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Acillatem - I'm not going to deeply respond to you since, opposed to Yendor who has addressed arguments head-on, you've chosen to create a different scenario with which we have 0 facts. You're scenario involves an assumption that Rilen was depriving this camp from individuals, we have no way of knowing who or how many people came to SRo during the day and were dissuaded upon finding the camp taken. Since we don't have enough evidence your argument is moot before the discussion even begins. At the risk of being flamed, I also find your attitude as it pertains to others a bit frightening. You've drawn the line between selfishness and selflessness entirely too close to selfishness, and made personal rules for yourself regarding when you will exhibit selflessness (Friends, guildmates). If you alienated all strangers, you're alienating potential friends/guildmates. You have the right to play however you want, I find your attitude detrimental to the server as a whole and if it is reflective of your behavior in real life than I am glad I don't know you.
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don't know me - so that's fair that you have your opinion based on what you see here. However the scenario I presented is the exact same scenario as seen from another perspective. Anyone who has camped the AC for any length of time will support the fact that numerous people do a "drive by" or ask to be put on a list etc. It's no secret - especially if the guy was there 18 hours - there was probably at LEAST 10 people who were dissuaded from camping the AC.
As far as my attitude as it pertains to others? You are taking that statement I made as an end all be all attitude towards EVERY situation I come across and that's not the case. In the context of
this argument and
this situation, that statement about my time > your time holds true. In fact - there are many other situations I would feel the same way about. And honestly over the past few months this "attitude" has probably come forward more often than before simply becuz my playtime went from 7 days a week to once, MAYBE twice a week if I'm lucky. If I want to accomplish anything in game - I need to maximize my time in game. (I love getting a new job where u work 12-15 hours a day, 5 days a week lol).
However, I played on Tallon Zek as an officer of the most honorable guild on the server (Knights of the White Rose) and here as an officer of one of the most honorable guilds on the server. That doesn't happen by chance.
When I powerlevel guildies, I fill up a group - usually consisting of 1 or 2 guildmates and 3-4
strangers. I hand out free gear and port people for free all the time.
When I used to PvP, I would kill someone and sometimes port them back to shorten their corpse run. When I used to octi-kite raptors in TD I would kill the person on it, take the island, and then let them know if they wanted the other island - they could hunt there and I wouldn't bother them - our fight was done. For a PvP server - that shit was RARE. Most people would enforce "Loot & Scoot" (if you were killed you were expected to leave the zone for an hour) - but really I didn't care so long as they didn't bother me anymore.
I had ported into SRo a few months ago and did a camp check for the AC and 2 minutes later some NEC sent me a tell saying he had died and asked me to hold it for him till he got back - which I did. (heh hows that for irony?). I already had my JBoots and was just gunna kill some time hoping for a MQ.
I spent a good 6 hours on a Wizard 101 post for the P1999 community. The info was stuff I already knew - but I want to see the Wizard community thrive so selfish me decided to dig up an old guide and spend time editing it for P99 the best I could.
I could go on and on and on with a myriad list of "selfless" acts I've done for strangers (and on TZ for the enemy) in the name of "being a good person".
In this particular situation - if it was
me - honestly I woulda let them have it back becuz I already have my Jboots. If I
DIDN'T have my Jboots tho - I woulda kept the camp - which is exactly what happened here. I don't think that makes someone selfish and immoral.
This is a game based on 2 aspects - social and pixel. I didn't like WoW becuz there was no social aspect to it. You solo yer ass up to 80 and then raid....I enjoy grouping - I like making friends and meeting new people.
But sometimes, you gotta give the pixels some loving too. And if that choice happens to upset someone else? Well it's bound to happen. And yer right - sometimes that line gets drawn a little too close one way or the other. But yer never going to please 100% of the people 100% of the time.