One way I've heard of people cheating is to use the space wrap trick.
You could type something. i.e.
I never win these things<space><space><lots of spaces until your text
wraps to the next line> then
Blah has rolled......
On Fri, Feb 25/00, "Joshua R. Moore" <josh@...> wrote:
> From: "Joshua R. Moore" <josh@...>
>
> well, one way is to emote the roll.
> another way, and I do not know how this is done, is a local software glitch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Roach [mailto:Mike.Roach@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 10:07 AM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] I won my dream item!!
>
>
> From: Mike Roach <Mike.Roach@...>
>
> I heard there was a way to cheat at the "/random 100" method of lottos too
> but I have no clue how people are doing this. I have seen people joking
> around and they type "/random 100 100" so the range is basically 100-100 and
> if you aren't paying close attention it could slip past you but I'm not
> aware of other methods to "cheat" at this. I'd be curious to know how I may
> have been cheated and what methods are used so as to recognize it happening.
>
> As a result I have been doing a "seed" type lotto method, if you have not
> seen this used yet chances are you will soon. One person, usually the group
> leader is designated the master looter for rare drops. Since we get loot
> messages now there is no way to sneakily get around everyone knowing what
> the loot is. The looter then rolls "/random 100 1000" which returns a
> number like 695 for example (range of 100-1000). This number becomes the
> "Seed" number and everyone then rolls 0-seed for the loot. For example,
> "/random 695" and then the highest roll takes the loot.
>
> -Faras
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua R. Moore [mailto:josh@...]
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 8:29 AM
> > To: eqbards@onelist.com
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] I won my dream item!!
> >
> >
> > From: "Joshua R. Moore" <josh@...>
> >
> > you are lucky. There is a way to cheat at that style of
> > random lottoing.
> > I always prefer the 0-5 by alpha method.(Example aamberl would be 0
> > james would be 1 Martyn 2 suzu 3 xyly 4 zenon 5) Randomer
> > types /random 0 5
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John_Senior@... [mailto:John_Senior@...]
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:37 AM
> > To: eqbards@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [eqbards] I won my dream item!!
> >
> >
> > From: John_Senior@...
> >
> > I got my Flowing Black Silk Sash last night, and I only had
> > to camp an hour
> > for it. I got invited into the Frenzie group at about 7pm, we
> > broke the
> > spawn in the room (3 Bloodthirsty Ghouls). The next spawn was
> > the Frenzied
> > Ghoul, we killed him (quite easily infact) and the leader
> > looted. Then I
> > saw the word "Sash".
> >
> > My heart was pumping so fast as I had the chance of winning
> > this fabled
> > item. The first person rolled and only got a 21. I then
> > rolled and it came
> > up 90, the excitement of this was amazing. But, I was still
> > hoping no one
> > beat my roll. I sat there as people rolled and low numbers
> > were appearing,
> > 33, 12, 39 and 28. I had won, I was now the owner of a
> > loooooverly sash. I
> > equipped it and immediately noticed the difference during the
> > first fight.
> > Sash + Celerity makes me attack very fast.
> >
> > Well, there you have it. The quickest 20k I have ever earned. =)
> >
> > Madagan Songweaver, Bard of 39 Songs <Guardians of Light>
> > Meklon, Level 12 Cleric of Innoruuk <Lords of Chaos>
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