Time for me to head out, after this pull.

[Yinikren]

Originally Posted by Quineloe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm sure that blacklist is gonna hold when that ragebringer rogue twink you blacklisted a week ago is LFG and your group is short on DPS.

That's what he gets for MQing his epic at 12 anyway.

[Magifyre]

"Time for me to head out and disband party without warning now that I got my alpha loot, or now that I won the cash drop for the camp."

10 minutes later...

LFG.

I wouldn't expect much from the people who play mmorpgs today, this server is no different. Decency is dead, it's not a matter of people being more busy today than they were 15 years ago, that's a cop out. It's a matter of people not caring enough to give any kind of advanced warning. Here's an idea.. how about...

"Hey guys I only have a half an hour, do you still want me for the party?"

OR..

"Hey guys, I might have to go at any time if X circumstance arises."

NOPE.. that's too much to ask. Right?

[Tankdan]

Originally Posted by Magifyre [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

NOPE.. that's too much to ask. Right?

According to half the people in this thread, yes. I didn't make this thread expecting everyone to agree though, thats the nature of MMO communities. Go make a thread on any MMO forum criticizing anything and they attack you or your ideas just for the fuck of it.

You'd think that we being all older/adults compared to classic we'd have better time management now that mommy and daddy aren't yelling at us. But apparently being older means we now need to randomly leave with no warning because we have emergencies every other hour of our lives. Heh.

[Berendar]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

According to half the people in this thread, yes. I didn't make this thread expecting everyone to agree though, thats the nature of MMO communities. Go make a thread on any MMO forum criticizing anything and they attack you or your ideas just for the fuck of it.

You'd think that we being all older/adults compared to classic we'd have better time management now that mommy and daddy aren't yelling at us. But apparently being older means we now need to randomly leave with no warning because we have emergencies every other hour of our lives. Heh.

Do you have a job? A wife? Kids? If the answer to any of them is yes and you don't see why this happens, the problem is probably with you.

If no well then obivously, you wouldn't understand.

[Tankdan]

Originally Posted by Berendar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you have a job? A wife? Kids? If the answer to any of them is yes and you don't see why this happens, the problem is probably with you.

If no well then obivously, you wouldn't understand.

Last I checked we aren't all E.R. doctors playing from our office that need to drop everything we are doing without notice. And if you are, please do us a favor and not join in the first place if you are that unreliable of a player. If you're on-call, tell the group. I know those are hard concepts to understand for some.

Not even going to touch the wife and kids argument.

Originally Posted by Quineloe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm pretty sure people are disagreeing with you "blacklisting" people over them dropping the group without giving a 30 minute warning once.

That's fine by me, they can group with them.

[Berendar]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Last I checked we aren't all E.R. doctors playing from our office that need to drop everything we are doing without notice. And if you are, please do us a favor and not join in the first place if you are that unreliable of a player. If you're on-call, tell the group. I know those are hard concepts to understand for some.

Not even going to touch the wife and kids argument.

Why not?

I actually group very rarely because I leave my keyboard often. I don't want my time dominated by someone who maybe has more time than sense or to feel bad because that person maybe has no other responsibilities beyond playing EQ.

[stonez138]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Last I checked we aren't all E.R. doctors playing from our office that need to drop everything we are doing without notice. And if you are, please do us a favor and not join in the first place if you are that unreliable of a player. If you're on-call, tell the group. I know those are hard concepts to understand for some.

Not even going to touch the wife and kids argument.



That's fine by me, they can group with them.

This guy can't understand that some of us actually have a life. He should have said he's not going to touch a wife or kids, because he will never have one...

[Quineloe]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

According to half the people in this thread, yes. I didn't make this thread expecting everyone to agree though, thats the nature of MMO communities. Go make a thread on any MMO forum criticizing anything and they attack you or your ideas just for the fuck of it.

You'd think that we're all older and adults we have better time management now that mommy and daddy aren't yelling at us. But apparently being older = we now need to randomly leave with no warning because we have emergencies every other hour of our lives.

I'm pretty sure people are disagreeing with you "blacklisting" people over them dropping the group without giving a 30 minute warning once.

I once was in an interesting group in Unrest, the last hour of it was the DE Enchanter bitching at the DE cleric about dropping "in 15 minutes" without finding a replacement for herself and then they argued about it in group chat for a whole hour while I kept pulling...

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Shiftin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Blacklisting a level 7 who didn't give you enough time to find a replacement at orc 2 seems a bit harsh.

Originally Posted by Quineloe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I once was in an interesting group in Unrest, the last hour of it was the DE Enchanter bitching at the DE cleric about dropping "in 15 minutes" without finding a replacement for herself and then they argued about it in group chat for a whole hour while I kept pulling...

These posts made me laugh. Anyways, please let me know if you're the type to blacklist people so I can put you on my list of people not to group with.

[lecompte]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

These posts made me laugh. Anyways, please let me know if you're the type to blacklist people so I can put you on my list of people not to group with.

^ this. I suddenly have to drop group for two reasons: 1) I realize that the group is lacking a certain... je ne sais quoi or 2) Raid call.

I, too, have a skill/attitude related blacklist but I don't put anyone under level 40 on it (I have low expectations, below 40) and I don't put anyone on it who is open to hearing input on how to better play their class.