Claiming a camp

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Unless the person has really bad luck, how can they camp for the fishbone earring? It's lore and unless they're boxing, they can't really stay for more than one at a time. Once they leave to sell it, they'd lose the camp, right?

Assuming they aren't boxing, this player could be working with another player. Basically Player A camps Hadden, and player B picks up the lore item and puts it on a mule for selling in EC. Player A continues to camp Hadden. Since it is a 6 hour respawn, Player B has plenty of time to pick up the earring.

This is how the shiny brass idol camp has worked for a long time.

I would just buy the earring. Since the earring doesn't drop every time, this camp is at best like 150pp per hour if you get an earring every other spawn on average. Camping guards is generally more plat per hour than that. Honestly Hadden isn't a very good camp money-wise, but it's easy I guess.

[Goregasmic]

Or he could just do a ground xfer to an alt parked there, it takes like a minute and no one would ever know. The person contesting would still have to stare at the camper for days.

[Belambic]

Is Hadden considered a FTE camp?

[Jimjam]

Yes, Hadden is primarily For The Earring.

[Belambic]

FTE - First To Engage

[Jimjam]

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

FTE - First To Engage

No, engagement rings are usually on the finger not the ear.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Is Hadden considered a FTE camp?

No, do not try to steal hadden when he pops if someone else is camping him.

[Belambic]

That's why I asked, many such camps out there that are FTE, so I wasn't sure on this one.

[Belambic]

BTW, the server rules state that Hadden is a FTE camp.

Open Outdoor Zones can be anything from Western Wastes, Karanas or West Commons. There are no staff recognized camps for this zone type outside of single spawn points. Examples of single spawn types might be Ocean of Tears Ancient Cyclops, Iceclad Ocean Stormfeather, or Qeynos Hills Hadden. Though, any single spawn point can be claimed, that is the only spawn you can hunt (if being contested). If you are to claim this point you must get aggro/First to Encounter (FTE) within a reasonable amount of time.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

BTW, the server rules state that Hadden is a FTE camp.

Ancient Cyclops and Stormfeather operate on a list basis. You cannot simply run in and steal them on pop if other players are there.

When they talk about "agro/FTE in a reasonable amount of time", they just mean you could take Hadden if the current player camping hadden leaves him up for like 5 minutes.

So if you are really that desparate, you could check to see if the player leaves Hadden up for 5 minutes or more before killing. If you go down that route, be sure to record the situation with OBS so you can show a GM how long hadden was up after pop.