Power leveling should be banned.

[Noudess]

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

ITT: PEOPLE THAT POWERLEVEL ARE CHEATING,LYING and EXPLOITING, but I don't care, as long as they don't do it around me, but if they take my EXP then they're cheaters and they lie and they exploit and and..

Its not that I don't care.. but what can I do? In real life someone is stealing from someone somewhere right now.. Do I not care? Of course I care, but I can't act.

Obviously in game, we all take ethics a biut less seriously. And we have to choose our battles. Yes, I pick a battle with someone ruining my experience while cheating or using exploits. If I could stop it all, I would, If I could stop all people in RL from stealing, I would.

What exactly is your point?

It amazed me how many people don't realize that people will give up things they COULD do, strictly out of a sense of right and wrong. They always assume that the person objecting is jealous. LOL. Yeah, I'm jealous of people that cheat and lie. I'm so sad that I have ethics and character and I limit myself to being kind. I give back extra money if a cashier makes a mistake. By your logic if I pointed out a mistake made by a cashier to you, I'm doing it because I'm jealous I didn't benefit from the mistake?

Could it be, that some of us, actually do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing? And then, if someone tromps all over that, its really that bad for me to ask that people behave ethically?

[Strifer]

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

Could it be, that some of us, actually do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing?

I don't completely disagree with you, but this entire issue is in such a grey fog you're never going to get any sort of GM action short of what we currently have in place. Powerleveling isn't the issue, its people being cockgoblins.

Playing a necro, I used to camp in Misty Thicket and help out younger players who were starting out. Handing out spears, giving plat, and occasionally darknessing and fearing mobs for a select few that I was having a good chat with while FD...essentially giving them xp for next to nothing. Does that make me liable to get a surprise GM visit?

And what about high level clerics/druids/shamans/whateverthehell going to oasis docks and giving sweet buffs to newer players, yet you were unable to get there in time, allowing your competition to kill faster and possibly depriving you of some mobs. Do those people deserve to have action taken against them for taking five minutes to help out strangers?

Nothing is wrong with powerleveling in many different forms and in a top-heavy server you're bound to find it, nobody wants to have their friend start a new acct and play with them, but refuse to help them because they'd rather make them go lfg for hours because thats "the way it was intended" and for some reason helping lower level chars is as bad as two boxing.

You'll find douches everywhere, if not in oasis, youll find people taking your spawns in solB, or training your afk self in Karnors. It sucks but that's also part of the game.

TL;DR- Don't hate the game, hate the douche player

[Noudess]

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

Playing a necro, I used to camp in Misty Thicket and help out younger players who were starting out. Handing out spears, giving plat, and occasionally darknessing and fearing mobs for a select few that I was having a good chat with while FD...essentially giving them xp for next to nothing. Does that make me liable to get a surprise GM visit?

And what about high level clerics/druids/shamans/whateverthehell going to oasis docks and giving sweet buffs to newer players, yet you were unable to get there in time, allowing your competition to kill faster and possibly depriving you of some mobs. Do those people deserve to have action taken against them for taking five minutes to help out strangers?


TL;DR- Don't hate the game, hate the douche player

No, its helping out. Sure, there is a fine line here, but common sense should figure it out pretty quickly. I think 999 out of 1000 people can discern a friendly gesture between characters and zone abuse.