Server History Lesson?

[Lhancelot]

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

Yeah I have no idea who/what Swish is talking about.

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[Pescador]

I do remember after the mass MQ ban TMO got a bunch of uncontested targets because so many IB (or was it TR at that point?) were deleveled. I was actually pretty curious to see who from TMO was hit and I remember being pleasantly surprised to see that most or all of the senior members were not involved. Zee, Loly, Marley, Eccezan, Alarti, etc. So you can say what you will about them or TMO but at least they were not MQing, (or managed to not get caught...)

There were definitely a few non-officer TMO who got deleveled, but I remember a lot of gloating in ventrilo when we got a bunch of free targets after the server repop, since the core raiders were essentially untouched while TR had several of their senior members (particularly their pullers who were always snagging FTE) deleveled.

[Dreenk317]

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

I do remember after the mass MQ ban TMO got a bunch of uncontested targets because so many IB (or was it TR at that point?) were deleveled. I was actually pretty curious to see who from TMO was hit and I remember being pleasantly surprised to see that most or all of the senior members were not involved. Zee, Loly, Marley, Eccezan, Alarti, etc. So you can say what you will about them or TMO but at least they were not MQing, (or managed to not get caught...)

There were definitely a few non-officer TMO who got deleveled, but I remember a lot of gloating in ventrilo when we got a bunch of free targets after the server repop, since the core raiders were essentially untouched while TR had several of their senior members (particularly their pullers who were always snagging FTE) deleveled.

Dirty dirty MQ'ers. Need to be more sneaky, like all the people selling jboots.

[Ravager]

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

As far i recall BDA was the one caught with more people using mq and show eq back in the first ban wave upon kunark release , and if i remember the numbers were posted by rogean in forums , tmo got 2 baned , while bda got 37.and peace pipe was obliterated

I can't find that post. Can you please link?

[Cecily]

Those numbers sound right to me. People really wanted TMO to be the evil cheaters they thought we were, but quite simply we didn't have to. Especially when it came to RMT. We didn't have to. The stuff you'd want to buy we got for free. I spent like 200k on tailoring because there wasn't anything left to purchase for my 3 characters.

[Brut]

Thread needs that old screenshot from TMO forums where one of the officers warned everyone that next patch had some files in it that might detect showEQ/macroquest.

[Ravager]

Sounding right isn't the same as being right.

[Cecily]

True, but I am right so there's that. HUUUUGE number of BDA compared to a very small number of TMO got hit in that ban wave is the bullet point.

[Pescador]

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

Thread needs that old screenshot from TMO forums where one of the officers warned everyone that next patch had some files in it that might detect showEQ/macroquest.

We heard this deflection a lot, but I can tell you (not that my word will convince anyone) that this isn't true, at least not for non-officers. If you remember, after the patch went live, a bunch of threads appeared on these very forums because a bunch of people's anti-viruses starting alerting them of the new file(s) and everyone was concerned about spyware, viruses, etc. There was a thread about it on the TMO forums (I think myself or some other members even posted screenshots of the discussion in the thread where everyone was just worried about viruses or keyloggers), there were a bunch of threads about it here, and it wasn't some secret. The new files were huge news and everyone was talking about it. Anyways, I can't remember ever getting any sort of warning *before* the patch dropped, because I clearly remember ventrilo and guildchat exploding as everyone's antivirus was trying to delete patch files [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Arteker]

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

Thread needs that old screenshot from TMO forums where one of the officers warned everyone that next patch had some files in it that might detect showEQ/macroquest.

Honestly brut, im going to give u a name, Svenn , he was caught try boxing in chardok , he was the dude and his 3 tons got the ban , kicked outta tmo, i do think he later sold it to that dude from a team wich used to main it .

delvled guys, i know sworen got deleved for what tortue did with his cleric . but it was eventualy fixed .

i know kyry was delevled aswell, although i always though it was for calling XXXXX to rogean in the face .
edit i forgot Qados the enchanter got delved suposed for cheating into the road of 60 , he made then another enchanter i believe qadosx . if i recall under that charm spell wich did never broke at all at early kunark