"Duping" platinum / Items

[nicol]

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

Supposedly Yantis bribed a dev to put an NPC deep in najena that spawned under some very specific circumstances that would give you 2 plat for every 1 you gave it or something like that. That would explain how mysupersales or whatever it was took off so quickly.

A character named Sitnay was observed on Prexus at like 3 am in there running in, but walking out as if heavily encumbered. Screen shots and everything. I wonder if that was really true.

I doubt that. There was enough people on Prexus selling him plat, myself included, that he wouldn't really need it. All he did was pay $ for the platinum from people and then sell it for double the price.

[Alanus]

Once on Live I sold a bunch of gems to a vendor as I went LD, came back and had the cash and the gems.

I didn't want to risk a banning, so I petitioned it and the GM told me to just delete the gems and it would be all cool, so I did that.

[Chuck_still_a_virgin]

There were 2 very active dupes when P99 launched. I was nice enough to inform fat head Rogaine about one of them. The crux from what I remember was you could copy an entire slot in the shared bank by adding too many items (or bags) and then logging out with it on your cursor to character select, while using a proxy to log in to the same account and selecting another character (details could be wrong, its been many years). I was also the first player banned on P99 after launch for making fun of staff in OOC. The ironic part about that was I was speedhack kiting with a group of players in EC during this and had a whole bank full of plat bars from duping. Only came back for Red99 launch, which was also promptly run into the ground by staff mismanagement. Hope that answers any questions you have.

[Nilasbik]

I remember one from right after luclin launched. You would get as far away from a vendor as you could and still have the merchant window open. Select gems to sell. Then hit sell gems and back away from the vendor at the same time. You kept the gems and got plat from the vendor. Once you had enough plat you bought more gems from the vendor and then sold stacks of gems at a time. Never handing over any gems and always receiving plat. I personally never got banned from it, but it was fixed not too long after I heard about it.

[Potus]

Most dupes on live involved your character going LD and coming back alive to a corpse of yourself or weird shenanigans involving trades/transactions with merchants.

That's how the Chinese duped on Nameless, they'd feign death, go LD, then someone would aggro a mob on their character right before the server would log him out. Come back to corpse full of items!