Leapfrogging

[Ravhin]

Indeed - I was a Guide in the classic/Kunark era, at which time only "kill stealing" was an enforceable offense. KSing defined only on a mob to mob basis, i.e. whichever player or group that engages a mob first has the right to kill it, and if another player/group engages after with the intent to KS that was against the rules.

This was almost always applied to exp situations and never raids for a few reasons. One, ability to verify. Typically we would get a petition from a group about some asshat KSing them, would go invis and sit around for a few minutes and see it actually happen, and then could do something. For a raid target it's a one time deal and we weren't going to sit around and watch guilds buff/ready to engage on the off chance that another guild was going to KS. Two, it was a per mob rule, so no concept of trash mobs. Ie it would have been technically legal for Guild A to clear giants leading up to Nag and then have Guild B engage, as long as Guild A hadn't actually agroed Nag when Guild B engaged.

Likely not the answer you were looking for, as I doubt the question was "what was the official GM policy?" but rather "what would be a good policy?"

rav