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Darius III
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Posted - 2011.01.21 11:34:00 -
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Yesterday I decided to help fix part of the Eve Universe. The part I wanted to work on was the lag in Jita. We don't need CCP every time to hold our hands to fix our game-we can make proactive changes without the dev's. Sandbox.
Of course the Lag in jita is caused by 1700 people in local. Not content to wait for CCP to do something, I decided to reduce Jita lag. Of course the only solution is to have less people in Jita amirite? And how to reduce the number of people there? Thats right, Pod kill them!
Years ago, a player named, I think, Leglt would warp around at -10.0 sec status and pop all the pods at gates/stations. The idea is simple-roll out a destroyer or frigate with enough alpha to insta-pop a pod. Warp to a gate and let them have it in the chops. He was killing 30 + pods a day. I know cause he killed me after I ganked someone.
With this experience fresh in my mind, I decided to replicate his strategy in hopes of reducing lag. I made suicide thrasher, warped to the Perimeter gate, locked a pod who was AFK-and FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE GAME, KILLED HIM IN THE NAME OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! HA!
Then I waited for concord to come and end my pain. And I waited.And waited some more. The guys on comms were like woot! when I popped him then silent for a few seconds...... Then "Hey Darius-wheres concord? WTF???" I didnt know what was happening, I thought maybe I had kill rights? Maybe he was GCC? Maybe some glitch? So, of course I popped another pod. Still no concord. And another pod. WHAT WAS HAPPENING? Was I disconnected?
I finally shot a ship-taking it into half armor, and BAM concord popped me. OK makes more sense now.. but HMMMMM What exactly had just happened? About this time my corpmates have undocked and begun shooting ships at the gate. And guess what? No concord initially came, but did show when one of the guys failed to 1 volley 1 gun instapop the target. Very interesting.
Now it was evident that something was indeed very wrong with Eve. I immediately called for a halt of any and all aggression towards non War target-Non GCC vessels in hisec. Realizing that countinuing to kill ships would be in violation of the EULA (OH GOD NOO MAKE IT STOP) and would also ruin the game for people. Additionally I had made petitions both in Exploits and Stuck (as stuck gets noticed fast) about the anomalous concord behavior.
Within minutes we had received responses to our petitions. They basically all read the same: "OMFG WTF STOP OR BANHAMMER!" Which we had already stopped as soon as we found out the variable that made Concord not show up. The petitions got passed up the CCP chain till a senior guy got in on the action and assured us that it would be fixed, continuing to kill would mean a ban, and there would be a community announcement about the exploit. I asked said senior CCP guy if I should refrain from forum post about the exploit and he did nto ask me not to post. But I think it would have been bad for them if I did make a post, so I waited till today.
This morning after DT I was telling a corp mate of the events, and he decides to "test it out" by killing a pod. In his Sleipner. Much lols ensued as we all made the mail and he was concorded. ROFL
So for just the span of 20 minutes while we investigated the issue, Jita had *alomst the same engagement rules as 0.0. A gankers absolute dream come true. But just like a dream, it was fleeting and temporary and things didnt make absolute sense.
The last dream I had following my sleep after the incident, was of me podding everyone in Jita and being the only guy in local. But strangely, while alone there, still the contract for Carbon: 660 M isk, filled my chat log.
True story.
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Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE Black Legion.
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Posted - 2011.01.21 11:36:00 -
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Orly - I'd tell you why but then I'll have to kill you. And to kill you I'd have to log in. And to log in I'd have to stop browsing these forums. Both you and me knows that'll never happen. |
Matrix Massim
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Posted - 2011.01.21 11:39:00 -
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Tl;dr
Cool story bro.
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Darius III
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Posted - 2011.01.21 11:46:00 -
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After server comes up I will fill in additional details. But basically I modified a way to bait in hisec that was very productive. Some Results
But the game was lagging very badly and guys were getting away. So I started thinking about podding people with my alt Darius LLL. Now I understand that impersonating someone else is EULA violation (OH STOP NOW IT HURTS US IT HURTS US) but impersonating YOURSELF is ok so I made Darius LLL as the REAL Darius is "iii" He is the one who discovered the problem while TRYING to get concorded. (any one else see the hilarity/irony here?) But he did THIS
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Scrutt5
Fatality.
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Posted - 2011.01.21 12:30:00 -
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LOL Class ! "All we learnt in school, was how to bend not break the rules!" , Madness but a appropriate.
Being a fairly inovative pirate myself, I believe this thread delivers.
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raknor bile
Gallente Interstellar eXodus BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2011.01.21 18:11:00 -
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Its all true.
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Evanga
Amarr Trust Doesn't Rust Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2011.01.21 18:17:00 -
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Yuki Kulotsuki
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Posted - 2011.01.21 21:16:00 -
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Edited by: Yuki Kulotsuki on 21/01/2011 21:18:07 TL;DR if you could one shot stuff you didn't get a GCC. Combine with group/ungroup trick for tears and banhammer.
Edit: past tense.
Originally by: CCP Lemur THIS IS GOD: ... IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE REQUESTS I'M AVAILABLE SUNDAY FROM 10:30 TO 12:00 TO RECEIVE YOUR PRAYERS.
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Infinity Ziona
Minmatar Cloakers
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Posted - 2011.01.24 08:28:00 -
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Originally by: Darius III After server comes up I will fill in additional details. But basically I modified a way to bait in hisec that was very productive. Some Results
But the game was lagging very badly and guys were getting away. So I started thinking about podding people with my alt Darius LLL. Now I understand that impersonating someone else is EULA violation (OH STOP NOW IT HURTS US IT HURTS US) but impersonating YOURSELF is ok so I made Darius LLL as the REAL Darius is "iii" He is the one who discovered the problem while TRYING to get concorded. (any one else see the hilarity/irony here?) But he did THIS
So basically after finding out the game was bugged you logged an alt and proceeded to exploit the bug with the alt?
Or were the last kills normal suicide kills? --------------------------------------------- Hate Bots / RMT? Do something worthwhile and good for EvE and cause tears and anguish for others, while doing absolutely nothing yourself! Join up. |
Darius lll
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Posted - 2011.02.12 11:32:00 -
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Confirming that I have taken back to suiciding pods in jita. If you afk in pod at Jita gate Imma pop a cap in yo' Ivory azz. Word
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Nathan Jameson
Talocan Vanguard Revival Of The Talocan Empire
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Posted - 2011.02.12 13:05:00 -
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Originally by: Darius lll Confirming that I have taken back to suiciding pods in jita. If you afk in pod at Jita gate Imma pop a cap in yo' Ivory azz. Word
I support this product and/or service.
My trader character needs as much market speed as he can get.
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L Olonnais
Yarrbear Inc.
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Posted - 2011.02.12 16:58:00 -
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WTB a statue bearing the likeness of darius
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Soldarius
Caldari Northstar Cabal R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2011.02.13 05:30:00 -
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without a doubt, cool story bro.
Originally by: CCP Shadow ...I cannot guarantee (my) sobriety or decency.
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Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
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Posted - 2011.02.14 09:36:00 -
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Originally by: Darius lll Confirming that I have taken back to suiciding pods in jita. If you afk in pod at Jita gate Imma pop a cap in yo' Ivory azz. Word
Thanks for letting us know. - I'd tell you why but then I'll have to kill you. And to kill you I'd have to log in. And to log in I'd have to stop browsing these forums. Both you and me knows that'll never happen. |
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