Ok well you see... you all know... I'm a rather busy guy, have things to do etc.. and when stuff happens it rains down heavy XD so yeah, this is a little story (and personal experience of mine) that happened 3 months ago and felt it was too good to just forget it, so I kinda wanna share it now before it grows older and loses detail... ladies and gents... DISCLAIMER: just a word of caution, this IS long, get comfy, grab an drink and let's start. (MODS: It MIGHT get really big to add to a single post, so please excuse my multi-posting, it's worth the read) touchy subjects are handled here don't start a flame-war, it's already touchy as it is, and I sorta believe most of the daily site users are mature for this, for safety I'm NOT gonna specify names or groups. THE CHRONICLES OF R.A.V.S.O part I.
(a.k.a the unfortunate adventures that led me into the greatest trolling attempt I've done yet XD)
CHAPTER 1: ON DEVIANTART! Alright, so you already know... I'm an RPG MAKER XP dev, I have my project and the fun and pleasure of doing what I like is what keeps me afloat... so on my journey to become a better mapper and event-maker a friend of mine suggested a certain group on Deviantart, So I decided to pay a visit and check it out, true to his word, I found the dev group and decide to join in... it's all good, nice sprites etc.. and soon I realize... "I'm gonna need a dev team, if I actually want some form of progress for my project" but then I figured... I just entered the group, if I barged in and demanded a team right off the bat I'd probably get kicked or not taken seriously... but coincidentially... the group was hosting a demo showcase competition for new people to join... I was thinking JACKPOT.... CHAPTER 2 DEMO-WARS! So I successfully uploaded a demo (it was actually an old demo I re-uploaded) to the group and enter the contest, about 10 people upload theirs (some are story demos, some are gameplay demos, mine in particular was a test gameplay demo) a week goes by... the results are in, my demo ends up tied in 2nd place with another cool demo about an apocalypse etc.. on the first place, a naruto-OC based rpg... so I'm like... 2nd place... not bad XD and then the 1st place winner makes a topic that in a nutshell asks people to play the demo and say constructive criticism... so out of curiosity I download the demo and try it out... it was rather badly made (in terms of programming, such as collision, terrain detection etc... very newbie mistakes) I'll put it this way... I BROKE the demo (glitched it out and made it unplayable) not by hacking it, not by modding it but by simply backtracking one room back, so I took my time to memorize the room and position where the glitch happens. so I go to the naruto topic, and post "there is a glitch on Room X at X coordinates,if you backtrack your sprite glitches up and he looks like he's breakdancing XD" The person's reply: OMG! UR SUCH A SMART@$$ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THINKING UR SUCH A PRO, blah blah blah... so I like... boy that escalated quickly and decided to plain ignore that person... then they start replying about how my demo was crappy and didn't deserver 2nd place becase (quoted) "the sprites look horrible and non-kawaii" I simply responded... "bet you $10 (in DA points) that you can't glitch or sequence break my demo without the use of mods,RPGXP or hacks" so the user agreed and I didn't hear from them in about 3 days... so I thought, the whole thing was over.
CHAPTER 3 NOT-SO-CALM-BEFORE-THE-STORM. WRONG! On the 4th day, something catches my eye... I've got someone subscribed to my page, and instantly sends me a PM the PM is called "about your project" it basically read: "Hello, I am interested on your project and wish to help you, but in order to do so, I need to know any vulnerabilities on the code to iron out"... my first reaction is to ask the painfully obvious question... "who sent you?" after some awkward silence the guy just reassures me that he's just there to help out, but eventually I tell him "I'm about to get $1o worth of DA points.. I'll give you half if you tell me who sent you"... the guy just tells me the name of the person... so I simply reply "you'll get your half when I get the money" and remove him/block him from my page. So now I go confront the person in the topic, demanding my share of the "loot" the guy as expected replies with what could be interpreted as a broken typewriter attempting to do understandable speech, needless to say I asked him how many persons tried to glitch the demo via gameplay... he responded with... "lots of people" I check my downloads and only 7 people tried it, none of them managed to get it to glitch or sequence break, so I simply told him "get the hell out of my sight you scrub" and this officially made my project seem more interesting now...