Violent Dave
January 12th, 2011, 06:34 PM
All this IPY2 buzz has got me digging for my old UO related crap and I logged back into my old Photobucket account. Being a web host I don't ever really need web space for something like pictures but before all that was in place I used Photobucket which has now turned into a time capsule of sorts of IPY related goodies. I came across quite a few neat photos, mostly of various events I put together, but two stuck out and made me laugh when I remembered the stories behind them.
First one was this one:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v353/violentdave/?action=view¤t=fakedave.jpg
I wanted people to keep coming to my events so I was pretty big on maintaining my reputation during IPY and I was always a little bit concerned with someone masquerading under my name for some personal gain, to grief me, or some other reason. I think pretty much everyone is protective of their online name. Anyhow I had never come across anyone pretending to be me, I've heard a few stories here and there but nothing major. I'm running through my home town of Britain through that useless park next to East Brit bank and I see my name pop up on the screen.
Darting over to where the name was I see someone with the name Violent Dave macroing boldly right there in the park. Bastard! Impostor! Immediately I sprung into action and stripped down to my plum smugglers and bombed the crap out of the imitator, proudly snapping that above screenshot. Hastily I posted to the forums at how I had wrecked the fake Dave as an example to others.
Later that evening I get a message from my friend Vince. Did you kill me? In the park? That's when it had dawned on me. My connection back then was on a 28.8k baud modem. I was enlisted at the time and working at a remote duty station that wasn't able to support broadband internet. I couldn't macro for more than a little while without getting disconnected and I really couldn't tie up my phone line for too long either. Vince had offered to jump on my other account and macro up my character for me. Needless to say the Dave I had come across was me.
I had managed to kill myself. Idiot.
This one here:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v353/violentdave/?action=view¤t=GMs.jpg
...Is of Aarylan and Cetus on my tower roof duel pit when I was preparing for Battle of Tristone III. To quickly recap Tristone was a small PvP town located on marble island. The houses were all owned by a then inactive SAS who was gracious enough to let me use it all for events. Basically I would hold these massive free for all brawls on the island where everyone would come and kill each other for no other reason than PvP. To spice things up I created around 100k in bank checks of varying values to run around and drop during the fight to add to the mayhem.
For a little promotional material I wanted to snap a picture of the checks and maybe get a little staff support in the process so I asked Aarylan and Cetus to take that picture with me. I didn't want to eat up to much of their time so I asked them to shout out a quick something about BoT III and I'd take the shot. Right around this time was the big Diamond and Galventine fiasco. I don't remember to much of the details but these guys were mutually hated by pretty much everybody because from what I remember they did volumes to screw up the server. Duping or something. I can't remember specifics.
I did a brief countdown, as we had to time it so I got both their text in when I took the shot, and simultaneously that's what they spouted. That was the first shot, unrehearsed and unscripted. :confused:
First one was this one:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v353/violentdave/?action=view¤t=fakedave.jpg
I wanted people to keep coming to my events so I was pretty big on maintaining my reputation during IPY and I was always a little bit concerned with someone masquerading under my name for some personal gain, to grief me, or some other reason. I think pretty much everyone is protective of their online name. Anyhow I had never come across anyone pretending to be me, I've heard a few stories here and there but nothing major. I'm running through my home town of Britain through that useless park next to East Brit bank and I see my name pop up on the screen.
Darting over to where the name was I see someone with the name Violent Dave macroing boldly right there in the park. Bastard! Impostor! Immediately I sprung into action and stripped down to my plum smugglers and bombed the crap out of the imitator, proudly snapping that above screenshot. Hastily I posted to the forums at how I had wrecked the fake Dave as an example to others.
Later that evening I get a message from my friend Vince. Did you kill me? In the park? That's when it had dawned on me. My connection back then was on a 28.8k baud modem. I was enlisted at the time and working at a remote duty station that wasn't able to support broadband internet. I couldn't macro for more than a little while without getting disconnected and I really couldn't tie up my phone line for too long either. Vince had offered to jump on my other account and macro up my character for me. Needless to say the Dave I had come across was me.
I had managed to kill myself. Idiot.
This one here:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v353/violentdave/?action=view¤t=GMs.jpg
...Is of Aarylan and Cetus on my tower roof duel pit when I was preparing for Battle of Tristone III. To quickly recap Tristone was a small PvP town located on marble island. The houses were all owned by a then inactive SAS who was gracious enough to let me use it all for events. Basically I would hold these massive free for all brawls on the island where everyone would come and kill each other for no other reason than PvP. To spice things up I created around 100k in bank checks of varying values to run around and drop during the fight to add to the mayhem.
For a little promotional material I wanted to snap a picture of the checks and maybe get a little staff support in the process so I asked Aarylan and Cetus to take that picture with me. I didn't want to eat up to much of their time so I asked them to shout out a quick something about BoT III and I'd take the shot. Right around this time was the big Diamond and Galventine fiasco. I don't remember to much of the details but these guys were mutually hated by pretty much everybody because from what I remember they did volumes to screw up the server. Duping or something. I can't remember specifics.
I did a brief countdown, as we had to time it so I got both their text in when I took the shot, and simultaneously that's what they spouted. That was the first shot, unrehearsed and unscripted. :confused: