Conspiracy? (a rant)

Space-Boy · Post by **Space-Boy** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:00 am

My hat's off to all of those who found out how to make 300k / hour or whatever, I may find it greedy, but hell, it took guts and brains to pull it off.

As to the "MQ users are cheaters" thoery, nah. EQ was BS to begin with as far as a lot of the solutions MQ came up with....

Back in the old days before MQ, I'm sure some of you remember using paperclips, duct tape, anything we could find to hold down the damn control key to pick up one thing at a time for combines. Then we got MQ handed to us on a silver platter, precompiled and everything, then all was well. Then there was a great disturbance in the force (heh) and people started finding out about the auto clicker, discovered that class 6 arrows made hella cash (I was actually a guide at the time) and went afk in places like shadowhaven and qeynos (when they were still popular places) making arrows overnight and waking up with tons of cash. The GM's caught on because of an insider (no not me, some jackass from hq boards who has since been banned) and everything went to shit.

No more precompiles, whaaa?? thats when i learned how to use vb6, thanks devs for giving me reason to learn =)

No more TS macs whaaa? shit, then i hadda learn how to write them myself...

pretty soon our community dwindled down in size and once again the force regained balance (heh)

(ok back to the cheating issue. this will all make sense i swear)

Anon/RP is bullshit, it should have never been implemented. hats off to devs for finding out what / who everyone in a zone is (not a cheat imo)
and omg what do we have??? a new server where anon/rp is forbidden! hah!

being able to skillup without breaking your mouse... wowzahz~! uber job figuring out click with new ui i might add, screw sittin there combining 250+ stacks to get from skill 200 to skill 220 in JC thx. TS were more than cash cows, they were major timesinks and made leveling time precious and hard to come by. why the hell couldnt we just hand a trainer x cash for x skill in x trade. makes more sense anyway, lessons

so many other things i cant even go on cause im sure the boards will cut me off.....

k back to the all is well again

so everything in the universe was once again at peace and harmony, the select few of us finding ways to use the old ui still and have our fun, etc etc

then omgz~~~ someone haxxed offsets!!! another community went poof overnight after a patch that nuked everyones account for whatever when the memchecks were added.

another great disturbance in the force (heh)

pretty soon the communities link up pissed off and vow to bring soe to its knees (of course we never said it but we all thought it)

pretty soon theres people running around at FF through pok sayin i can fly etc etc etc and everything that made the game good gets nuked as more attention is brought to the "hackers"

so what does sony do??
give the "hackers" more attention!!! of course!!!

the game is screwed, its getting replaced, lets release a few expansions close to each other, rack in extra cash, and then get everyone to cheat!! thats the ticket!!

(here comes the conspiracy, you ready??)

dec 18, 2003 stardate whatever who cares really...
new patch watch for hackers even better, more support, ooh look lets make the game more pretty, ooh another expansion too!! and omgz~~ look 1/2 of the playerbase is running mq~~~
ban ban ban ban ban ban ban ban ban

omgz~ jan 2004, well theres like no one playing, all the lag issues in bazzar have ben solved, we eliminated the hacker threat but all the hacker awareness is still hard coded into the servers, most of everyones friends are gone, wait thats okay

theres still hope

no turning back now!

everyones gonna be on eq2 so its okay

and there was a great silence as SoE pulls the plug on eq for good, transfering existing subscriptions to eq2 + 30 with the purchase of the new game!

thats just my opinion, ive been up for a long long time and i might be wrong

~~goes to bed~~

ps-thanks for deleting my double post whomever took care of that =)

Stogar · Post by **Stogar** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:05 am

Hard to follow in some places, but it did make sense until you got to Dec 18th and jumpped off the deep end.

Space-Boy · Post by **Space-Boy** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:17 am

k i guess ill start over.... LOL not really

what im tryin to say is i feel that with this patch, they (ahhh yes the illusive "they") have probably put checks in to see whos hacking as well as more "features" like the longer combine delay etc etc. and by more support i mean more gm / guides on, mean while they sugar coat it with the new toys like spell effects and stuff to catch us off guard...

what im tryin to say exactly tho...

They (yes "they" again) posted our web address on their site for a reason

promote mq, let people have their fun, wait till a significant userbase is running it then ban us ALL. when that number, lets say half, is banned, then they will bully everyone else into transferring subscriptions to the eq2 with the promise that if they do it they get a new nifty gay bag (like ldon) or whatever... I see this all as a ploy to pull the plug on eq JUST before eq2 goes live in the near future (march-aprilish i would assume)

some-eq-player · Post by **some-eq-player** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:36 am

speaking of the 300k/hour or whatever ... new patch said its been nerfed

items sell back for less of production cost...

i wonder if they actualy took the time to review EVERYTHING .. or if they just said that as a BS coverup to discourage people.

Stogar · Post by **Stogar** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:00 pm

They (yes "they" again) posted our web address on their site for a reason

I didn't see that, could you link it please?

Indent · Post by **Indent** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:34 pm

"i wonder if they actualy took the time to review EVERYTHING .. or if they just said that as a BS coverup to discourage people."

1. "they took the time" - I'd wager that fuck no they don't, they only need take "enough" time, not so much that you get the job done.

2. "BS" - spewing out bs is economical. Because coming clean with the customer is a relative thing, always shrouded with mystery "to protect" the community from hackers, truth is easily delivered candied and covered in gravy, and ready to eat. I highly doubt you will hear anything real about the real problems in the game. Need to balance mages this patch? THATS IMPORTANT. We fucked up the economy? NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG, ENJOY YOUR CASINO.

3. "discourage people" - You ever hear of a discouraged crack addict? That's right, who cares.. unless you're not the dealer.

=> Sorry about the tone of the post. Sometimes I like to fantasize that people live in a society and don't get lied to by the power that be - even if it is "just a game" and you only pay "$12.95"

mekaniak · Post by **mekaniak** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:47 pm

with the sellback things, they prolly just added something in saying like sellback_value=(item1$+item2$)/2 Oh yes, check out those fancy math skills...Taking a 4 credit hour math class (which gets me 0 total after the class ends) helped me come up with that. *cugh*smurf poo*cough*