Brit Fox
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Posted - 2007.05.15 03:37:00 -
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I never played the girl card myself to any great degree with any real success, but this thread reminds me a something that happened many years ago in another game.
Long before wow, eq, any of that, i played ultima online. Right after housing opened up in trammel(the then new non-pvp lands) Some enterprising souls dropped down a large l-shaped and opened up a cyber sex bordello. They had bouncers working the door, hot chicks in sexy leather in every room inside this thing. Couldnt beleive it when i heard about it, so we rolled up there to have a peep.
Sure enough, there was a long line of frustrated kids in a line outside this place, paying their gold at the door. And yes, the propriators were all the alts of guys, actually a whole pvp guild!! LMAO That lasted about 3 days before the GM's got wind of it and broke out the ban sticks.
Was the funniest thing i ever saw back in the day, well almost.
Prior to UO i had played a game called legends of kesmai on the gamestorm servers. In LOK, you had different charactor classes, including thieves. Thieves had the ability to train a skill that made you totally invisible, even while moving. With high enough skills, you couldnt be revealed by anything ingame.
The gm's their had multiple roles including role playing charactors that ran events. One in particular was known for being sort of a party boy in game, like in charactor, if yah brought him ale, he would use his powers to do many things, spawn some critters, change you into this or that, etc. I ran a large guild there, biggest in game, in our chat room i got word that a certain GM's event toon was in a semi-secret area of the game along with a well known "female", the top martial artist charactor in game, which most everyone else in game happened to dislike, ok, hated.
Turns out one of my roques busted them having cyber in this place thinking they were all alone, for special favors to the MA. A few of us hopped onto our thieves, sneaked on in there past the mobs, and watched this "interesting" conversation taking place for about 15 minutes. Screen shots were made, and the whole bloody mess hit the games boards. GM got canned, the MA got banned, and it turned out the female MA was actually a guy playing the girl card, and had been recieving special favor with gear and skills for a very long time, as "she" was the top MA on the boards for a almost 2 years. ( the game had a ladder) Now i dont know or cant relate in isk or gold which was currency in that game to "max" playing of the girl card, but i know i sparred with guildmates 8 to 10 hours a day at times chasing that MA on the ladder with skill and level with my ninja wizzy for almost 2 years and i always bounced between number 2 and number 3 ranked player in that game the whole time, and while i was always busy skillin, that MA seemed to never spar up and was always out hunting, and was always just out of my reach every month in the rankings. But after "she" got hit with the ban stick, i did enjoy being the number one ranked player in the whole game for a few months, until EA bought gamestorm and killed LOK that is.
Two years of my life in that game must count for something i spose, and is the biggest play i know of the girl card in a game that i'm aware of so far.
Footnote: Even though that event in LOK took place about 15 years ago, somewhere here i have a box full of all the broken mouse's i went through sparring like a maniac to catch that "chic". I keep it to remind me that after all, this game or any other is simply just that, just a game. My power gamer days are long gone, and when the scammers and corruption, game changes or lag get us all down, hey, it's just a game!
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