CSI : Hyboria

Swiped the -Fusion- guild tag

csihyboria — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:07:51 +0000

Guess whos in -Fusion- ?

Thats right folks,

My latest most awesome grief yet. The dumbass guild leaders from -Fusion- merged a bunch of cheating a hole guilds together to make one mega cheating guild. What I heard from the grapevine though is that they were going to switch their guild tag to Confusion temporarily to see what everyone thought about it.

What they failed to realize is that people like me play late at night and I was ready to create the guild -Fusion- once they switched. Sure enough they lacked the fore thought and now we control both guild names Fusion and -Fusion-

I wonder how many people will quit the guild over it? Either way, If any guild leaders from Fusion want to buy back their guild name I am willing to sell it back for 100g.

Lhisborn been training Phelps

csihyboria — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:46:18 +0000

So,

With all the uproar of the Adventures of the Amazing barbarian, it seems that not only has Lhisborn NOT been banned, but he has been turned into a murderer. We were in keshetta when our lowbies notified us that Lhisborn was self rezzing … AGAIN !!! So we mounted up and arrived in Kopsheff and managed to chase him out to the massive ocean where he magically attained dolphin like swimming abilities.

Banned From Funcom Forums

csihyboria — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:02:21 +0000

I guess Funcom doesn’t care to take helpful feedback regarding their game. This is probably why their stock has dropped from nearly $50 per share down to $4 per share.

Message from Funcom Forums

It is funny though that any post pertaining to particular characters still get nuked, I saw posts like “Hey William, I would like to duel you later tonight” get nuked. I was also amused by the floods of secondary and trinary posts asking where certain threads were, even posts that were along the lines of ‘Hey everybody, did you know heartseeker bow damage is different in 1.5″

I find it hilarious the petty games Funcom playing when they could be spending their remaining operating hours on something usefull; perhaps say, on how to fix Age of Conan?

And while on the topic of how Funcom handles cheaters and exploiters in this game, here is an email I received from one of their GM’s in response to my intial video footage ( 30+ minutes worth ) of Velox Nex exploiting the PVP xp system….

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100084630] Velox Nex
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Age of Conan Exploits Team. I’m afraid the links you provided did not allow me to view the information. If you could please reply with a different link I will be more than happy to look into this matter.

Rest assured that we are constantly investigating and keeping our eye out for new exploits in Age of Conan. We are working hard to prevent the use of exploits to maintain a level playing field for all our players. A large part of our investigation process comes from reports from players.

If you do encounter any issues you believe to be an exploit/program you wish to report, please let us know and we will be happy to look into them. Should you require additional assistance or would like to provide more information on this matter, please reply to this email without changing the subject line.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

This was no problem for me, I sent them a another message with updated links, and got this response almost immediately

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100084630] Velox Nex
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

I’m afraid will be unable to provide you with a definitive answer on this issue. Our Rules of Conduct can be found here:

http://support.ageofconan.com/article.php?id=169

and more specifically the Exploitation section is as follows: . . . [LONG EXCERPT REMOVED]

And here is some more email from Funcom regarding the almost unanimously agreed upon cheater Lhisborn:

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100087718] LHISBORN
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Age of Conan Exploits Team. Rest assured that we are constantly investigating and keeping our eye out for new exploits in Age of Conan. We are working hard to prevent the use of exploits to maintain a level playing field for all our players. A large part of our investigation process comes from reports from players.

If you do encounter any issues you believe to be an exploit/program you wish to report, please let us know and we will be happy to look into them. Should you require additional assistance or would like to provide more information on this matter, please reply to this email without
changing the subject line.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

And when I got even MORE concrete footage against Lhisborn I received another update from our all too familiar friend:

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100087718] LHISBORN
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

I can assure you that this matter is being looked into. If there are any other players that you feel require investigation, or if there is any additional information you would like to provide please reply, and I will do all I can to confirm your claims.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

And it has now almost been a solid month, Lhisborn is seen logged in every day and Velox continues to bot. It has gotten so bad that on a nightly basis I can see 50 toons in purple lotus swamp at 4am PST, around 20 in outflow, around 15 in cannibal caves, and even more in Poitan and Lacheish no doubt botting as well….

But rest assured every body, Funcom is ‘investigating and the matter is being looked into’

Needless to say I will still make posts to CSI : Hyboria

StormRage Roots

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:48:54 +0000

Back in the day, when Conan was a game that played as it was promised: Open War, my guildies and I happened to be the reigning force on the Storm Rage server. Dawn Razors pussied out and ran off to Tyrranny due to getting continously rolled, but occassionally it was fun to roll through Tesso and spill the blood of our enemies.

One such guy thought it was quite amusing and put up an internet shrine for us, in spirit I must link to this oldie but goodie.

http://www.tvonpclist.com/usualsuspects.htm

Ammara has Tourrette’s

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:52:01 +0000

This is on one of my toons Kornhole who has been known to slay a few people in the Wild Lands. Here is just a small taste of the types of tells I usually get on a daily basis.

Nice Vocabulary

Thank goodness this game is rated M! I am particularly impressed with Ammara’s vocabulary and frequent usag of SAT level words

Ooops Misstell

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:47:45 +0000

After killing some Velox Nex players while grinding off the murder points we gave them last night, I thought it would be amusing to taunt them and the following conversation took place….

Misstell

My favorite part of the conversation was when zarakain says “You know my cuz is a gm?” I don’t know what he means but Reincarnation used to have some pretty questionable GM help, and velox is connected to Reincarnation so it wouldn’t surprise me if this guild also exploits with the help of some Funcom Game masters.

This is just conjecture and Velox has a tendency to mouth off a lot of shit from their mouths so I will have to put this into the category of conspiracy theory for the moment.

Though coincidences exist

Keshetta Gate Wall Warriors

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:43:46 +0000

The other day while minding my own business late at night I found some wall warriors from two particular guilds: Fusion & Sacrosanct. Though I have been told that this is perfectly not any type of exploit I would like to see who whines the most when they catch me up there with my ranger doing the same thing back…

Sacrosanct Wall Warrior

Fusion Wall Warrior

So everyone congratulate the Wall Warriors of Keshetta, my personal favorite is the 1 shot tos attempts from the walls failing and only getting axed by guards, hahahahaha

Reincarnation – Doesn’t Bot Eh ?

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:35:12 +0000

After loud mouthing everyone in the Funcom forums for days on end, the might Osid and William declared up and down without a shred of doubt they were the holy white knight defenders of anti botting. They grinded their awesome pvp points away in keshetta, slaying thousands of foes. And here is a video of them conquering such enemies….

Oh yeah, enjoy the murder points Toastey, Odaine, and others !

Hey William, it looks like you confused the army of people in the Cannibal Caves for the army of people in Keshetta that you supposively slay on a daily basis

Jella in Outflow Tunnels

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:24 +0000

Since Funcom hasn’t done anything to stop the botters from farming to pvp 5+, the new trend on Tyrranny is to bot their way to pvp 5. This kind of sucks as it diminishes the number of players my honest hard working toon has to kill in Keshetta, because lets face it… These guys don’t like botting they just have no other choice because they suck so much.

Either way Jella and Jellaranger, I hope you enjoy grinding off 1750 murder points

Velox Nex ‘Dueling’

csihyboria — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:26:56 +0000

Even though the context of the following videos are long gone, I do remember that Velox tried to claim that the instance in which we caught them ‘dueling’ in wasn’t theirs

We busted into their big time instance and found them again. This time it was pretty blatant and they all had their proud Velox Nex guild tags on. Congratulate their guild for their awesome pvp 4 status everyone!

And almost one month later after over 20 petitions from 4 guilds, and over 5 gm’s spoken too, the guild is still hard at work ‘dueling’ away their pvp points. Since funcom’s sloppy moderation wouldn’t work we decided to give Velox some player justice and made everyone fully blown murderers: 1750 murder points.

Hope you have fun grinding those off Velox!