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Originally Posted by Khorza
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Yeah this is a big problem but mostly because of the server's restrictive camp rules that don't in any way reflect the way in which people play this game.
The other day I was grouped in MR in Unrest, and by the official server camp rules we were 6 people camping the two 22-minute spawns in that room and everything else in the zone was FTE. Normal EverQuest servers would recognize that the MR group pulls the side rooms around it, but because those mobs are located inside of rooms, they're arbitrarily excluded from the MR group's claim as per the server rules.
Shortly after we set up in MR and had pulled a few cycles of mobs, a solo necromancer starts timing all of the rooms while moving between them for each repop. This effectively allowed 1 person to monopolize 10+ mobs, over the full group of 6 people who were there earlier, and is allowed by the rules. Because the solo player can just say I'm no longer camping the previous room, now I'm camping this room. Sure, our full group of 6 could also start timing every spawn and leapfrogging for each mob spawn, but this isn't necessarily more efficient than trying to pull/fte mobs from the zone, and good luck trying to coordinate something like that across 5 other people who can barely function enough to alt tab back from Reddit and press their auto attack button before the mob dies.
tl;dr - Solo players monopolizing group content is a problem, but the bigger problem is the camp rules that allow a single person to claim many more mobs than a full group, even if they're in the same area and the full group's been there longer.
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I've never seen the camp rules enforced that way with respect to the MR though. I've seen staff come into disputes and tell the MR group that they can't claim like the spawns in the rooms to the back by the back doors, but I've never seen a staff member say that the MR can only camp that room and someone else can come in and lock down all of the side spawns.