12-10-2004, 04:12 PM
So, after my long... LONG... years of avoiding battle.net, one of my friends convinced me that the spammers and lag and random PKers have subsided since my last hour or so attempt at playing.
The result: SeekerDrone on USEast. Woo.
But, anyway, I've just been screwing around, building up a couple of characters for a while. And I've finally got a paladin--Bindego--into Nightmare.
Now, the first of the crazy people would be the ones I saw early in my characters' careers. You know, the level 84 character who comes in, asks you to come to town, drops a bunch of uber equipment, and demands a trade. Trading uber equipment with a level 11 paladin? What the hell?
Now if the name of the game were 'Mule Trading' or some such, then, yeah, it would make sense. But these are games that I make myself, which generally have names like, "Fuuuu," or "Goober."
The second type of crazy person would be when I've gotten up to a high enough level that I've pretty much got the run of normal. So, I'm up in Harrogath or something, and a level 4 character comes and startings spamming things like, "rush plz," "give itamz," or "needt wp."
Okaaay... This may come from all that crazy 'single player' stuff... but why don't people play the games themselves? I'm not too fond of slogging through Acts 1-3 for the 150th time myself, but at least I don't just latch on to larger characters and hang out there, picking up his/her leavings, like some sort of creepy little suckerfish.
The third type of crazy person would be a high level dude I just met a few minutes ago. He came into my game where I was doing the Act I NM quests, found me and proceeded to slaughter every monster in a 3-Act radius, then asked me to come to town, opened up the trade screen, put all of his equipment in there--most of which was probably obtained illegally--said, "bin... dego tish waht u need," then closed the trade window.
Uhhh... 'kay. For one, the dude was a hammerdin. I am not a hammerdin. The equipment of a hammerdin and... any other paladin in existence should be a bit different.
Of course, he then proceeded to ask me what my ranking was, going about how I 'mus be nuub' that I didn't know that non-ladder characters had rankings. He said that you put in some funky code with your account name and password and it'll tell you your rank.
Okay. I don't know much about all of this crazy multi-player stuff, but I've never been told about a non-ladder ranking. Especially one where to find out what your rank is you have to put in your password. For all I know he was telling the truth, but I'm not about to be typing my password into anything but the 'log into b.net' box when strangers are around.
Well, I guess I do have a fourth type of crazy person, although I've only seen two. This would be the 'inept PK' type. This is the guy who comes in, hostiles me, can't seem to find me--even after I tp up to town--and then leaves... only to come back a few minutes later and repeat the whole thing. The last guy was in the same game as the crazy rank person. He left and came back something like 4 times.
Well... I've suddenly run out of rambling power. I guess that means this topic is done.
The result: SeekerDrone on USEast. Woo.
But, anyway, I've just been screwing around, building up a couple of characters for a while. And I've finally got a paladin--Bindego--into Nightmare.
Now, the first of the crazy people would be the ones I saw early in my characters' careers. You know, the level 84 character who comes in, asks you to come to town, drops a bunch of uber equipment, and demands a trade. Trading uber equipment with a level 11 paladin? What the hell?
Now if the name of the game were 'Mule Trading' or some such, then, yeah, it would make sense. But these are games that I make myself, which generally have names like, "Fuuuu," or "Goober."
The second type of crazy person would be when I've gotten up to a high enough level that I've pretty much got the run of normal. So, I'm up in Harrogath or something, and a level 4 character comes and startings spamming things like, "rush plz," "give itamz," or "needt wp."
Okaaay... This may come from all that crazy 'single player' stuff... but why don't people play the games themselves? I'm not too fond of slogging through Acts 1-3 for the 150th time myself, but at least I don't just latch on to larger characters and hang out there, picking up his/her leavings, like some sort of creepy little suckerfish.
The third type of crazy person would be a high level dude I just met a few minutes ago. He came into my game where I was doing the Act I NM quests, found me and proceeded to slaughter every monster in a 3-Act radius, then asked me to come to town, opened up the trade screen, put all of his equipment in there--most of which was probably obtained illegally--said, "bin... dego tish waht u need," then closed the trade window.
Uhhh... 'kay. For one, the dude was a hammerdin. I am not a hammerdin. The equipment of a hammerdin and... any other paladin in existence should be a bit different.
Of course, he then proceeded to ask me what my ranking was, going about how I 'mus be nuub' that I didn't know that non-ladder characters had rankings. He said that you put in some funky code with your account name and password and it'll tell you your rank.
Okay. I don't know much about all of this crazy multi-player stuff, but I've never been told about a non-ladder ranking. Especially one where to find out what your rank is you have to put in your password. For all I know he was telling the truth, but I'm not about to be typing my password into anything but the 'log into b.net' box when strangers are around.
Well, I guess I do have a fourth type of crazy person, although I've only seen two. This would be the 'inept PK' type. This is the guy who comes in, hostiles me, can't seem to find me--even after I tp up to town--and then leaves... only to come back a few minutes later and repeat the whole thing. The last guy was in the same game as the crazy rank person. He left and came back something like 4 times.
Well... I've suddenly run out of rambling power. I guess that means this topic is done.