PL'ers Etiquette

[reborn649]

For guides and GM's, plvling is always touchy it seems. If PL'ers aren't taking your specific camp or peeling off of your pulls, there isn't much to be done. Honestly guides/GM's shouldn't have to intervene though. If people can't have enough respect for other people in the zone, then they deserve to be blacklisted and called out. On the same token though, players shouldn't just jump to conclusions about a pl'er in their zone. I have zoned into unrest on my 60 bard just to see if its open to do some plvling and people immediately jumped the gun and said not to steal their camps, not to train, etc... For the people who aren't d-bags and jump the gun, I will normally pull the zone and just stand at fountains and shout "Free XP" then go find somewhere else to plvl. I would say most people who plvl have respect for other players from what I have seen. Obviously you're going to have the few people who don't care at all, but if that's the case simply declare your camp and if they pull from it, /petition. GM's/Guides can do something about camp stealing from my experience in seeing/doing plvls. If you just petition them for pulling basement in unrest when its uncamped and your at the fireplace pulling, don't bother. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it has happened a couple times to myself and people i know in various zones. People see pl'ers and immediately think their up to no good. Declare your camp, if crap goes south and your mobs start disappearing, get some higher power intervention.

EDIT: I rarely go to unrest to plvl, but I have experienced these types of situations in other zones along with my rare visit to unrest.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

I take people to befallen bottom floor and upper guk. Awesome zems.

[Brut]

PLing in popular low end group zones should warrant immediate char deletion + permaban + neutering just imo.

[Daldaen]

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

PLing in popular low end group zones should warrant immediate char deletion + permaban + neutering just imo.

Haters gonna hate I guess :/.

I just PLed 1-10 in Befallen when no one was there. Went to Unrest, did a CC, no one responded. Cleared out some of basement and top floor, a group shows up of low-mid 20s and asks if they can have FP, I said yes, and left 5-10 minutes later.

Fail to understand the issue if you aren't a retarded/dick PLer.

[vendeth]

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

Haters gonna hate I guess :/.

I just PLed 1-10 in Befallen when no one was there. Went to Unrest, did a CC, no one responded. Cleared out some of basement and top floor, a group shows up of low-mid 20s and asks if they can have FP, I said yes, and left 5-10 minutes later.

Fail to understand the issue if you aren't a retarded/dick PLer.

That was my group. Thank you for that.

[Pan]

Imo, if you're affecting legit exp groups, go somewhere else to PL. Period.

[Phantasm]

it is just in my opinion that perhaps you should travel outside of the cookie cutter xp groups and try somewhere new if the problem persists, there are tons of spots to try out in EQ!
while I agree having a pl in the same zone can be annoying there are ways to avoid it, i.e, moving to a new zone
also, just for curiosity, did you ever send a tell to the monk asking him to politely ease away from your camp?

[planarity]

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

it is just in my opinion that perhaps you should travel outside of the cookie cutter xp groups and try somewhere new if the problem persists, there are tons of spots to try out in EQ!
while I agree having a pl in the same zone can be annoying there are ways to avoid it, i.e, moving to a new zone
also, just for curiosity, did you ever send a tell to the monk asking him to politely ease away from your camp?

You greatly underestimate the overhead in putting a low-lvl pickup group together and getting everyone in the same place and on the same page. By the time you move from unrest to runnyeye or whatever your tank has to leave and you're sol, etc.

Brut hit the nail on the head.

[uygi]

I've been to Kurn's Tower several times, usually to farm up a few bone chips but once was to PBAE PL a wizard. I don't pull the mobs others are clearing pulling, I pull all the other shit. If they're camping something, the mobs that they've killed will respawn exactly as fast as they killed them and won't end up in my pulls. Still, there are always people whining endlessly. I try to show up when things are least busy, but if I'm PLing there is precious little time in a week or even month that my girlfriend is available to play at the same time that I am; there are 720 hours in a month, if I'm going to spend 2-3 of them PLing my girlfriend I'm going to do it on my schedule, not yours. Sorry. FWIW I usually do anything I can to help the lowbies, including announcing/derailing trains, buffing as I can and PLing them while I wait on my mobs to repop.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

I've been to Kurn's Tower several times, usually to farm up a few bone chips but once was to PBAE PL a wizard. I don't pull the mobs others are clearing pulling, I pull all the other shit. If they're camping something, the mobs that they've killed will respawn exactly as fast as they killed them and won't end up in my pulls. Still, there are always people whining endlessly. I try to show up when things are least busy, but if I'm PLing there is precious little time in a week or even month that my girlfriend is available to play at the same time that I am; there are 720 hours in a month, if I'm going to spend 2-3 of them PLing my girlfriend I'm going to do it on my schedule, not yours. Sorry. FWIW I usually do anything I can to help the lowbies, including announcing/derailing trains, buffing as I can and PLing them while I wait on my mobs to repop.

Myu lying about his girlfriend again :P

But seriously, Sol A is about the best PL zone from 10 to 35. Shit is tough to beat. And it's always empty minus maybe a gimblox camper.