Cyr wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 1:22pm:



Mimics my experiences.

the drama lives on...

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=334260

Eladiun wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 12:30pm:


Yeah,  they've been right on top of closing the threads about this. But I did enjoy the request to

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Is that new?   I don't recall seeing it before.

rest wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 1:26pm:


Perhaps he likes eating paste and took offense?

Secrets and exploits were how I was raised to game.  First thing I always did when playing any of the NES/SNES Super Mario games was get myself into a corner with a turtle shell and zip up to 99 lives.  Turbine may not recognize it as a legitimate style of gaming, but I don't give a fuck.

Wasn't it you, Oak, who posted the image of Classified Information from Nintendo Power?

Not so sure the classified information from Nintendo power is an accurate analogy as most, if not all, of the things in there were items intentionally left there by the developers.  Cheat codes, easter eggs and the like. I like cheat codes, they can be a fun way to play back through a game again.  But I learned early on after picking up an NES game genie at a flea market that blowing through the game with everything I wanted at the beginning usually ended up with me not playing the game again.

I know I wouldn't use any of the more serious exploits such as the one Sojero did, or the Mabar one, but something more minor like somehow getting elite loot tables from casual quest runs I'd probably try.  Of course I never actively search for exploits and don't hear about them til afterwards anyway so my morality may be pretty toothless in this instance.

Maxwell Edison wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 8:19pm:



I have to agree.  The minute find or know about a cheat or exploit, I lose all desire to play thegame.  Why should I play when I get a autowin?  Ok, it took 4 months to beat Zelda, but i was proud I did it without a guide or a cheat.  When I beat a game with a cheat, the game becomes meaningless.

Oakianus wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 9:31pm:

There were several aspects to it.  The one that was server-wide was that if you "blue flagged" - assigned someone to a PvP team while in a Raid party - they wouldn't get a quest completion.  This was way before 20th completion reward lists.  It was also way before many flagging mechanisms were changed.  So, for example, instead of running the three desert quests, DQ1 and DQ2, then waiting three days, you could run DQ2 20 times in a night.

There was also a godmode effect that most didn't know about.  I may have forgotten the exact details here, but it went something like: zone into quest, get blue flag, get into position, log out, log in.  You were then stuck in place, invincible, but able to affect your environment (spells, throwers, whatever).  To get unstuck (and able to be killed again), you had the leader take the flag off you, then you logged out/in again.

This was all around a time of some other exploits too.  One was a safe spot in the Abbot - on the edge of the barrier near the entrance.  At that time, you could still just beat his ass down and skip puzzles.  So 12 party members throwing shit could take his ass down.  I think the blue flag made you invincible to Abbot lava as well, so it really helped.  They put out a patch that made it so the Abbot couldn't be killed without completing the puzzles, I used the godmode blue flag exploit to verify that it was really true (74 mana pots and hundreds of heal scrolls later, lol).

Strakeln wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 9:45pm:



yeah i heard about this one. now this is one use of an exploit i do like.

man. i could have done some interesting things with that one.

popejubal wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 12:32pm:



Exactly, if they removed the gains it would be a higher risk.  Fuck, even sony removes the gains... turdbine cant even figure that out?

Dragonne wrote on Aug 15^th, 2011 at 7:51am:


I exploited the shit out of mabar.  I didn't even get banned.

So, what does that tell you?

Chris79 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2011 at 8:09am:


...or cry.