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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception
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And this IS the server rule, basically.
A lot of people seem to remember how things were in 1999-2000 when groups killed more slowly and players were as/more concerned with just slaughtering trash as they were with picking off named PHs, though. These people play on p99 thinking that asking for and responding to camp checks is mandatory. They think that not responding to a CC forfeits your camp. They think that a group who can't kill all of the mobs in a camp (camp meaning CoM stables or MM castle entrance, etc) can still claim it and not allow other players to pull the mobs that they can't even get to as they spawn.
And the server rules + players who follow them get into spats with the people who remember how things were in 2000 + the PNP.
It sounds to me like the OP ran into an issue with powerleveling in a popular zone and that he should have addressed his complaint as such, but instead he tried to expand his issue to camps and pulling in general.
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Unless the other servers were different, camps are pure classic. Think about it: some classes need a spot to be able to med, which used to mean, opening yer spellbook. Constantly moving around as a group was never all that feasible, and certainly not the norm. The group runs out of mana.
This was one of the good design elements of eq, I thought. You have to find those locations in a dungeon where you can take a "med break" but also where you of course have mobs to pull once everyone is gtg. Shit's pure classic.
What else was classic was some other group trying to inch up on your "camp" or try to leapfrog you to get closer to where you were pulling from. This is where the PNP always came in: that is just, not nice to do that.
We all know these things. And I agree with tecmos, this is not about camps per se, but about powerlevling toons.
Since during live I was "leveling with the server" I never really experienced this problem; who could have powerleveled? There were no high level characters at that time: we at the top of the lvl heap *were* the high level characters.
The only time this became an issue is when ae groups became popular. I used to dominate fungus grove shrooms with an ae grp, for example.
On hindsight, I think we were flirting with violating the PNP. Because really, once an ae grp would get set up, forget about being a normal group killing in that entire area.
Powerleveling and ae grps need to be, as a rule, second in importance to "normal" grps. That would be my take. I am not planning on doing ae grps on p99 for this reason, except during off hours.
cuz I'm awesomely cool.
tl;dr version: don't be a dick to people playing the normal game of grps trying to find a good camp for their appropriate level. Powerlevelers and ae'ers need to step down. PNP