<I ask again, is there anyway we can add some kind of ability when using sigil location to let others know if someone has been using a camp in the last 24 hours?>

A useful tool; I'd also request messaging if someone is actively inside, especially with the level differences.

>>Nobody's entitled to save a camp for 24 hours. It's a hunting ground.

I agree. The number of camps is limited, and the number of camps of a specific kind (I always prefer orcs) even more so. I would not want to see a way for anyone to "claim" a camp.

--David

"At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder, 'What would Jimmy Buffett do?'"

>I simply think it would be a helpful addition to avoid people inadvertently stepping on someones toes who might have been working on that camp.

I understand your frustration, but there are limited camps all over and I don't believe anyone is stepping on toes if they do finish off a camp anyone else has been working on if it's inactive past the time it takes for the guards to need to be awakened again. Therefore any "notifications" would be redundant and equivalent to trying to save a room in an active hunting area of any kind, which isn't reasonable. This has been generally accepted warcamping practice for a long time now.

My fear is someone will script the claim amount and control many camps. Camps are limited enough as it is and to me any camp over 150 that has the guards on duty is fair game. If i do find one like that i may ask around and wait a bit to make sure no one is working it.

24 hours seems excessive but maybe a notification if someone has been there in the past hour or two?

-- Robert

The town guard exclaims, "What do I look like, a scholar from Biblia?!"

I don't think anyone should be expected to stay out of any warcamp that hasn't been touched for more than the time it takes the guards to fall asleep, notification or not. It's a hunting ground. You can still get your loot if you plan.

There's lot to debate about whether or not camps can or should be claimed, but a notification of other people being there recently is a great idea. Maybe for the next 2-4 hours afterwards, you get a message that says who was involved, and for the next bunch of hours, it is more generic along the lines of "you notice someone has been here recently."

And/or could perhaps fresh, unfound camps give a different message the first time they are located?

You would have to be present when razing for that credit.

Loot and previous camp info for you is erased after you even enter a new/the latest camp.

Increase the spawn rate of new camps.

While I'm not necessarily going for entitlement, it can be frustrating.

I was travelling for work so not hunting much in April. But there was a 500-sized warcamp, literally sitting there for about a month totally untouched (I log in my characters for BOOSTS now even if I can't really play). Finally I have a chance to play, and someone razes it within several hours of me dropping it to below ~100.

Go to do some stuff this weekend, and I find two troll camps quite near each other. One has been reported, one has not. I again get the camp to below 100, but I want to finish my Gift with some bounties. I come back the next day and someone has razed the camp, meanwhile the one that had been reported is still sitting there.

For anyone that's going to swoop in, obviously a note that you've been inside won't help. On the other hand, WoE was nearby the time my 500 camp was scooped, so it's possible no one knew and it was a coincidence. Still, most people in the area I hunt probably don't want to go in there if I was in there recently; this has definitely gotten people killed before. But people are not obliged to hang out in town and be social either. It's unusual I even know who else is warcamping in the area, which makes it feel a little shadier when these camps disappear in a suspect time frame.

I do go in to get my treasure for the most part now, but sometimes I kill 200+ creatures without getting a key. Over the last months, my attitude is developing to not bother going into a camp unless I'm planning to raze it within several hours. Frankly it's become dog-eat-dog and if that's what other players want, it's how I have to play, too.

Less than 60 theres not much excuse to plead ignorance. Anything higher though it can be terribly confusing to know if someone hasnt been in it in 15+ minutes. I once had a camp with 7 poached which is now funny but at the time I was irate. Mostly now what I do if I care about the loot or credit I pause outside the camp when I need to rest otherwise try to do it all at once.

Obviously that doesn't always work if they don't rest in an area you frequent or care to be social...