Worst DDoS experience gets 20k

[Kiwaukee]

Originally Posted by Hasbinfat [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I kicked my hoveround into gear and drove up the stairs

Totally believed everything until I read that. Fucking liar.

EDIT: Continuity errors also! You said your mom was bringing you nutella in the basement when she slipped on the Diet Dr. Pepper, but then you grabbed the Nutella in the kitchen on your way out! EXPLAIN YOURSELF SIR.

[crunkfresh]

level 9 group of friends - running through the Karanas to Blackburrow for dat Fang EXP. Why didn't we just roll humans instead of fucking elves and dwarves? Beardmancer said we should have, but I said no no Crushbone belts are way better, but in the end she sold me and we strapped on our running boots.

We crashed probably about 9 times between us, wiped 4-5, and only got ports twice. Our necro lost a level from 65%. Once we D/C'd in Kithicor at sun down. For my friend and I in the know, we were piss scared since our bind was still in Freeport (little did we know it was just the beginning of the DDoS). We hunkered down and waited till we all were back in the game and stable. In the woods mind you, I mean we could have gone to Rivervale - it was right there - but NOOOOO, Chris had to be a Dark Elf. He said it would be fun to have to sneak around and be evil. HE SAID IT WOULD BE FUN. High Pass invis adventures were fun too - "Are you still invis? No? I can't see you... drop invis. NO YOU DIDN'T OMG WHERE ARE YOU" Chris died in N Qeynos to some guard that appeared out of thin air, before he could get a bind. Then, he was lucky enough to find a port - oops, didn't get invis first "LOADING PLEASE WAIT.... EVIL RACES ARE FUN!" Back to Freeport. He couldn't even cross the stupid bridge, thankfully I still had a SoW and was able to kite a guard around with mad bow skills while he zoned in. Pretty scary when I'm bound 2 hours away.

At one point we all got separated, and despite what I tried to tell them nobody bothered to level Sense Heading. Navigating the Karanas for 4 naked people in different areas when nobody has any idea what direction they're facing is mind numbing, btw. Do not recommend.

TLDR version of our conversations went like this:

"LOL well if you played in 1999 you'd know this is the true EQ experience"

"Still better than WoW, rite guys?"

"N...no guys, the servers aren't usually like this I swear."

"Pls don't quit Chris, I'll do your corpse run for you."


Beetles and wolves and lions bouncing and lagging all over the map on the first night I was able to get everyone together to play the game I've been raving about. All. Fucking. Night.

We started a week ago pretty much when all this shit started. None of us are twinked, we're wearing cloth and patchwork with the odd handout from some nice uber dude. We lost a member of our band of adventurers due to DDoS fuckery but 4 remain - we're Toodle (me, 11 Warrior), Beardmancer (10 Shaman, lowest because 3 rerolls), Lilias (11 Cleric), and Ellouelle (15 Necromancer). I'm so happy most of them stuck with it, and we're all 12-15ish now and having a blast. Chris (Ellouelle) says EQ99 is the best MMO ever made, and has spent literally days in the Qeynos Catacombs - lord knows what he's doing down there.

(for OP's information, we'd be splitting the money to get us out of vendor trash gear ie necro is still using his starter dagger)

EDIT: apparently i suck at numbers and we're all actually lower level than i thought still, we're 11-10-11-15. there was a bit of a learning curve and a lot of rerolling due to lost corpses and discovering 40% hybrid taxes that we didn't want to deal with. we're finally picking up steam now and massacring gnolls. we'll all be 15 probably by tomorrow (jesus fangs are so OP)

[ahenfv]

Recently started playing again after having found p99 a couple of years ago (never got past 20, then forgot my server login info and had to start fresh)

One of my old EQ friends is also playing, she started playing an iksar and i am playing a halfling druid (honeyjum). I decided around level 16 that i wanted to go to field of bone, hang out with her and farm some spider silks for tailoring at the same time. DDOS hit when i was in TD on the shuttle, shuttle took off.. left me behind. Fastforward about 25minutes of skill level 1 swimming, dead out of nowhere. No big deal, had taken my gear off and banked it knowing i could pick it up in FV (thank god).

Back in TD, get on the boat, get to FV, yay. Start running (invis) to swamp of no hope, note a lack of drachnids that i really distinctly remember, all of a sudden dead again, i apparently was training a bunch of drachnids i couldn't see.

At no point during all of this did it occur to me to change my bind from Gfay. So i packed up and headed out again. Luckily i made it to swamp of no hope, got my body, things were peachy keen. The only way i remembered to get to field of bone from the swamp was down the west zone wall, then to cut across the newbie area. This part is unrelated to the DDOS but long story short, skeleton + invis = broken invis within HT range of the iksar pathing guard.

AGAIN I get back, get through TD, FV, swamp, get my body, get to field of bone, have a grand old time, do some kurns, farm some silks, thought DDOS was done. It hits again while i have a scaled wolf charmed, farming silks, die again, gfay -> FoB run again.

That was one day. Another day I spent a while in unrest during DDOS attacks and i really don't think I need to explain what that entailed, but it was a good 2 hours of me not thinking to rebind myself outside.

[ripwind]

This is long, and I apologize. If I win, I'll be splitting the winnings with my friends Masaedis and Anborn.

I started playing about two months back with two of my RL friends - who also played launch EQ with me. Masaedis is a 27 cleric, Anborn is a 30 enchanter, and I've bounced between two characters - Soph, my 30 monk and Sicca, my 25 shaman.

Lately we've been doing a lot of XP'ing in SolA and chasing after some Sol Temple quest items for Anborn. So far, he's gotten his alliance wand and some other piece. He also has half of the items for his rod of insidious glamour and some mask. I dunno. Enchanter stuff. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So he needs something from Enyiti (sp?) in Mistmoore. We head out and there's about 25 people in the zone - both the pool and graveyard are camped. We start milling about, trying to decide what we're going to do. He needs a piece in Unrest, too, so we start discussing that. I'm sitting there FD when Anborn blinks off the screen and Masaedis starts spinning in place. I hit them up on chat and, sure enough, we deduce that it must be a DDOS attack again.

They both tried running to the zone, but no dice. I watched a huge train wipe out Masaedis right in front of me (minutes into the DDoS) and Anborn died at the ZI along with 5-6 other people.

After things cooled down I ran off to Unrest while they searched for rezzes. Unfortunately, someone didn't hear Anborn's cries for help (or see his casting clarity on them) and they missed him with a rez. So he had to wait about another half hour for another cleric to pop in (Coeur, I think, who is a pretty awesome cleric imo!) and rez him.

We all eventually arrive in Unrest and pull a group together. Unfortunately, the basement is camped by a duo, so no dusty werebat for Anborn. We group up with a troll warrior named Meal and his druid pal (Whose name I forget, sorry!) and start clearing the upper floors. XP is flying (Except for me in my hell level), and the second DDoS hits. The druid in our group tries to evac, but I'm over by the undead knight patio pulling him and a hag. I jump off the balcony and try FD'ing a few times by the hedges, but with the massive lag I can't get it timed correctly and I die. The rest of the group wakes up a few minutes later in East Karana due to the timely evac.

That was the end of my night and Masaedis'. What follows is the rest of Anborn's night, pulled directly from my email with RL names redacted:

<Redacted, Masaedis>, you'll like this. I logged Anborn back on because Kamiene had actually gotten him some upgrades- a few pieces of gossamer/damask armor to replace the rest of my cloth. While I was transferring, a griffin came up and just mauled Anborn right at the WC druid rings. Killed him in seconds. Aaaand so I re-appear in Lesser Faydark. I bummed a SoW and ran to the bank in Kelethin to get some port money, when <Redacted, Soph> told me there was a 60 cleric in West Commons. I messaged him asking if I could buy a rez, and he says sure. A few seconds later, I'm back in the commons again. I hand the cleric (Kabraxis) 30 plat, but he refuses. Great end of story, right?

Nope! The same griffin jumped me again that same instant. He must have been in a holding pattern just waiting for me, like a spawn griefer. With rez effects on and naked, I didn't last two hits. Kabraxis saw the whole thing and sent me an expletive over tell. Then he killed the griffin and rezzed me again. Then he healed me. Then he buffed me. And still wouldn't take payment. Nice guy! I am alive and in the befallen tunnel now, panicked and logged out for the night, lol.

Strange night. Lots of sitting around doing nothing. A small flurry of activity. 3 deaths. 3 clicky rezzes. And a full yellow bar gained somehow!


All said, I wouldn't trade EQ for anything. All three of us are happy to be here!

-Rip

[Anborn]

Originally Posted by ripwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All said, I wouldn't trade EQ for anything. All three of us are happy to be here!

-Rip

^-- That

[Rhambuk]

Don't wanna be an ass but please just gimme your in game char name, pm me if you have to!, i just want to be able to log in verify your level and thats all )

some great stories though! and deciding to split your winnings may stroke my sympathy

[ahenfv]

The money isn't important, it's actually really fun just to have those "ugh you've GOT to be kidding me" moments that we all had in classic applied today when there's still nothing we can do about it. 14 years of gaming after the fact and we're still as helpless here as we were back then to some lag. I mean, not fun at the time it happens, but fun to look back on anyway.

[Rhambuk]

That and sharing your grief relieves some stress, seeing that others have gone through the same or worse and that the community is here to help them out.

[ripwind]

Originally Posted by ahenfv [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it's actually really fun just to have those "ugh you've GOT to be kidding me" moments

Right. Having just started playing again, that first time you die in Crushbone and realize you were still bound in Freeport. Or in my Iksar Shaman's case, getting bound just too close to the Orc Lift so that you respawn and loot your corpse only to be brutally murdered again.

However, having deaths come by a DDoS attack are a totally different beast - because it's someone performing a malicious act with the intent to harm an entire server's population. It's a scumbag move by the worst of people.

[ahenfv]

Originally Posted by ripwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Right. Having just started playing again, that first time you die in Crushbone and realize you were still bound in Freeport. Or in my Iksar Shaman's case, getting bound just too close to the Orc Lift so that you respawn and loot your corpse only to be brutally murdered again.

However, having deaths come by a DDoS attack are a totally different beast - because it's someone performing a malicious act with the intent to harm an entire server's population. It's a scumbag move by the worst of people.

That's true, too, but if you try to ignore the fact that some spoiled attention whoring jackass is the one behind it, you can pretend the lag is like old times! :/