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Originally Posted by Bikthek
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So the real question is does taking most of the giant spawns violate the play nice policy? Is this something I could be banned for?
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Taking "most" does violate it (although you'd likely get a warning or suspension first, not a ban). The relevant section for bard swarming is generally this one:
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10. You may not disrupt the normal playability of a zone or area.
Zone/Area Disruption is defined as any activity designed to harm or inconvenience a number of groups rather than a specific player or group of players. This includes, but is not limited to::
-Monopolizing most or all of the kills in an area.
- Deliberately blocking a doorway or narrow area so other players cannot get past.
- Refusing to cooperate with the other parties at a contested spawn site after having been instructed to do so by a P99CSR.
- Making excessive and inappropriate use of public channels of communications (/shout, /ooc, etc.).
- Intentionally causing excessive zone latency (creating excessive corpses, abusing spell effects, etc.).
- Causing intentional experience loss to other players (deliberately impeding fleeing players by blocking their escape route, intentionally training NPCs on other players, etc.).
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So in other words, you absolutely
can swarm kite Hill Giants ... or anything else ... as long as you don't do so many that you are:
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-Monopolizing most or all of the kills in an area.
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And like anything in the PnP, "most or all" is deliberately not defined, so everyone (both you, and the other players there) just have to guess as to whether the amount you're taking qualifies as "most" or not ... and then if someone /petitions and a GM shows up, you get to find out if you're right. If you want to be safe I'd count the number of spawns there and never take more than half, so that by definition you aren't taking "most".