Claiming a camp
 

My evil toons hunt guards. Elfs,woodelves and dwarfs. When bags are full, I gate, sell and come back. Takes 3 to 5 mins. Do I give up the camp if someone comes in while I am selling? Most of the time I am back with no repops.

If I found someone at the camp I had previous claim to before I left the zone, I'd ask. "Hey, would you be okay splitting this camp? I just ran to vendor to empty bags, but I'd like to stay here."

The technical rule is if you leave the zone at all then you forfeit the camp. If you go somewhere in the same zone to vendor, and you're back before the respawn, then the camp is still yours.

If you leave zone or log = forfeit.
If you gate into same zone = possibly forfeit
If you leave spawns up for long = forfeit

In outdoor zones you can only hold one spawn if someone wants to challenge you.

Yep you've got to maintain a physical presence. If someone is staring at the guards who are about to repop with the intent of killing them it's now their camp if you were in the next zone selling.



Hadden is another example of this. Long timer spawn, people say they're camping him and will respond with "hadden" on a CC, but also want to wander around and do the Pyzjn placeholders.

If someone wants to turn up and sit at Hadden while you're doing cartwheels around the zone its now their camp.

In all cases (sadly) your best defense in a dispute is video evidence. Have OBS installed and running.

I think ideally we can get DSM Zuranth & Samhot to weigh in here.

Best you can do is manage inventory to minimize the number of times you have to go sell.

Personally, in that situation if you're back before repops it is pretty obvious you're holding the camp and I'd go elsewhere but if some asshat wants to play elf law you're SOL.

Outdoor zone has a single mob camp rule.

So, if you are camping a large number of guards, a person can petition to have you split the camp with them.

Or pay lowbies to sell for you.

Technically leaving the zone is a camp forfeit, in dungeon zones even leaving line of sight can be. With that said if the camp is 100% dead, and you're back before anything repops then there is also nothing available for anyone else to claim the camp with. I treat coming back as an open but contested camp, whoever FTEs/kills the first repop claims the camp.

Also if there are multiple people around (i.e. spectres in feerrott) it can be common place to just let people know you're running to vendor and coming right back. They will usually have your back if someone else comes along with a fresh CC or looking for a spot.