Etiquette for camping Ancient Cyclops

[Bolix]

Would like to find out the etiquette for camping the AC before I start.
If I zone into S Ro or OOT and someone OOCs that they are camping it, I assume that means I should just move on or wait until they go?
Can someone 'afk' camp it just by standing at the AC spawn spot? Or should they be killing place holders within a reasonably short time of the pher spawning?
(I did look at the play nice policy on camps, but wanted to relate it specifically to the AC camp).

If I am running through one of these zones and happen to see AC up, should I OOC first to see if anyone camping it? Or do people nuke it first, and ask questions later.

BTW, first post on the boards, just getting into EQ again, and tremendous thanks to all the Project 1999 people for setting up and running the server.

[Zoolander]

usually i just pvp them and the winner gets the spawn

red99 can be the solution for so many things and this is one of them [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

besides that, it's not a static spawn ins SRo so it should be ffa (opposite to the oot AC where it is considered as a camp)

[Gnomebert]

spam your temp staff for fte and petition right away when they ks. Related: take a pirate ph from ac island to bird island and afk sometime, lulz to be had by all.

[Ennewi]

Players who afk camp static spawns risk losing camp. SRO spawn is a free for all, making it easy for anyone with track to run through and snipe. Sniping happens a lot with Quillmane and players don't risk getting caught if the campers are 2-manning it since SK is one of the larger zones, but SRO obviously isn't, especially in the area where AC can spawn. So players who snipe risk having their rep tarnished. Generally it's np, most players only log in just to check if AC is up and then promptly log off or zone out when they see level 35+ players in /who all or a ton of mob corpses, whichever comes first. If you are camping the AC in SRO and see a player running around the dunes area looking for the AC and not actively killing PHs than call them out on it. It's a dick move imo. Calling them out on it makes for some interesting reactions too. That said, sometimes if a wizard or bard is doing the killing, there really isn't much up to kill.

Get on list for OOT spawn>camp SRO spawn very late at night / early in the morning>try to figure out the spawn in EK.

[Swish]

Etiquette on P99 today? There's another possible thread.

Anyway, South Ro AC is now FFA... just be sure to engage first with a spell that takes some HP away from him (visual cue to anyone else that he's been engaged and isn't on 100% health anymore).

The OOT AC is higher level and not easy to solo (I'd imagine very difficult as a cleric below 49), but he is a static spawn... so you'll be able to claim the camp if nobody is there etc.

[fishingme]

one of the GMs explained to me that you can't afk at a camp and still hold it. I'd say ettiquette for it, if AC spawns allow a minute for the person camping to engage. If it's placeholder, don't even bother. Although Far too many people do the ring of ancients on a corpse and they keep doing that. In which case I say, do whatever shit you need to do if you see the person camping it doing that, within reason of course. But if you are afk camping a camp and mob/ph isn't down within a minute or two then it's FFA. It was either sirken or ambrotos that told me that.

[tristantio]

I asked about afk camping re: Hadden the other day, essentially, if someone is there (afk or not) they own the camp, however you may engage/take the mob after it has been spawned for a reasonable amount of time (enough for them to engage) - a few minutes at the least.

Obviously would be a little different on a roamer.

I have a question regarding dungeon camps however - obviously someone doesn't have to respond to a "cc/camp check" when someone /ooc requests it (although it sure is nice when they do), however what about when a group aggressively claims camps via a CC?

I was in lower guk (3rd floor) last night, and a full group responded to the camp check that they were taking cav/sav/exe - when I arrived however sav was fully spawned (PH'ers though).

I mentioned that I don't think you can take 3 camps, per the PNP you must maintain a "presence" at a camp. They said that's guk rules since '99 and they own all 3 camps (then proceeded to have a monk pull sav room past all the 3rd floor trash into cav room, splitting just those 3 mobs off via FD split).

As I understand the PNP - you can't claim multiple camps in a dungeon (even in such a small area as cav/sav/exe), even with a full group, unless you can "maintain a presence" - which to me doesn't seem to be the case if just pulling the individual camp rooms and leaving all the in-between mobs (or even if they did).

I think the PNP even mentions just because you know the spawn timer of a room, you can't roam around the rooms claiming the various spawns just because you make it back before the timer?

[Swish]

Most "good people" on P99 won't take a camp if there's someone there on it, and will at least give them a couple of minutes to answer a CC or a tell asking if they're there.

Does the South Ro AC have more than a single camper lately? Is there competition? I haven't checked.

[Lyrith]

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

Most "good people" on P99 won't take a camp if there's someone there on it, and will at least give them a couple of minutes to answer a CC or a tell asking if they're there.

Does the South Ro AC have more than a single camper lately? Is there competition? I haven't checked.

Haven't checked the SRO in a long time myself. OOT is camped a lot but people respect each other. Someone can AFK between pulls, but if they aren't actively killing Place Holders then you can take the camp.

[Juhstin]

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

Related: take a pirate ph from ac island to bird island and afk sometime, lulz to be had by all.

I need to try that sometime haha