Griefing
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Griefing is the act of trolling in an online game just for the sake of ruining the game for everyone else, or just for laughs. The genre of online game doesn't matter, be it FPS or MMORPG or even some shitty forum trying to dress up as a MMORPG.
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Anarchy Online Style
Griefing is kind of hard to do on Anarchy Online since most the players are basement dwellers who have been playing since the game for forever, and have around 4 different accounts with 8 characters who are around level 210, the maximum level. However, you can still spark huge riots in the game with both experienced and new players. There are several means to accomplish this, but there are 3 ways that work best:
The game is populated by huge faggots who are obsessed various shit in the game nobody cares about, mostly the factions. While on the tutorial island, simply ask whether you should join Omni or Clan. Butthurt will spread like wildfire as the retards start raging about why the faction they fap to is better then the other, which is why you should so totally join the clans because everything else sucks. There are actually a lot of organizations in the game that will actually kick you out of their org if you have a character that's in the opposite faction. In fact, there at one point was an org called "The only good Clanner is a DEAD Clanner." A lot of these have extremely low standards and will hire anyone. Simply join one of these orgs and then flood their org chat and claim to be a Clan/Omni spy. Chances are they will call you a dirty traitor and kick you from their org and baaaw about how low the opposite faction is willing to sink.
A lot of times, new players will make the mistake of attacking a guard. When they do this, they become "flagged" which means that anyone can attack them. If the guard kills them or they die by some other means, they are unflagged, but if they manage to escape into a building or cancel the attack before they actually start firing, they remain flagged. Simply find a flagged player who is "gimped" which means they're wearing all the shitty and worthless armor and weapons they found lying and equipped them, making them pretty much harmless, and attack them. They're pretty easy to spot because they'll be wearing a crap load of random pieces of armor, and usually carrying a weapon that looks like it was pulled out of a pile of dog shit. Even if you're just using the equipment you're given on the tutorial island you should be able to kill them with no problem since they're usually using weapons that do even less damage then the beginner weapons. You can spark a lot of butthurt if you kill one who's part of a team and can occasionally cause huge massacres as flagged players begin to turn on one another. There's another type of flag that can generate even more lulz. This is called a "tower flag". There are structures known as towers that can be set up by organizations that allow the members to move around a little more quickly. When someone attacks them, they become tower flagged, which is the same as regular flagging only it lasts much longer and it doesn't deactivate if you die. A lot of new players will attack them because they're a lower level then them and they figure they can take them out pretty easily. If you find a gimp who is tower flagged, kill him. Most of them never bother to use the consoles that set your respawn point so you can easily track them down and kill them over and over again. If they're at a high enough level, they'll actually lose all of their experience when you kill them too.
The third way is probably the most likely to get you banned, even though the victims are totally asking for it. There are a lot of people who wear tattoos in the game that make their character completely naked. Why you ask? Probably because they're attention seeking whores. Even though they really want attention, they don't want to be touched and they get extremely offended if anyone tries to do anything\ to their character. There are two things you can do to them, depending on whether they are sitting or standing. If they are standing, bind the backflip emote to a key and mash that key like a crazy mother fucker to engage in surprise buttsecks with your intended victim. They will either try to get away as quickly as possible or take it like the bitch they are. If they are sitting, go prone and then crawl up to them so that your head is in their lap, and then use the nod emote nonstop to give them head like the faggot you are. Again, butthurt will ensue and they'll most likely call a GM to ban you.
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EVE Online Style
A niche, sandbox, PVP game of a space MMORPG, EVE Online allows what many MMOs do not - including such tactics as stealing from your corporation's funds and taking off, constant harassment, and beating the shit out of newbies. Goon Squad is the biggest faction of grifers in EVE - and they pull shit like this jihad.
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EverQuest II Style
Sporting the most manic PVP of any MMORPG (besides LOTRO), EverQuest II players, in turn, will also be the same way. It is a fact that GMs don't even bother with the main PVP server, Nagafen, anymore.
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Would you still try to clean this shit up? Didn't think so. This event flooded the chats so much that people couldn't enter it and it distracted many guilds from raids.
FarmVille Style
FarmVille is like a newer edition of Farm Town, except Zynga jacked Farm Town, changed the MS Paint graphics to Flash, and took out a lot of the multiplayer functions. Doesn't mean you can't grief in it though.
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Garry's Mod Style
Since Garry's Mod is one of those games where you can add just about anything, there are so many ways you can annoy the shit out of other players. However if you are new to the game, there are still ways to piss people off with about 0 Garry's mod experience. First of all, when you join a server, check to see if your weapons are still enabled. If so, start shooting EVERYONE around you, no matter how many times they tell you to stop. It is recommended that you use the rocket launcher and grenades sparingly. They are annoyed by this so much that one questions why Garry's mod multiplayer has any guns to begin with. If weapons ARE disabled, see if you can't spawn a vehicle. In most cases, only an air boat or a jeep will work. Try to see how many players you can run over before they start rebelling on you. If BOTH are disabled, just take that gravity gun of yours and use it to to pick up items you spawn and swing them at other players. It is highly recommended that you drop those train cars (or whatever those things are called) on them. They can be found be typing "wall" in the props search engine. There is also a big item in your inventory that is good for caging up people, so find it and use that as well. Or you can just do what this guy did:
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Habbo Hotel Style
All too obvious. What happens when there is AIDS in the pool?
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Halo 3 Style
Unfortunately, there is now a feature that allows you to kick a member if they betray you. Because of this, it's best to do this sparingly. A good example of this is if one of your teammates is in sniping position, and you notice an enemy in his sight. The longer you stall before team killing him the better, just as long as he never pulls the trigger.
Another good way to grief in Halo 3 is when the game is Capture the Flag. Get a warthog or mongoose and offer to give the guy carrying the flag a ride to the point where the flag must go. But as soon as you get nearby the place, drive ALL THE WAY BACK. If they start yelling at you, accuse them of being a horrible thief and tell them to put the flag back where they found it. If he gets off, proceed to run over him and make sure NO ONE on your team gets the enemy flag, no matter who you have to team kill.
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RuneScape Style
RuneScape was once a game where griefing was very easy, and very hilarious. But Jagex nerfed the game to make griefing VERY hard to do, or at least in the traditional way. At the same time, they made anything that was ever fun about RuneScape go away. However, griefing is still possible, and to do it easily, you gotta get a bit creative. Im really not sure if they still do this anymore thanks to the nerfing, but give this a try. Make a Girl character, and get your fishing and cooking level up high enough to fish and cook lobsters. This isn't ALWAYS necessary, but you may need this as proof that you can do so. Then go to the RuneScape forums and look for a Fishing group who takes orders from players. Most of the time, they are open to new people. Offer to join them, and offer to take one of the orders, but tell them that you don't have quite that many lobsters, but your almost there. Try to pick an order that they need to get done the quickest. Now just do nothing, and wait for them to ask you if you are done yet, and keep telling them that your almost done. If they get mad, accuse them of sexual harassment, and that your going as fast as you can. Eventually when they are at the possible boiling point, accuse them of mistreating you and threaten to sue them. Note that this won't work as well if your character isn't a woman. Lol, sexism.
Another way takes a bit longer. Ever since Durial321 went and PWNED a bunch of people in Falidor on 6/6/06, RuneScape players have been looking for ingame glitches that allow them to attack other players. If you manage to find one, go to a crowded area, preferably a place where people are selling shit, and pwn all of them, pillaging any decent items they have, and depositing them in your bank account when your inventory is full. Remember, the more items you pillage, the better. When you are done with pwning, just log off. However, if you do this at a time which Jagex decided to finally remove the "fair" trade system, switch to world 1. Then teleport to Lumbridge, and start yelling "FREE STUFF!", and give it all away to the noobs there before they ban your account, this way, they will have a real confusing time giving all the stuff back, if they even bother. If all goes well, your epic raid will look like this:
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Second Life Style
Find a like minded individual and request any sim-fucking weapon. Rename it "Rocket Car" or "Bubble Gun" and give it away to noobs at sandboxes. Or, use it yourself in furry areas. Or maybe send out flying dicks for DMCAs...
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Skulltag Style
Skulltag is a shitty source port for playing Doom and Doom 2 online. While it supports some pretty cool mods, there are only a few that people actually play, and the few people who do play it are faggots, jews, niggers, and role playing basement dwellers who can't go a single match without creating some kind of gay anime or furry related back story to go with it. Still, the few mods that are hosted on servers offer a tone of griefing opportunities, the most lulzworthy and popular of which are Ghouls vs. Humans AKA (GvH) and Jumpmaze.
Ghouls vs. Humans is a shitty wad where one team plays as a group of humans. They can choose to play as either a cyborg, a hunter, a ghost buster (because the guy who made it couldn't come up with anything else), or a marine. The other team plays as a bunch of scary ghost things named Jitterskull, Sjas, Creeper, and Choke. The human's objective is to sit in a corner and get raped by the ghouls while bawwing about how overpowered the ghouls are. The best way to grief on GvH is to just play as the creeper. The creeper is a really small ghoul that has a shitty attack that instantly kills humans in one hit and makes them shit their pants, but misses all the time. Most of the maps for GvH have extremely small alcoves meant to give the creeper places to recharge his alternative attack which freezes humans in place, or set up ambushes. However, they also making good tools for griefing. Simply join the ghoul team as a creeper and hide in one of said holes or some place the humans never go. The best part about this is that most servers prevent the dead players and spectators from talking to the people still alive, so there's no way they can warn the humans about it. This also works fairly well with Sjas as well. Sjas flies around and screaming as he moves, but when he stays still he turns partially invisible and shuts his whore mouth. Simply fly to the top of the map or again, somewhere nobody goes and wait for the rage quitting to begin. They may try to vote kick you though. This is where it comes in handy to have a few friends. Only one vote can be called at a time so all you really need to do is get your fellow griefers to help clog up the vote system so that nobody else can call a vote.
Jumpmaze is much simpler. It's basically a mod where the players go around jumping from platform to platform. Most of the time it's just extremely tedious and frustrating, especially where you're on a map that sends you all the way back to the beginning of the map if you fall. A lot of the maps have sections where you need to jump or move across extremely narrow beams. Simply stand on one of these beams and enjoy the sweet sounds of rage. They may try to knock you off but you really don't get any weapons on the maps for the most part so the most they may be able to do is knock you back an inch or two.
Team Fortress 2 Style
Team Fortress 2 is very well-known for having griefers. Not only can you spam voice emotes ingame ("NEED A DISPENSAH HEAH NEED A DISPENSAH HEAH!") but, like many Valve games, you can spray an image onto walls for all to see. Some of these can even be animated - and we all know what that means!
Probably the most famous group of griefers in TF2 are TEAM ROOMBA, now known as 2fort2furious. They are the guys that brought this actually hilarious video series of griefing by not only using images, but by letting people go through doorways only if they answer a question correctly, gameshow-style.
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World of Warcraft Style
Being the largest MMORPG, World of Warcraft gives a griefer a lot of targets to choose from. The most famous and possibly greatest example is when an ingame funeral was held for a fallen player on a PVP server... and a guild called Serenity Now decided to strike.
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Some argue that this was a terrible deed, and that Serenity Now had no right to do this. But when considering this, one must also consider the following:
- 1. The people who attended the funeral were Hordies, and the funeral was on ALLIANCE territory.
- 2. To top that off, they were stupid enough to throw this thing on a fucking PVP server.
- 3. If the above weren't bad enough, they actually made a POST about this on the forums asking no one to mess it up.
- 4. These people were pathetic enough to throw her an in game funeral instead of attending her REAL one.
| — KrazyKain, being sensible. |
| —THEGREG555, we should strive to be more like him. |
One still wonders if the poor girl dropped any loot when she went linkdead IRL.
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