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EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster
Thanks to Got Game? for their posting discussing the in-game slaying of Kerafyrm, aka The Sleeper, in PC MMO EverQuest. This event, commemorated with a screenshot on the site of one of the guilds involved, is notable because the players "...killed what Sony Online Entertainment intended to be unkillable. But rather than actually make it untargetable, Sony just gave it a hundred billion hitpoints. For those non EQers out there a reference scale: a snake has about 10 hitpoints. A dragon has about 100,000. A god has 1-2million." So, it took "close to 200 players almost 4 hours to beat the thing down into the ground", after an earlier failed attempt where the guilds "beat it down to 27% and then it mysteriously disappeared. Without dying. It seems that one of the Game Masters at SoE reset the zone because 'they thought the encounter might be bugged'."
Proving they have too much time on their hands one unkillable monster at a time.
That reminds me of a little incident on Ultima Online years ago where a prankster with a firefield scroll managed to kill Lord British during one of his in game cameos.
The guy got banned from the game, though Origin claimed that it was for other TOS violations. Back then UO was looking so broken, and Origin was claiming that there was no problem with the game client. This was a real slap in the face to them when their own slowed buggy servers let someone kill the most important personality in the game universe.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
I would like to be there when they try to use their 15 minutes of fame to get laid at a bar.
how long until it gets solo-ed?
if i hear another friggin matrix analogy i am going to kill myself... and have trinity kiss me to wake me back up..
That's THE Terrasque. :)
No Kerafyrm, no moon blowing up, no mass destruction with a T-25 Space Modulator.
> Can't attack dead things, eh?
Something tells me you haven't played many fantasy RPGs...
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Looks like the Sleeper can't awaken anymore!
Can I buy the corpse on Ebay?
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It's just a classic example of security through absurdity.
When will people learn that THIS NEVER WORKS.
Rats would be more funny if they could fart.
Also, your weapons and armor are obviously in no need of upgrade if you killed the toughest creature in the game world. What do you want, a hat with a feather in it?
They got teh powerup and won teh game!
A winner is you!