You, that saavy hunter standing there motionless in the face of danger, four critters desperately trying to maul you as the breeze wafts through your hair. Looking so cool and stuff with your armor gleaming in the sun and your shield and sword raised high; parrying and dodging and blocking thousands of failed attempts all with that wonderful smile on your lips.


Me, desperately trying to just lock tm and get the heck out so i can go train my weapons.
while this might still be a better love story then twilight... it's driving me crazy!
Yes i get that you need four critters on you to milk just a couple more ranks before you move up
the ladder to greater conquests but for the love of all that is (un)holy PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
knock a few off so the rest of the people around you can get some spawn-lurvin too?

Until the Gm's have time to do something about spawn rates, players need to be more considerate
to their hunting environment. I'm not asking you to kill everything in the room but knocking a few foes down every couple of minutes isn't going to kill your training. If it is, then maybe you should be hunting
higher stuff.

Just go kill a couple in their room. If they complain, kill them too and then you get all the critters. Or ask if you can join them.

Haha, if this is who I think it is... Kill his horse LOL.

All kidding aside... It bugs me too. I just go somewhere else. More than one critter in the realms. No point in being lazy enough to not walk with the new travel times.

not sure about the ten minute disengage timer. i've personally never seen it happen before.
As for the lazy thing... my IG wife trains in gryphons and shard seems to be better for finding a room
for her to hunt in so while we're in shard i like to sneak on over to shalswar for my tm training
then back to gryphons for everything else. Really though should i have to travel the face of elanthia because a few people aren't considerate? I don't think so.

>>Critters still do that right?

>No, thank god.

It was more entertaining when their heads would explode!

>>> If the person is aware and just doesn't give a crap, then you just need to kill their spawn, kill them, or hunt in their room.

Truly wonderful to see that strong moral ethic and compassion for ones fellow man shining so brightly in this day and age.


- Anuind Lyndon

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When naming your holy weapon consider the following: Everyone has a Holy Avenger or a Divine Vengeance. Why not go with something your foes will never accept the shame of being smote by, "The Fuzzy Kitten".

>>>Your snark could just as easily be applied to the person hogging all the critters.

You seem to be labouring under the misconception that both parties were not included in the afore mentioned snark. The comment is directly applied to them both.

There is something quite reassuring about the secure environs behind a computer monitor, isn't there? No risk, no threat, no danger. Curious how the anonymity it affords us inspires us to act in ways most never would in decent face-to-face interaction with other people.


- Anuind Lyndon

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When naming your holy weapon consider the following: Everyone has a Holy Avenger or a Divine Vengeance. Why not go with something your foes will never accept the shame of being smote by, "The Fuzzy Kitten".

Wrong folder folks. Conflicts is up a little further.

Kindly get back on topic, or move it to OOC conflicts.


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FWIW, I treat a lack of response to my question of 'Mind if I hunt with you?' as an affirmation of consent. You now have an issue with sharing a hunting room with me? Too bad; you don't own the room.

Insisting on playing this game as a solo experience means I have no sympathy for you when you're forced to interact with people.

Yeah, this may be somewhat jerkish of me, but I don't really treat the question as much more than politely informing someone that I wish to be friendly and will also be hunting here. If someone requests I leave politely, and proffers some reason for why, I'll probably leave them to it, but generally speaking, politeness isn't what's offered.

Similar note as bluesuedeshoes; Barbarian is hunting in the area, and I ask if I can join. No response, so I just tuck in. About 15m later, I'm informed that "This is my room, leave or I'll kill you". I try and talk it out, and let them know that I'll leave gems and coins, etc, and then OOC whisper something to the effect of "Just so you know, according to policy, you don't own this room. If you want to RP a conflict, lets do that, but I'm not going to leave simply because you want the room" and got nothing back.

I dunno, this is just my little announcement to the DR players who read this section; if you have a reason you want a room to yourself, explain it, but know that aside from Empaths manipulate hunting, there's really no reason (and you certainly have no right) for you to lay claim to an area on your lonesome. If you can't RP out a conflict and/or politely request the place to yourself, YOU'RE the one in the wrong, not someone who hops to it and hunts with you.

tl;dr version:

"Just to let the DR community know, I the player of JHALIASCLERIC am a jerk. Not the character".

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"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors."
-Raesh

>> If you can't RP out a conflict and/or politely request the place to yourself, YOU'RE the one in the wrong, not someone who hops to it and hunts with you.

In all honesty, I'm less likely to RP when training, just like I'm less likely to train when I'm RPing. I'd consider it a bit annoying to have someone show up and expect me to RP out why I want to be left alone when training.

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>>And if someone politely asked you if they could join, your response would be?

Depends. Most likely I'll just say no thanks. When I'm training, I'm just not really that social.

>>I mean, frankly, you're playing an MMO, and getting upset because you've run into people in this MMO is... somewhat silly.

Finding something annoying is different than being upset. Crowded trains annoy me.

>>And saying something like 'No, I prefer to hunt alone' is valid, but then so is me saying 'Well you've been hunting alone for hours in the best mana room in the area, kindly reconsider your insistence on being a solo act here'.

While no one owns a room, I'd consider it pretty impolite to stick around where you're not really wanted. I also highly doubt that no other room in an entire hunting area has mana that is good for hunting.

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When I go to intercessors I hog spawn to mind lock the parry skill (annoying to train in Assassins) for 3-4'ish minutes. Doesn't take long at all. I don't train my top melee weapon there because I'm likely to get 'open rolled' if I stay there for too long, since intercessors seem to do it often.

People have different reasons for training the way they do. It's fine to try to kill critters for the great noble cause of freeing them up for other hunters or whatever, but understand what it will get you. No one likes people that try to regulate hunting areas (see Slowdog and his hundred characters), and just because they are being selfish for hogging critters does not mean you aren't a jerk for interfering. If that person was there first then he/she was there first. No room or critter is owned by anyone, that is a rule established by GMs to keep things fair and solve certain conflicts. At the same time there is still a certain level of etiquette when it comes to killing critters others are hunting.

Sometimes I hog critters for awhile without killing them for the sole purpose of filling up favor orbs with experience. When you start getting more favors it takes a lot more experience and for me the best way to get that experience is by dancing in intercessors. So yeah, come and attack my critters all you want, it'll just result in your death. You keep attacking despite me telling you to stop then you die. Don't initiate conflict with someone if you aren't willing to follow through with it either (Gonif).

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-GM Abasha

locking defenses is one thing...standing there for an hour or so afking it to lock your stuff seems a bit unreasonable. Again, last night i went to zealots because someone was in shalswar being spawnhoggish for over 30 minutes. doing great then my favorite ranger shows up and does HIS statue act. GM's should let us move people into safe spots who are afking and spawn hogging. or outright kill them XD

>>GM's should let us move people into safe spots who are afking and spawn hogging

Report -> Move on. If they don't get snatched up, then they aren't AFK. If they aren't AFK, feel free to be your (general you) usual charming self, and just slaughter their mobs.

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TG, TG, GL, et al.

"Disagreement with the fundamental plan at this point is akin to supporting Richard III vs the Tudors."
-Raesh

>>if they aren't afk whats the point of sitting there doing absolutely nothing with four mobs on you for hours on end?

I'm not saying it's an efficient way to train, but it isn't an explicit admission of being afk. I used to sit around in crocs and black leucros forever, just because I didn't care that much about moving combats and cared more about my defenses. Could I have moved both? Of course. Did I know better? Not really, I guess!

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>>Not sure if it can get any simpler than that.

+1 on this. Vee-Rex covered all the options rather expertly.

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Well said Vinjince.

Elvis has left the building.