I like the pages. Honestly, my big takeaway from it is that I think that the rulings themselves are often fairly confusing or misleading. If anything, it shows all the ways in which you can totally get away with harassing other players without fear of petitions.
Take for example, below:
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"There's also player defined camps out there we don't enforce but HIGHLY encourage players follow. Player defined camps may include Sisters in lfay ..."
I feel that the statement of "We highly encourage players to follow these normal camp rules, but it's not required" is kind of a frustrating addition. What you really just said was "Sisters in lfay can be camped individually if you so desire, and nothing will be done to enforce the camp as a whole." I see this repeated many times looking down the list.
Players who respect each other enough to work out the camps in the way that is "encouraged" are never the problem. These rulings have to happen specifically because there's a significant subset of players who don't care about doing what they're "encouraged" to do. They'll do whatever they can get away with. If anything the post just clarifies that the jerks can continue to do whatever they want and you can't petition them.
So if you're saying they can get away with camping individual mobs in a camp that's generally accepted as one bigger camp... then they will do so! Just say so. Don't say "You can camp an individual mob in a larger camp, but if you do it at these camps it makes you a jerk," because that is a meaningless statement that doesn't really help. It makes certain people feel justified in feeling angry over someone doing something... but doesn't give them anything to do about it.
Sorry for the frustration. I just feel like if it's worth stating in a post "We HIGHLY encourage players to follow this player etiquette", then it's worth making a more concrete ruling on it.
05-05-2019, 05:11 PM
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