[/)eathKiller]

ugh! On PSO we had worse than just PKers,

here's a list:

Vkers -

These guys ruined your CD rom permanently and reverted your characters back to version 1, so even if you did Re-purchase the disk (No refunding was available) your items would all be gone and you'd be reset to level 100 (Which is a LONG way away from 200)

Ckers -

These guys out-right made your characters HP a permanent negative 5 or 15 so you could never play with them again as you'd constantnly fall over and die, even in the chat lobbies, and it's not posisble to access one's inventory when they're dead so you'd have to lose all your items too...

PORKERS-

These guys found out how to BLOW THE PORTS on your controllers so you'd have to buy a new dreamcast, new modem, and new keyboard, UNFROTUNETLY sega also decided to add the hitch of your only being able to play your PSO characters on ONE MACHINE EVER so you had to re-purchase the game and start your characters over again too...

PKERS-

Classic, they could kill you anyhow, anywhere, be of any class and strike without warning, all they had to do was cast HEAL and without any chance you'd be dead and your items and all your money would drop right beside your little courpse which they could easily rob...

ACKERs-

These guys basically didn't do anything to your character but they did find out that sega actually EXPOSES your CREDIT CARD number every time you log in and hence they charge up all they want on it with your number and account information which they can easily access with a little good timing, and the slower your connection they more easily they could get the information!

MKers -

They just made your modem stop working and forced you to buy a new one.

NOLers -

The worst of the worst, this code turned whatever level character you were into a level 5 huntress named NOL, your stats, inventory, appearance, and name would all be reverted to that of the NPC named NOL and you'd either get banned by sega for this (yes that's right, you could be set up to be BANNED by hackers without them getting in any trouble) or your game would force itself to save (So either be banned or be NOL) and the code was SO easy to excecute my freind and I did it when he brought over his gameshark by complete accident! (just type in FFFFFFF for a line! WHAT THE HECK WAS SEGA THINKING! allowing players to ALTER other players to change them into NPCs! with a line of all 16s in hex!) Though most people were turned into NOL others were turned into other NPCs, including SONIC, KNUCKLES, and TAILS, all of which resulted in an unquestionable ban, and calling sega was of no help.

All of these codes could easily be innitated and they could happen without any player pressing a button, traps could be layed in game rooms with appealing names that would last for up to 20 minutes without players in them, and people would join empty but appealing rooms like hotcakes and one by one they'd each have the horrifying effect take place on their dreamcast...I myself was a victim of having my ports blown, I was NOLed 8 consecutive times, PKed about 10,000 times, and CKed once (Fortunetly I managed to survive by puttin on an HP boost + 20)


Do these types of things still work in the new PSO?

yes...

EXCEPT FOR PKING... which is no longer possible, and you don't drop your stuff when you die any more... kudos... Unfortunelty there still is everything else above... - _ -