lotzamana wrote:
Just had this happen yesterday....it was a regular mob at that. I was in the graveyard training my predator and I lined up for shadow blade. As I do, another blue ^ ^ walked beside me so I waited in sneak mode behind this mob until the other one left. Next thing I know out of no where a lvl 19 something or another came and kills this skelly. I sent him a tell asking why (for a grey mob to him), and he says that I need to act quicker and if I dont know how to play I should quit ><. Sooooo I went and got my wizard that is now 27 and followed him around for 1hr kill stealing every mob that I could grab before him. I shared nodes with him all in all a good teamwork day hehe. After my ignoring him for 40 min he finally said that what I was doing was wrong. Once I revealed who my other character was he said apologies and said he would not do it again. Even tried to give me 10 silver lol (which I did not take). I just think some of these people need to be reminded that its a social game and jerks dont make it far.
While I understand the principle involved, justice would have been served after your first KS of the guy (after you logged your alt). (And, even then, it would still be unjust in that there was no reasonable way for the guy to see you if you were cloaked and he was not in your group.)
But following him around for 40 minutes, KSing *everything* that he was trying to go for, and adding insult to injury by sharing his nodes on top of that, is *not* justice even if he COULD have seen you (which, we already know, he could not possibly have done).
I'm not trying to call you specifically out on this. But this incident is a great example to use. What you did was *far* better described as harrassment than his one-time "KS" of your mob.
When this happens to me, what do I do? Nothing. Seriously, think about it for a second: If some guy KSs you, and you actually log a different character in for the better part of an hour following him around for "retaliation", what exactly are you accomplishing? 1) More stress in your life, 2) Absolutely NO progress on the character that you're supposedly so pissed off about not progressing with in the first place, 3) you're bringing yourself down *lower* than the level of the person you have problems with, and 4) While a "one time" KS can be chalked up to a misunderstanding, or lack of communication, 40 minutes of intentional harrassment cannot be chalked up to anything other than what it is: spite and vindictiveness.
I just don't understand these kind of conflicts, to tell the truth. All I can think is that the folks having these problems never played EQ1 (which, of course, is quite possible). There is a rational basis for being pissed off at someone stealing your kill when the kill is a rare spawn, or hard to spawn to begin with, or on a hideously long timer. But in EQ2, the spawn rate is so incredible, that there is simply no basis for complaint unless it's a repeat violation! It's the height of impatience when you get pissed off at some dude for "KS"ing your a_random_gnoll_27.