Terrible players

[Beaniron]

There's a simple solution to this.

Target the player and /kick

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[Sarius]

Is that generally acceptable? If you are group leader and decide to kick somebody that is bad, are other members generally OK with that?

[Thulack]

All depends. If they are crappy players too they might get mad thinking you will kick them next. I personally have no issues with booting people who arent carrying their weight.

[Vondra]

Usually it starts a chain reaction of drama due to friends of friends of friends that isn't worth dealing with on p99.

On live you could do it. Neat thing was, you didn't need to much. By mid levels almost everyone you grouped with was at least mediocre.

I blame alt tab. In 1999-2000 computers didn't really handle you minimizing EQ very well heh.

[Asap]

If nobody tells them they are terrible, how are they going to know?

[Cippofra]

You can't teach people to not be lazy. There's a huge difference in someone not using the right spell, not using the right pet, vs being afk for 2 out of 3 pulls. These people aren't bad players. They're just assholes.

[Aeolwind]

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

I blame alt tab. In 1999-2000 computers didn't really handle you minimizing EQ very well heh.

You actually couldn't alt-tab at all. They had to add it in later. Alt-Tabbing was against the 'Vision'.

[Gadwen]

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

Is that generally acceptable? If you are group leader and decide to kick somebody that is bad, are other members generally OK with that?

Unless they just go AFK and never come back or are trolling the group it probably won't go over too well. I think most people are willing to cut others some slack, and the terrible player was probably brought along by someone else in the group half of the time anyway.

[Blasted]

The game would crash (intentionally) if you were even able to alt/tab out.

EQw came out and allowed people to play windowed (and/or tab out) but it was frowned upon (bannable?) on live until Sony gave in and built windowed mode into the client, a long while later.

[feanan]

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

You can't teach people to not be lazy. There's a huge difference in someone not using the right spell, not using the right pet, vs being afk for 2 out of 3 pulls. These people aren't bad players. They're just assholes.

or they are wizards!

zing!