The Famous RuneScape Falador Massacre | The Stuff of Legends 

It's a bit more complicated than that. I got this information from a rswillmissit video I think. He's a runescape youtuber. Every runescape player had a PID assigned on login. Players with a lower PID had their actions processed by the server first. CursedYou had been logged in for hours so his PID took priority over almost everyone. At the same time the player owned houses had trap doors and dungeons under them with pvp. These were VERY high level features so most players hadn't seen them yet, and were constantly pulling the trapdoor to send dozens of players at a time into the dungeon. Somebody pulled the trap door at the same time CursedYou kicked everyone out. CursedYou's action took priority because of his lower PID, then the other players action of entering the dungeon and being flagged for pvp took place. This was possible in part because of 2 things. 1. Runescape's code had no way of determining a players current location 2. There was a bit of a log animation for actually falling into the trapdoor. The players did a bit of a wiley coyote animation when this happened. Overall this is the prevailing theory. In truth, the devs themselves never found out what caused the bug. Runescape's code was always spaghetti and depended on an absurd number of flags in the player's profile. In the end, they just developed code to determine a player's location, and remove or invalidate pvp flags if they weren't in a pvp location. They also permabanned Durial321 and made him 1 of only 3 players to ever receive a special note on their account to NEVER unban them. CursedYou the player throwing the house party was also banned and unbanned when they relized he wasn't responsible. CursedYou was later banned again permanently when they found out he did a low of real world trading of Runescape gold. Found the vidoe I wgot this info from: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_prl1Ohn-Ew.htmlsi=PDrEE7iQtYMlS_Wg

I remember the boxing rings, I had no idea that’s what caused all this!

A similar thing happened in the release version of AC: Valhalla where normally you are made invisible to hostiles when starting to play a mini game with an NPC (so you don't get attacked by a random passer-by while prone). However, if you left the mini game by a method other than asking the NPC to stop (e.g. fast travel away), the game would fail to make you visible again, and you could attack anyone without fear of retaliation.

That sounds like a fun way to make an alt then make tons

It was much more complicated than that. All the players who had the bug were in the greater magic cage and were in the process of being dropped through the trap door into the dungeon, where PvP was enabled. Due to priority which actions are taken in the game due to player ID numbers it meant that when the players were kicked outside the modifier allowing PVP wasn't disabled because the game thought they were still in the dungeon. This was due to bad coding as being kicked normally, or leaving via the portal or teleporting or logging out would reset the modifier.

Agreed

I know right.

I always love when crazy stuff like this gets the honor of being straight up memorialized either as a fun reminder or straight up actual lore

Even I know not to follow the sheep in that case. If there's anything like a queue or limit to do something like that, you'd just be a sitting duck. Its like watching people running away from something, they always go in a straight line, but in most cases, its best to turn!

"Bank your items" sounds more like "pack your shit!".

We are the imps, don't you know?

I agree. It's almost like Yahtzee going, "here, see if you can keep the buggers occupied for an evening!"

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He confiscated my toy dragon :(

​@@Asaski09to be fair, the "toy" did fly and breathe fire - and killed four people

CHAFF AND FLARE .... with Lobster vouchers? The internet, ladies and gents...

That is such a hilarious visual of your friend being like "Shit! shit! Shit!" Booking it as they chuck lobsters behind them and seeing some random guy being like "Oh hey a Lobs-" only to be decapitated by one of the rampagers

capitalism 100

noted items ["vouchers" as you call them] can only be dropped all at once, not 1 at a time

I wouldn't even be mad

at the time? so runescape grinding as an irl side hustle is completely acceptable now? i need to get on the ground floor of this industry

​@@lolihitler4198rwt is still bannable but there is legitimate gold purchasing in the form of runescape bonds that you can sell for in-game currency to people who want to spend their in-game gold on more in-game membership.

He was also account sharing to get 99 con. He was initially banned when the glitch happened but he was unbanned after they realised he wasn't responsible for the glitch.

I mean it needs to be made From soft gifted the man a trophy for it

Not too on the nose, but too recent. Time must pass before a story can become a legend and despite its name, Elden Ring is still too young by the standards of video games. Maybe when we finally get SAO level technology it ER might finally be retro enough for this show.

Just looked it up and the guy is a legend.

Eh, The Stuff of Legends is really just a framing device for telling super interesting, weird and fun stories from the games industry. Not super concerned with "time" in this series.@@Edagui97

Congrats durial321, you’ve been immortalised as an in-game terrorist /j

They actually did try and sweep it under a rug for years after the event. The event happened in 2006, and they only officially acknowledged the event happened at 2014 (and the in-game event recreating the event was on its 10th anniversary in 2016)

They never spoke about the event until 10 years later lmao

Did he buy the little plushies of adventure is nigh, or have they been there the whole time?

I don't remember any RuneScape material on South Park. Did you mean "Make Love, Not Warcraft"?

Opportunity strikes in unexpected places.

Still can't catch that frame. I miss the days when RU-vid videos could be easily downloaded.

@@anotherfacelessuser Have I got a pro tip for you then: the period and comma keys will move the video by one frame each press when the video is paused

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Same, this was the first time I saw a ZP and then clicked on this

Gotta entertain the gremlins somehow

@@MackRangerPower Wouldn't that make you a gremlin?

Bit back-handed there, but glad you're enjoying lol. We'd recommend Adventure is Nigh, Cold Take, Design Delve, and Lost in Time as well.

Adventure is Nigh is also good, but I think it could benefit with some recap / highlight videos.

Damn, I mean, you be you, but wow. Serious talents here working hard round the clock, round the globe. Sure it’s not for everyone but, it’s pretty clearly quality.

We figured they were more like guidelines.

I could go for a sandwich.

why not? durial321 was undoubtedly in the wrong here. He exploited a bug and cost a bunch of players their hard earned items

Agreed!! HUGE FAN of this series!