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Originally Posted by fastboy21
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I haven't camped the AC in a while, but there were a few natural factors that help keep the camp honest:
1. its a fast a spawn time. very fast actually. its easy to let a ph pop in the camp if you are screwing around, semi-afk, or trying to hand the camp off.
2. unless you are bound there it isn't easy to get to right away, given #1 above that means you have to be ready to go when someone tries to hand it off to you. a legit run to the camp could take 30 minutes from most of norrath...which is multiple PHs.
3. the named ALWAYS drops the ring...which means the person holding the camp is done and someone else is going to get it now. given #1 and #2 above this means the next person has to be ready to take the hand off. in camps where the named doesn't always drop the loot it is impossible to know if the guy just got the item he was camping...which means he could lie and continue to hold the camp while his friend is en route.
The camp is abused by MQ farmers...but I've never had any issue camping there and checking back every few hours waiting to get the camp. Usually it takes a while but its not overly corrupted. Other camps that don't have the above situation make it EXTREMELY easy for someone to abuse a list.
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Yeah, AC in particular is tough due to location. If I want to camp it and get on the list I either, 1) stay in zone and do something else, kill seafuries for example or 2) camp the character who will be killing the mobs at the camp and log an alt till my turn comes up.
I only do (2) if the person at the camp doesn't seem sketchy. If I see 4 of the guys corpses littered around the island I just assume he's corpsing rings and I wait in zone.
When I hand off the camp I obviously inform the new person of the list, but I also tell every person on the list who I am handing off to as well as the people who are ahead of them. I do this specifically for AC camp and no others because people are occasionally douches and will try to pass off to friends or guildies. At least they can be called out on it if the current list members are aware of who is ahead of them.