March 2003

Ingot Exploit Fix Delayed *Again*
Posted March 31, 2003 - 9:56 PM PST by Jade

From FYI:

"A minor issue has been found with the fixes recently published to Great Lakes. At this time we must caution players on Great Lakes against attempting to mount an ethereal pet when not in human form. This includes all necromancy forms as well as polymorphed forms. We will be addressing this minor issue before continuing with the publish to the rest of the world."

Anyone else get the feeling that they just don't want to fix the ingot exploit?
Why was it not given priority and slated for it's own separate publish, instead of being lumped in with a myriad of other, less important, fixes that all have to work before it goes live to all shards?

Care to comment?

GUL Pit Fights! 03/29/03
Posted March 28, 2003 - 8:50 PM PST by smerx

This week's pit fight (Saturday, March 29th)will be a 1v1 single elimination!
The Prizes:
1st place - 175k
2nd place - 75k
3rd place - 50k


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:D OMG YAY :D

Fix it already!
Posted March 23, 2003 - 10:11 PM PST by Jade

Anyone else entirely sick of the massive ingot/gold exploit out there?
Are the rest of you getting the same stupid icq spam I am, with people selling 2 million ingots or 60 million gold??


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GUL Pit Fights! 03/23/03
Posted March 22, 2003 - 8:43 PM PST by smerx

This week's pit fight (Saturday, March 23rd)will be a 1v1 single elimination!
The Prizes:
1st place - 100k
2nd place - 75k
3rd place - 25k


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GUL Pit Fights! 03/15/03
Posted March 13, 2003 - 9:33 PM PST by smerx

This week's pit fight (Saturday, March 15th)will be a 1v1 single elim!
The Prizes:
1st place - 1 Million GP
2nd place - 200k
FFA prize - 100k


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There's going to be a FFA after the tourny, so stick around :}

PayPal Scam Alert
Posted March 10, 2003 - 11:40 AM PST by Adam Ant

I received a very official looking email from PayPal telling me my PayPal account was being changed to 'limited' status. In order to return my account to full status, I needed to supply my password, bank info, etc..

I called PayPal and they confirmed this was a scam, however they weren’t aware of this particular one. PayPay assured me they will never ask for your account info in an email.

Now while I'm aware many such scams go on everyday, I wanted to raise this one here because I know many of you use PayPal.

THIS IS A SCAM FOLKS, DON'T DO IT.
Here is what it looks like.

Looks real official don't it? It's even linking to the real PayPal site to use their logos and such.
Well, if you know how to view the source of such forms you'll see it was actually being sent to:
http://www.parom.org/

Heh, that don't look like any PayPal site I've ever seen!

An interesting and very convincing aspect of this email is the fact that they spoofed the From address to read info@paypal.com.
Even if you’re to hit Reply, it would send it to info@PayPal.com. The way these crooks get you is if you press the Submit button. That’s when all of your PayPal account information gets sent off these lowlifes.

Care to comment?

GUL Pit Fights! 03/08/03
Posted March 5, 2003 - 4:12 PM PST by smerx

This week's pit fight (Saturday, March 8th)will be a 2v2 single elim!
The Prizes:
1st place - 300k
2nd place - 200k
3rd place - 150k


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Check this week's post!
There's a little twist. :}

GUL Pit Fights!
Posted March 1, 2003 - 10:17 AM PST by smerx

This week's pit fight (Saturday, March 1st)will be a 1v1 single elim!
The Prizes:
1st place - 150k
2nd place - 50k
3rd place - 25k


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