Curse

novawhiz · Sep 02, 2007, 03:00 AM // 03:00

Recently i uncovered some "dupe guilds." These guilds are extremly careful and take big measures to not get caught.

Yesterday i was in a mission with a group and one of them pinged his skill bar:

D epravity
U lcerous Lungs
P arasectic bond
E feeble
S erpents quickness
R end enchantmens
U nholy feast
S uffering

D U P E S R U S

I said weird your skill spell dupes r us. He immediatly pinged me with a recuitment to a guild and alliance dedicated to bots,dupes,hax, etc..
I said no thats lame and againts rules(wish i hadnt) he immediatly deleted character before i could add as freind and report. The guild he was in was [colo] but im almost positive its changed.

These guilds obviously dont spam recruitment messages, they sectretivly get ppl who realize they hidden messages...If you look out you might notice skills bars like this or messages such as D____ U_____ P___ E____(ea. Dancing Under People is Exciting or something) They probly come in many different shapes and forms.

Please look out for them and dont make my mistake, go along with them and then immediatly report.

~Thanks~

Neo Nugget · Sep 02, 2007, 03:04 AM // 03:04

wow, thats some hard core people lol. Did you report?

Malice Black · Sep 02, 2007, 03:05 AM // 03:05

Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.

novawhiz · Sep 02, 2007, 03:07 AM // 03:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malice Black

Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.

oh...sry then dont have any "evidence"

youll beleive me when you notice it..

Malice Black · Sep 02, 2007, 03:35 AM // 03:35

Why would I care?

I play for fun, I couldn't care less what other people get up to.

Zeek Aran · Sep 02, 2007, 03:37 AM // 03:37

Why didn't you take screenshots of anything he did or said? Hm? Hmm? *pokes and nudges*

bamm bamm bamm · Sep 02, 2007, 03:39 AM // 03:39

I don't understand how their recruitment method is in any way going to stop leaks. At the end of the day if they are recruiting people at all they can't keep their existence a secret, as you yourself have proven. The idea that because a person can construct an acronym from some skills somehow filters him into the category of people that would want to join their guild is just stupid. It slows down the eventual discovery as well as the recruitment rate, so why run the risk at all? This all just seems too stupid to be true. Are you sure you haven't just stumbled upon some huge alliance in-joke or something?

artay · Sep 02, 2007, 04:08 AM // 04:08

Ooooo, the real guild wars underworld! Its like that movie with all those Italian people.

korcan · Sep 02, 2007, 04:08 AM // 04:08

didnt anet patch duping via reconnects? cause afaik, that was the only way anyone could dupe items.

Lord Juan · Sep 02, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

Interesting story but you was one key away of show evidence of that... I would have take screen shots for sure.

Malice Black · Sep 02, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

Prob kids

No different then the variations of EBAY guilds or GWEN virginity guilds going around.

Example

Cant buy skills like these on [ebay]
Lost my cherry to [gwen]

Apharot · Sep 02, 2007, 05:54 AM // 05:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malice Black

Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.

OP said:

Quote:

I said weird your skill spell dupes r us. He immediatly pinged me with a recuitment to a guild and alliance dedicated to bots,dupes,hax, etc..
I said no thats lame and againts rules(wish i hadnt) he immediatly deleted character before i could add as freind and report. The guild he was in was [colo] but im almost positive its changed.

That's pretty hard evidence to me.

Dr Strangelove · Sep 02, 2007, 06:05 AM // 06:05

Most likely a pack of idiots looking for attention. If someone unearths a hack or exploit, no farking way are they going to start recruiting strangers.

As for the "secret code hidden in the skillbar" and the "vanishing character", was this player perhaps wearing a cloak and dagger? If for whatever reason you thought it was a good idea to recruit strangers to cheat with, why on earth would you use ingame channels in the first place? I can say I'm duping/hacking/creating mutant zombie dolphins of death all I want, it doesn't mean a thing until I do it.

HawkofStorms · Sep 02, 2007, 06:06 AM // 06:06

That's not Apharot. Its probably just some kid pulling the OP's chain.

Also, I believe the OP is pulling our leg. Because you CAN report a character even after it has been deleted (since the character name is still linked to the account name for ~48 hours). Also, you CAN have somebody on your friends list when that character that they had been using had been deleted.

Apharot · Sep 02, 2007, 06:13 AM // 06:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

That's not Apharot. Its probably just some kid pulling the OP's chain.

Also, I believe the OP is pulling our leg. Because you CAN report a character even after it has been deleted (since the character name is still linked to the account name for ~48 hours). Also, you CAN have somebody on your friends list when that character that they had been using had been deleted.

That's true enough. But did the OP know that?

Roshi_ikkyu · Sep 02, 2007, 06:48 AM // 06:48

I love how someone pings there skills and like a fricking GW rain man you click onto a DUPES connection.

More like a bored OP who has nothing better then to make a GW D vinci code thread about super secret uber private guilds.

Apharot · Sep 02, 2007, 07:08 AM // 07:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

I love how someone pings there skills and like a fricking GW rain man you click onto a DUPES connection.

More like a bored OP who has nothing better then to make a GW D vinci code thread about super secret uber private guilds.

Rain man LOL. "Kmart. Blue light special, blue light special. 1.25 for a pack of three. 1648 5th avenue."

unienaule · Sep 02, 2007, 07:21 AM // 07:21

K-Mart sucks.