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Originally Posted by Runningfish
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Might seem dumb to you if you just got to the camp and learned this is the rule but when you've been there for 36 hours and SF just skipped again your going to be happy that you can sleep while you wait for the next window.
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Oh, I'm not saying you can't AFK and sleep - you totally can AFK and sleep, just like my analogy of being in line at the big box store on Black Friday. At the store, you bring a sleeping bag/tent, and sleep right there. In EQ, you leave your character afk and logged in, and you go sleep in your nice warm bed in real life. If you want to be extra good/nice, you can AFK with the message that you're camping Stormfeather, and maybe even include the list as it was at the time you went AFK.
The thing people
really want to be OK is for them to not actually wait in line. They want to go DO other things in game, and pretend like they were also camping it, and come back and have 0 penalty for having gotten out of line. That's just dumb, mostly because it's unfair to the people who, like you, have put a lot into it.
In other words, someone who has been waiting at the spawn for 36 or 54 hours straight
just to be next in line should not be able to be beaten out by someone who has been logged in a total of 2 hours during that time, or maybe not even logged in at all, let alone hasn't been in the zone at all. The fact that someone who isn't putting in the work/time can just do whatever and then be on top of the list, it just makes zero logical sense. If you don't put in the work, you don't get the reward.
I mean, I don't know how else to say it at this point. Should I walk up to Walmart on Black Friday, right before they open the doors, and be like "hey dudes, sorry, I was here earlier this week and got on the list, back off. Thanks for holding down the fort though!"