Cars I completely agree with you.. in fact in the past month or so since I leveled a melee to lvl 30 I have experienced first hand all those things that you wrote about.
At lvl 3 a twinked bard that conned red to me attempted to gank a naked cracked staff wielding melee.
At lvl 16 I zone crashed on the boat trying to go from FP to BBM and I was stranded in OOT It sucked even more because I had a swimming skill of 1. When I was shouting asking for a port the only response I got was from a FoH player that asked me "what level are you".
At lvl 22 I was in Unrest, and I had my first real PVP experience against a Ogre Shaman I think his name is Powered. Apparently he is in Azrael now but at the time he jumped my group of 4 while we had a pull. We rooted him and blinded him but before he died his body poofed like one moment he was here the next he was gone. There was no gate potion message, no OOR porter message, no message at all. He just warped out of the zone. Upon sending him a tell he was zoning, and disconnected.
At lvl 25 again in unrest, I had a basement group which was purposely trained by a higher lvl Titanuk. I guess he was upset about us killing his twink earlier ? I have no idea why he would have trained us for no reason.
At lvl 29 in Unrest I was attacked by a epic wielding rogue, and a Woodsman staff Ranger. Given that half my armor is cloth, it was a pretty one sided fight. Although I did almost kill Mrbig. When I was running back on my CR, the ranger came out and attempted to snare me. As I zoned in to get my body both of them proceeded to attack me before I even got the chance to loot.
I decided to just log for a bit and when I returned 30 min later, /who yielded 0 people in unrest... gee I wonder why.
Despite all this I have to say my experience here has still been positive, given some of the friends I made and groups I have been a part of although they were few and far in between. My point is alot of people think that the population destroying is caused by Nihilum or end game gear farming denial. In all honestly I don't think 80% of the people that had the experience I had on this server would have stayed as long as I did. People grief rampantly on this server. All those experiences above except for being attacked by twinks normally I /reported and /petitioned, but it really didn't change anything... I have just come to accept that it's the nature of the server.
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