"Dupe" Guilds

novawhiz

novawhiz

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

A/

Recently i uncovered some "dupe guilds." These guilds are extremly careful and take big measures to not get caught.

Yesterday i was in a mission with a group and one of them pinged his skill bar:

D epravity
U lcerous Lungs
P arasectic bond
E feeble
S erpents quickness
R end enchantmens
U nholy feast
S uffering

D U P E S R U S

I said weird your skill spell dupes r us. He immediatly pinged me with a recuitment to a guild and alliance dedicated to bots,dupes,hax, etc..
I said no thats lame and againts rules(wish i hadnt) he immediatly deleted character before i could add as freind and report. The guild he was in was [colo] but im almost positive its changed.

These guilds obviously dont spam recruitment messages, they sectretivly get ppl who realize they hidden messages...If you look out you might notice skills bars like this or messages such as D____ U_____ P___ E____(ea. Dancing Under People is Exciting or something) They probly come in many different shapes and forms.

Please look out for them and dont make my mistake, go along with them and then immediatly report.

~Thanks~

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

wow, thats some hard core people lol. Did you report?

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.

novawhiz

novawhiz

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Malice Black
Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.
oh...sry then dont have any "evidence"

youll beleive me when you notice it..

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Why would I care?

I play for fun, I couldn't care less what other people get up to.

Zeek Aran

Zeek Aran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Earth, sadly

BORK

A/

Why didn't you take screenshots of anything he did or said? Hm? Hmm? *pokes and nudges*

bamm bamm bamm

bamm bamm bamm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

I don't understand how their recruitment method is in any way going to stop leaks. At the end of the day if they are recruiting people at all they can't keep their existence a secret, as you yourself have proven. The idea that because a person can construct an acronym from some skills somehow filters him into the category of people that would want to join their guild is just stupid. It slows down the eventual discovery as well as the recruitment rate, so why run the risk at all? This all just seems too stupid to be true. Are you sure you haven't just stumbled upon some huge alliance in-joke or something?

artay

artay

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

The Agony Scene

E/

Ooooo, the real guild wars underworld! Its like that movie with all those Italian people.

korcan

korcan

noobalicious

Join Date: Jun 2006

didnt anet patch duping via reconnects? cause afaik, that was the only way anyone could dupe items.

Lord Juan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

The Nights Watch

R/Mo

Interesting story but you was one key away of show evidence of that... I would have take screen shots for sure.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Prob kids

No different then the variations of EBAY guilds or GWEN virginity guilds going around.

Example

Cant buy skills like these on [ebay]
Lost my cherry to [gwen]

Apharot

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Bold Silver Dragons

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Malice Black
Unless you have actual hard evidence this is nothing more then a witch hunt based on one persons 'view'.
OP said:

Quote:
I said weird your skill spell dupes r us. He immediatly pinged me with a recuitment to a guild and alliance dedicated to bots,dupes,hax, etc..
I said no thats lame and againts rules(wish i hadnt) he immediatly deleted character before i could add as freind and report. The guild he was in was [colo] but im almost positive its changed.
That's pretty hard evidence to me.

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

Most likely a pack of idiots looking for attention. If someone unearths a hack or exploit, no farking way are they going to start recruiting strangers.

As for the "secret code hidden in the skillbar" and the "vanishing character", was this player perhaps wearing a cloak and dagger? If for whatever reason you thought it was a good idea to recruit strangers to cheat with, why on earth would you use ingame channels in the first place? I can say I'm duping/hacking/creating mutant zombie dolphins of death all I want, it doesn't mean a thing until I do it.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

That's not Apharot. Its probably just some kid pulling the OP's chain.

Also, I believe the OP is pulling our leg. Because you CAN report a character even after it has been deleted (since the character name is still linked to the account name for ~48 hours). Also, you CAN have somebody on your friends list when that character that they had been using had been deleted.

Apharot

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Bold Silver Dragons

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkofStorms
That's not Apharot. Its probably just some kid pulling the OP's chain.

Also, I believe the OP is pulling our leg. Because you CAN report a character even after it has been deleted (since the character name is still linked to the account name for ~48 hours). Also, you CAN have somebody on your friends list when that character that they had been using had been deleted.
That's true enough. But did the OP know that?

Roshi_ikkyu

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/W

I love how someone pings there skills and like a fricking GW rain man you click onto a DUPES connection.

More like a bored OP who has nothing better then to make a GW D vinci code thread about super secret uber private guilds.

Apharot

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Bold Silver Dragons

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu
I love how someone pings there skills and like a fricking GW rain man you click onto a DUPES connection.

More like a bored OP who has nothing better then to make a GW D vinci code thread about super secret uber private guilds.
Rain man LOL. "Kmart. Blue light special, blue light special. 1.25 for a pack of three. 1648 5th avenue."

unienaule

unienaule

I dunt even get "Retired"

Join Date: Aug 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

K-Mart sucks.