High levels camping all the good spots and bullying lowbies who actually get xp??

[cd288]

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

This is what petition a camping dispute looked like back in '99.

People argue over camp.
Someone(s) petitions.
Half an hour to an hour later a guide shows up.
Much like a substitute teacher tries best to get people to listen/cooperate, but 90% of the time that doesn't work because the players know he/she can't do shit, so he/she escalates it.
Half an hour a to an hour later different guide shows same thing happens and has to be escalated again
two to three hours later a GM finally shows up, and by this time the majority of the aggrieved payers have moved on and there s nothing to resolve.

Sometimes there is even a third guide before the GM arriving.

But getting back to the OP, generally I'd avoid overcamped places. If you get lucky and chips fall right then sure enjoy being there, but the majority of the time in primetime hours it won't be worth your headaches, especially if you are primarily wanting exp.

Right when the game came out maybe. Once we put the rules in place this didn’t happen and it would be clear in the petition queue that this was an issue that had been going on for the past 30-60 minutes and had already been looked into once. If the CSR member that handled the original request was still online, which they usually were, they would handle the follow up situation and issue official warnings if people had failed to abide by the imposed compromise. If your account hit 3 official warnings, you were triggered for a suspension (can’t remember what the initial suspension time was).

[Oddbaal]

As a son of Erud, I have ran into such characters during my exploration of crushbone; higher seasoned adventurers without the will or courage to advance. If they do not respond to civil discourse, it is your divine right to park there and contest the camp.

[Donkey Hotay]

Dear reddit, I took your advice on playing in EC so I could beg free leveling buffs from the tunnel and get orc belts but it turns out that other people read this too.

Hey nostalgia tourist zoomer, the South Ro orcs drop belts too but there's no free buffs and you'll have to travel. Anyways, good luck with your next retro interest *LOUD LAVASTORM BOOM FUNNY*.

[Sabin76]

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

*LOUD LAVASTORM BOOM FUNNY*.

I know it's coming. I know when it's coming. And yet, I still jump every.damn.time. Perhaps I should turn down my headphone volume...

As to the OP, it really depends on a lot of factors. How high level is "high level"? I seriously doubt anyone over 30 is going to bother farming the belts themselves when they could farm the plat to buy them in a fraction of the time. If they are just above XP gain, then I can't really blame them, as belts are a good source of income in your teens. Just to reiterate in a less pithy way than the poster above... there are other zones to go to with just as much XP and far less populated, but you have to be bothered to go look.

I tend to play at night Pacific Time and after about an hour, the zones start clearing as people go to bed. I once had someone who was simply tagging the orcs in WC for faction, and let me clean them all up taking the XP and the loot, so I'd say YMMV in terms of interactions with high level players in lower level camps.

[loramin]

I think a history lesson here might be helpful. These complaints are not P99-specific! They absolutely happened on live, even with paid GMs, and Verant built a solution into the game itself as a direct result!

Like everything on Green, you'll have to wait for it to be unlocked, but I promise it's coming: you just have to wait for The Warrens. Once that zone is released you'll be able to go level your heart out, and any high levels that show up wanting your Kobold Molars will be out of luck, because the (green con) Kobolds won't give them any.

... and then, a few months (maybe a little over a year, I forget?), just as Verant did, P99 will remove the Trivial Loot Code from the Warrens. Because as Verant found, the cure was worse than the disease.

[Snortles Chortles]

now you have to share this thread with me now

[cd288]

Originally Posted by northwoods21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does this get worse as you go up in levels???

I'm only lvl 9, orc camps are often camped by a single person just killing orcs and farming belts...

Today I found an empty Orc Camp 1... so I set about starting a group to get some good xp and belts... I ask in /ooc if anyone wants to start a group for orc camp 1
A high level guy responds and says "no"

So I continue searching, I find a bard who wants to join, and set about recruiting for more people for orc camp 1...

A couple minutes later, this high level toon who said "no" to me joining orc camp 1, runs up and proceeds to start slaughtering all the orcs and takes the camp.

The bard shows up, and I inform him that a high level took the camp, we split up the group and I log off.


So what I want to know, Does this type of player behavior get worse at the good hunting grounds the higher up you go in levels? Is this what I have to look forward to??? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It’s hit or miss. For the most part I have not found the orc camps in EC or WC to be occupied by high levels that frequently. I recently started leveling up a lowbie alt that I’d started awhile ago and hadn’t touched since, and the past few nights I’ve been in a full group at Orc 1 with Orc 2 completely open. I’ve seen WC camped by a high level a bit in that time but not too frequently.

Generally a good compromise if a high level is at a camp like this is to ask them if your group can XP there if they get to have some of the belts that drop. Many high levels will agree to some sort of deal like that and it’s a win for everybody.

Separately, if you’re running into this issue at those camps specifically I would head over to the Desert of Ro where there are a lot of Orc, Dervish, and some undead camps about the same level (Dervish Cutthroats are on the higher end though, like 10-13 I believe). People camp those Orcs in EC and WC sometimes because they frequently drop the belts that can be sold or used to level up an alt (although the XP isn’t great now that they’ve nerfed it). If all you’re looking for is XP there are many underutilized camps in the surrounding zones that I recommend checking out!

[CreamyCowboy]

If im camping orc camps in EC for belts and i see lowbies who need exp, I'll always pass the camp off to them. Kind of a dick move to hoard the camp like that. So if you see me at an orc camp, just send me a tell that you're forming up and I'll be more than happy to hand it over.

[Phraxas]

if your level 50 and farming for DF belts and dont know that EC is the worst camp for them... we got bigger issues~! go to WC more orcs, go to sro, more camps/orcs~!

[Furitor]

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

if your level 50 and farming for DF belts and dont know that EC is the worst camp for them... we got bigger issues~! go to WC more orcs, go to sro, more camps/orcs~!

lmao this right here... there's so many better orc camps for belts... why anyone is in EC is confusing.