Stolen Plat from Casino , Locuras

[Arashai]

As title suggests. i bet 500 plat on the typical 575+ doubles casino, random 1000's. From a fellow named Locuras. Who i won and he just straight up logged after the roll. Just wondering if anything can be done.

I do have a screenshot, but i cant figure out how to get the right size to fit on here..

[a_gnoll_pup]

As title suggests. i bet 500 plat on the typical 575+ doubles casino, random 1000's. From a fellow named Locuras. Who i won and he just straight up logged after the roll. Just wondering if anything can be done.

I do have a screenshot, but i cant figure out how to get the right size to fit on here..

You can petition in the petitions forum.

Also this is one of the oldest scams in the book.
Think about it; with the potential to lose all of your plat due to having to give it out in a payout, who in their right mind would run a casino?

[Troxx]

This is easy for gms to verify. Post in petition forum.

You have to be a dumb sob to think you can get away with this. GMs know what accounts you log in with, where you log in from, and (I've heard) can even tell which computer (if you have more than one) you were logged in to.

[Swish]

Upload it to www.imgur.com - it'll resize smaller on the forums automatically but people can click it to see the full size.

[fastboy21]

its really not much of a scam...i mean, you handed him the plat and he logged. can't come up with a much less clever scam.

keep us posted. i'm curious to see if/when you get any response from him or the money back. good luck.

[Tecmos Deception]

As title suggests

Not so much :p

[Swish]

PS - Player run casinos in EQ...

http://i.imgur.com/LdCm8tR.gif

[Jimjam]

I think the classic policy was 'all trades are final' ie you just gave away a bunch of money in exchange for nothing.

The GMs on p99 might help you out if you start a petition in the petition section.

They tend to work from the bottom with petitions so don't bump your petition thread or it might never get read.

[Clark]

This is easy for gms to verify. Post in petition forum.

You have to be a dumb sob to think you can get away with this. GMs know what accounts you log in with, where you log in from, and (I've heard) can even tell which computer (if you have more than one) you were logged in to.

[Stabulous]

My last day playing EQ was a guy sitting in a firepot selling a fungi. It was a good price, so I grabbed my life savings and headed for EC. I tried to trade the plat and it fell to the ground like he knew it would. He picked it up and alt+f4'd. Support said they couldn't do anything for me and less than a week later they made it so you couldn't drop coin on the ground. Yay classic.

[Ziggy]

GM intervention in matters like this or ninja looting on an open (loot timer) corpse is NOT CLASSIC

[zanderklocke]

GM intervention in matters like this or ninja looting on an open (loot timer) corpse is NOT CLASSIC

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/nevermind_han_solo.gif

Does GM intervention affect you at all in this situation or take away from your classic experience?

If not...

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/who_gives_a_shit.gif

[Teako]

Kinda like 300% exp bonus, "Loot and scoot", and all the other things on red are NOT CLASSIC, eh?

[Troxx]

My last day playing EQ was a guy sitting in a firepot selling a fungi. It was a good price, so I grabbed my life savings and headed for EC. I tried to trade the plat and it fell to the ground like he knew it would. He picked it up and alt+f4'd. Support said they couldn't do anything for me and less than a week later they made it so you couldn't drop coin on the ground. Yay classic.

Until I had been playing here long enough to find out coin can't be dropped I was still doing my old classic technique of initiating the trade with 1 plat gold silver or copper then putting the rest of the cash in once the window for trade was open.

It didn't take losing money on the ground very many times to make this a reflex practice - even years after they disabled it on live.

[Derubael]

GM intervention in matters like this or ninja looting on an open (loot timer) corpse is NOT CLASSIC

Not true at all.

I know from personal experience you WILL get pulled into a GM conference if you scam enough.

Like everyone else in this thread is saying - petition forum, use imgur.com to upload your image. If you upload it in the default format EQ saves the pictures in, it may get "whitewashed" when you upload it. If this happens, simply open the file in paint, save the file a .jpg, then re-upload.

Sorry to hear this happened to you but... we try really hard to tell people to stay away from stuff like this, or "give me the money and ill come back with the item" situations. I can say for sure that the player who scammed you will get punished - as far as your money goes, that's a big "maybe". Usually once platinum is 'banned' or on an account that is going to be banned, it's gone forever.

So petition if you haven't already, and we'll go from there.

[Ciroco]

GM intervention in matters like this or ninja looting on an open (loot timer) corpse is NOT CLASSIC

Actually (just posted about this the other day), I got banned for looting an open corpse on Live.

[jarshale]

Scamming is very classic. Deal w/ it.

[Grimfan]

Scamming is very classic. Deal w/ it.

So is being punished for scamming. Deal with it.

[Hershey]

My last day playing EQ was a guy sitting in a firepot selling a fungi. It was a good price, so I grabbed my life savings and headed for EC. I tried to trade the plat and it fell to the ground like he knew it would. He picked it up and alt+f4'd. Support said they couldn't do anything for me and less than a week later they made it so you couldn't drop coin on the ground. Yay classic.

So you're that fucking bastard. Ban from P99 for ruining immersion plz

[Ele]

The old buy-a-fungi-get-a-cloth-tunic scam was classic. Doesn't work here though.

[Dragonsblood1987]

Why dont the just ban "casinos"? I dont think theres ever been a legit one. They all seem to have *ahem* connectivity issues when ever someone wins.

[Lanzellot]

are you online?i ll refund ya fuck scammers i hate this sort cheaters more than all others
pm me and we work something out
nice day ,and iam sure deru will kill him

[Swish]

Maybe not to your server or your completely inept and skewed view of what things are and aren't classic, multiple servers had players running casinos in vanilla and the first expansions. Why exactly do you think SOE put one in for Luclin?

What is my inept and skewed view then? I'm not pretending red is a classic server, if you can find a genuine quote from me to suggest otherwise - go nuts ;)

SOE put one into Luclin for a platsink iirc?

[Nirgon]

GM intervention in matters like this or ninja looting on an open (loot timer) corpse is NOT CLASSIC

I take it you never got summoned to the Qeynos ducts on live

[Portasaurus]

Casino Whitelist:

Dungeonmaster (my personal favorite. try his D&D game!)
Tookie (does Tookie come around anymore?)
Alcoholic
Richgirl (Although I'm pretty sure this casino went the way of the Stardust (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54p6EYkrcI#t=226))

Add to the list if you've had good experiences with a particular casino.

[Itching]

That is a scary place Nigron... even to this day I get lost as hell down there. Unless you are talking about the GM penalty box... then yes no way out.

[quido]

shit-talking casinos for shitty odds is great fun

[Portasaurus]

GM penalty box... then yes no way out.

"When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted."

http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/files/2014/05/Screenshot-2014-05-14-21.23.59.png

[iruinedyourday]

Casino Whitelist:

Dungeonmaster (my personal favorite. try his D&D game!)
Tookie (does Tookie come around anymore?)
Alcoholic
Richgirl (Although I'm pretty sure this casino went the way of the Stardust (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54p6EYkrcI#t=226))

Add to the list if you've had good experiences with a particular casino.

I want to play D&D in everquest so bad... I hope he's there tonight.

http://rarerborealis.com/wordpressblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_lemkdyfPaq1qdoghio1_500.png

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

GM: So, you decided to play one of those stupid player run casino's with odds worse than me all of a sudden becoming a 5'11" blonde supermodel, and you got got ganked, and you exactly want me to do what?

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--omy4_6VB--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/792369377614671025.gif

[Portasaurus]

D&D in everquest

I actually was hoping he would make an EQ text-based game where you would create a fictional EQ character inside EQ and then level your toon's toon inside the game.

After winning every 5 bets or something, you DING to the next level which gives you better odds or bigger payouts or phat loots with each additional win. Or maybe a fun bonus round or something?

meta as fuck!

[iruinedyourday]

Well, I am offline for the 4th of July weekend. I do know what I am doing that weekend now though.

Writing a 20-30 minuet campaign where you frequently rand 20 to discover if you're able to delve deep enough to obtain the treasures buried deep inside the dungeons of your minds eye... minds eye...

Greengrocer gets to pick the theme:

1. Deeper fantasy? LOTR themed fantasy that Tolken woudl write if he lived in norrath, so like I guess everything will be two headed... two headed rangers, two headed goblins, two headed halflings...
2. Norrathian penultimate fantasy? Play as a group of 6 adventurers, going to the fabled "Major League Baseball World Series".. I mean would the fantasy world for a fantasy world, be real life?
3. Suggest a theme???

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

WTB Greengrocer D&D based meatception sandwich lottery.

[Leeyuuduu]

I too was forced to sit in the GM penalty box on one occasion during classic, due to ninja looting (I was quite an outspoken proponent of need > greed), and was made to give the looted item back.

Another time I petitioned a GM in '99 or '00 because my corpse had decayed with all my loot on it (I was a lvl 8 gnome war) and the GM (pretty sure the Server-ADMIN) gave me several backpacks full of food and armor.

GM intervention is classic yo

[Clark]

WTB Greengrocer D&D based meatception sandwich lottery.

:D

[Ziggy]

you guys really like to read between the lines. i said cases like this (casino's, or other low level scams), and ninja's off degraded timers (not in the group). you should obviously just view all of this as conjecture because i didn't take a screenshot everytime a GM didn't do anything and the GMs here are going to do what they want. the GM handbook (from velious) says that GMs had discretion in everything so different GMs probably did different things.

[Swish]

What Norrath needs is Hagglebaron to return with a fair and honest casino.

[MalexandraTL]

WTB Greengrocer D&D based meatception sandwich lottery.

fuck yes

[Ambrotos]

What Norrath needs is Hagglebaron to return with a fair and honest casino.

So he can pay his bills irl? Ya ok no thanks.

[Swish]

So he can pay his bills irl? Ya ok no thanks.

Is that why Hagglebaron doesn't play no mo? :(

I thought <The Trade Federation> was a legit operation.

[Lune]

I dunno, Hagglebaron used to give plat away. Gave 2k to my first character for answering DBZ trivia. I liked the guy, would be a shame to find out he was just another nordenwatch

[Tiggles]

I dunno, Hagglebaron used to give plat away. Gave 2k to my first character for answering DBZ trivia. I liked the guy, would be a shame to find out he was just another nordenwatch

They are all Nordenwatches, every single "plat collector" who plays the EC game have or will cash out. It will eventually happen.

[khanable]

Hagglebaron was popped for RMT?

I did not know this

Sad

[Swish]

They are all Nordenwatches, every single "plat collector" who plays the EC game have or will cash out. It will eventually happen.

http://i.imgur.com/MdIzmx9.jpg

[Portasaurus]

Did Tookie also RMT/get the hammer, or did he just burn out?

[Clark]

http://i.imgur.com/MdIzmx9.jpg

Lol

[Nordenwatch]

They are all Nordenwatches, every single "plat collector" who plays the EC game have or will cash out. It will eventually happen.

now recruiting for guild Nordenwatches