Tuesday 23 October 2007

How it brakes down

1. Speeding , Scamming , Hacking etc.

2. Arvid and rexor logg on and go hunting for people and wall them.

3. It was going successfully.

4. Vult-r Released all the speeders / scammers / hackers for no reason.

5. Arvid and rexor go round trying to wall as many of the original walled as they cna.

6. Arvid and rexor logg on and go hunting for people and wall them.

7. It's going successfully.

8. Wikky tells people to speed / scamm although he's playing on dofus at the moment...

C+C Please.

Sunday 21 October 2007

The Vikings

Quote :

I have resurrected ''Vikings Of Legend'' In the new guild ''The Vikings'', forumers, friends, or olbies Wink are free to join, but we will not be accepting newbs or people we don't know. This will not be a scamming guild as we attempt to give it a good name.We also use the old recruiting system. We need recruits!

Basically, we only accept forumers, olbies, or close friends into the guild which will make it stick well. Remember this is a non-scamming guild now, so don't join thinking you can scamm. But we WILL be a nuisance in order to rebirth some of the Viking's old traditions, we'll block areas and the arena and spam global etc.

Please feel free to join if you are a forumer, an olbie or a close friend of a co-existing member. And let this guild grow to is past glory!

Saturday 20 October 2007

The History Of EO - Wolfdog

The History Of Endless Online as written By - Wolfdog
Added Analogue (Final Section) - Picto.

This is truly a great read, it was incomplete so i added a bit, but it is truly worth reading, and you'll get that warm fuzzy feeling inside, as you take a step by step journey through endless online's history, as it were.

The History of Endless-Online as it stands can be divided into four distinct periods. These periods are the pre-v12 stage (The Period of Growth), v12-v14 (The reign of the oldbies/Golden Ages), v15-v18 (The change in era), and v19-the present (Recent History or Revenge of the Newbs).

The Period of Growth (pre-v12)

The events in this time frame were few and scarce. Clothing was added near the end of this era, but one needed to use the Dressbot service to use the clothing. The community was very small and tightly knit. It ranged from 9-12 people, which showed that the game was still getting started, and hadn't even gained much publicity.

The Reign of the Oldbies/Golden Ages (v12-v14)

The game slowly and steadily gained momentum. A basic battle system was introduced in v12, and with it came the paperdoll (ability to change your character's clothes by dragging and dropping clothes from your inventory onto the paperdoll). Monsters were now killable, and they dropped clothing and other items (some which were useless at the time [Potions, skulls, etc]). Monsters also gave experience, but levels weren't enabled at the time, so killing monsters for experience was useless.

Scamming came hand in hand with the growth in population. The Vikings (an official unofficial guild of scammers) made it their job to scam as many people as they could. They succeeded in scamming a good portion of the EO players, but their success rate died down when Mediators were introduced to the game. Mediators were ordinary players that were trusted by admins. Their job was to help the players of Endless Online by completing trades for them (Every mediator had their own method, but in the end it still prevented scams). Out of the ~20 mediators that were appointed, only 1 was corrupt, so the project was a success.

When v14 came out in October 2004, a very crucial update came with it: a trade system. This eliminated the need for Mediators, so they were disbanded. Skilled scammers were able to manipulate the trade system, but their new scams were shortlived because an upgrade was implemented shortly thereafter.

Endless Online grew more and more by the day, to the point where signups needed to be closed (v12) for a period of time. This resulted in angry forum members that were not able to sign up for the game. They stuck around on the forums for a bit, then either left, or cooperated.

Throughout this entire era, player run guilds were formed. Memorable guilds include The Vikings and Fallen Angels. They were groups of people that were joined by a common purpose. They communicated using free message boards (phpBB, InvisionFree, etc) and the ingame chat. There was a number of unofficial guilds near the end of v14, but only a handful stood the test of time. Those that survived were made official in v15 (read on to learn more).

Nearing the end of v14, EndlessRadio was created. It was an online radio station run by a few players of EO. It quickly became very popular, and eventually had DJs that were ingame admins and developers. The peak was 40 listeners, while there were only 60-70 players online. Some of the Disc Jockeys for this settlement included Mizzy, Sakurakur, Rexor, Myriad, Tale, Paper and many more less noteable players.


The Change in Era (v15-v18)

The introduction of version 15 represents a major shift in the community dynamics of Endless-Online. An increase in server capacity and an arguably unwarranted overpromotion of the game led to a drastic increase in the number of players. This created a lot of tension between the older players and the new players since the former were unable to absorb such a large group into their ranks.

Version 16 can be considered the Dark Age for Endless-Online. The version release coincided with the introduction of a brand new server hosting company. The server capacity was again increased and more functions were added to the game. This new version was short-lived, however, when the new server company walked away from its contractual agreements and approximately $800 of Vult-R's money. During this time there was a greater emphasis placed on the Endless-Online forums and the IRC where the Oldbie/Newbie community continued their hostilities.

Version 17 marked the return of Endless-Online after over a month. The return marked a number of changes to the game but a diminished server capacity. One of the features of this version was the guild option which allowed players to congregate. This development allowed for a couple of important developments. The first of these was the Organization (ORG). Started by the player Marluxia in version 15 it was the second guild to organize under the new system. The ORG represented the first new player uprising where many joined for the sense of belonging that the Oldbies would not afford them. The Organization would eventually crumble under the internal politics of the guild and the undermining of Marluxia's cult of personality.

The second important development was the Esgares Empire (EE). This guild was organized under the player Zemeckis and consisted of a core group of loyal players dedicated to pointing out the flaws in the game. The Empire took pride in finding the faults in the game and exploiting them for their own amusement. Most notable is their use of blocking to cause massive traffic jams within the game. This direct protest led to the introduction of the walkthrough function in the game. The Empire has since disbanded but some of the members are now considered to be legends within the community.

Certain other guilds (Fallen Angels, The Vikings) from previous versions were made official in this era. The Vikings didn't last long, due to the fact that scamming wasn't easy anymore, though they were successful in some instances. Members of the Vikings stuck around in the guild and used the Guild Chat to talk to their friends, and the guild turned into a shadow of what it once was. The Fallen Angels guild (an association of players that had been with the game since early on) lasted for a long time (v19) and some members spent most of their ingame time helping newer players (showing them places, giving them items to start off with, etc.), giving the guild a good reputation for a while.

Version 18 represented the end of this era. The Empire and the Organization were dwindling. The server situation was working itself out. The Revival of version 19 and the subsequent turmoil were just around the corner.

Version 19

Version 20 was kicked off with a nice summer event hosted by Tale and Laine. The event was the arrival of the Kitty Hat and The Toad Hat, both being very rare and valued items for quite some time. Many new areas were available which made the community skyrocket. Yet again, causing a hefty amount of social status between the "Newbies" and the "Oldbies".

Though, this was a great revolutionary time, as many ideas from the players of Endless-Online were taken into consideration.

A New Age Begins
(v21 - Present) (By Picto.)

Shuddering away from what had been left behind, scamming, duping, glitches, endless online finally grew into the game it would become, as development took a turn from being about making the game playable, to adding new items and such. Arenabot left, devil costumes were but a mere memory, and endless online started to spread its wings, ready to leave it's nest and fly out into the world of online gaming. And as it became more advertised and successful, more joined, and so marked the beginning of the new age ; The coming of the newbs.

There were still many changes that endless online had yet to go through, such as new places and items. Admins left, people complained, blogs were set up, as endless online established itself as a proper game. And so the history died, no longer were the days of small communities were everyone knew everyone else, and the MMORPG effect came into play, as endless' players slowly drifted apart, and finally left.

And as they did, and new people came, the game fell into turmoil over and over. Sabanthrea died,
Sakurakur left, arvid was hacked, and the new age signalled the most exciting and eventful period in eo's history ever. And as darkplug got deleted, and berdy and debstar left, endless finaly began to become what it now is, and will probably always be, until they day we look back at the duping, and the blue room, and see ourselves making the history, the history of the new age, of endless online...

-Picto, with great great thanks to Wolfdog

Tuesday 16 October 2007

Wall

I've found a new hangout, the wall...



It's true, arvid logged on yesterday and i asked whether he'd teleport me to near the wall (in maze) and he did. So i spent some time, talking with these guys, and with arvid, about this wall situation, and it all seems to be going well. And one thing i noticed is that most of the people are rightly accused, they are still genuinely good people, who should be treated same as everyone else, yes still they deserve punishment, but socially, they are no different from you or me.
perhaps this punishment is a little cruel, but if this si what is needed in order to keep the peace, then it is what happens, and there is nothing that can change.

Now, i love hanging around here, but unfortunately i get a lot of ''Picto get me out plx'', and unless i know you are wrongly accused, I'm not even going to try.

Anyway, i thought i may as well point some things out about the wall :

1) You can't scroll out, don't buy scrolls.
2) Don't plee to arvid for freedom, it won't work.
3) People claiming to be admins are not.
4) I'm not in a walk around jail, I'm just hanging about.
5) Don't ask me to release you
6) Don't kiss ass.
7) Being a snitch won't get you out.
8) Don't complain
9) I don't know how long you're walled for.

If you are walled, i suggest either making a new character, or just trying to enjoy your time , in guild chat, global, or with fellow walled, or with me =D, and don't beat yourself up about it.

Perhaps, this is a new golden age of endless, perhaps finally we're going to see some discipline, and 2008 i happen to know will bring some BIG discipline changes, but until then, arvid is a one man army, and it seems to be doing its job.

If you wanna come chill with me, head down to maze 32 in the castle maze, top right corner, i never leave, and i have a hoot, cheers.

Oh and hi to the following :

Kingachilles
Provocative
Golatho
Rjbarles
Giralieon

Good guys.

-Picto

Tuesday 9 October 2007

Adsense.

As I'm assuming you can clearly see, i have added various adverts to both the opening page and the blog, true, this is adsense, a system in which you earn money by page impressions and clicks of ads. I finally decided after all this time i wanted to start being paid for the blog, but didn't want to take donations =D, so i thought I'd see how this goes, and don't worry, these ads won't disrupt the page or get in your way,and the blog will continue as normal, and after about 48 hours they'll become a bit more relevant to the blog, thanks.

-Picto

Sunday 7 October 2007

A Guide to not getting scammed

Here's the baseline, you're not supposed to buy currency or accounts form other games, or other servers, or different accounts, or just anything in general, but i know it'll never end, so i may as well make sure you all do it safe ...

1. Making sure you don't find scammers :

When you're buying or selling different game items or accounts, such as runescape, don't use global, global is a breeding ground fro scammers. Pathetic losers that sit there all day watching that little box, just waiting for someone to be buying runescape gold or accounts so they can spring on you and scamm you for all you have.
Instead, go to places like the forums, guild members or aeven square. Now aeven square is were i would normally do shopping if buying for a different game, as people there are newbs and really don't grasp the idea of people begin able to scamm them easily, they also believe that people are genuine on the game, and so will most likely let you go first or some other method meaning this is beneficial. And newbs are less likely to scamm you as well as they do not know how, it's a good way, and often cheap as they have no real grasp on prices, of getting items or accounts from other games.

2. Talk to them

Scammers will often show obvious symptoms if they're going to scamm, these include :

Letting the price drop without a fight
Acting innocent and stupid (''i'm no good at computers'')
Saying they've been scam me out of alot of gold (like 3m+)
If they are wearing very expensive items
Saying ''I'm not gonna scamm you''
Saying ''You can report me if i scamm''
Saying ''I talk to arvid''
Players that tell you to follow instead doff just talking in group chat

Symptoms of honest players :

Players that tend to bend to your demands
Players that will only take a certain price
Players that don't mention scamming.
Players that appear to be wearing crappy clothes and don't have much knowledge of real world trading.
Other various symptoms suggesting nervousness.
People determined to sell.

Still can't tell, check the blacklist to see if they are scammers, ask global or others, and if you still can't tell, just walk away.

3. Not sure?

Always suggest a simultaneous trade to see if they are honest, by explaining the fact that they can have endless open in a window and have the other game open in a browser, if they deny that option they will most likely scamm. There is no reason they wouldn't want to do a perfectly safe method now is there?

4. Always play in a window.

It's just common sense, it gives you the ability to check things whilst in trade to make sure you're not going to get scammed, e.g. If someone is selling you an account for say, runescape, have the name of the account already typed in, and get them to say the pass before you accept on endless, if playing in a window, u can quickly type the password din on runescape and make sure before accepting.

5. Not sure?

Just don't go throguh with it, only ever trade if you're 100% certain.

6. Get a trustworthy middleman

If you're going to be buying an endless online account, get someone you know you can trust, either a very close friend, or someone that everyone knows :

Nezlo
Avamay (Not sure if these two are middlemening again yet)
Me
Trustworthy forum members.

And if not, download endless proxy for just the trade so you can check the account while in trade using the multi-client.

7. HALVES DO NOT WORK

Never do the half, details, half method, honestly, it's a 100% scamm.

8.Don't break first.

Never give in. If you're debating on who goes first never break and go ''ok i will'', this is exactly what a scammer wants you to do, they have more patience than you do, because if this scammed doesn't work they can just do another, where as you want whatever it is you're trading, so you can snap eventually. If it comes down to you and him in a simultaneous trade, just waiting for one of you to accept on one of the trades, wait for him, never accept first, because they'll just cancel their trade, and kapow, you're scammed.

9.Get proof.

Always get proof that they have the money, or items, or account, don't just take their word for it.

10. Don't do it

Alot of the time it isn't even worth it anyway

11.Don't trust anyone

In this game, it's hard to trust anyone you don't know / can beat up in r/l. Mya divs is try to sya personasl.

12. Don't scamm.

I suppose that this guide could be reversed to be a guide of how to scamm and what to look out for, but seriously, don't scamm, it's not good, you'll get reported, and walled, and that little mark will lie on your concious forever, you know how painful it is to be scammed yourself don't you, but every time you scamm someone they have to go through the same feeling.

Well, that's all the help i can give you, it's still your choice if you want to to out and buy things , risking you money, but remember, there are always gonna be pathetic losers out there, that only care about he money in your pocket.

Earlier i got scammed again out of 10k, and as the person left the room, she actually said ''sorry'', it would seem as though this person didn't actually want to scamm, more like she had to, so please, try to resist, and try not to get scammed yourselves. And if you do get scammed, report their names, they will get punished for their crimes.

-Picto

Wednesday 3 October 2007

Makeover

This is the first time I've ever posted twice in one day, anyway, I'm assuming you all know by now, but there have been some HUGE changes to the picto-blog.

No this was not spontaneous, I've been photoshopping / writing / coding for almost a fortnight now, i didn't tell anyone though, thought it would be a nice surprise. So I've attempted to make the blog alot more professional and grown up, by removign some silly images and texts, and replacing them with more stylish, subtle images or texts.

But haste, there is still more to come than what you have seen so far, including replacing ALOT of images for links etc. Also i need to work out some kinks and improve certain things, until it is finally complete.

I will list below the changes :

[+] = Added
[%] = Changed
[-] = Removed

Without Further Ado :

[+] = A Completely New Opening Page For The Blog.
[%] = Top Image For The Picto-Blog.
[%] = Image Leading To The Blacklist
[%] = Location Of Counter
[%] = Location Of Links Drop-Down
[-] = Removed A Few Links From The Drop-down
[+] = Top Current Flash Games
[-] = removed The Chat Box From The Blog
[+] = Added Chat Box To Opening Page
[%] = Changed Opening Page's URL To www.pictoking.blogspot.com And Blog's URL To www.pictokingblog.blogspot.com
[%] = Background Colour Is Now Darker (But Not Black)
[%] = Text Colour And Link Colour
[%] = Font (Hopefully)
[%] = Location Of 'Contact Picto' Link
[%] = Location Of Headlines Section
[-] = Counter From Blog Page
[+] = Faster Page Loading Time.
[%%%] = Several Other minor Appearance Changes.
[+] = Sub-Directory.

So thanks for sticking with us, and remember, the opening page and blog are not complete yet, so hang in there, got a couple more bumps in the road...

-Picto

Everybody's Changing

As you can already see, there have been plenty of changes to the blog, as i try to make it more professional and easier on they eyes, bare in mind there are alot more to come and you'll see alot more changes within the next 3 hours, thanks.

-Picto

Tuesday 2 October 2007

Changes.

There are some changes coming in the next week, I'll be adding / taking things form the page, things like little tools and stuff, and i also may be joining adsense so you'll end up seeing some adverts here and there, course, I'm just waiting for that e-mail confirmation ^^.

I already removed the big chat box at the bottom due to lack of visitors, it'd be better off with one of this small ones by flash that just settle neatly into the side.

Also, one last thing, i may be adding an opening page to house all of these things as i am running out of space on the right, a layout like this :

Title at top
Tools etc. at sides.
Some sorta large tool in the middle

But that is just future for now, and if anyone knows a decent page builder as such BESIDES awardspace, then please don't hesitate to say so.

So thanks, hope i can get going with some changes.