Gosh, who would have thought it! - Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - D 0ne | |
| link TR officers Ebay guildbank $$$$$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody is fucking talking about it so I mind as well spill the beans. TR officers are running the biggest Ebay scam ever on SH. They use the guild to farm EQ and trade items and a select few make a killing on selling the shit and plat on e-bay. So heres how the story goes as I understand it. Cinder gets tipped off off by someone and finds out guild mules run by Alusnova, Vigilyn, and Jolin (all TR officers) are selling millions of PLAT worth of items in bazaar secretly. He then finds out that Alusnova is some character Cheapplat on playerauctions selling megaplat for cash on SH. He gets the proof on alusnova first, and gets other people in TR to witness it. He busts Alusnova in public, posts the proof online and throws him out of the guild. Then gets ass fucked by people in the guild for making drama. Then get this. CINER tells us he knew Alusnova was E-baying for 6 months but didn't do anything about it for the good of the guild. What a load of bullshit. Can you say $$$$$$$$. Then they get the bullshit excuse that he is e-baying his own stuff. Alusnova sold what looks like over 10 million in platinum that he farmed himself between raid times. It gets even better. Then he makes 50 elemental bows (these bows sell for over 150,000 plat each) and they DISAPPEAR. I fucking asked for a bow and was told to my face 15RoP or I had to pay the guildbank 150kpp. Where the fuck am I gonna get 150Kpp when all the shit I farm goes to the GUILDBANK and back in to the officers Pocket. Not to mention friends of Alusnova got bows on loan, did they ever pay for em or get charged RoP... NO. When I ask though it's "ask me later" or I get charged for it. So where did the Bows all go ? $$ CASH $$ They get moved to other servers and sold there for cash through the SH underground. Oh but Ciner promised to look in to it, did he ? Fuck no $$$$$$$ So get this. Then what do we do ? We invite him back in to the guild, give him back officer status and ask him to please not loot at raids. HOLY FUCK So much shit disappeared from the guildbank its pathetic. The whole fucking guild knows it was Alusnova, Vigilyn, Jolin, and Ciner in on it but noone wants to talk about it because all they want is for us to get to plane of time at any cost. Plus if anyone says anything they get booted from the guild for creating drama. When I came to the server I stayed away from leviathan because of the ebaying that guild did. Was well known with some of the people in guild. Now I feel stupid because TR is no better. These guys are running a good business. You think Ciner is fucking stupid. Ya, he knew Alusnova was Ebaying millions and millions of Platinum, using other characters in guild to make insanely expensive Items from the planes and selling em, and he just didn't want to say anything for the benefit of the guild. BULLSHIT CINER DO YOU THINK WE ARE STUPID. You are running a business off of my fucking work. That is MY SHIT that is being sold for cash. Vigilyn runs the board and the RoP system. Fucking guy disapears for months and then comes back and is all set. Nice officer. guy has more power than anyone in guild and puts it to good use, by running a BUSINESS selling the shit with the other officers. What you fucks don't realize is we talk about it all the time, its in almost every group chat I'm in. In Earth over the weekend all we did was make a comment every time a trade skill item was looted. Lining the officers pockets. The reason noone posts anything or says anything is because we have RoP invested and want to spend it. Has anyone seen any JC items out of earth. Fucking wicked rings, and hundreds of components dropped, looted by alusnova and Jolin and were made secretly on enchanters they had access to. Anyone seen even ONE of them ? Fuck no, they were moved off server and sold for mega plat and converted to cash. Where the fuck did Jolin come from anyway. Jolin is WULIN, the officer banned for using Show EQ. All of a sudden Wulin comes back playing Jolin, a fairly decked Warrior that he BOUGHT. Gotta play or can't work in the guild business I guess. BTW TR wants to recruit more evals so they can also help feed the $$$$$ machine. Why we are recruiting I have no fucking clue. Half the people in earth recently were AFK or leaching RoP. Then we are told straight up the guild is over once SWG comes out. WTF am I doing here. With the way things are going by the time we hit POT, the only people that will be looting are Ciner and a few high RoP people that keep hoarding their points. Then the guild is finished and all I've done, along with 50 other Sheep, is PAY our officers to take advantage of us. And fuck we payed them well. Here is a little something off the TR board that ROGARR posted on Alusnova Ebaying the guildbank: .......................................................................... Ok now we all went through the drama last night and Alusnova is back in guild,I don't know what to think and have some questions for him. 1. Ciner said he has know Alusnova has been Ebaying for 6 months,I want to know what username Alusnova has been Ebaying stuff under.I was also under the impression that Ebay does not pay in this guild,IE we don't take people who buy characters uber them up sell them,sell items pp or use guild funds/items to enrich themselves at our expense. 2.Dryrott reports that 100 bow cams are missing roughly enough to make 50+ elemental bows. I want to know where they went to.I think I speak for many when I say I wanted one of the elemental bows for fights like Fennin ro and others in the future,I was under the impression few were made availible.Where did the bow cams go?I have heard reports of earth bows going for 400kpp 3.If alusnova is the one selling all the Millions of PP I want to know where he got it from. 4.Also alot of tradeskill items are missing,some player made rings are missing.Do we have a guild bank or a revolving door. Ok i've had my say,I have alot of questions and I know others have similar ones,I could care less if some fool in Levi was ebaying out his ass but i'm concerned when someone many respected in the Guild is found to be selling the fruits of our labors. I don't know,it threatens to tear us as a guild apart,I for one just want to kill the "unkillible" and have fun.But this game is also about trust. I trust the officers are looking out for my intrests,and that of my fellow guildmates.I just want a fair shake like most of you a chance to improve my character get some nice loot,like the Elemental bows.If I found out my officers or certain factions were using the efforts of all the enhance the chosen few I would feel betrayed. Solutions? Some superficial actions,maybe have one looter,Cinder for example or Ciner that takes down a record of all tradeskill items and other high plat items and puts it on our board,If you want a Elemental bow or AoW loot it gets posted who took what when and why(soandso wanted Airbow was charged 200 rop Guildfletcher made it from xcomponets which were removed from guild database)..et cetera Also we need to know what our New Guild policies are Ebaying Ok now? Shouldn't we have a code of conduct for members? We need as members to know what is going on. That would go toward trust,because when you can't trust your leaders everything falls apart. .......................................................................... Check out Ciners Response: .......................................................................... Ciner writes: rogar i want us to put this behind us, dwelling on it will just drive matters worse. i will look into the missing bow cams and findout where they are i will establish a method of keeping tr bank current .......................................................................... HAHAHAHAHAHA. I can smell it all the way over here.... sniff.. Sniff... yup, the sweet aroma of kentucky BULLSHIT. Nice cover up there fearless leader. Then there is this: .......................................................................... Ciner Writes: Alusnova has been invited back with full officer status, I cannot go to his house and drag him onto his EQ computer by the ear if he just dosn't want to come. Hes told me he is taking a break, if he returns then great but personally I'd get used to things without him. I don't mean to be rude or a pain but the officers can see this from a different perspective than most of the members cause we know all the facts involved. Like you said we are too close to the end of Everquest to give ourselves huge drama or to reform the entire guild over. I really urge you to let the Alusnova situation go and move forward; no good can come of it, it is one of the worst things to ever happen to the guild. We have opened up recruiting and will guild a bunch of evals. We need to bulk up, not just in light of SWG (which I think will kill EQ) but also due to the decay of our burned out members. We are looking for potential officers to get new blood in the mix, but its a real pain in the ass cause their are these requirements we look for: - Plays everyday at least, and I mean every single day - Is accepted by entire guild, noone would object to some great extent - Is calm, cool, collected and loyal - wont just vanish on the guild - Is very vocal, silent officers are easy to find - Has been in the guild for a good period of time so the new and old me members can both respect Currently we only have one person in mind for an officer in the near future, but are actively searching. ............................................................................. YES... invite alusnova back in to the guild, as an officer no less. And then use the remaining officers (which are all selling and sharing the cash) to choose ANOTHER officer. You think we are so stupid. I'm pretty drunk right now (can ya blame me after the last few days raids) and I figure I mind as well get it all out in the open. Everyones talking about it, everyone knows Vigilyn, Jolin, and Alusnova were in on it together and Ciner right in with it by his own admission. My hats off to Xsalit, at least he had the balls to say something while the other Sheep stood Quiet. ............................................................................ How the fuck can you invite Alus back to TR after his Ebay'ed our pp Away?? you in on it too?. _________________ Xsalit Soulassassin Maddox Zal'dar Blizzy Blizzard Township Rebellion ............................................................................ Just because Ciner doesn't want to make a "Big deal" out of it because EQ is gonna get hit hard by SWG soon is no fucking excuse to take my time and turn it in to your money. I know this post will get me booted from the guild. Anyone that threatens the flow of cash gets "dealt with". I have invested huge time and I intend to get at least some of it back in Equipment that I've earned. I just wanted people to know whats going on and Vigilyn, Alusnova, Ciner, Jolin, we aren't stupid. I'll regret this in the morning but who gived a fuck. Enjoy all the money I made you, you Fucks. -------------------- link Regarding the Township Rebellion posts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m sorry to say these posts are true, at least in part. These accusations were brought against Alusnova by Cinder, during a power struggle between the two. Since it happened during this power struggle the evidence Cinder provided was deemed insufficient and was not believed by the bulk of the guild. The guild brought the matter to a vote, and the vast majority called for Cinder to relinquish his guildleader tag and become an officer (due to unnecessary drama) and for Alusnova to remain as an officer without loot abilities. (just in case) If Alusnova did Ebay then I pity him for abusing the trust we all had in him – people lie, cheat, and betray on a regular basis and this is one time I wish to god we knew the truth, but we don’t. Should our entire guild roll over because of a power struggle? Give up all the time we’ve put in? No, of course not and I’m sorry if that disappoints the initial writer of this topic or any others of you, but we are moving past this. I realize how we run our guild is really our own concern, but I hope this post satisfies and clarifies matters for the drama mongers among you, as well as for those who were just curious. ------------------ Nothing new here. It's been suspected by most long term players that it was the top end guild feeding the cash for plat sellers. Farming in general is out of control and it is high time that SOE undercut the scammers and allowed accounts and items and plat to be sold through an official SOE/auction service, for a minor fee of course. 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How to get a job with a gaming company... - Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - D 0ne | |
| Absor link At first I wasn't going to respond to this at all. You and I haven't seen eye to eye on an issue or two, and I didn't want to make any waves. But why have an ocean with no waves? I am not going to tell you that there isn't something to your point. But you sure are trying very hard to sound bitter about it. Some of the larger sites have been allowed accounts in order to help get the publicity ball rolling. Look at some of the big sites, IGN and the like, and you'll see what I mean. Some of the rest of us actually have some experience and would have been chosen regardless of our affiliations with any EQ site (or are at least arrogant enough to think so). If I was in charge of pickong folks to test my game, I would look for three things. First, qualifications with the use of computers (at least for the first 2 phases, where it is better to have fewer tech problems at the user end and better to have folks that can find these problems). Secondly, experience with beta tests in general (for obvious reasons). And thirdly, and not least important, is knowing that the person will work for a better game You need to know that the tester will actually test, that they will provide feedback rather then just keeping a list for bugs to use at release. You also hope that they have vision for the game that is similar to the designers. Having someone try to turn EQ into UO or RuneQuest at every turn is not helpful. Some of us in the community had enough interest in EQ to work for a better Norrath even before the game came out. Sure, I love the chance to write and make something that others seem to enjoy. That's a lot of what EQX is for me. But I also want it to be a tool for helping to make Norrath into a place where I can enjoy spending my time. If the folks poking through applications let that influence them, then I am happy. If you want to enjoy Norrath, I would hope that it makes you happy too. I can tell you that some of the best testers came from the news sites. I'm sorry you're not a tester, but not everyone could be. A EverQuest Express http://www.eqx.simplenet.com next a perfect example, he's not working for Verant at the time he's just a beta tester one of hundreds. How to get noticed how does he stand out? He runs a pro-verant website but so do hundreds of other people... He goes to Usenet and starts "preaching the word according to Verant"! On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:46:31 GMT, ngoc luong nguyen >PCFan has come out with some info which kind of show Everquest is a rush game. > >1st. The last two continents, Velious and Kunark will not be in the retail version nor phase 4. Instead, it will come out as >an expansion pack. Would this concern anybody that overpopulation might occur and also there will not be enough monsters for >everybody to fight? (Once the retail comes out, I suspect there will be 5 times as many players as phase 4). Yes, more >servers will help (how many can there be?), but more servers do not means lower BANDWIDTH! > That decision was made a long time ago. They decided to expand the first 3 continents rather than adding the other 2. The servers will be able to hold the 1,500 they are designed for with only the three continents (though it might be a bit tight). > >Extra infos: > >2nd. The phase 4 cds have not been shipped out yet! When that was written they were not out. How long does it take something to get to you from San Deigo CA? Not more than 7 days in the continental US... let's panic on this one somewhere near the 4th... > >3rd. They also have a rumor that when a necromancer reaches level 50. He or she will turn into a lich (I don't know how >reliable this is, but probably isn't true so don't keep your hope up). And yes, there have been one person in the beta who >has reach level 50 already (name: Animous or something. Check out www.eqvault.net) > Hehe, the ol' lich thing... A EverQuest Express http://www.eqx.simplenet.com ------------------------ Just had to share the details of slave turned master... Absor has never represented anyone but his own self intrest and that's what he still does. He went from a hack Gub-ment job to your internet relations manager, one kiss at a time. | |
SOE and the word stupidity, interchange them freely. - Friday, February 7, 2003 - D 0ne | |
| Update to the Patch Message for 2-4-03 With the patch on February 4th we fixed a bug with Affliction foci, but we failed to mention it in the patch message. We corrected a bug that was allowing these foci to work for too many spell types, including things like snares and slow. Affliction foci now only work on damage over time spells. We apologize for not mentioning this fix in the patch message. The very high savings in cast time and mana, as well as the extended duration, were planned to only work on damage over time spells. These spells needed more help than all other detrimental spells. The affliction foci for haste and mana are dramatically better (more than twice as effective) than other items of the type. The extension focus is better than any other as well, though not to such a degree. These items are only so much better than others because they were intended only to improve the effect of damage over time spells to bolster their value. We fixed a similar bug in June of 2002. Some time between then and now the bug resurfaced. The bug was fixed while another was being addressed, and because it wasn't the targeted bug fix it didn't make it into the patch message. We certainly wouldn't have left this information out on purpose. We understand that this change has an effect on some players. But these foci have always been intended to work exclusively on DoT spells, and we do not plan to undo the bug fix. We'll look at other detrimental spells and see if there are some lines that should benefit from similar focus items, but that will be done on a case-by-case basis and not by reverting this recent bug fix. Alan ---------------------- Shaman love Sony products. So do Enchanters Set your goals in EverQuest but never forget that Sony doesn't care. Crack dealers hate their customers and the people at Sony are Crack Dealers. The Comment thread never changes and it's called Ever Nerf for a reason. | |