Plane of Hate

[sammoHung]

Jesse, this is the state of these servers. There is one infamous player who has been camping Plane of Hate minis every spawn for the last 6 years on Green - and many more years on Blue before that.

Now that they are not considered raid mobs, and you don't have to zone back in when minis spawn - there is a group of players that have camped every spawn for the last year.

One player person camps Lodizal every day and has been for years - you'll see them auctioning Boots, Belt and Shield regularly. One person camps Stormfeather every day and has been for years - you'll see them auctioning Loot Rights to map piece. One player camps AC every day and has been for years - you'll see them auction Jboots MQ regularly. A few players camp Fungi King regularly and have been for years. Etc, etc, etc.

I think it's a sign of the times. Especially online, people have moved away from larger community and working together in favor of greed and perceived riches or wealth. The spirit of the server is not to work together to achieve - it is to take from others what they would take from you. Parallel to the rest of the internet.

The golden era of EQ, MMOs and Online discourse in general is over. We are in post-modern, mid-societal collapse internet era. It's ugly out there.

Your three options are:
1) Beat em
2) Join em
3) Don't play p99

[loramin]

Originally Posted by sammoHung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Jesse, this is the state of these servers. There is one infamous player who has been camping Plane of Hate minis every spawn for the last 6 years on Green - and many more years on Blue before that.

And he's a two-boxing cheater (I personally have seen him 2-box many times) ... but for some odd reason he's never been banned.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it does shock me that the staff lets him monopolize Hate while flagrantly cheating.

[Elijah850]

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[CrazyPro]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And he's a two-boxing cheater (I personally have seen him 2-box many times) ... but for some odd reason he's never been banned.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it does shock me that the staff lets him monopolize Hate while flagrantly cheating.

There's an astronomically thin chance that Diddlydee is just a Daybreak employee making easy money that the staff can't ban else they'd break the agreement but it'd be reaaaally funny if that was the case.

Unfortunately the staff don't have any dev support to combat cheaters apart from what the devs have already implemented years ago, which people like this have already found a way around. And the "If you can't 101% prove without a shadow of a doubt with video evidence that this player is indeed cheating, there's nothing I can do." approach that the GMs take doesn't help.

It really is insane that the benefit of the doubt can be stretched to such unthinkable lengths, yet here we are.

[onmove_broke]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And he's a two-boxing cheater (I personally have seen him 2-box many times) ... but for some odd reason he's never been banned.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it does shock me that the staff lets him monopolize Hate while flagrantly cheating.

Nothing would surprise me at this point. I just find it a bit odd that one guy has been doing this for so long. What is the benefit of that? Imaging wasting years of your life for one item in Hate. They need to change the rules. If not, you know there is something else going on.

[sammoHung]

Originally Posted by onmove_broke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nothing would surprise me at this point. I just find it a bit odd that one guy has been doing this for so long. What is the benefit of that? Imaging wasting years of your life for one item in Hate. They need to change the rules. If not, you know there is something else going on.

I can't figure it out myself, either. I always assumed RMT when he sells the staves, but then one day (years ago back in 2022) I saw he had like 7.4 million plat on his EC toon. If it was RMT I'd have thought he'd be moving it. IDK, maybe he's got a hidden agreement with the staff? Maybe he is John Smedley who is doing it solely to jack up the price of mage epics?

[cd288]

Originally Posted by sammoHung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I can't figure it out myself, either. I always assumed RMT when he sells the staves, but then one day (years ago back in 2022) I saw he had like 7.4 million plat on his EC toon. If it was RMT I'd have thought he'd be moving it. IDK, maybe he's got a hidden agreement with the staff? Maybe he is John Smedley who is doing it solely to jack up the price of mage epics?

He could still be moving it and just hadn't found significant buyers at that specific point in time.

Could also be taking discounts on the plat cost if you pay him a certain amount of real money.

It's P99 so the chance that's he's just a random person who has some sort of obsession/fixation with getting as much plat as possible for the rest of his life is not zero. But IMO there has to be some sort of RMT occurring somewhere.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's P99 so the chance that's he's just a random person who has some sort of obsession/fixation with getting as much plat as possible for the rest of his life is not zero.

Considering some of the pixel obsessed people I've met on here over the years this wouldn't surprise me.

Retirees and people on disability who just play 24/7 and take the game way, way too seriously.

[onmove_broke]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He could still be moving it and just hadn't found significant buyers at that specific point in time.

Could also be taking discounts on the plat cost if you pay him a certain amount of real money.

It's P99 so the chance that's he's just a random person who has some sort of obsession/fixation with getting as much plat as possible for the rest of his life is not zero. But IMO there has to be some sort of RMT occurring somewhere.

I just cannot imagine someone being so hung up on a specific item that he has been mercilessly camping even since blue to just sell for plat for what purpose? Like, if you have 10mm plat in the bank and you spend all of your time doing this, when would you have time to even use it.

I kinda wonder what a pp > $$ conversion would look like...like 1kpp for $1? Then it makes sense that he must be doing some RMT. I've played this game since 1999 and I never remember someone poopsocking this hard for a specific item.

There is also guy in KC that just farms the T-Staff as well.

[CrazyPro]

Originally Posted by sammoHung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I can't figure it out myself, either. I always assumed RMT when he sells the staves, but then one day (years ago back in 2022) I saw he had like 7.4 million plat on his EC toon. If it was RMT I'd have thought he'd be moving it. IDK, maybe he's got a hidden agreement with the staff? Maybe he is John Smedley who is doing it solely to jack up the price of mage epics?

He's made well over 20 million plat so a lot of that platinum has to be going somewhere.