> I have been playing EQ for about 2 years and enjoying every min. of
> it. I play for only about 1 to 2 hours a day (maybe) so I really get
> in to my time in the game. This sunday something new happened to me.
> I have a 24th level Bar. shaman and have been grouping in Pav.
> Caverns to work up in levels. I logged on and ooc'ed asking to group.
> I got not responce. I went to camp 1 aqnd found a good mixed group
> working it very well (8 people mixed classes teaming very nicely) so
> I went to camp 2, There were 5 people 3 casters (2 mages and a necro)
> a ranger and a fighter) all around 19 to 20., all at 100% health. I
> asked if they wanted a healer/buffer and got "Shouted down" "This
> Camp is TAKEN GO AWAY"!!!....ok so I truned and started back. I got
> jumped by 3 of the bandits. I Camp was not doing anything so I pulled
> the mobs back in to the camp and ooced here is your mobs take them I
> don't want to steal your kills(all the time I am getting pounded) ..
> no one said anything so I ran .. about 1/2 way back I get ooc'ed "WTF
> Frezz wait..." as I as all ready near the cave to SH and the zone I
> just left... the "group" because of 5 mobs brok camp and ran (as they
> ran they pulled 2 more) and "telled" me to death about how they were
> going to cause me problems every time they see me and ect...
> A. did I do wrong by trying to "not steal" the camp's mobs
> b. what do I do about the "problems" I might have later by thes
> people?
> I like doing the right thing and playing with people not causeing
> problems for others...
> Frezslice
> 24 circle Shaman of the North
>
Some people just aren't friendly. Considering they yelled at you to get out
of "their" camp when you were LFG then they sound like the uptight type
anyways. They'll probably just not invite you to group and such. Since you
were trying to bring them mobs so as not to steal you meant well,
unfortunately they probably thought you were training them on purpose to get
them killed or something bc they told you to go away. The official rule is
that if something attacks you, you have the kill because it aggrod you
first. If you couldn't kill them by yourself best thing to do is to pull
them away from other players and zone, but shout a train warning. If they
complain that you are "stealing" their mobs, just tell them you got aggro
and needed to defend yourself. Or you could ask them to take a mob or two
off of you bc you got aggro and don't want to steal, but not pull into their
camp. It's a tough call. The people might call you names and junk but from
my experience, unless you did something really nasty to them or did
something mean repeatedly they are likely to forget about it.
I had people cussing at me one day when I was calling trains that I saw
going by (bc the people pulling them weren't calling them). Someone started
calling me names and telling me to stop pulling trains and I had to explain
that I was not pulling the trains, I was just warning people when I saw
them. And I had someone accuse me of pulling trains when I was running from
something that had been trained onto me. If the people are nice enough to
listen when you explain then that's cool. If they won't listen and just get
nasty then you don't want to be grouping with them anyways.
It's just a game and people get too uptight about it sometimes.
luv,
-Su