New user here, thanks for having me. Here is my story, back in 2000/2001, my buddy and I played on 7th hammer server. We got bit my EQ bug and was addicted. I mained a wiz and leveled up (we started playing just after luclin launch). Well fast forward, my wizard was i think in the 40's or something. I had that stupid flapping familiar and I would do a /pet get lost. (you still keep the buff). Well I unintentionally found what I later called the wiz familiar dupe bug. There were a few things that I had done (again totally unintentionally) but what I had found was when I was killed in the zone by a guard (was freeport), i would spawn at my bind point with all of the items (and plat on me again). I didn't have much plat, but I had my buddy come over, i gave him everything i had (maybe 1k or so) and I got killed by the guard and poof, i was back in with 1k again. We did this a whole bunch and saved up 100k plat and started buying cool things. We bought fungi tunic, manastone, t-staff, all the cool old school things.
Next, I said lets run to the store (we were like 20 yrs old, collecting unemployment, eating burger king playing eq). We bought 3-4 copies of everquest from some computer store, came back, created new accounts. Now we had to powerlevel some wizards (needed to be minimum level 29 to get the first wiz familar spell). we PL'ed him up to 29, got the spell, gave him 200k and all the cool items we had bought in EC tunnel and I did the sequence of events again. Boom it still worked. We laughed so hard, now each time we were giving away 200k plat and all of the items (necklace of superiority was in there along with manastones). This became our full time job. We did this for weeks, I created an account on playerauctions (back before it was all owned by china now), and started selling plat. Going rate was around $900 for 250k (retail rate). We then took money from our first sale and bought every copy of everquest we could find within 20 miles of my house. We created all new accounts with access keys, wrote them all down, kept track of toon names, how much plat they had, and we spread out all of the plat. We were able to do this dupe bug for a few weeks before they patched it. Overall we had somewhere between 20-30 mil plat, and probably had about 100 manastones? I met a guy on PA who was a whole seller and he would by 2-3Mil from us at a time so he could break it up into little chunks to resell retail. Over time, we would lose an account here and there, until finally they banned all of our accounts (and mains btw, sad day). I then bought a new enchanter account with the proceeds to main along with a few other box toons (epic cleric for clicky stick).
Overall I had added up the paypal transactions one day and we made between 65-70k. My buddy lived on this money for like 2 years, for smokes and everquest and fast food. Was a great learning experience and had a blast. Then a year or so later, we talked about getting back into EQ, my buddy had tried to connect to his main and it was still banned. He called and got someone from customer service, he told a sad story to about his younger brother using his account who had recently passed away and she unlocked the account for him. He logged in and his alts had like another 2 mil or so in plat. We got a little bit more cash lol. My buddy has since passed away and I still have his account creds. I log in every now and then for nostalgic reasons. Was awesome.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
Now 20 years later i've been playing on TLP's for the past 4 years.
Next, I said lets run to the store (we were like 20 yrs old, collecting unemployment, eating burger king playing eq). We bought 3-4 copies of everquest from some computer store, came back, created new accounts. Now we had to powerlevel some wizards (needed to be minimum level 29 to get the first wiz familar spell). we PL'ed him up to 29, got the spell, gave him 200k and all the cool items we had bought in EC tunnel and I did the sequence of events again. Boom it still worked. We laughed so hard, now each time we were giving away 200k plat and all of the items (necklace of superiority was in there along with manastones). This became our full time job. We did this for weeks, I created an account on playerauctions (back before it was all owned by china now), and started selling plat. Going rate was around $900 for 250k (retail rate). We then took money from our first sale and bought every copy of everquest we could find within 20 miles of my house. We created all new accounts with access keys, wrote them all down, kept track of toon names, how much plat they had, and we spread out all of the plat. We were able to do this dupe bug for a few weeks before they patched it. Overall we had somewhere between 20-30 mil plat, and probably had about 100 manastones? I met a guy on PA who was a whole seller and he would by 2-3Mil from us at a time so he could break it up into little chunks to resell retail. Over time, we would lose an account here and there, until finally they banned all of our accounts (and mains btw, sad day). I then bought a new enchanter account with the proceeds to main along with a few other box toons (epic cleric for clicky stick).
Overall I had added up the paypal transactions one day and we made between 65-70k. My buddy lived on this money for like 2 years, for smokes and everquest and fast food. Was a great learning experience and had a blast. Then a year or so later, we talked about getting back into EQ, my buddy had tried to connect to his main and it was still banned. He called and got someone from customer service, he told a sad story to about his younger brother using his account who had recently passed away and she unlocked the account for him. He logged in and his alts had like another 2 mil or so in plat. We got a little bit more cash lol. My buddy has since passed away and I still have his account creds. I log in every now and then for nostalgic reasons. Was awesome.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
Now 20 years later i've been playing on TLP's for the past 4 years.- 18
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