Cheating is rather hallow. Whever some new cheat for CS comes out, I always grab it and play with it a bit before it gets patched. Granted, they're fun, and the technology is really coming along(some are at the point where they're in game gui's that come up and you select your cheat from a menu), but it's so unsatisfying. When I'm not cheating and I get some awesome 200 yard head shot or round a corner and put half a dozen shotgun shells into someones chest, it's satisfying. Tracking a guy through a wall and having the cheat auto-aim for his head and fire at will is funny..but I don't get anything from it. I can't say "Yeah, smoked that fucker" because I didn't, the cheat did.
And people that get caught are so fucking stupid. It's so easy to cheat and not get caught that I have to laugh at them. Usually if and when I cheat, I just wall hack, no auto-aim, and DEFINATELY no auto-fire. But I still see the same shit all the time: I'll be dead, ghosting the level, and some kid on one end of the level is firing sporatically and you can see that his gun keeps re-targeting someone that's seperated from him by half a dozen walls. Some of the more powerful rifles will even go through walls, and you'll see a guy just drop to his knees in a hallway with no one else in it. How bad do you suck that you need the game to fire for you?
Must your whole family be concerned with the size of my wang?
The post above "then you must not play many MMORPGS"..if you found that cruel, negative, or insulting in the least, then you're brain is actually a rat's nest.
And finally, I love it when people comment on typos..it shows you've run out of anything even resembling a competent argument.
I know that on the Legends server, Stormhammer, their uber guild had a mule with like 20 of those uber trade-skill created bows that go for like 130k..and some guildy sold them all online for like 20 bucks a pop without the guild's knowledge. If you had 6 people in your guild that could make these bows, and each of them could pump out 5 a day, that's 30 bows @ 130k that's almost 4 million PP. I don't know rare the materials are but they're certainly a better chance than hoping to sell some rare drop.
"In conclusion, your last sentence was just rude. I don't need you being an asshole to me. Now if you want to have a civil discussion about this, fine. If you want to continue to use inflammatory speech, then I won't bother with you. Don't be such a dick."
Hypocritical little bitch isn't he? Ritalin must take a long time to kick in on fat ass like his. By 1:00PST he should be back to his cheery medicated self.
The same auction account is selling a fresh batch of 2.5-3 million pp everyday. I understand that item creation is probably logged, but can you think of any other way getting that much money is possible?
This is mildly off-topic, but interesting none-the-less.
When it comes to making real life money through EQ, I think I've come across a scam that's gotta have one hell of a profit margin. I can't be the first guy to ever think of this, but I've yet to find any information about it online.
On playerauctions.com, you can buy in game money for RL money. I've had a friend do this and much to my surprise after he completed the transaction, he alt-tabbed back into the game and the guy was handing him the money.
At any given time their is about 3 million platinum pieces being sold, per server, in amounts ranging from 10k to 100k. To those that don't play, this is an astrinomical amount of money. Most of the end game uber guilds don't have this much in their treasury. It's a mind-blowing amount of money. Now as someone that has played EQ for 2 years, I can tell you their is no way that you could put together 3 mil in a day. The uber guilds MIGHT be able to liquidate all their droppable gear plus their collective amount of money and squeeze out 3 mil, but after that it would probably take them a month or 2 to scrape together that amount of cash again.
Their are macro programs that basically use a script to walk your avatar between a weapons/armor forge and the metal dealer where your guy makes something that sells back to the merchant for a few bucks more than the materials cost, showing a slight profit each time. This idea is out as well because it would take weeks to do this, and the same guy working a forge for 2 weeks straight MIGHT arouse suspicion.
My friends and I have given serious thought to how someone is able to put together this much cash day in and day out. The ONLY explanation that makes ANY sense is that GM's are using their power to summon money but the boatloads, giving it to anonymous alt characters, and raking in the fat cash. The money on playerauctions.com is ALWAYS being bid on, and I estimate that they're pulling about 1k-1.5k real money EVERYDAY from this practice. That's 100% profit as well.
Sorry for the rant, but I wanted to see if anyone/. that plays EQ ever thought of this. I'd love to hear another explantion, but this is the only thing I can come up with. I also can't believe they haven't been caught yet..which almost gives credit to the theory that Sony is actually behind these auction...something to think about.
You're insane. Look out popular tournament gaming is in asian countries. It's more fanatical there than football is here. I even heard of some kids father going to prison because he tried to kill the only kid that could beat his kid in CS. The market is there for it. I know I'd watch a CS tournament of the two best teams going at it.
Yeah, but a hack where you made it look like a full scale alien invasion was just on the other side of the moon using the SETI data you cracked we be some funny shit.
I would say AMD goes to some effort to prevent overclocking. Have you ever tried to OC an XP processor? It's pretty fucking difficult for the novice OC'er and pretty much requires the purchase of a kit to do it. And while it's not impossible, it hardly lends credit to the notion that AMD supports the practice.
Then you get to college and be completely free on a beautiful campus with awesome friends and girl WAY better than you deserve in looks, personality, deviant sexual behaivor and she loves you and only you but then you can't keep the discipline to go to class and you fuck up and get kicked out and it's not fair for her to wait so she ends up marrying that annoying fuck Tom Brokaw(not the reporter..just a funny coincidence) and you spend 6 months of your life kicking the shit out of yourself every chance you get...
Not that I'm bitter or anything..but I completely agree..too much parental control leads to stories like mine.
Exactly when did it become cool for American's to hate their government? Ask the Iraq shiite muslims what they think of us going in there. And while I'm sure that the rest of the guys at the comic shop eat up your riveting political insight, the truth of the matter is your a hypocrit. You gorge yourself everyday on all the liberties you have in this country, knowing full well you'd wither and die in seconds if you had to live anywhere else, and you sit and bitch about something you know nothing about and couldn't comprehed in a million years even if the ritalin was working. If anything in America changed even one iota, 99% of you anti-war protestors would shit yourselfs and fall over dead. Before this all started, I wasn't even that patriotic. Thanks to comments like yours, now I am.
Oh..something interesting..when asked why Janeane Garafolo didn't protest Clinton's Iraq policies, she replied "It wasn't trendy then". I think you and her have quite a bit in common.
How about you go out and buy the game? I would imagine no where on earth will it cost more than 35-40 dollars.
And if you don't have 35-40 dollars, and can't get it, then you shouldn't get to play the game. I can't afford a dodge viper..but I'm not about to go down to the dealership at 3am and liberate one.
Flawed logic? You just said some of the stupidest shit I've ever read on this page.
Solider: Sir, Saddam just launched a missle volley at one our allies, and he's developing chemical weapons at an alarming rate. We also have reason to believe that he's providing services and supplies to terrorist cells.
General: Damnit man, has he done anything to hurt Unicron in Vegas?
Solider: Well, no, but..
General: Then we wait!
WTF!? No, being in America, I haven't personally felt the sting of Saddam.
WE'VE put up with his shit for 12 years. This isn't like some guy rose to power last week and we decided to invade him. Everyone keeps calling this an "unwarranted initial strike"..WTF?! We've had a war with this guy once already!? Forgive us for not wanting to get shelled with some chem weapon before we make a move. Preventative strikes are much better than responsive strikes.
In America, we've realized for the most part that it's not the tool, but the person behind it. If you take away my knife, I'll just huck rocks at you, it makes no difference.
The boots I'll give you, Timbs made in China. I had a DR. Pepper(bottled in Georgia) and 2 donuts(made in the back of the Krispy Kreme) for breakfast. My table was bused by a 17 year old pimply-faced white kid.
This isn't about the job being between me and the indian guy that lives down the street and the indian guy says "whatever he's willing to do it for I'll do it for 90% of that". This is about killing a fuck-ton of jobs simulatenously and putting 200 indian workers, in india, to work at half the pay rate.
I'm so utterly sick of this PC bullshit. As a white male American, no matter how racist I'm not, if I say ANYTHING negative about a group of people, even if I'm not stereotyping in the least, I'm a bigot asshole. This isn't about indians or Americans. It's about keeping the money, our money, American money, in America. American money used to buy American products so the American company can make more American products.
This is so UNBELIEVABLY fucked up. America is the ONLY country where it's people are made to look like racist bigot asshole for having pride in where we come from.
So if I go to college, work my ass off, get a degree, and get employed by Sun, continue to work my ass off, I shouldn't complain when I get fired because I was underbidded by quasi-slave labor? And if I complain I'm a racist? And for some reason, because he has more children than I do, he deserves the job more?
This is capitalism at its worst, not its best. In America, we hire Americans. We don't sublet to another country to save money and backstab our own people. At best, this is an atrocious act of business and a slap in the face of ever American. At worst it's an act of slavery and the exploitation of both our countries. I hope Sun gets dragged over hot coals on this one.
I'm gonna say that the Seneca Falls women's right meeting getting 15 pages is a little exaggerated. If your mother is their secretary..then I probably have it figured out.
WW2 definately deserve more than 3 pages, but not 3+ pages per battle. Get a book on the history of WW2 if you want that.
As for highschool kids, you guys got it easy. Wait until college when the guy teaching you wrote the book. When I was in college freshman year, my chem 101 teacher actually wrote the textbook..and it was some POS book, it was the nationwide standard for that course..a fact he never failed to mention at least once a week...I half-expected him to pull his wang out and wave it around like a sword whenever he mentioned it.
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Cheating is rather hallow. Whever some new cheat for CS comes out, I always grab it and play with it a bit before it gets patched. Granted, they're fun, and the technology is really coming along(some are at the point where they're in game gui's that come up and you select your cheat from a menu), but it's so unsatisfying. When I'm not cheating and I get some awesome 200 yard head shot or round a corner and put half a dozen shotgun shells into someones chest, it's satisfying. Tracking a guy through a wall and having the cheat auto-aim for his head and fire at will is funny..but I don't get anything from it. I can't say "Yeah, smoked that fucker" because I didn't, the cheat did.
And people that get caught are so fucking stupid. It's so easy to cheat and not get caught that I have to laugh at them. Usually if and when I cheat, I just wall hack, no auto-aim, and DEFINATELY no auto-fire. But I still see the same shit all the time: I'll be dead, ghosting the level, and some kid on one end of the level is firing sporatically and you can see that his gun keeps re-targeting someone that's seperated from him by half a dozen walls. Some of the more powerful rifles will even go through walls, and you'll see a guy just drop to his knees in a hallway with no one else in it. How bad do you suck that you need the game to fire for you?
Must your whole family be concerned with the size of my wang?
The post above "then you must not play many MMORPGS"..if you found that cruel, negative, or insulting in the least, then you're brain is actually a rat's nest.
And finally, I love it when people comment on typos..it shows you've run out of anything even resembling a competent argument.
I know that on the Legends server, Stormhammer, their uber guild had a mule with like 20 of those uber trade-skill created bows that go for like 130k..and some guildy sold them all online for like 20 bucks a pop without the guild's knowledge. If you had 6 people in your guild that could make these bows, and each of them could pump out 5 a day, that's 30 bows @ 130k that's almost 4 million PP. I don't know rare the materials are but they're certainly a better chance than hoping to sell some rare drop.
Look at this reply of his:
"In conclusion, your last sentence was just rude. I don't need you being an asshole to me. Now if you want to have a civil discussion about this, fine. If you want to continue to use inflammatory speech, then I won't bother with you. Don't be such a dick." Hypocritical little bitch isn't he? Ritalin must take a long time to kick in on fat ass like his. By 1:00PST he should be back to his cheery medicated self.
The same auction account is selling a fresh batch of 2.5-3 million pp everyday. I understand that item creation is probably logged, but can you think of any other way getting that much money is possible?
This is mildly off-topic, but interesting none-the-less.
/. that plays EQ ever thought of this. I'd love to hear another explantion, but this is the only thing I can come up with. I also can't believe they haven't been caught yet..which almost gives credit to the theory that Sony is actually behind these auction...something to think about.
When it comes to making real life money through EQ, I think I've come across a scam that's gotta have one hell of a profit margin. I can't be the first guy to ever think of this, but I've yet to find any information about it online.
On playerauctions.com, you can buy in game money for RL money. I've had a friend do this and much to my surprise after he completed the transaction, he alt-tabbed back into the game and the guy was handing him the money.
At any given time their is about 3 million platinum pieces being sold, per server, in amounts ranging from 10k to 100k. To those that don't play, this is an astrinomical amount of money. Most of the end game uber guilds don't have this much in their treasury. It's a mind-blowing amount of money. Now as someone that has played EQ for 2 years, I can tell you their is no way that you could put together 3 mil in a day. The uber guilds MIGHT be able to liquidate all their droppable gear plus their collective amount of money and squeeze out 3 mil, but after that it would probably take them a month or 2 to scrape together that amount of cash again.
Their are macro programs that basically use a script to walk your avatar between a weapons/armor forge and the metal dealer where your guy makes something that sells back to the merchant for a few bucks more than the materials cost, showing a slight profit each time. This idea is out as well because it would take weeks to do this, and the same guy working a forge for 2 weeks straight MIGHT arouse suspicion.
My friends and I have given serious thought to how
someone is able to put together this much cash day in and day out. The ONLY explanation that makes ANY sense is that GM's are using their power to summon money but the boatloads, giving it to anonymous alt characters, and raking in the fat cash. The money on playerauctions.com is ALWAYS being bid on, and I estimate that they're pulling about 1k-1.5k real money EVERYDAY from this practice. That's 100% profit as well.
Sorry for the rant, but I wanted to see if anyone
You're insane. Look out popular tournament gaming is in asian countries. It's more fanatical there than football is here. I even heard of some kids father going to prison because he tried to kill the only kid that could beat his kid in CS. The market is there for it. I know I'd watch a CS tournament of the two best teams going at it.
Yeah, but a hack where you made it look like a full scale alien invasion was just on the other side of the moon using the SETI data you cracked we be some funny shit.
If I up my multiplier or FSB, 9/10 times my box just hangs, which is why that's not really an option.
I would say AMD goes to some effort to prevent overclocking. Have you ever tried to OC an XP processor? It's pretty fucking difficult for the novice OC'er and pretty much requires the purchase of a kit to do it. And while it's not impossible, it hardly lends credit to the notion that AMD supports the practice.
My mac get's 15 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it.
Then you get to college and be completely free on a beautiful campus with awesome friends and girl WAY better than you deserve in looks, personality, deviant sexual behaivor and she loves you and only you but then you can't keep the discipline to go to class and you fuck up and get kicked out and it's not fair for her to wait so she ends up marrying that annoying fuck Tom Brokaw(not the reporter..just a funny coincidence) and you spend 6 months of your life kicking the shit out of yourself every chance you get...
Not that I'm bitter or anything..but I completely agree..too much parental control leads to stories like mine.
Exactly when did it become cool for American's to hate their government? Ask the Iraq shiite muslims what they think of us going in there. And while I'm sure that the rest of the guys at the comic shop eat up your riveting political insight, the truth of the matter is your a hypocrit. You gorge yourself everyday on all the liberties you have in this country, knowing full well you'd wither and die in seconds if you had to live anywhere else, and you sit and bitch about something you know nothing about and couldn't comprehed in a million years even if the ritalin was working. If anything in America changed even one iota, 99% of you anti-war protestors would shit yourselfs and fall over dead. Before this all started, I wasn't even that patriotic. Thanks to comments like yours, now I am.
Oh..something interesting..when asked why Janeane Garafolo didn't protest Clinton's Iraq policies, she replied "It wasn't trendy then". I think you and her have quite a bit in common.
No, but installing your friends version on your machine would.
How about you go out and buy the game? I would imagine no where on earth will it cost more than 35-40 dollars.
And if you don't have 35-40 dollars, and can't get it, then you shouldn't get to play the game. I can't afford a dodge viper..but I'm not about to go down to the dealership at 3am and liberate one.
Oh my god we have more training, technology, and battlefield skill than the guy we're fighting! It's just not fair!
Flawed logic? You just said some of the stupidest shit I've ever read on this page.
Solider: Sir, Saddam just launched a missle volley at one our allies, and he's developing chemical weapons at an alarming rate. We also have reason to believe that he's providing services and supplies to terrorist cells.
General: Damnit man, has he done anything to hurt Unicron in Vegas?
Solider: Well, no, but..
General: Then we wait!
WTF!? No, being in America, I haven't personally felt the sting of Saddam.
WE'VE put up with his shit for 12 years. This isn't like some guy rose to power last week and we decided to invade him. Everyone keeps calling this an "unwarranted initial strike"..WTF?! We've had a war with this guy once already!? Forgive us for not wanting to get shelled with some chem weapon before we make a move. Preventative strikes are much better than responsive strikes.
Big Worm ain't gonna do a GOD-DAMNED thing! I run linux.
In America, we've realized for the most part that it's not the tool, but the person behind it. If you take away my knife, I'll just huck rocks at you, it makes no difference.
That's a bad analogy. A better one is to say port scanning is like walking through a neighborhood trying doorknobs looking for an unlocked one.
The boots I'll give you, Timbs made in China. I had a DR. Pepper(bottled in Georgia) and 2 donuts(made in the back of the Krispy Kreme) for breakfast. My table was bused by a 17 year old pimply-faced white kid.
This isn't about the job being between me and the indian guy that lives down the street and the indian guy says "whatever he's willing to do it for I'll do it for 90% of that". This is about killing a fuck-ton of jobs simulatenously and putting 200 indian workers, in india, to work at half the pay rate.
I'm so utterly sick of this PC bullshit. As a white male American, no matter how racist I'm not, if I say ANYTHING negative about a group of people, even if I'm not stereotyping in the least, I'm a bigot asshole. This isn't about indians or Americans. It's about keeping the money, our money, American money, in America. American money used to buy American products so the American company can make more American products.
This is so UNBELIEVABLY fucked up. America is the ONLY country where it's people are made to look like racist bigot asshole for having pride in where we come from.
So if I go to college, work my ass off, get a degree, and get employed by Sun, continue to work my ass off, I shouldn't complain when I get fired because I was underbidded by quasi-slave labor? And if I complain I'm a racist? And for some reason, because he has more children than I do, he deserves the job more?
This is capitalism at its worst, not its best. In America, we hire Americans. We don't sublet to another country to save money and backstab our own people. At best, this is an atrocious act of business and a slap in the face of ever American. At worst it's an act of slavery and the exploitation of both our countries. I hope Sun gets dragged over hot coals on this one.
I'm gonna say that the Seneca Falls women's right meeting getting 15 pages is a little exaggerated. If your mother is their secretary..then I probably have it figured out.
WW2 definately deserve more than 3 pages, but not 3+ pages per battle. Get a book on the history of WW2 if you want that.
As for highschool kids, you guys got it easy. Wait until college when the guy teaching you wrote the book. When I was in college freshman year, my chem 101 teacher actually wrote the textbook..and it was some POS book, it was the nationwide standard for that course..a fact he never failed to mention at least once a week...I half-expected him to pull his wang out and wave it around like a sword whenever he mentioned it.