"Duping" platinum / Items

[bionicbadger]

I know of one way that would dupe stackable items early on (not that many months after EQ went live). Was almost banned, but they let me keep playing because they couldn't figure out how we were duping and said that if we told them so they could fix it, we could keep playing.

You needed to have a partner to do this with.

Both people needed to arrange their inventory so that there weren't any empty spots.

One person would open a trade window with the other person and put a bunch of stuff in the 8 trade spots (1 or 2 food or water was usual), the stackable item that you wanted duped had to be in a specific slot (either first or last, I forget which, I think first) and the other player must not have room for the item in their inventory (so put 2 water or food in every other inventory slot to fill them up)

Then you needed to coordinate timing. the following had to be done at pretty much the same time:
1) trader hits trade button to complete trade, then pulls his LAN cable to go LD
2) recipient presses cancel button

If the timing was done right, the junk falls to the ground, and the item that you wished duped, turned into a stack of 255 of that item. We got shit piles of platinum bars and gems that way. So could have pretty much endless money.

Those were the good old days

EDIT: I'm talking about real EQ 15 years ago, not the emulator