did sony decide to fuck them over after all?

[JerleMinara]

Originally Posted by Valkyn

Does anyone know whats going on with the EQ Classic server? Today their website got changed to this message:



Somewhere in the FAQ of the old site there was a thing about the legality of the project, and it said that Sony didnt care about it as long as they didnt modify the client...did sony decide to fuck them over after all?

Sony C&D'd them, obviously. Why is anyone surprised? They did it to Shards of Delaya.

It is unquestionably Sony's content and intellectual property. The fact that they lasted as long as they did was the amazing thing.

[kudos]

Maybe it means SoE is finally listening to its players and will work on a new progression or EQClassic server.


Doubt it. They're too fucking stupid to actually listen to people.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by kudos

Maybe it means SoE is finally listening to its players and will work on a new progression or EQClassic server.


Doubt it. They're too fucking stupid to actually listen to people.

It'd be fucking hilarious is they C&D'd them, made them turn over what they had done, and then announced a new server next week.

[Reggie]

I forgot about this certain VP exploit. This was after it was revamped into a PoP level zone.

Most of the back dragons despawned a couple times during the fight and 3 of 4 protector drakes would spawn right on top of whoever had aggro at the time. Sometimes they would spawn at the cleric. Phara Dar would despawn multiple times and always come back to full health. Lots of fucking drakes to have to deal with. No one ever GK'd PD because of the drake ownage.

So you would usually GK close to the zone in since you didn't have to be close to the mob. Normally you would kill Xygoz first since his lair wasnt hot. For most of the back dragons this was enough to help handle the adds that spawned on top of you.

There is a Bot Command Server that you can send commands to control whoever is connected to it. So when you do a bca warp wp corner 3, all characters connected to the bot server would do it.

So the story for Druushk, and Nexona was when the prots spawned both folks would warp to a pre set waypoint in xygoz's lair and wipe out the adds.

For Phara Dar it was more of a challenge. I cleared out a few safe halls since there aren't many now, and made waypoints for each corner, and hotkeyed each spot on the cycle.

As phara dar went through the script I just had to hop the monk and the cleric through the zone to stay a step ahead of the spawns.

I know cheating is 'bad' but I look at it as a new toolset to see what you can do with it. I did play the game straight up for years though, for what its worth.

[Goliath]

Isn't Shards still going strong? You mean they did it to Shards pre Shards? Like when all the zone names were the same and they didn't move trees around and shit?

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Goliath

Isn't Shards still going strong? You mean they did it to Shards pre Shards? Like when all the zone names were the same and they didn't move trees around and shit?

They did it to what Shards was before, yes.

Shards then "moved" to the netherlands, where Sony can't touch them, and re-started.

[Grooverider]

Killing Phara Dar with Ghost Kill was easy. You just needed two rangers, and to put them in two different places. Once you get aggro, you simply warp to zone in and /fade (which zones you in and out).

I used a rogue with PoTime pouch and two rangers. Phara died very very quickly..

Very very easy..

[Big W Powah!]

Are there any ghostkilling/etc things around anymore? I would like to level a character by GKing/hacking.

[Reggie]

I am pretty sure someone in this thread mentioned a recent patch that killed GK. I would stay away from that one these days. Instance or not.

Most sites stopped giving it out with their packages. If you had the source you could compile it with each new release though.

You can still pretty much automate anything. You can have a 2 box enchanter that plays with the best of them short of charming, same goes for just about any other class you want to use in support.

With the bot command server you can control them individually or as a whole from normal hotkeys.

AFK leveling takes some time to set up but once you have a good loop going you have taken the grind away and can just hop in and dork around with your friends on the fun shit.