The worst/best thing you've done..
Friday, January 18th, 2008 - 9:42am
in an online game..
What are the best and worst things you have done to people in online games?
Have you ever sent a "newb" into a crowded portal full of hell bovine? Ever taken time out of your busy gaming schedule to explain abstract concepts to someone?
Your friendly neighbourhood hair splitting singularity.
Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
(I hate badies)
I killed off much of my team of squealing little piglets in Halo 3, but I think that's somewhere in between the best and the worst.
MaxShrek .. The reason you keep falling, is there is no bottom.
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Best? I hung around and babysat a guy in Diablo 2 with a higher level character until he got the hang of the game. I did something similar in the EVE online beta when the guild myself and a housemate set up took on newbies and helped them get decent ships etc fairly quickly.
Worst? I've called my team mates idiots once in the Quake Wars MP demo when for three consecutive plays no one tried to help me achieve the objectives and we lost each map without getting the MCV (or whatever it was called) to the launch position.... Really frustrated me that no one wanted to actually play the game as a team beyond running in the same direction, teamkilling and bitching if 'you stole their kill'...
There was one time that i got into an argument in Q3A (Threewave) about him being lucky to have killed me by rocket spamming a doorway - he said it was skill.
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Best, hmmm, giving the Priest robe that you get from the last boss of UBRS in WoW to another priest in the group even though I won the roll. (This was way back when there were only a handful of level 60s across the US servers, and when getting to UBRS meant a lot of hard work with people from different guilds due to the lack of level 60s.)
Worst: Leaving my guild and quit WoW.
There are many people in my guild (Vicious Cycle) that I respected greatly, I only wish that I may one day meet these people in person and give them a hug 
Decisions are just decisions, there are neither "good" or "bad"
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Best: I definitely do a lot of the abstract concept explaining.
Check out the CyberNations thread or poke anyone who's talked me for "a few minutes" about Civilization 4. 
Worst: Borrowing Duaoe's, it would definitely be my getting impatient and irritated with non-team players. I usually don't vocalize about it, but it's still not good of me to get so worked up and angry over it. Happily, this is (quite unsurprisingly) much less of a problem now that I'm in the Goodjer era of my life.
Worst: My mage, in WoW. If someone bugs or harasses me for a portal, especially if it's to somewhere like Stormwind and we're in Ironforge, I'll open a portal to Darnassus or the Exodar (other side of the map). Then put them on ignore. I'll admit I've done this multiple times, but I don't do it unless I feel the person's gone way too far (calling me names in general chat, for instance).
Best: I dunno. I ran random instances with a number of people in WoW, and on quite a few occasions one of my alt characters would get in a group where one asshole would get what they wanted and drop before finishing the instance. In those cases, if I could, I'd normally just log in my max-level mage and take out the rest of the instance for the group. I'd take any drops I could mail to my alt character (but only stuff I could use), but that excludes all the bind-on-pickup items that are dropped from bosses (the main reason most of us go in there).
IronClad Online: PurEvil
Best: designed, built and layed out all the buildings in our player city in SWG.
Worst: falling asleep at the keyboard and hitting a button which pushed me into agro range of Vaelastrasz in BWL and wiping out the whole raid.
Gamer Tag: Rantyr
Danjo and I used to play Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow online a lot. I was a bitch of an Agro Spy and Danjo was extremely good at being a ghost when he was on the spy side.
The best and worst moment came within 30 seconds of each other.
We were teamed up and infiltrating the Krasuer Lab. He had managed to make it to one of the most exposed areas in the map without being detected but the nature of the opposition's patrol was going to cause them to trip right over him. I shadowed him to his position, doubled back, came out of an elevator shaft and attacked two mercs head on.
Bam! One goes reeling back from a punch in the face. Slam! The other misjudges my path and runs straight into a wall, the second he regains himself his neck is twisted 180 degrees the wrong way. I deploy smoke and run straight towards the hail of gunfire. The merc is scared and confused, his partner is dead, he's firing wildly, at this point his muzzle is about as dangerous as his flashlight. I give him another jab to the face. It has to be now, or he'll pass out. Pop another smoke, watch his model. He goes left, I go right and make a sharp turn and grab his throat. Snap. Collapse.
Smoke clears, two dead mercs, I'm shot but alive. I. Am. Invincible.
Now the worst moment.
I climb back through the structure to go see Danjo. See that he has used chaff to get through the laser defenses and I jump down to say howdy. I inform him that both of the mercs are dead (meaning they've respawned somewhere away from us confused and demoralized) and I remember saying "We're awesome! High Five!"
At this point the chaff wears off and the lasers blink back on one at a time. Danjo see's this, and manages to scream IDIOT at the top of his lungs before a laser trip mine reactivates right next to my crotch and the resulting explosion damn near atomizes our crouching ninja selves.
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Oh I wouldn't call that the worst, I'd call that the most hilarious. I know I would have been laughing.
Unfortunately, if I slash my wrist with my lightsaber it cauterizes instantly. - PurEvil on emo Star Wars plots.
Best: Gracing GWJ with my TF2 skillz. In all seriousness, though, I do try to help people out... In my MMO days, playing Guild Wars, WoW and LOTRO (Not all at the same time) I helped people quest. Especially Guild Wars, it was so easy to get a max level character in that game that you could go around and help the people in the early zones pretty quick. I can't tell you how many guildies I ran through missions in that game. I also did a LOT of warrior/monk runs through the whole dang map for free. Those were fun and challenging, and I never felt right asking for money for it.
Worst: Man, I have to go far back for this one, probably hacking in Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight online play back on the ol' Microsoft Gaming Zone. Thing is, the hacks back then were so obvious and everywhere, it was the only way to have fun anymore. Before hacking, though, even though I had a lot of fun doing this, I guess you could call it griefing, on the CTF maps in that game. A friend and myself would work really hard to get flag caps quickly, and usually only get 2 out of the 3 required to win before they would grab our flag and try to cap it. At that point, we would grab their flag, and hide with it. Two of the three levels had built-in secret places that were there by design, so we would constantly use those and just wait for the timer to run out, and because we had more captures, we would always win. Of course, with the two levels that had the built-in secret spots, sometimes we'd get found. But the one level had a spot that was definitely not designed for use by players. I think it was a Nar Shadda multiplayer map. You could climb out on this balcony and use force speed and force jump to jump across a gap that was supposed to kill you, and land in this really dark and secluded section of the map that was so far away from the playable area, no one would ever look out there to begin with, and if they did, they wouldn't see you. We were never found out on that map. Fun times, but I'm sure we pissed a lot of people off.
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memories.... JK was what got me into multiplayer gaming.
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Best moment is when my Jailbreak map for Q2 got published and I joined a server and played it with people. I was running around and just playing then I asked if anyone was having fun and they said they loved the map. Made it all worth it. It was also republished by the POW mod for Q3 and I think included when they joined forces with JBQ3.
Worst gaming moment..
Moving to Houston where no LAN parties are ever held
But motivates me to buy a damn house and host my own!
Xfire: Pharacon
Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
Two best moments:
1. Our guild in WoW was really one of the top raiding guilds on Magtheridon (Without Remorse) while still being fun to be in. After a surprisingly quick runthrough of BWL (I got my T2 chest that night, only shaman on), we decide that, since all 4 dragons were up and we had just made it to the two princes, that we would go for one of the dragons. We did and we killed the first one, first try. So, 43 people still on, why not try for a second. We head to Hinterlands and go for it. First try wipe. Second try wipe. 6 people drop for the night. Its friday, so I say, what the hell and stay on. Guild Leader says one more try for fun and to try and ge the rythm down. We go and, for some reason, we get into a groove. We're doing great. We're still loosing people, but we get him down to 10% with 22 people alive (main and offtank, rogues and mages, no hunters, and 2 priests). I'm healing like crazy, and used my pots I didn't need for nef that night. Finally down to 4%, then 2%, then 1% and healers are bigtime OOM and can't use pots. We loose the main tank, all the mages and its only me (also OOM), the off tank, and a decked out rogue. I yell for off tank to use pots, drop a WF on my 2h axe (Draconian Edge, I believe) and start swinging. I'm in the same group as the rogue, so I use the last of my mana to drop a WF totem. Off tank dies, and the dragon looks at me. I loose half of my health in one attack, then the WF totem procs for the Rogue and he goes down. 15 people yelling over vent and I almost forget to dispell my poison. Great moment with the guild at 1:30 in the morning.
2. When I was 60, I had it in my head to get one of those dragon whelpling pets. I head to Badlands and see a lvl 39 hunter dying, so I toss a heal her way. She's surrounded by those vultures and the rare spawn elite vulture. One tranquil air totem and sever heals later and she's killed them all. She sends me a thank you pm and we start talking (note: this story does not lead to romance). We friend each other and from then on, we start having conversations via pm. We never quest together except for a few babysitting runs through some dungeons, because she wants the xp. But a few times if I happen to be in the area, I harass some allyz gankers that were harassing her. Just made some boring honor grinding and loot grinding more fun having someone to talk to.
Worst moment:
1. Second time in MC ever with new guild (WR, way before we could get anywhere in BWL). I wipe us on random mobs (aggro), I wipe us on Rag (dropped a tranqui air on accident for MT), and end up kind of ninjaing loot from another shammy (his fault he went afk when T1 boots dropped, I was rocking the elements gear, I got angry pm's for a couple weeks and he tried to get me kicked from raids whenever he signed on and I was in already)
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The only thing I can remember doing that was of note was when I hopped onto Stan's Lounge to play some TF2 and immediately heard:
"There's a spy in our base named Vector."
"There he is, kill him!"
A heavy unleashes Sasha's bullets into me.
"Good job guys."
"That's what I call teamwork."
"High fives all-around"
Me typing:"I wasn't a spy..."
and then everyone burst into laughter.
Should be noted that this was during the beta where team killing was still allowed and everyone, but me, had teamspeak.
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Uhh, I do miss the falling asleep part of playing WoW, memories...
Decisions are just decisions, there are neither "good" or "bad"
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Worst: I spent the night at a friend's house solely because he owned an Apple ][e and a copy of Wizardry. I proceeded to spend the entire night playing while he slept. God what an asshole.
Best: Threw a few unimportant Q3 games so some buddies wouldn't get too demoralized.
"THE HELL ASS BALLS." - Prederick, expressing frustration in the time-honored way.
Worst: One thing that comes to mind is hanging out in Crushbone in Everquest and standing on the wall with my wizard, raining death fire on orcs busy fighting a group who was actually playing the way you're supposed to. At that time, orcs couldn't get you on that wall.
Best: I think I'm probably at my best when I'm in a good mood and doing things that heighten the fun of other people. Giving hints, cracking jokes (mileage may vary), admiring the excellent maneuvers by the other team and making new people feel welcome. All that playground, play nice stuff.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
We're referring to things that actually occurred in the past, Certis, not fairy tale happy things that exist only in your fevered imaginings. Next thing you know you'll claim to tell people "nice game" or something.
"THE HELL ASS BALLS." - Prederick, expressing frustration in the time-honored way.
The nicest thing that comes to mind was in Asheron's Call. I had run into a guildmate out in the middle of nowhere. There was some little camp surrounded by nothing by desert and lots of baddies (I do not recall what brought us there in the first place, though I think it was a quest of some sort). He died, and there was no way he could get back out there before he had to leave. At the time in Asheron's call, when you died your body stayed behind, with some of your items on it; which and how many items depended on your level, the monetary value of the items in your inventory, and some randomness. To avoid potentially losing useful gear, people carried enough 'death items', ie items with a high monetary value but otherwise useless. Through a bit of bad luck, the guildmate had dropped some death items as well as some useful gear. It wasn't yet possible to allow others to loot our corpse, and the time it took for the body to rot (allowing the items to drop to the ground for short period of time) was based on your level, but also had a good chunk of randomness thrown in. I ended up staying up all night, camping his body, and sometime in the morning I was able to recover his gear and later return it to him.
The worst thing I can remember doing off-hand was in A Tale in the Desert. During the First Telling, I came back from a bit of a break and seeing all of the stuff our guild had stashed away, I setup a whole ton of trades at below market prices, and (for reasons I have forgotten), stopped playing again before completing them, leaving the onus on guildmates who had disagreed with the trades in the first place to see the through.
Looks like I picked a good day to be too busy to read Twitter. So much bitching, you'd think people forgot how to use the back button -- Certis
The Worst Thing? Timing the other team's reinforcements and mortar-spawn killing them mercilessly in Enemy Territory. Part of me thinks since they were playing on the Axis team, it's okay.
Sometimes, if you wanna save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
-Bernard
Worst: In Ultima Online I used to poison hams and leave them on the ground in cities for people to pick up and eat. I can't believe how many people thought street ham was a good thing to eat.
Worst(2): I left my WoW guild in a huff because I was so damn sick of being the main puller while we were running MC, 4 times a week. This was back when getting to the 2nd boss in MC was a big thing. Lots of pulling and having to do it perfectly. I could've just said I was tired and asked not to be it anymore but I was too damn proud.
Best: In Everquest when I was about to quit with my lvl 39 Dark Elf Necromancer, I held a night of games in a beginner area of the Dark Elves. Throughout the night I gave away all my gold and items in games of Hide & Go seek and random collection quests.
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WoW: Jozak - 80 Death Knight
Worst: I've killed thousands. I cannot remember how many have died at my hand. I'll never be able to wash away all the blood.
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AC had a couple spots like that. One spot we called duckpond because the mobs spawned below.
Gamer Tag: Rantyr
The best thing I've ever done to people in multiplayer? ... Kill them...?
Best: I was playing Gears with a gwj crowd and everyone else on my team was killed. I hid in the mansion in the left stairway basically waiting to die. Someone upstairs tried to snipe me so I ran down the stairs briefly. Then I walked back up a saw him running toward the doorway. The second he ran through I revved my chainsaw and cut him to pieces. After getting rid of my first victim, another locust was running to the same doorway. Again, I tricked him into thinking that I ran away. I waited in the doorway again and took him out with my chainsaw. I think locust #3 wised up because after a minute of silence he attacked from below. He came up the stairs but I saw him coming. I rolled behind him just in time to avoid the shotgun blast, did a quick spin and lunged my chainsaw into his shoulder.
One enemy left and he was a really good player. I knew when he found me I was dead. Even so, I never left the stairway. I was just waiting... Watching both upstairs and downstairs looking for any signs of movement. I'm sure he knew where I had been hiding but he took his time. Perhaps he was stocking up on supplies or figured I had moved and was searching for me. Whatever the case may have been, his locations was finally revealed as he armed himself with the sniper rifle upstairs. He spotted me right after that. I went up and down the stairs to avoid a headshot. He wasn't planning to move but neither was I. We were running out of time and one of us had to make the next move. I would've accepted a draw at this point because if I had tried to engage him, he would've destroyed me with very little effort. Eventually, he left his post for the final charge. I shot back at him with the lancer which made him pause for a moment. He tried to snipe me so I took cover and then he threw a smoke grenade into the doorway. I watched him switch to his shotgun and right before the smoke blocked our view I rolled backwards and went down the stairs... or so he thought. At this point, he couldn't see into the doorway anymore. He rushed though the doorway and right before he smacked into my body I saw his silhouette through the smoke. Vrrrrrrmmm... AAAAHHHHHH! He ran right into it. Round over. 4 vs 1 and I was victorious. Every single kill was done solely with the chainsaw. Best thing I've ever done.
Worst: I don't really do anything bad when I play multiplayer. Sometimes when I get waaaaaay too frustrated during a game, I just leave but that's about it.
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Worst: Once upon a time at a LAN party, my friends and I were playing Unreal Tournament, specifically the towers map whose name I don't recall. The respawn points are along the sides of the tower, and are unfortunately open to attack; so another sniper and I took positions on each side of the tower. We were able to score headshots on everyone respawning, which meant a near constant stream of them. All this went on for far to long. Of course, being a LAN party were we all knew one another, we were laughing and joking about it the entire time; no bad feelings there.
Though the worst case with bad feelings involved was on Battlefield 2, playing Marines on Midway in some clannie server. I joined the wrong team, and they gave me a non-stop stream of grief (and profanities) over it. Apparently they wanted all their clan on one team, and the other team made up of public players; so the clannies could win through superior organization and pat themselves on the back. I decided to leave the server, but as a going away present, I was able to slap C4 on all the jets/helocopters. Detonated everything at once and wiped out 3/4 of the team in a single blow.
Best: No idea, I try to be generally helpful.
You know, my actions ended up killing the server, but I still think it was some of the best RP ever.
Elysium: The democratization of the web ... has installed an illusion of a digital first amendment that protects speech no matter how poorly spelled or stupid.
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I love the games where the actions are so personal, and the exact same occurance will likely never happen to anyone else. Reading Chiggie's Splinter Cell account and Mystic's Gears account both jump my heart rate up a bit.
I spent an inordinate amount of time helping new people in a rather esoteric MMOFPS, showing them the ropes and guiding them through dangerous territory.
The worst thing I did was mention I played the WoW trial to Zero.
Danjo Olivaw Lives
Hahaha. Oh come on, it's not that bad. I mean sure, he smells like elf when he comes to bed at night, but I've gotten used to it.
The darkness comes and the darkness goes
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I disagree. Team-stacking clannies on public servers deserve all the grief you can give them. Your guerrilla war against them is encouraged and appreciated.
Sometimes, if you wanna save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
-Bernard
Aw, come on baby, you know I still love you best.
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Worst: In a Star Trek MUD, I got in a small Vulcan ship with a friend of mine from the Vulcan fleet. Being small, it didn't show up on sensors unless it was very close. We knew that the Federation fleet captain (whom we weren't entirely fond of) was out traveling between stations. We stayed just outside of sensor range, transmitting on the hailing frequency pretending we were a fleet of cloaked Romulan ships, about to attack. Then we took the little Vulcan ship and buzzed his ship. The whole thing freaked him out enough that he told someone his hands were shaking. And I was a fellow Star Fleet captain at the time, so it wasn't entirely captainly of me.
Best: One thing that sticks out is I once had this incredible round on Cerebre Landing in BF2142. Completely in the zone, I got something around 120+ points by the end of the round.
Alternatively, back during the UO beta when there was absolutely nothing to do because the respawn rate of monsters was ridiculously low, I helped organiz a tour group and dungeon crawl. I don't know that we fought a single monster during the entire time, but it's the most memorable experience I had from the whole beta.
Here's how it used to look back then:
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