What are some of the exploits that you guys remember from back in the day?

[cd288]

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

I ended up in jail cell in Qeynos Catacombs as a kid... yes it's real. There's no way to get out of it. My friends and I were scamming other players into giving us items or platinum and then saying we would log on to another character to give them the other item that they wanted. Eventually it caught up to us.

I ended up with a really bad reputation, and I guess I really pissed off a GM... so when I moved to another server to start over new... without doing anything bad... a GM actually tracked me down to that server and cursed me out and even made threats towards me in real life... I'm not kidding. I know it had to be a GM because this person didn't appear online even though he was messaging me, and how else would he have found me on another server? Even my real life friends didn't know where I had gone at the time.

Uh huh, sure. A GM made threats to you in real life. Would’ve heard about this one on the staff at the time if that had happened and I never did

[Tunabros]

RMT

[Nocht]

Spending a week telling all my friends and co workers about the game and then calling in sick on Monday. Then dodging my boss when they wanted a doctors note.

Managers knew firing me would only allow me to play more so they just gave me more hours to spite me.

[RecondoJoe]

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

Spending a week telling all my friends and co workers about the game and then calling in sick on Monday. Then dodging my boss when they wanted a doctors note.

Managers knew firing me would only allow me to play more so they just gave me more hours to spite me.

This reminds me of the time I called in sick to go see the midnight showing of Lord of the Rings, but made no attempt to hide it. Young people gonna' young.

[nyclin]

you could easily transfer nodrop gear via the legends server (stormhammer)

1) transfer char to SH
2) die in bazaar or somewhere easy to get to
3) request transfer off of SH (they wouldn't verify whether you had a corpse, or delete that corpse)
4) create char with same name as the char you want to transfer items to
5) transfer in target char, you'll get an 'x' appended to your name
6) petition for rename, request name of the char from step 1
6) loot corpse of original char

for the low, low price of $80 (2 months of legends sub) you too can have your retired friend's bis items

[RecondoJoe]

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

you could easily transfer nodrop gear via the legends server (stormhammer)

1) transfer char to SH
2) die in bazaar or somewhere easy to get to
3) request transfer off of SH (they wouldn't verify whether you had a corpse, or delete that corpse)
4) create char with same name as the char you want to transfer items to
5) transfer in target char, you'll get an 'x' appended to your name
6) petition for rename, request name of the char from step 1
6) loot corpse of original char

for the low, low price of $80 (2 months of legends sub) you too can have your retired friend's bis items

That's actually interesting, I didn't know about that... and $80 really is nothing for some of the no drop items in EQ.. People spend hundreds of dollars on WoW tokens to get a BOE that will be replaced in a couple of months.

[Dolalin]

I discovered one myself, as far as I know I was the only one to figure it out.

If you targetted an npc, any npc, and typed 'dono', up until mid-Velious, the NPC would stop, turn to face you, and not move for about 2 minutes.

This worked on the boats, too.

Teenage me had a lot of fun griefing people on the boats by stopping it randomly in the middle of the ocean. All you had to do was walk down to the belly and type 'dono'.

They patched it out a few weeks later, never got in trouble for it or heard from a GM or anything.

[Dolalin]

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what 'dono' was supposed to do.

I tried longer phrases like 'donot' etc to see if it was part of some longer phrase.

But all that ever worked was 'dono'.

Maybe a broken regex in the global npc script or something.

[Jimjam]

It was dono evil

[Jibartik]

we need this classic dono exploit on green 2