I'm fine with taking a hard stance on things.... but a lot more BS happens at raid levels that goes unanswered yet they smite newbies. I'm not seeing how this is good.

Judgement in regards to OP's actions is fairly draconian, but it may have to do with drama levels reaching critical mass. Things will probably calm down. I seriously doubt Amelinda gets any sort of jollies from handing out suspensions.

Im not done with eq. im not gonna play much, but i was overreacting.. its just that if were gonna invest alot of time in this game I wanna know GM's are going to investigate further on things like this. My friend has been accused of two boxing before(which he definitely hasnt two boxed), if someone told amelinda I was two boxing how much further would she investigate than that? Im not going to exploit.. I've read the rules now. Honestly im just afraid of getting super into this game, then getting kicked for something random.

Bowgun received nearly as harsh a penalty as people who cheated/hacked for 2 years... lol. Sorry bowgun, next time you should try to break the rules more since it appears the penalties are nearly equal

Rulings like this one happen all the time on P1999. Why do you think so many posts more or less like this one end up in RnF everyday?

The fact of the matter is P1999 is not friendly to new EverQuest players or MMORPG players in general. Using bad pathing to one's advantage would intuitively seem like intelligent gameplay but in many MMORPGs this behavior is against the rules. Usually on other MMORPG, where players pay to play, the player is given a warning and he stops what he is doing and goes on his marry way. However, on P1999, where there is no cost to create an account and there is no monetary incentive to keep players playing, the GMs/Devs have opted to use a shoot-first-never-ask-questions later policy. This policy was likely adapted because they believe that most players are Everquest Vets that will stop at nothing to get the upper hand, breaking rules in the process. They make a poor assumption that players are fully aware of every rule they break.

This policy does not fare well for true newbs or people who just play this game leisurely because these are the type of people who are not constantly consulting the rulebook for everything they do. In other words, GM/Devs expect you to have the attitude that "If something is too easy, it's likely an exploit". If you're not the type of player who isn't aware of what constitutes easy/hard then how are you supposed to know if what you're doing is somehow circumventing the rules?

It's sad that GMs don't take into consideration context of violations before making a ruling. Perhaps I'm off base but is it not a different situation when a lowbie group wearing newb armor slaying gnolls in BB violates pathing rules versus a level 45 fungi-wearing shaman in lguk violating pathing rules? If people here see these situations the same then wow, just wow, there are no words.

Had GM let this group off with a warning then we wouldn't have this thread, their group would have learned about pathing exploits and to avoid them, and everybody would go on their marry way. In contrast, raiders who continually violate the rules are given the same one week suspensions again and again. Where is the logic to punishments? Obviously raiders will continue to play, but applying the same harsh punishment to new players who may or may not know better is almost ludicrous.

Also nobody cares if you play or recommend P1999 to friends. Many players here see more players as a liability to their chance at raid loot.

Really? Seems like a pretty textbook case of loser shutin who finally gets what some may consider to be 'power' and then just abuses the shit of said 'power'

as did guineapig & uthgaard

these people are brought onto the project specifically for those qualities. Whoever does the hiring of volunteers is and always was completely incompetent.