Pick Pocket Policy: Mobs you don't own. - Page 16

Noleafclover · #1 09-10-2010, 07:12 PM

Mechanics question - if pickpocket succeeds, no aggro?

User · #2 09-10-2010, 02:05 PM

188 replies to the thread, none of which were by a staff member. I guess we can assume this means it is perfectly legal (and encouraged) by the staff of P99 to pickpocket mobs dry that belong to another player/group/raid.

See you all in Fear/Hate.

Daldolma · #3 09-11-2010, 04:39 AM

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188 replies to the thread, none of which were by a staff member. I guess we can assume this means it is perfectly legal (and encouraged) by the staff of P99 to pickpocket mobs dry that belong to another player/group/raid.

See you all in Fear/Hate.

Of course it is legal.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rogue

You're not a rogue if you're only stealing shit from your own mobs. That's retarded. And the difference between a rogue pick-pocketing an engaged mob vs. another class kill-stealing the mob is... the kill-stealing. Once a mob is engaged, anyone else killing the mob is kill-stealing. You have rights to it. But pick-pocketing? There are no rules protecting the loot table as your own, and there shouldn't be. It would make the pick-pocket ability worthless, when in reality, it is a defining ability of the rogue.

Two things: 1) pick-pocketing pops sneak/hide, which means you will be able to see a rogue pick-pocketing from your mobs. This follows all community-based policing. He's free to pick pocket your mobs, and you're free to call him a douche, tell your friends he's a douche, and blackball him. It's his risk to take. 2) if you really want to circumvent this issue, just stop killing. Keep the camp and quit killing Allizew until the rogue leaves. If he won't leave after 30 minutes of inactivity, he's probably there to piss you off more than he is to pick pocket Allizew. Either grief him back, work out why he's intentionally pissing you off, or just take your ball and go home.

My main is a rogue and I almost never pick pocket with any serious goal to make plat in mind, but it's definitely a good way to punish assholes, especially in OoT (Allizew or seafuries). You want to tag the seafury pulls me and my friend are duo'ing? That's cool, bra. I'll just pick-pocket them clean -- enjoy your kills. You want to try to snatch Allizew camp while my necro friend is LD, after you see him go LD? Again, that's cool bra. I'll just go ahead and take the gems. Outside of that, I basically never PP -- both because it's a douche move, and also because I don't want to be thought of as a douche. But that's the only thing that should stand in the way of a rogue using his rogue abilities.

Musetii · #4 09-11-2010, 07:27 AM

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Of course it is legal.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rogue

You're not a rogue if you're only stealing shit from your own mobs. That's retarded.

My main is a rogue and I almost never pick pocket Outside of that, I basically never PP -- both because it's a douche move, and also because I don't want to be thought of as a douche.

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