[Spitty]

I understand that you're not taking sides, Derubael, but your ruling exhibits favoritism. Whether intended or not, that's the reality of how this is going to play out.

Anyone that can demonstrate that they could clear the entire camp is going to be favored.

I'll submit just one example - I'm clearing duke, a solo player shows up and wants duke too and calls his buddies in. They proceed to clear the other 3 PHs, petition, I'm booted and then that solo player moves into duke and proceeds to do exactly what I was just doing, except with GM enforcement.

Best case, I leave camp and am extremely annoyed. Worst case, I monitor the situation, re-petition and now you're an hour into a service situation that could have been alleviated by simply enforcing the precedent that I was clearing a camp and am thus entitled to maintain that to the best of my ability.

What Jeremy and Nastinate have said is the best-case scenario, from my rather experienced perspective; there's an uneasy truce at crypt, but most people work things out on the spot.

It's not ideal if a group comes down and finds one person that's clearing duke, but they're demonstrating that they can legitimately and successfully clear that spawn and should be left alone. That has been, and ideally should be, the established precedent here.

To rule otherwise - besides the implied immorality of forcing people to stop doing what's within their means on this server - is going to have some immediate, unpleasant and far-reaching consequences.