PSA: Buying from Platlord

[Awwalike]

just kind of confused how this guy still runs around selling shit


he's obviously duping in a way that isn't traceable by GMs?


only way I can wrap my head around this

[Furinex]

Rofl, WOOT Ephi! Stroll over to platlord's website, he took p99 off! Fuck that nitwit. Looks like you got a couple of good ones. Hopefully he ragequit for good.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is no way Platlord is working alone. Think about it. It's not hard to join the dots on this. The only thing a genuine purge would require is hard evidence - hence the watching, because there is no way they will be able to resist trying to salvage some of the plat and gear even though they know the mules are being watched. The beauty of dishonesty and greed is you can rely upon it.

Aye. Just allow them to be slowly hoisted by their own Runed Gnomish Petard.

[Stabbyjoe]

I'm thinking that when I hit Platlord the information that I found (the giant list I provided earlier today) was just the accounts that he had set up and ready to go for sales. They were all parked at the same spot, each toon either had 499,999 platinum or three items, all of them were the same race/class/face/starting stats.
When the admin popped him he took Project1999 off of his sales website, but he never stopped advertising on some of the other "underground" forums. This leads me to believe that he had more items and coin stowed away somewhere else. But he couldn't have had all of the platinum on one single account. That's how I got busted, because I was the top three richest characters on the server.
I have several theories that I came up with while I was digging around then. I won't publicize them all because if I hit the nail on the head it might screw something up and I don't want Ephi's hard work to go to waste. But one theory is: A long long time ago on this server there were quite a few plat dupes, some with merchants, some with other bugs. Someone could have had the idea back then that one day they could profit from this server and decided to hoard an unimaginable amount of platinum. Explaining the items is simple with this theory - IB pretty much all left the server at the same time and a lot of them cashed out. That could be where a lot of the multiples of items came from.
Unfortunately I think this theory is incorrect. It's probably something a lot worse, and a lot more complicated.

[Sarius]

Stabbyjoe, you got a lot of shit from people for what you did. I honestly think that you are a server hero. Thanks for coming back to the forums to contribute more to the conversation, I wanna see this fucker gone forever.

[Tasslehofp99]

Ban TMO, problem solved.

[Tasslehofp99]

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

I'm thinking that when I hit Platlord the information that I found (the giant list I provided earlier today) was just the accounts that he had set up and ready to go for sales. They were all parked at the same spot, each toon either had 499,999 platinum or three items, all of them were the same race/class/face/starting stats.
When the admin popped him he took Project1999 off of his sales website, but he never stopped advertising on some of the other "underground" forums. This leads me to believe that he had more items and coin stowed away somewhere else. But he couldn't have had all of the platinum on one single account. That's how I got busted, because I was the top three richest characters on the server.
I have several theories that I came up with while I was digging around then. I won't publicize them all because if I hit the nail on the head it might screw something up and I don't want Ephi's hard work to go to waste. But one theory is: A long long time ago on this server there were quite a few plat dupes, some with merchants, some with other bugs. Someone could have had the idea back then that one day they could profit from this server and decided to hoard an unimaginable amount of platinum. Explaining the items is simple with this theory - IB pretty much all left the server at the same time and a lot of them cashed out. That could be where a lot of the multiples of items came from.
Unfortunately I think this theory is incorrect. It's probably something a lot worse, and a lot more complicated.

Im not sure which items you're talking about having multiples of, but I know personally players who have over 30 fungi's on their account, among other very high end items. I know for a fact that they acquired them through legitimate farming means. If you're talking about raid items and such I'd start with the guild who's locked down project1999 for 2 years and openly sells/advertises raid loot.

[Stabbyjoe]

Of course it's easy to point your fingers at the enemy.
In all of my searching I only found one TMO member's name. And it was on a document that was created a few months after the release of Kunark.

[t0lkien]

Can someone summarize the Stabbyjoe story for those of us who missed it?

[Gadwen]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can someone summarize the Stabbyjoe story for those of us who missed it?

https://www.project1999.org/forums/s...d.php?t=106658