I'm Tired, Boss...

zelld52 · #1 09-02-2024, 05:34 PM

Story:
Go to check one of my favorite camps, but it's camped. Oh well. Hanging out in zone killin some other stuff for the mean time. Check my /who and see that the person camping my desired spot went LD. Maybe they're done?

Quote:

[Mon Sep 02 16:49:12 2024] Players on EverQuest:
[Mon Sep 02 16:49:12 2024] ---------------------------
[Mon Sep 02 16:49:12 2024] <LINKDEAD>[52 REDACTED] REDACTED (Barbarian) <REDACTED>

I head to the camp and hang out. If they're not back in 5 or so mins, I'll claim it.

15 mins later, they log back in.

Quote:

[Mon Sep 02 17:04:21 2024] You say, 'Hail, REDACTED'
[Mon Sep 02 17:04:24 2024] REDACTED says, 'hello'
[Mon Sep 02 17:04:28 2024] REDACTED says, 'game logged me out weird'

They went on to say they had claim on the camp, and it was "some weird bug" that caused them to log to character select, but they did not mean to. But, since they didn't mean to log out - they didn't actually leave the camp, and still have camp rights.

There's been times where I've been trying to be slick and camp 2 different camps on 2 different toons. One time after a few hours camping 2 named with this method, I swapped toons to kill PH at camp #2 - but when I logged back into camp #1, someone had set up there. "Ah damn!" I chuckled to myself. The jig is up. I acknowledged the person's claim to camp #1 (because I wasn't maintaining a constant presence there) Name spawned, dropped the rare loot. Oh well. Such is EQ.

There was one time I was sitting at a camp for hours and hours and I de-synced. Before I could /exit the ping bar started dropping . 99%.... 92%... 79%.. damn! I tried to log back in but was 1018 and couldn't get back. 5 mins later when I finally did, another player was at the camp I had been holding for hours. Oh well. That sucks, but them's the rules. "Good luck!" I said and logged for the day.

I just conceded the camp to REDACTED and logged off. I'm exhausted of dealing with players that can't just accept the server rules and the player agreements about camps. I can't imagine how the CSR feels about it.