Gnomes rain down on WoW players - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 6th Jul 2007, 13:21

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07..._wow_players/1

Hordes of dead gnomes rain down on the plains of Azeroth in an incredibly elaborate example of in-game advertising.

DarkLord7854 · 6th Jul 2007, 14:15

I find that kind of advertising to be more interesting then any in-game ad I've seen so far

will. · 6th Jul 2007, 14:20

Yea, better than those annoying whispered messages you get.

Slink · 6th Jul 2007, 14:23

1g plx

DXR_13KE · 6th Jul 2007, 14:26

now that is a fun and imaginative way to advertise, at least if no one abuses of it and makes spamy Nasca size adds with Tauren bodies.

HugoB · 6th Jul 2007, 14:58

Would you believe that we couldn't find anything in the entire bit-tech office to allow me to do that properly?

Now if we can only get some sort of anti-WoW message into WoW...

pendragon · 6th Jul 2007, 15:58

stupid gold farmers.. I couldn't stand that <expletive> when I was playing WoW... way to ruin the game.. at least Blizzard has always been on top of it with bannings and whatnot.

ChiperSoft · 6th Jul 2007, 16:49

Found a youtube vid of it happening. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-3W27f1LM

capnPedro · 6th Jul 2007, 20:22

I'd be very interested to know how it was done. Spawning anything shouldn't be an action that can be performed by a client. I take it some sort of custom 'bot' was written.

Very clever stuff.

identikit · 6th Jul 2007, 20:35

Meh, I remember a group of guys that would join CS1.6 servers and their spraytags when sprayed next to each other formed a giant billboard. I think some of them got banned for no-recoil and aimbot hacks because they used it with paras to write domain names on the walls.

FR34K · 6th Jul 2007, 20:45

why gnomes?! My main's a gnome. Why couldn't it have been night elves, or some other race?

I'm kind of curious how they did it too.

DXR_13KE · 6th Jul 2007, 21:00

"its raining gnomes, alleluia, its raining gnomes......"

Cthippo · 6th Jul 2007, 21:19

If this had be a WoW sanction ad it would suck, but as a hack it kicks arse!

proxess · 6th Jul 2007, 22:14

Lets go back to the good old days! Ultima Online 2D <3

completemadness · 7th Jul 2007, 18:22

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Originally Posted by capnPedro

I'd be very interested to know how it was done. Spawning anything shouldn't be an action that can be performed by a client. I take it some sort of custom 'bot' was written.

Very clever stuff.

i think its due to the poor coding of wow

i remember a video where the guy could teleport anywhere in the world at the click of a button

identikit · 7th Jul 2007, 19:27

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Originally Posted by completemadness

i think its due to the poor coding of wow

i remember a video where the guy could teleport anywhere in the world at the click of a button

Surely that can't be right?! I mean you could just bind it and with autoit just keep doing stuff to earn gold.

Edvuld · 7th Jul 2007, 20:39

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Originally Posted by identikit

Surely that can't be right?! I mean you could just bind it and with autoit just keep doing stuff to earn gold.

Well, how do you think the gold-sellers make money?

I've seen videos of some lvl40 hunter downing bosses in Dire Maul for example solo by teleporting

Bogomip · 7th Jul 2007, 22:05

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Originally Posted by completemadness

i think its due to the poor coding of wow

i remember a video where the guy could teleport anywhere in the world at the click of a button

The command is there for game master use to teleport around the place helping people out and there was some way of hacking it, I assume the spawning things is just the same kind of thing.

completemadness · 8th Jul 2007, 02:50

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Originally Posted by Edvuld

Well, how do you think the gold-sellers make money?

actually they can just use bots to farm good creatures

have like 10 computers all doing that, your going to earn lots of money

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bogomip

The command is there for game master use to teleport around the place helping people out and there was some way of hacking it, I assume the spawning things is just the same kind of thing.

I guess its possible, but they should be using some direct link to the server or something, with a 3rd party tool, it should NOT be built into the main client, that is just asking for trouble (so bad coding

)

DarkLord7854 · 8th Jul 2007, 03:00

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Originally Posted by completemadness

I guess its possible, but they should be using some direct link to the server or something, with a 3rd party tool, it should NOT be built into the main client, that is just asking for trouble (so bad coding

)

They're too lazy to make special clients for their GMs

Besides, imagine if they did, then if one got leaked then all hell would break out

6th Jul 2007, 13:21	#1
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identikit Ultramodder Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: London Posts: 1,183	Meh, I remember a group of guys that would join CS1.6 servers and their spraytags when sprayed next to each other formed a giant billboard. I think some of them got banned for no-recoil and aimbot hacks because they used it with paras to write domain names on the walls. __________________ www.crushed-core.com \| Folding @ Home \| CPC & Bit-tech folding stats (team #35947) \| My Heatware

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FR34K Multimodder Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 77	why gnomes?! My main's a gnome. Why couldn't it have been night elves, or some other race? I'm kind of curious how they did it too.

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