Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I don't play on TLPs (though I might be tempted if they make a ruleset I like), but I'm surprised you people don't publicize common cheaters in some format that DPG doesn't control.
EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)
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Ambiturner
Ssraeszha Raider
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100%. It's the type of post you make and just hope a lot of people read before it inevitably gets nuked
Zaide
TLP Idealist
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In the current TLP environment this sort of thing would be roundly mocked and people would encourage you to stop whining about cheaters and instead just not suck. People aren’t ashamed of being caught cheating. They’re not worried about repercussions. There is essentially no negative outcome from cheating, socially or otherwise.
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Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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I just remembered that people knew how to generate 40+ rewards from Velious ring wars and that went on over at least a couple servers before eventually getting fixed on Aradune with zero consequences for the hundreds of additional items created by a couple different guilds.
Another for the list.
Another for the list.
Cupcaek
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Literally no reason to do ring wars anymore since they fixed it.
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Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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Xevy
Log Wizard
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Our guild did that on Mangler. But the rule was you weren't allowed to sell any of the items until at least the next expansion. I think we were at our 3rd Ring War when we started allowing items to go to alts because there was a timer of sorts on the dupe so you could only get X many of each item and we tried to balance it to get all the items our guildmates wanted.
It was cheeze, but it was no secret and we literally told anyone who asked how to do it because organizing a Ring War for several hours for essentially one person every week was awful. You'd get like 3 usable pieces of loot as well, but the other 20+ people just got shafted.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I'm not really talking about run of the mill cheaters, just the 24/7 bot groups that have attained a protected class status that Pharone is talking about.
DickTrickle
Definitely NOT Furor Planedefiler
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I mean, what will that do?
Tubbins on Mangler was extremely well known for botting an entire raid from at least Velious to OoW. Anyone who was raiding and paying attention knew exactly what was going on. He may have lost some characters but there was never a time where he seemed to take any significant break that might indicate a large ban and his main character that he auctioned all the loot from never got banned. I vaguely recall him racing for and winning an open world Tormax around Christmas Day that I'm sure was petitioned and nothing came of it (though the details may be fuzzy there).
What good would this information do existing on a third party site when it was super well known and nobody in the game could do anything about it and nobody from DPG wanted to do anything about it?
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Zaide
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24/7 bot crews care less than anyone. They know GMs won’t do shit, and they have zero community reliance so they don’t care who knows or what people think. Plebs in game are also happy to pay some kronolord a McWage to sell them raid loot that was acquired via a bot team.
Sir Oliver Cromwell I believe was the lord that trained him.. and he copped a suspension for the train hahaha
Some type of cheating is tolerated like show eq. Warping and shit will get you shamed for sure. Mossad for example is often mocked on discord for being cheaters.
Arbitrary
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Elderan
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They did do another round of bans today related to the plat exploit. I am not sure if they have more planned or not though and I am not sure how much of the plat was actually removed and or banned from the server. I know it wasnt nearly enough to fix the economy though. They waited so long it became almost impossible at this point.
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I'd like to say that a well-publicized website that outs current botters would be compelling, but yeah, you're right, aint nothin gon' happen.
Zish
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But.. that's just implemented on every truebox server? The same thing happened to me when I tried to get my S/O to play on Mischief with me, we couldn't do it because any time we pressed a key close to the same time we were disconnected. It's lame but it's just how they attempt to prevent sending multiple keystrokes to multiple accounts at the same time.