Yeh if no-one else ahd already noticed, wickedfrost, resident blogger and eo veteran, and david a.k.a mister x, lover of elephants, have gone at it, in a little internet war whichhas resulted in one very long, very boring and very sad post by Mister X in which not only does he insult wikky, but he actually "calls him out" and lists his USA adress and zip, check it out here it's pretty funny stuff.
Endless-related news tomorrow, thanks.
As hard as it is to imagine, i really do think that duping is good for endless, and here's 3 reasons why...
1) More money in the economy - Ok, this is the most obvious reason, and even though it's all fake money, and cna have some negative effects (read last post), overall, having more money in the economy is beneficial: it puts the prices of items up making the game harder, it makes the poor richer and the wealthy less rich, making the gulf between "newbs" and "teh mega winnars" seem less which is good for the community, and it can make the game more interesting with plenty of inflations and recessions.
2) Makes the Game more interesting - Yeh i mean come on, if it weren't for dupes nothing would ever happen and the place would go stale, at least mishaps like these keep the game fresh and exciting.
3) It fixes the game - I have no intention of implying that the game itself is or ever will move forward, i think version 28 or possibly 29 is the furthest the game will ever go, but whenever a little hole is exploited by a dupe, it means vult has to fix it and slowly but surely the game is being patched up. I know it sounds stupid, but this is really the number 1 reason why dupes are good, because once they've come and gone, they're never coming back.
Thanks.
The economy in endless often seems to reflect the real world economy, and certianly as the situation gets worse all around the world, so does eo, but at least endless' economy will recover sooner than later.
You see, at the moment in time endless' economy is still trying to recover from a dupe, yeh that sounds crazy seeing as it's been what, 1-2 months now? But seriously, these things do take time to get back to normal, and seeing as i've experienced so many of these little "Inflations" in the past then i know what i'm talking about.
To be fair, i can understand that some people may want things right now , and may even need some items now, but if you can just try to wait, it'll seem to last forever but eventually the prices will come back down as the amount of items to money in the active economy steadily increases. You may not even notice these slight changes but believe me you'll be glad you waited a few weeks to buy that armour instead of dishing out twice the price now. Until it comes down, i suggest people use this inflation to their advantage, if you can get out there and train your ass off, i mean train on anything that drops, because if you bag a ketova from a yeti which is easy to kill, then bam that's 300k in your pocket, as oppose to in a month or so when it'll only go for about 200k, seriously.
And this inflation applies to chefs, doctors and costumes as well. It seems as if there's no end to the amount of new costumes and specials in the economy due to the dupe, and with hackers promising more on the way, the situation can only get worse. I mean sure it's great for those lucky few who can afford to buy one, especially if they can buy them honestly, but having more in eo is just gonna wreck the value of the costumes and make them more common, which will annoy old gamers who have got their costumes properly and mean that undeserving cheaters will think they're cool going around in hacked items.
It's a shame but it can't be stopped so i suppose we've just gotta get on with it and accept the more and more costumes and specials.
Anyway, as i said the economy is just a little screwed up at the moment, it'll settle down, you just need to wait and please try to be wise with your money in the upcoming weeks...
Thanks.
Seems as if he think this blog is awesome as well, becuase he took some time out to give everyone a message about it on the special admin speech on eo, so yeh thanks for that arvid. I think this could be a big thing in making this blog big again, and if you want to read the last post then just use the archive on the right. 300 Hits in 1 minute for the win.
It seems that someone really screwed up at Redoctane, maker of guitar hero world tour equipment, because the warranty website which allows people with broken equipment to get replacemnts has really become something of an internet phenonimia overnight because of it's big problem which allows anybody to ask for a replacement guitar / mic or drum set for free with no questiosn asked, yes, you heard me.
Basically, if you live, well, anywhere, and your interested in getting a free guitar (like i was) head over to this EO thread on the forums where it's all kindly explained, i've already ordered myself a mic and a guitar for my new 360, and i'm hoping all will be as smooth as i've read on other forums, but be quick because i'm sure redoctane will wise up sooner or later.
Now normally i wouldn't adivse this sort of trouble, but i don't know, this just seems different...
Anyway, on eo-related news, arvid was once again up to his tricks, walling and such, and this time he's even respected requests, yeh, one from our very own Ducci, who has been thrown a few insults, and kidnly asked arvid to wall the person responsible and was i can only assume delighted when the criminal saw punsihment in return, so maybe thigns are starting to look up for endless and it's admin userbase.
Cheers.
To be honest, this is getting out of hand.
Let me take you back to the start of this rant though, because a week ago i realised that my remaining person in my guild DOV was leader, however, the character in question Picto could not do absolutely anything leader-related. This is strange, but due to the considerably rare circumstances the character ahs been involved in over the past few years, it's not all that surprising that he'd be glitched out.
Anyway, i had to leave DOV unfortunately because of these problems, and i spent about 5 days trying to make a new guild called "BTT - Back to the future", i eventually did so only to realise that Picto could still not do anything leader like, he's officially glitched. And so i also couldn’t let one of my alts join and make them leader either, because i couldn’t change ranks with picto. Eventually though, i realised that my original character, the 5 year old "Pictoking", who had just been recruited and was rank 0 in the guild, could do everything leader related, yes, you heard me right. Turns out if he joins any guild that Picto is also a member of, he gets all the leader abilities regardless of rank - tried and tested, amazing i know.
So anyway, i then removed picto form the guild to try my hand at re-recruiting picto and making him a leader, to see if that made any difference, in my haste i forgot to realize that in doing so, picto as no longer in the guild and thus Pictoking had lost all his abilities, yeh, it sucks.
Anyway, i then scrapped BTT and spent another 5 days making HIH - High, which, using Pictoking as the maker, i eventually got to make, and now I’m happy. However, what I was angry about is just how many inactive guilds there are without any god damn members in that are eating up valuable guild tags, ones such as III and VAV and DOV (yeh i know that was my fault), but i still think that a guild without any members should be automatically deleted by the server, it's just common sense, i spent 3 of the 5 days making HIH just trying desperately to find a tag that wasn't swallowed up by an inactive guild, a task which was difficult, more difficult than it seems, so please, this could do with a fix, although saying that seems hopeless considering the admin's affection to the game at the moment.
Oh well, thanks.
Well in actual fact, if you include my old freebwes blog before this i could well be over 200, but as far as the new picto blog goes, this is officially my 100th post, and boy has it been a long 100.
I've seen some pretty weird happenings, heard some pretty strange rumours and met some good friends, but even though it's all behind us now, we can always look forward to tomorrow and what it may bring in terms of enjoyment and surprise, although looking and eo at the moment, it seems as if there may not be much to anticipate.
Still, we can hope and wait, arvid is certainly stepping up his activeness and vult will hopefully follow suit, i wouldn't bank on a new version, but maybe some more interesting events in the future.
So that's just about it, I’ll reveal the winner of the raffle next post (that is assuming enough people have entered), as always, head to the first post and leave me a comment and your username to go in tot he draw, or even just post here, on the lucky 100th post, to be in to win a lucky 100k.
Thanks for reading.
Last night endless online finally saw Arvid in the flesh for once, and he stuck around as well.
Turns out, Arvid must've been hella bored because he just went round teleporting random people and walling and banning people as well, but this wasn't just any normal walling session, he was out in force, and certainly wasn't watching global, because I’ve never seen so many people asking him so many different requests, and he just wasn't answering any of them.
That being said, he was certainly doing the community a few favours, cleaning up with walls and banns, but i still feel as if banning is just to weak a punishment to stop someone form coming back with a vengeance and hacking even more next time, i think if you're caught speeding or scamming or anything, it's the wall. Which reminds me, everyone is perfectly welcome to make there way over to the blacklist (link on the right) and, with the right evidence, submit a name; now i find it easily to get evidence form speeders, because if you just ask them to say "I'm a speeder" there arrogance will take over, and bam, there's your evidence in a screenshot, so yeah.
You can still win 100k by the way, just go to the first post and leave a comment.
Anyway, that's just about it, try and have a bearable week at school / work.
Ok, so all the mushy welcome back stuff aside, I’ve actually had a nice reception. All the comments have been positive, and I’m pleased to see people asking me questions about the blog whilst online, and to extend on that point; due to popular demand I’ve added a chat box to my website on the right hand side so people can freely chat about the game and anything they want whilst online or checking the blog, but please don't let this chat box discourage you form leaving me a comment.
Anyway, now on to the down, and mainly speaking, the test server. It seems as if arvid was all pretty much all day and all night going around the server cleaning up, depending on how warranted this was form vult-r, this is quite a weird thing to have happen seeing as the admins aren’t the most helpful people, and now it seems as if test server is down, a reboot? A rollback? HAVE THEY SHUT IT DOWN?! Unlikely, in my opinion he's just been going round tidying up the server of idiots, and it now seems as if they're taking a break in order to get everything up to scratch, there may be some hardware issues or glitches which need checking on, and after all it is the weekend, what better time to do so. It seems farfetched that a new version would just pop up out the blue, so i'm willing to rule that option out.But what i find quite weird is that the test server online player list lists some people as being online, so the general consensus is that people that we're on at the time are still online, whereas people that have logged off cannot logg back on, although this needs confirmation, it seems as if that is the case. So if this were the case, a logg in barricade, then what is it for? Obviously, i don't have the answers, no-one but arvid and vult do, all we can do is wait it out, so please everyone try to remain clam, I’m sure everything will be clear soon.
Another down would be the latest hack going round, in which these 'dupers' can replicate skins and in occasions items by warping packets after dieing in arena to go to a special area in which all people's data resides until they respawn, in doing this you can actually gain someone else's paperdoll once you scroll out of there. Of course, i have no interest in learning how to do this, and for thee good of the economy i don't intend on telling you lot how to do it either, but it is a problem and maybe the fixing of it is why arivd and vult have temporarily shut test down in order to perform some tests, after all, that's what the server is for.
By the way, if anyone still wants to enter themselves in for the prize draw (100k) go to the first post of my new regime (don't send me flowers...) and post a comment there, we currently have 5 people in the running and only a couple days to go =0.
Thanks
Well i must say, this sure has been a long time coming.
It feels so great to finally be back at the keyboard, fresh and ready to get the picto-blog running once more, and what better day to re-open than the day of love itself, so happy valentine's day to all!
After the dizzying heights that i reached back in the mists of time, and then the spiralling downturn which lead me to close; I have finally returned to you, the readers, in search of interest, excitement and journalism.
I was well renowned before for my insight and the way i viewed endless online via my viewpoint and spoke only my opinion solely, but due to lack of posting in a dark miserable winter, i was forced to close, however, only in my closing have i managed to have my latest rebirth.
As you may be able to see, i have kitted out the blog, dressed it all in fancy new logos and buttons, made it brighter in places; made it darker in others, but i am happy with the appearance and i'd love to hear what you think of it as well, so please open up and let me hear your thoughts!
Also, most will be happy to hear that the coveted blacklist is back, to help track down and nail those pesky scammers, hackers and speeders although now with tighter regulations, all the rules of how you can submit someone and what is need to get this dirty cheater on the blacklist for all to see, can be found on the blacklist page, a link to which Is situated on the right of this post.
Well there is really not much more I can say other that i am overwhelmed with opening this blog, something which i may not of been convinced to do without Ducci's advice, and i can reassure you that whenever something goes amiss, or wrong, or is released or exploited, you can count on me to be there first to let you know exactly what is happening.
And just one more thing, as a celebration of my first post back, i am holding a little competition. The winner of which will receive 100k EOG , and all you have to do to win this is leave a comment telling me about what you think bout the blog, my homecoming, or anything, and post it and your name will be entered into a hat to win the 100k gold, and please include your EO username, the winner will be revealed in 2 posts time, but just remember you have to comment on this post to be entered in to the draw. So please comment and you could be the lucky one.
Thankyou.
