Great way to win/lose some money.

I'm not quite sure if this is against some obscure forum rule or not, but here goes.
Last night/this morning, I ran into a bunch of friends in Ascalon American D1. We noticed someone playing rock-paper-scissors for money, and joined in. It was great fun, there were many hilarios emotes used, money made and lost, ale consumed, etc. This should occur more often, possibly, a GwG-sponsored RPS tournament? Feel free to comment/flame this as you wish.
Btw, the people there were myself, Savio, huh, and somebody else here whom I forget.

lol ill take a good game of dice anyday over paper,rock, scissors the only problem with dice is that uc ant play inside of outposts

Rock papper sis is stupid to play, take for example the warrior Is always Rock. So what would be the point to gamble on it unless you know Rock will win.

you can play dice???? how?

on betas
there was a roll the dice
whoever gets highest gets money
type /roll (insert Number here )

it was pretty funny
while waiting for the beta to end
everybody was rolling for money
and buying their fav armor
it was fun
and while doing so
u saw those WORMS!!
attack u
they pop out of the ground and ah!!HH!!

Actually, you can still do /roll ##. It just doesn't work in towns, that's all.

As for me betting, well, it's not my fault. I was testing the Knight's/Absorption thing yet again when I happened to warp into d1.

Dude, the warrior isnt always rock..

/paper - its paper, your chara is paper,. you choose.. paper
/rock - same as above, but just rock..
/scissors - again, - seeing a pattern?


if your just typing /rock all the time, then you will always get a rock..

They removed the dice /roll command from the towns due to the sheer gambling with it in the towns.

It's probably a similar situation rock / paper / scissor for gold but if they don't complain about it / nerf the emote in town I think Anet doesn't mind. I don't see spams for R/P/S gambling like the huge spam dice roll for gambling was myself.

Yeah it was great fun.
So much better than farming and I daresay, the odds are better too!
The only ones there I can remember were unienaule, Savio, and Scarlet (though I'm not sure if Scarlet is a member of this forum).

"peer into my eyes and foresee your impending doom"
Hahaahahahaha

yea we were playing in team arenas with pets doing pet fighting gambling 1 on 1. it was discouraged... lets just say that. Arenanet was OK to some extent with the idea, but the concept of c0ck fighting basically was still an issue for many... so it stopped pretty fast.

Lol, anyway, its going on again, right now, in ascalon d1, if anyone wants to come join.

Do I need to say more?

You can find this news item in the news archives for the second quarter of 2005.

Woww that makes no sense. What players do with their funds should be their business. How is that an exploit?? Its like transferring money for goods. Is that an exploit? Foolish if you askme. In fact explain this to me. Who does it hurt? Not only that, but as i check through code of conduct i see no indication of anything related to gambling there. If they banned an account because of it they'd be in the wrong there, user agreement said nothing about it and it is not an exploit or hack.

I could be wrong.

But maybe Anet are afraid of little Timmys mommy suing them for corrupting their child.

Either that or they mean players using it to expliot others, but i dont see how.

Eh, chalk ANOTHER ONE up for the idiots who ruin fun things for the rest of us.

Sounds fun, but I don't see how it's a so called 'exploit'.

haha i think this would be great idea, down the ale and spend your plat!

They *are* afraid that other players will exploit that's why they keep the actual Droll and rPS games but don't permit players from having a guild/business about it.

Oh and you can cheat by typing:

person: Hey guys this is my dice roll hope for the best!<==1st line on text
person rolls a 100 on a 100 sided dice <==2nd lign on same text

it resembles the exact same thing as actually rolling the dice, in white and is *totaly* cheating!

I don't know about the roll game as I've never played it before.

But as far as I know, there really is no way to cheat for rock, paper, and scissors.
The animations are pretty obvious.

I suppose the only reason is scammers.
People who play and don't pay and other such garbage which will lead some to report to Anet and they'll get flooded with more scamming crap.

I've played with quite a few people yesterday and today, and my friend's list grew bigger because of it
At least its a good way to determine who won't bitch and whine and steal your drops and play the waiting game when there's a glob of ectoplasm there for you.
On the downside, I've had to add someone to my ignore list for the first time ever.

Impossible to cheat at rock paper scissors... its not "Person gets rock" its "Person plays rock paper scissors" and animations are up. Plus theres a ref to verify if its rock paper or scissors. Therefore its not an exploit, not a hack, the only way you get scammed is if someone doesnt pay. That happened to me twice and I "lost" 15000 for it so from now on when i pay I make sure the person has the money they're betting. If they dont pay i just dont play with them again... whatever.