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Originally Posted by Hotel
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I'm open to the fact that I'm probably just dumb and don't understand the rules so help me out.
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Perhaps my biggest pet peeve here is that there are
a lot of different definitions of the rules, and then on top of them there's also "secret" rules that you have to read the forum to learn. I fully understand that the GMs need a degree of discretion when making rulings, and that's why they don't list out every last ruling for every camp in the game, but even so it seems to me personally like we've swung too far towards obfuscating the rules for players.
Here's the real/"secret" rules of camps (as I understand them ... but I'm not staff). Outdoors you can camp exactly one spawn point. Well, you can camp as many spawn points as you can camp, until someone else comes along. At that point (if you can't work out any other arrangement) you get to pick
one spawn point to keep as your's. The new person then gets to pick
one of the remaining spawn points as theirs, and then every other spawn involved becomes "FTE" (First to Engage). In other words, whoever aggroed it first gets it.
Indoors the rules are almost the same, but sometimes you can camp multiple spawn points if they're "one camp". This is only the case when they are A) close to each other , B) within line of sight of each other, and C) the GM who gets petitioned decides it counts as a camp (again, the staff deliberately does not decide in advance except on very popular camps, so that they aren't limited by previous staff rulings).
So in your scenario, it sounds like you had one spawn point camped, and no one else was trying to take it. But then the remaining spawn points weren't your camp. This made them either the other guy's spawn (although it doesn't sound like any such thing was established) or FTE. Since all other mobs there were FTE and he engaged them first, you technically stole his kill.
But the part of this whole thing that bugs me is your description of the GM response. As others have mentioned, the staff doesn't usually just blindly suspend people for a simple misunderstanding over mobs. I'm guessing there's more to this story, like say how you conducted yourself when the staff member appeared.