The Emergent Content Thread

[Goose4291]

Okay, as Elite maintains the veneer of a Sandbox game, I thought a nice discussion/recollation/sharing thread on emergent content might be in order.

Elite: Dangerous
1. When Robigo was under Imperial control, playing the part of Imperial Customs and Excise, and scanning anyone who spawned on the pad/undocked.

Star Wars Galaxies
1. As a Smuggler Opening Locked Boxes for players who couldn't (for a price), taking anything decent out of them, replacing it with junk from my inventory and returning them to the player.
2. When there was an Imperial player who was making top grade weapons the Alliance manufacturers couldn't I ran an Imperial Alt who bought weapons from him, which I sold onto the Alliance playerbase for a profit.
3. Crafting vibroblades, and changing their description name on the market to 'lightsaber' for a huge markup.

EvE Online
1. When they had relevance, running Boosters across the 'verse to any corporation that wanted them.

DayZ
1. When playing on a Server ran by a playergroup, I infiltrated their compound, found their food storage area (which was full of farmed veg), sprayed bleach all over it, giving them all food poisioning next time they logged on and took a bite before going out on 'patrol' (read: ganking casuals who shared their server).

WWII Online
1. Taking a patrol boat full of German Sappers to the coast of England, where they promptly bombed and destroyed all the UK's production capacity on the first day of the war.

Anyone else got an emergent content story/tale they want to share?

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

This sounds more like a "Trolling" activity than emergent content. Lol

I tend to not troll these days.
Still I used too. I just don't remember where. Lol

 

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Naval Action:

Travel times were long. So when you get a bunch of people together from their couches you gotta make sure there be action. So what do we do? We gank pirates. We gank all evening until they finally send out a fleet to crush us and then it is a matter of timing and coordination to get one's ship ablaze and steer it towards the biggest enemy ship. Lots of ships burned up. In the end our little fleet was sunk, but it was worth it for the lulz.

Cocky pirates.
They were out ganking a frequent cash grab route. I had a new ship and installed CARRONADES because I like it close and personal. On my way I am intercepted by three pirates in their shiny new ships that were just released a day before. I shoot one to bits and I#m done for rather quickly. I respawn and follow a clan mate back to the home port. The remaining two pirates show up again and attack.
I squeeze into the battle and my cowardly clan mate flees, but this time I got the wind. And this time I'm gonna lure them even closer.
Because CARRONADES.
The first guy is super eager for the kill, but I have a tough ship. We draw close - very close and I bide my time. Bide it some more. Then it shows its nice little belly. I shove a broadside below his exposed waterline (physics - don't ask). Nice big carronade holes. He leaks and goes under in no time. I turn but the last one is more cautious. I end up getting my sails shot to pieces, but he tastes some of those leaks to, but he can limp away.

M&B Warband - Napoleonic

We did these organanised line battles. Infantry regiment. 120ish ppl on server. Multiple clans/ groups. Supposed to march in line with formations, orders and all. We just suck balls vs cavalry. Like really hard. Disgrace of the nation and all.
So our officer goes "I have brilliant idea..." and takes us on a detour across half the map - right into the arms (lances) of a cavalry unit. Funny though: It's always the same unit. That's a bit of luck, no?
One day I google them on YT and there we are: They're actually going after us intentionally. The lulz was strong with them. That day my sense for fairness and chivalry died a bit.

 

[Goose4291]

Naval Action:

Travel times were long. So when you get a bunch of people together from their couches you gotta make sure there be action. So what do we do? We gank pirates. We gank all evening until they finally send out a fleet to crush us and then it is a matter of timing and coordination to get one's ship ablaze and steer it towards the biggest enemy ship. Lots of ships burned up. In the end our little fleet was sunk, but it was worth it for the lulz.

Cocky pirates.
They were out ganking a frequent cash grab route. I had a new ship and installed CARRONADES because I like it close and personal. On my way I am intercepted by three pirates in their shiny new ships that were just released a day before. I shoot one to bits and I#m done for rather quickly. I respawn and follow a clan mate back to the home port. The remaining two pirates show up again and attack.
I squeeze into the battle and my cowardly clan mate flees, but this time I got the wind. And this time I'm gonna lure them even closer.
Because CARRONADES.
The first guy is super eager for the kill, but I have a tough ship. We draw close - very close and I bide my time. Bide it some more. Then it shows its nice little belly. I shove a broadside below his exposed waterline (physics - don't ask). Nice big carronade holes. He leaks and goes under in no time. I turn but the last one is more cautious. I end up getting my sails shot to pieces, but he tastes some of those leaks to, but he can limp away.

M&B Warband - Napoleonic

We did these organanised line battles. Infantry regiment. 120ish ppl on server. Multiple clans/ groups. Supposed to march in line with formations, orders and all. We just suck balls vs cavalry. Like really hard. Disgrace of the nation and all.
So our officer goes "I have brilliant idea..." and takes us on a detour across half the map - right into the arms (lances) of a cavalry unit. Funny though: It's always the same unit. That's a bit of luck, no?
One day I google them on YT and there we are: They're actually going after us intentionally. The lulz was strong with them. That day my sense for fairness and chivalry died a bit.

I was avoiding sharing several Naval Action tales because I love that game and it's got the right balance for me of gameplay, depth and fidelity. I loved the day we (Brits) were in the French playerbases backgarden picking off their merchant ships, causing them to engage in proper convoys and the ilk

I do miss Mount and Blade on that scale (used to play with a few reg's). I think the problem is, e-sgts don't know how to handle cavalry, particularly in a game that gives them all the advantages

This sounds more like a "Trolling" activity than emergent content. Lol

How?

 

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ME3MP wasn't really fit for emergent content, but there were some ways to troll people.

One was to kill an enemy that would explode on kill near a teammmate. The so called A-Bomb. What is better than an A-Bomb? Yep, multiple A-Bombs. Especially when they fly, cos who sees them coming, then? So it comes down to rounding up some and timing it to launch one or two in the direction of a teammate and have them exlode nicely. My favourite was to lasso in an A-Bomb in the last seconds of extraction to get the guys move from behind their cover camps.

Another one was to lure in a sync-killer near a teammate so they would get an insta-kill animation. The teleporting Banshees were kinda good for this. No risk without reward, get stuck on a corner and the Banshee could as well grab you instead and insta-kill you.

One favourite was to lock people into a reactor on a certain map and burn them in a radioactive hell. Oh you could always tell these jokers were up to it. Them lingering around the button gave it away. But since I am a selfishless player, the epitome of the Saviour, I have no mind for such malpractice.
My motto: "Noone is left behind." So the challenge is accepted: "Revive a teammate in radioactive fire." It was always fun when their mischief didn't play out.

Fun Fact: It was this purely coop game where I learned what teabagging is and how to do it.

 

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I was avoiding sharing several Naval Action tales because I love that game and it's got the right balance for me of gameplay, depth and fidelity. I loved the day we (Brits) were in the French playerbases backgarden picking off their merchant ships, causing them to engage in proper convoys and the ilk

I do miss Mount and Blade on that scale (used to play with a few reg's). I think the problem is, e-sgts don't know how to handle cavalry, particularly in a game that gives them all the advantages



How?

I remember a particularly large fleet battle against the Danish fleet. I had like a Bellona frigate and cruised to their main path taking out sails with chain shot so the Big Guns could mop them up. That day the Glorious English navy crushed the pride of the Danish fleet. And I skipped an entire rank from all the XP I earned. That was probably the largest battle I was in.

 

[Goose4291]

ME3MP wasn't really fit for emergent content, but there were some ways to troll people.

One was to kill an enemy that would explode on kill near a teammmate. The so called A-Bomb. What is better than an A-Bomb? Yep, multiple A-Bombs. Especially when they fly, cos who sees them coming, then? So it comes down to rounding up some and timing it to launch one or two in the direction of a teammate and have them exlode nicely. My favourite was to lasso in an A-Bomb in the last seconds of extraction to get the guys move from behind their cover camps.

Another one was to lure in a sync-killer near a teammate so they would get an insta-kill animation. The teleporting Banshees were kinda good for this. No risk without reward, get stuck on a corner and the Banshee could as well grab you instead and insta-kill you.

One favourite was to lock people into a reactor on a certain map and burn them in a radioactive hell. Oh you could always tell these jokers were up to it. Them lingering around the button gave it away. But since I am a selfishless player, the epitome of the Saviour, I have no mind for such malpractice.
My motto: "Noone is left behind." So the challenge is accepted: "Revive a teammate in radioactive fire." It was always fun when their mischief didn't play out.

Fun Fact: It was this purely coop game where I learned what teabagging is and how to do it.

Mass Effect 3 I take it? That was more my better halfs bag.

I remember a particularly large fleet battle against the Danish fleet. I had like a Bellona frigate and cruised to their main path taking out sails with chain shot so the Big Guns could mop them up. That day the Glorious English navy crushed the pride of the Danish fleet. And I skipped an entire rank from all the XP I earned. That was probably the largest battle I was in.

Ah the Danes (Russians), I remember stalking their fleet just over the horizon with a Niagara talking my Fleet buddies onto them. Good times. I imagine they're a shadow of their former self, now Russia and Prussia got added to the game

Another classic (and its a shame this thread got moved, because Vermie would chime in now) was BSGO. We used to run a wing comprised of 11 vipers with 1 raptor we'd outfit for maximum sensor control range which would allow us to dominate any sector we were in, and pick suitable targets while not biting off more than we could chew.

Good times for such a simplistic F2P MMO.

 

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Elite Dangerous: The Lugh War

 

[CmdrKull]

It wasn’t my playthrough, but I recall reading a about a Dwarf Fortress game where they discovered that the monarch of the Dwarven Nation their band of refugees originated from was a disguised Vampire. They made it their mission to lure the vampire queen to their fortress, eventually it became the seat of power for the empire and the queen showed up. The player exacted justice by crushing the Queen using an elaborate trap they named the “Hammer of Damocles”

 

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It wasn’t my playthrough, but I recall reading a about a Dwarf Fortress game where they discovered that the monarch of the Dwarven Nation their band of refugees originated from was a disguised Vampire. They made it their mission to lure the vampire queen to their fortress, eventually it became the seat of power for the empire and the queen showed up. The player exacted justice by crushing the Queen using an elaborate trap they named the “Hammer of Damocles”

Stories from Dwarf Fortress.

https://dfstories.com/all-stories/

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I suppose if we're calling Trolling "Emergent content" I have some examples.

Battlefield Bad Company 2, BF 3&4

Super-ninja sneaking in to enemy base and attaching C4 to the enemy choppers and tanks.
Let then fly/drive off, and starting doing what they do.
Then detonate.

Place C4 at objectives as a last resort. If my team are pushed out, and they're trying to capture it. *Click* .. *boom*.

Hide on a roof capture points.
When a single player in a vehicle approaches, they can't capture it because it's contested by me.
They leave their vehicle to find me, i jump down and steal it.
Then when they come back, I kill them with it, then move on.
If 2+ players turn up, the point gets captured, but as soon as they leave, I throw down some C4, and start taking it back. When they turn around and park..
*Click*..*boom*.

I love C4.

7 Days To Die.

I don't play online much, but one server was particularly and rude, even though I was a total newbie.
I happened to log in just before horde night, so I went around opening all the doors and bridges to their main complex, luring loads of zeds in and then logged off. Lol
No idea how that turned out.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

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On a recent attempt at flying the MiG21 in DCS MP I happened to pick up a contact. High. IFF'ed and it stayed enemy.

Nobody flies that high though on cold war server I think. So I push the throttle and get in range. Time to try out the radar missiles, no? Easy target that one. Better go in fast. Lock and off goes the missile. Splash! My first MP kill in Mig 21! The victorious hero can RTB now.

The chatbox goes haywire. Apparently someone shot the friendly AWACS, lol. Ah well, noobs be noobs.

(To activate IFF you need to flip a certain switch in the MiG21. A minor detail, though. Not really relevant to my success story.)

 

[lysan]

On a recent attempt at flying the MiG21 in DCS MP I happened to pick up a contact. High. IFF'ed and it stayed enemy.

Nobody flies that high though on cold war server I think. So I push the throttle and get in range. Time to try out the radar missiles, no? Easy target that one. Better go in fast. Lock and off goes the missile. Splash! My first MP kill in Mig 21! The victorious hero can RTB now.

The chatbox goes haywire. Apparently someone shot the friendly AWACS, lol. Ah well, noobs be noobs.

(To activate IFF you need to flip a certain switch in the MiG21. A minor detail, though. Not really relevant to my success story.)

LOL that was a good one, the next round at the pub will be on your tap