Question: Chardok named camping policy.

[Goregasmic]

Got in a kerfuffle yesterday in chardok over a named spawn. I wanted some input just to clarify rules as I'm new to chardok and the camping dynamics are different.

I was doing auditor/trustee/wiz as a chanter. Cleared the spawns and was gating/suiciding as they popped up. Gated and dictate was on cooldown so I got a drink irl, jbooted and headed in. Once in someone answered a CC that I apparently missed so I called all 3. Buffed friends at ent and headed down. I came in from behind the GHM building and didn't see wiz spawn up. Must have messed up timers. I wait and I start feeling it should have popped by now. I run forward and I see a shaman killing "my" wiz @ ~50% with a spade in the little cubby. Kinda didn't want him running away with "my" shovel so I dictated wiz while we sorted it out but dictate was about to break and we didn't sort anything so I threw wiz at the farthest mobs I could see and gated (which was a mistake because I realized after gating it would train him if he didn't gate fast enough and that wasn't my goal at all). Headed back down. Killed him and got shovel so someone else doesn't snipe it while we sort it out.

Now shaman was super pissed and there was some arguing. The gist of it being:

His point was that spawn was free when he got there and you can't claim more than one spawn.

My point was that wiz couldn't have been up for that long and if you want to contest I get first pick anyway.

Ultimately I know it wasn't very long but I wasn't sure how long it took before I got back; answered CC at castle entrance, got all the way down and waited 30-60s before figuring someone engaged and then wiz was around 50% so I feel it is possible he engaged around the time I answered CC, possibly after but I'll never know.

Apparently his first reflex was to report me. In the end I half heartedly conceded the shovel, figuring I should take the L in case I was in the wrong, didn't want to get banned for a 6k shovel. Should have been more on top of my game when doing multiple spawns... but upon reviewing the PNP:

the player leaves the zone, dies, or similarly "reloads" [...] Reloading does not include Dictate killing a PH and leaving the zone as a step to camping a mob.

Each player can hold as many camps as they want until another player asks to share. At that point the existing player gets to keep one camp, of their choice.

the player fails to engage the mob(s) at the camp within a "reasonable" amount of time (where "reasonable" is interpreted by the staff member in question for each case; you are strongly encouraged to talk to the camp holder and give them the longest definition of "reasonable amount of time" you can manage)

Chardok nowadays is very laid back and usually no one touches your stuff even if its been up for a fair bit if you're not too greedy. I kinda feel it is a dick move to snipe people's shit this quick, as if everyone did that it would become a warzone. To his defense he just got in zone so I would have done the same but if someone answered CC or came back while I was killing a named I would have handed the item over but that's just me. I know most people do this semi-afk, I realize the stakes are low and it isn't worth beefing over and I wouldn't like people killing my stuff the second I'm not there at spawn.

So what's the elf lawyers take on this? I'm not interested in naming/shaming the guy (if he's wrong) I just want to know who's right to avoid further conflict. I guess the easy answer is "kill shit on pop" but no one really does this it seems.