necator wrote:Just a few rvr breaking bugs i came across while i was playing uthgard^^

There was this one command (/changelog) which made your character lag pretty bad, enabled lag jumping and it was spam-able.
The command was abused heavily in rvr, especially by casters who profited the most, since it got very difficult for tanks to hit them - the player who abused it seemed to fly straight into the air (i guess the reason for that was just the permanent spam of a /changelog macro in combination with jumping).
It took them quite some time to fix it, because those who knew didn't report it for a very long time. Typical applications were to dodge tanks in rvr or lag jump onto smth (DF stairs,..) .
Even tough i never used it in rvr (most of the time i played a merc and it was impracticable for my class ;p) i still got banned for abusing the command for quite some time. (i used it mainly to "explore" camelot ^^ - jumping onto the fountain in the city, ....)

Regarding lag jumping in combination with a event item, there was one other thing which could have broken the rvr but i think nobody ever did it because it was permaban worthy - i for myself just tested it with another person and we even reported it but i think there was never a staff reaction to the report.
From events you could get a little tent - they were big enough that one char could fit under it and had a width of about 2 big trolls and a length of probably 4^^. You were able to plant it anywhere IG (just drag the item out of your inventory and drop it - if you were the owner you could just pick them up like regular daoc loot)- they even had a hit box in the rvr zone!
So what you could do was - if you were standing inside one you were able to lag-jump (with /changelog macro for example^^) onto the rooftop of the tent and you where basically immune to melee attacks from up there.
Another possible application was - if you had 2ppl and both got one you were able to stack tents - just put one down -> both players lag jump onto the roof of the first tent -> place a second tent on top of the first one -> lag jump one the roof of the new one -> remove the bottom tent -> repeat. You were also able to change direction slowly - one application?^^ i suggest keep raiding ;p

One thing which benefited me (playing a class with charge) was the fact that you were able to charge out of root - which you can imagine was convenient... It was fixed during the time where emain was still the main rvr zone ... after that i spent more points in det^^

From one thing that benefited me to one which annoyed me probably the most. The prime time of "abuse" (at least i felt abused as a tank) of this bug was after they switched from Emain to Agramon as the main rvr zone.
Arga stayed the main rvr zone for quite some time and the staff experimented a lot with different setups of towers/keeps in and around the Agra zone.
The bug was just the fact that the ichor RA lasted for the full duration of the spell - neither resists (not sure about that) nor det had any effect on the duration you had to endure that spell (i can't remember if you could purge ichor back then - never used purge on my merc during that time the typical spec was charge2 as much det as possible and the rest in mopain lw1).
It wasn't until this time we discovered it, because rarely anyone would spec ichor - it was just too much points - everyone was low rr and in the early years of uthgard there was much less rp gain (less players and less rp/kill which was changed later).
Suddenly at least one Hib group appeared with 3VWs and guess what... all with ichor3.
I usally spent around 1min30s just standing around and trying to rupt some casters/healers with my stupid bow and the VW dmg output wasn't to bad either... Fights against sucht grps were close but if i remember correctly we lost most of them.
I don't wanna brag, but i think i used to be in one of the better alb grps (well ok there weren't many other alb grps ;p) and it was basically impossible to deal with such grps (different setups weren't a option ... you had one main char - lvling up a new one and getting it ready for rvr just took too much time).

Another fun rvr encounter was the "god" svg. Still during Agra times there were a few players who discovered that after respeccing your RA's you didn't lose stats like str/con as long as you didn't relog.
I'm not sure but i think in combination with duping a lot of RA stones at least one player made his char godlike and went to Agra with it.
Well after that, the char and player got banned quickly (im not sure but i think it took at most 1-2 days until the staff caught up to it).
What followed was a huge upset - the discovery of a "dupe ring". A lot of popular/known players got perma banned (mainly mid players).

One last thing which kinda affected rvr was probably one of the worst staff decisions during my active time on uthgard.
There was this one mob(Kez) in the alb dragon-zone which was perma farmed because it dropped a bracer with a good utility -probably every alb on uth had one or two in their temps.
One time the staff discovered that is was not "live-like" - the bracer had one resist type to much compared to the live version (if i remember correctly 8%heat - if you were ever involved in making a sc you know how much 8% actually is).
Instead of keeping old bracers as they were and making them untradeable they just removed the one stat from all bracers ever dropped.
They introduced refund merchants in order to "clean stats" of a crafted piece and granted little gold for every cleaned piece. If i remember correctly you were also able to sell the old bracer for 500g to the same npc? - Anyways it was just not enough for all the effort you have to put in planning a temp, getting the items, ...
They just destroyed nearly all alb temps over night and blamed it partially on the players because nobody informed them earlier.


Just a few of my highlights regarding bugs which affected the rvr during my time on uthgard.
I enjoyed playing here a lot and met a lot of nice ppl.
I started playing daoc on uthgard but switched to live servers(EU) because more ppl where playing there and the fact of the greater variety of 8v8 opponents - on uth you had maybe 1-2 regular grps during EU prime time.
-necator

Akip wrote:Agramon was fun teleport to the labyrinth towers, Central keep, random appearing keep walls, moc1 spread heal, good old times

Alphaone wrote:Awesome post, thank you for sharing Necator. I had no idea about any of these issues...I would love to have seen the tent stacking!

Oldtimers, or newertimers with good stories to share...this is your place! All is welcome.

Alpha

Caemma wrote:

Alphaone wrote:Awesome post, thank you for sharing Necator. I had no idea about any of these issues...I would love to have seen the tent stacking!

Oldtimers, or newertimers with good stories to share...this is your place! All is welcome.

Alpha

You are welcome!


Anyway, i can say that was nice to sometimes slip into enemy realms... but used it just to hook up girls of course!