I almost forgot I had this blog LOL. I knew I kept notes somewhere.
Ultima online building and carpentry was amazing too. By the time I
stopped playing that game, there was no wilderness left. Cities had been
built in the middle on nowhere.
Also you could walk up behind someone standing in a house and build 2
tables around him, trapping him a corner until he got the admin's
attention lol. HoURS later
Griefing was an art form in that game. When the carebears made enough
noise the game finally installed NPC police/guard characters to instant
appear and kill people flagged criminal in town.
Then we got creative. Make a high level alchemy trap box with a poison
needle with a good character, then give it to an alt level 1 thief with
no hit points and then just give him a low level "magic crossbow". As
thief go start snooping people's bags in town. Because you are so low
level, the high level player is alerted someone is snooping his bag. And
yells "guards!", but before your low level thief gets flagged criminal,
you open the trap box and kill yourself. Since guards just instant
appeared and killed flagged criminals, the guy always assumed the guards
killed you and didn't realize you didn't get flagged criminal, then he
snoops you, sees "Magic crossbow" and goes to take it. Because you were
not flagged criminal, he then gets flagged criminal for looting a non
criminal corpse and the guards appear and kill him, along with a
reputation drop.
Fucking lol. We will never get those days back.
Eve online was a different sort of cutthroat. It's all about the
metagame there. Being a member of the hated goonswarm and bringing down
the then biggest alliance in game history, the band of Brothers, has to
be the best thing I ever participated in. That and when we killed the
first titan during that war.
Titans were supposed to be near invincible at the time.
