I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, in the street
in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some website (??
I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies ('corpse of jed*')
very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What are they? Are they
legit?

Also, just after you enter Orgrimmar, in the street, are sometimes
one or two huge poles. What are they?

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Jim Bianchi <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote:

> I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, in the street
> in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some website (??
> I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies ('corpse of jed*')
> very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What are they? Are they
> legit?

I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. Clearly someone has managed
to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
indefinitely.

I first saw this a year or so ago, but then had not seen it again until
a couple weeks ago. It is now there everytime I visit SW on my new
primary server.

Of particular interest, I have recently seen it for two different
companies. Either they are related, or the trick has spread. I don't
see it for both companies at the same time -- only one or the other, but
always one of them. I've wondered if one company wipes the other's
plants and then plants their own and if we are seeing the edges of a
mafia killing spree.

Yeah, the gold sellers are killing each other! Send the cops somewhere
else and let them take care of it themselves!

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- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html

On Sep 7, 1:22*pm, Jim Bianchi <ji...@sonic.net> wrote:
> * * * * I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, inthe street
> in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some website (??
> I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies ('corpse of jed*')
> very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What are they? Are they
> legit?

These are typically gold sellers websites.

> * * * * Also, just after you enter Orgrimmar, in the street, are sometimes
> one or two huge poles. What are they?

These appear in Orgrimmar after someone turns in Onyxia's head.
If you look at the top of the pole you'll see a dragon's head.
It's good for lowbies (<60) to be in Org as you get an awesome buff
when someone turns Ony's head in. Can't recall the name of the buff
but.

Punch

Burt Johnson wrote:
> I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. Clearly someone has managed
> to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
> out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
> indefinitely.

I see it in Orgrimmar often, but the corpses don't stay. I've only
rarely seen the complete word, if ever. It decays, apparently randomly,
as corpses disappear.

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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

Punch <wowsaurfang@gmail.com> wrote in news:c3fadc8d-d3d2-47c6-a45f-
8b2b79e0e96c@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com:

>> Also, just after you enter Orgrimmar, in the street, are sometimes
>> one or two huge poles. What are they?
>
> These appear in Orgrimmar after someone turns in Onyxia's head.
> If you look at the top of the pole you'll see a dragon's head.
> It's good for lowbies (<60) to be in Org as you get an awesome buff
> when someone turns Ony's head in. Can't recall the name of the buff
> but.

For Alliance, Stormwind doesn't need poles. It has crenellations to hang
the head on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenellation

http://www.wowwiki.com/Head_of_Onyxia

Burt Johnson wrote:
> I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. * Clearly someone has managed
> to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
> out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
> indefinitely.

The GMs can clear up the bodies. There's nothing special about them,
they are just the bodies of characters created on temporary accounts
and teleport-hacked up into the air so they fall and die in the right
pattern.

Hoofu, 80 tauren shaman, Argent Dawn (EU)

Phil Hibbs <snarks@gmail.com> wrote:

> Burt Johnson wrote:
> > I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. Clearly someone has managed
> > to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
> > out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
> > indefinitely.
>
> The GMs can clear up the bodies. There's nothing special about them,
> they are just the bodies of characters created on temporary accounts
> and teleport-hacked up into the air so they fall and die in the right
> pattern.

I'd be willing to bet that someone wrote a program that does that. It
is almost certainly not done by hand.

Probably something where they type in a string of text, and the program
goes through, logging on each account, positioning the character
properly for the next segment of text and kills them.

Terminology perhaps, but I would call that a "WoW hack."

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- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:10:23 -0700 (PDT), Punch wrote:
> On Sep 7, 1:22*pm, Jim Bianchi <ji...@sonic.net> wrote:
>> * * * * I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, in the
>> street in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some
>> website (?? I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies
>> ('corpse of jed*') very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What
>> are they? Are they legit?
>
> These are typically gold sellers websites.

Ahh. Tks.

>> * * * * Also, just after you enter Orgrimmar, in the street, are sometimes
>> one or two huge poles. What are they?
>
> These appear in Orgrimmar after someone turns in Onyxia's head.
> If you look at the top of the pole you'll see a dragon's head.

Yup. Wondered about that -- never paid it much attention though.

> It's good for lowbies (<60) to be in Org as you get an awesome buff
> when someone turns Ony's head in. Can't recall the name of the buff
> but.

Yeah. I wondered about that also, but am too new at this to know or
take advantage of alla these details. I've gotten that buf a coupla times
(it lasts for 120 mins) and increases your armor some incredible amount or
something -- now if it'd deliver a large peperoni-and-grease to your home
(IRL) for free, THAT'd be awesome!

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Linux: gawk, date, finger, wait, unzip, touch, nice, suck, strip, mount,
fsck, umount, make clean, sleep. (Who needs porn when you have /usr/bin?)

Jim Bianchi <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote:

> I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, in the street
> in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some website (??
> I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies ('corpse of jed*')
> very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What are they? Are they
> legit?
>
> Also, just after you enter Orgrimmar, in the street, are sometimes
> one or two huge poles. What are they?

Dead body spam. I like to part my mounts over it just to thwart this
scum in any way I can.
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:02:19 -0700, burt@mindstorm-inc.com (Burt
Johnson) wrote:

>Jim Bianchi <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm just starting out and on three US servers appears, in the street
>> in front of the Orgrimmar AH, what looks like an advert for some website (??
>> I've never gone to any of them). It appears to be bodies ('corpse of jed*')
>> very neatly arranged to spell out the http addy. What are they? Are they
>> legit?
>
>I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. Clearly someone has managed
>to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
>out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
>indefinitely.

I'd assumed that it was a teleport hack straight from the starting
zone, or possibly the city entrance, to somewhere above their final
resting point, but I just watched one of these being created, and (in
this case at least) I was wrong.

What actually happened was that toons were running into Stormwind 5 or
6 at a time (so presumably a dozen or more temporary accounts
involved, allowing for ones on the way), and shuffling about until
they were positioned. Positioning was was stuttering, not smooth, so
could have been human hands at the controls, but didn't really feel
like it - a big adjustment forward, a smaller one (possibly a couple),
maybe a slight turn, then done - not enough of the inevitable
overshoot and correction that I'd expect if I were doing it myself,
even with a mod to show me my precise coordinates and direction, to
get the accuracy that they clearly are. They then seemed to jump
(which I found interesting) and in the middle of the jump they
vanished. About 5 seconds later a body thumped back into the same
location. I guess the actual hack was simply to throw them up to
maximum height.

Cheers - Ian

Peter Knutsen <peter@sagatafl.invalid> wrote in news:4aa4b020$0$289
$14726298@news.sunsite.dk:

> Burt Johnson wrote:
>> I've been seeing them in Stormwind lately. Clearly someone has managed
>> to hack WoW to be able to create bodies to fall in a pattern that spell
>> out their company name -- and then to keep the bodies there
>> indefinitely.
>
> I see it in Orgrimmar often, but the corpses don't stay. I've only
> rarely seen the complete word, if ever. It decays, apparently randomly,
> as corpses disappear.
>

You can make a report to GM, and they should clean it.

And send it to Undercity to make new guards.

Ian Noble wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:02:19 -0700, burt@mindstorm-inc.com (Burt
> Johnson) wrote:

>
> What actually happened was that toons were running into Stormwind 5 or
> 6 at a time (so presumably a dozen or more temporary accounts
> involved, allowing for ones on the way), and shuffling about until
> they were positioned. Positioning was was stuttering, not smooth, so
> could have been human hands at the controls, but didn't really feel
> like it - a big adjustment forward, a smaller one (possibly a couple),
> maybe a slight turn, then done - not enough of the inevitable
> overshoot and correction that I'd expect if I were doing it myself,
> even with a mod to show me my precise coordinates and direction, to
> get the accuracy that they clearly are. They then seemed to jump
> (which I found interesting) and in the middle of the jump they
> vanished. About 5 seconds later a body thumped back into the same
> location. I guess the actual hack was simply to throw them up to
> maximum height.
>
> Cheers - Ian

If I see them I must try slow fall on them, see what happens

Tix