Camping Raid Mobs... gone on long enough ?!

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Kinamur1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tabbed in okay, but completely afk i have to disagree with.

Your character being online doesn't mean dick to me, if 10 of your 15 force has been afk at work for the past 8 hours thats not part of your 15 imo. Thats bullshit.

How can you claim that you have a 15 player force ready for the boss when it pops when you really only have 5. I'm sorry if people feel they deserve a mob for being logged in for most of the timer but if you aren't there, how the fuck can you claim it?

This is a presumptuous post.

[Kinamur1999]

If people are legit sitting at their pc for 3 days straight then good job they deserve it, but somehow i doubt it.

Sleeping for 8 hours logged in does NOT mean you're camping dick, in my book.

Yes, I think you should have to be at your screen waiting for the pop to claim camping. That's how I did manastone for 20+hours straight, i didn't sleep for half of it and have a friend text me when it dropped so I could loot.

Pretty sure I've read a post or 2 about people sleeping while "camping" or even going to work. Its bullshit, In my opinion, if thats how the devs want it to happen then awesome good job.

[Pyrocat]

Originally Posted by Kinamur1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty sure I've read a post or 2 about people sleeping while "camping" or even going to work. Its bullshit, In my opinion, if thats how the devs want it to happen then awesome good job.

If you're going to sit at an 8 hour camp, you shouldn't be expected to be non-AFK that entire time. That's ridiculous.

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

1) Auto-logout is a nice idea after a certain time AFK (20-30 minutes?). This would make it so people can't AFK to keep the required 15 in zone to call raid targets. It would also have a side benefit of people not being able to AFK camp named mobs (fishbone earring *cough*)

No, it will just make it so that everyone installs an AutoHotKey script with random intervals and movements.

[Kinamur1999]

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

If you're going to sit at an 8 hour camp, you shouldn't be expected to be non-AFK that entire time. That's ridiculous..

an AFK here or there isnt a problem but when you have people going afk for the Majority of the respawn, say 6 hours of hadden, its bullshit.

If you don't want to be at the screen for 8 hours show up early, if someone else beat you to it and is actually at the screen guess what they deserve it more than you for wanting to sit afk for hours of the camp.

I honestly don't know how a person can feel they deserve the camp when they don't actually camp it.

[rioisk]

You are right pyro, people will just install a macro. I guess this wouldn't work unless GMs sent random tells and banned people if they somehow stayed in game and "moving" enough to not get logged out. Of course this won't happen though.

I too think that people should be at their keyboard for the full duration in order to claim raid mobs. If a whole guild sits at their screens for 8hrs+ they deserve what they get.

[rioisk]

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this is the reality of raiding in P1999 atm.

[Imsetta]

If you're going to sit at an 8 hour camp, you shouldn't be expected to be non-AFK that entire time. That's ridiculous.

Im sorry Pyrocat but this is a MMORPG (standing for massive multi player role playing game) in this circumstance we are talking about the Role playing part. In anything you do in real life you have to stay doing it the full time you are doing it, on the game it is the same way. If you are afk, you are not doing anything! This includes holding a camp. Example: I want to get a new xbox when it first comes out. I have to stand out side of the store for days to be able to get a chance to get one before they are sold out. I don't have a choice to go to work and still have my body sit at the store and wait, or go afk and do anything else. Yes I can sleep, but in the event I over sleep and the store opens everyone else walks past me and I loss my xbox. The game is an extension or my real life body, when I play the game it is me. If I go afk while playing, my character can not be counted as holding anything or doing anything, it is as if im not there. I do expect you to be at the screen the full time you play your character, and everyone else should expect it too.

Lanys T`Vyl

[Thorjorkill]

Its a bummer but i see IB alts all the time sitting around while some large beasty heals them.

Ah well. We all know that raid mobs are on lockdown while the big three (typically two) are on alts with IP exemptions. They are technically not boxing, but locking down raid encounters like this sucks.

I myself think its outside the spirit of the rules of the no boxing policy , but whatever.

[Thorjorkill]

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this is the reality of raiding in P1999 atm.

As an addendum to my previous post, this is just sad.

Get the calendar out devs, and start the lottery on time slots. Your guild misses the slot they are given, then the next one has an opportunity to step up. 48 hours notice has to be given one way or another, or else you lose your slot.
This will be an unpopular solution, but the system in place is horseshit. (I said something like this about a secretaries filing system once, and turns out she got pissed - but, its turns out I was right.)

I'll set it up if needed, just let me know.

[astarothel]

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

Its a bummer but i see IB alts all the time sitting around while some large beasty heals them.

Ah well. We all know that raid mobs are on lockdown while the big three (typically two) are on alts with IP exemptions. They are technically not boxing, but locking down raid encounters like this sucks.

I myself think its outside the spirit of the rules of the no boxing policy , but whatever.

Because all of a sudden when the campfest began Nilbog suddenly noticed every raiding guild member sending in exemptions right? Because that wouldn't be at all suspicious at any time before, let alone then? Carry on...