Time for me to head out, after this pull.

[Byrjun]

Wait until your entire group has to camp out to log on their mains cause CT spawned.

[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.

[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...

[Ajkuhuun]

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

This is what I always say when I join a group, which is rare. I can only play when my son is asleep, and he's had sleep troubles since he was tiny. So I know in my case personally, I may have to get up QUICKLY if he wakes up screaming in the next room. Even if you join a group with that understanding, folks tend to get peeved if the cleric has to random afk and the group dies because of it.

This is the reason I solo for the most part, but that's a double edged sword too. You don't have to look too hard on the boards to find posts about how folks are angry that twinks aren't joining groups and are instead soloing.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[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.

[Quineloe]

who are you in game tankdan?

[Vindor]

That's nothing, try having your tank or/and chanter drop without warning to join the group 30m from you. Well in the end we did better without them lol but i cant recall this kind of ballshit being accepted as normal behavior back in the days.

[fastboy21]

I agree they should just be honest:

"Playing with you right now isn't fun. I was going to make up an emergency so I could leave, but instead I have decided to just tell you that you are a hard-ass and playing a game with you isn't fun. Goodbye."

People don't really have emergencies all the time. Its their polite socially acceptable way of saying that they have to go without sharing their personal lives with virtual friends they just met in a pick up group.

And, yes, my enjoyment of the game (or lack of it in some situations) takes priority over making sure a group of folks I don't know at all have a replacement tank or cc. sorry. its a game. I'll give a heads up if I'm a crucial part of a group in a place that they aren't likely to just randomly find a /lfg to rep me, but I am not going to hang out forever if I'd rather log off. Typical lead time is about 20-30 minutes, and I expect the players who want to stay to find the rep. I'll look, but its not my responsibility to keep your pick up group going.