Since when is TP prompt on by default?
Oh, and I'd have figured mapserver-crashing would be the most annoying form of griefing, although I suppose that if people were to do it repeatedly the devs would be able to identify they ways they use and fix them quite fast.
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Since when is TP prompt on by default?
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It was on by default when I started CoX (Nov/Dec 2007). 
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TP prompt is always disabled by default. It has to be enabled if you are bothered by it.
From the article:
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The Devs took an extremely dim view of Hamidon Raid griefing.
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They really hated anyone spoiling the community event that was the Hami raid...
...until they themselves decided to spoil the community event that was the Hami raid.
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The Hami Raid was changed because it wasn't a raid, it was a sequence. People would pile in, then orders would be given, certain things would happen at certain times, then everyone would rush in at the end and [Brawl] Hami once, wander off and get their reward when it died, after which would come mass-gank of the polyps. Now, it's so damned hard nobody bothers as there are far easier ways to earn a Synthetic Hami-O (Statesman TF, Lord Recluse SF) that don't involve seven hours of your time and hitting the debt cap.
What, no mention of aggroing most of the enemies (and/or U'Kon Gr'ai) on the saucer with long range attacks during a rikti raid and then running past the people still placing bombs?
edit: ah, right, this article was about the griefs the devs did something about 
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ROFL, Number 1 and 2 sound awfully familiar 
Does a lowbie running into a mob and seeing the mob drop because i was hovering up in the air and launching my lrm missile count as griefing? Sowwy.
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The Hami Raid was changed because it wasn't a raid, it was a sequence. People would pile in, then orders would be given, certain things would happen at certain times, then everyone would rush in at the end and [Brawl] Hami once, wander off and get their reward when it died, after which would come mass-gank of the polyps. Now, it's so damned hard nobody bothers as there are far easier ways to earn a Synthetic Hami-O (Statesman TF, Lord Recluse SF) that don't involve seven hours of your time and hitting the debt cap.
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the new Hami event is still a sequence:
<ul type="square">[*]Spend hours farming Essence of the Earth Inspirations, then turn up to Eden full of energy and enthusiasm for a Hami Raid.[*]Die repeatedly because the Dev's mistakingly think guaranteed death every five minutes is the best way to make the raid harder and more challenging.[*]Realise that the raid event is NO LONGER FUN like it used to be![*]Hit debt cap trying to persevere.[*]Run out of inspirations, thus making instant death even more frequent.[*]Logoff in disappointment and remenisce about how much FUN people had in the old raids, sequence or not.[/list]
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Surely the Hami sequence is now
<ul type="square">[*] get team of 8[*] do the task force instead as it is easier.[*] ??[*] Profit[/list]
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Surely the Hami sequence is now
<ul type="square">[*] get team of 8[*] do the task force instead as it is easier.[*] ??[*] Profit[/list]
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quoted for truth!
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With the advent of IO's though, Hamidon enhancements are less lucrative then they once were. That probably contributed a little to the fall of the Hamidon raid as well.
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Anyway, I found this link on the US forums:
The five most annoying griefs in CoX, and how they were quashed
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