/w count all i.e. Search Commands
 

Almost hate to start a new thread as I'm sure it's been discussed, but couldn't find on search.

My Question:

"Is there an ingame search command that will allow you to query a zone and know if anyone is in the zone regardless if they are /anon or /role?"

/w all <zonename> only shows non-anon and non-role results.

/w count all <zonename> is no different as far as I can tell.

I don't really care who is in the zone, I'd just like to know if ANYONE is in the zone. Sucks to query zones where the population is usually low, but may have a nice off the wall camp, only to decide to go there after a query doesn't reveal anyone in the zone and find 2 or 3 /anon or /role 60 level characters already in zone camping anything worthwhile.

No there is not.

Thankfully, would be nice before running all the way out there to know whether or not someone is probably camping what your after but it would be a horrible mess.

Can always just find 1 person in the zone and ask them to do a camp check.

How would it be a mess? I'm not asking for names in zone, just numbers. As in /w count all paladin 60

There are 4 players in game.

So, /w count all permafrost

There are 2 players in zone.

No names, classes or levels; you just know not to waste your time running to permafrost.

Asking a player in zone works, but when you do /w all permafrost and get zero results, there is no one to ask until you zone in and see about 2 - 4 /anon in zone.

I know it's not classic, I just don't see the point of not including a way to not waste time.

ok thats not a big deal. and im not sure exactly how it would be a mess but i could imagine soandso from uberguild seeing competitor from uber guild in zone and wanting to go mess with them.

might be a stretch but more ridiculous things have happened here

I too hate all the idiots who camp Droga while being anon/rp

I was about to say...I refer to this as the Droga Effect. And on more than one occasion when I was in Droga, I had someone at the other camp bug me to go /anon with him. I don't get it.

that's weird....

There's only three reasons I can come up with that could motivate these people to sit /anon in a zone like Droga:

1.) They derive a twisted pleasure from seeing some poor bastard travel an appreciable distance to a zone he thinks is empty, only to find every camp already taken.

2.) They think that they can mitigate future competition for these camps by staying /anon and having #1 occur at a frequency sufficient to deter someone from deciding to travel to the zone.

(This is somewhat reminiscent of the tactic of purposefully killing the tainted seafury cyclops in OOT to spawn the corrupted, hoping this drives people off the island. Yes, people actually do this.)

3.) They are /anon for the standard reason of being a class that gets bugged frequently, for example a druid (ports) or a cleric (rezzes). However, I can say that having spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours in Droga, all of them not /anon, not once was I ever bugged for a port. So I never felt like I needed to be /anon to avoid people.