Really confused/ticked off about AoEing in zones.

[Morgander]

OK so, I just have to get this off my chest. I currently feel that the current state of the rules regarding AoEing in zones and how those rules are policed is completely backwards at this time.

In Chardok, if I were to show up wanting to kill zone mobs, the AoE group there would disregard me and just pull through me (fight at your own risk), and I bet you anything that the GM's would be on their side as they were there first (there basically perpetually as that group is nearly constant and ever-changing).

But I was recently suspended for a week on a druid in Mistmoore, and I am absolutely irritated about it, and I'll explain the situation first in detail.

So we zoned in to MM with a group including some wizards with which I was going to mass pull mobs and let them aoe down for great xp. So we zone in and first I find out who in the zone is doing what so we don't pull their mobs. Ok great, the pond area all the way to the castle is devoid of groups, so I start pulling and we're pulling a ton of mobs. Now I'm using a druid and I'm double snaring every single thing I pull using my snare gaunts, and I've done this for months so I know 100% that in no case does a double snared mob agro someone who didn't touch them, even if I pull the mob right across a sitting player.

So we're literally doing this for over an hour and people start filtering into the zone. Some people start oocing looking for more for camps that WE'RE ALREADY PULLING.

So fine, I'm not a jerk, I want to let people who want to play in the zone also get mobs, so I stop pulling everything and start getting more selective, even going way deeper in to grab mobs to pull back.

But people are complaining anyways, talking about how we're pulling too many things. One guy in IB for example starts to swear and say he's going to petition us, and I ignore him of course because I THOUGHT I was well within my rights to pull lots of mobs so long as we weren't training anybody, or stealing from another camp of players already established before we started.

Apparently I was wrong.

I go to log in one day a few days later and that account has been suspended and I don't know why. So later I find out it was because of "zone disruption". But "zone disruption" is bogus. That entire ideology is so abstract that it feels like if a cop busted me for "disturbing the peace".

So seriously server, why is this acceptable? I pride myself on being polite and considerate. I don't break rules, I don't kill steal, I don't take other player's mobs, I often give up camps to people (ESPECIALLY if I'm power leveling somebody), and when we AoE in these PL groups, I don't train anybody or take their mobs.

SO WHY WAS I SUSPENDED?

And better yet, why was I suspended without being told what specifically I was even being accused of? Was there a fraps? Can I see it? Do I not even get a voice as to my side of the story? I bet you anything that any fraps on me did not actually show me breaking a single server rule (because I don't break server rules and I know it with complete confidence), but instead probably showed some obscure situation that made me look bad, like showing me telling a mob with my pull train behind me with someone standing there looking like I was pulling from their camp when I wasn't doing that.

Is this the end of the world? Na. But I think it's an injustice. Now half my friends are worried about ever attempting to AoE anything anymore, and some of them were telling me they're worried about all sorts of things if they can just get suspended or maybe even banned without warning for something they weren't even being told they were doing and without having their side of the story told.

This is like having the FBI come to your house and cuff you and lock you up and throw you in prison without a trial of any kind, because someone got a 2 minute video of you at a convenience store two minutes before it got robbed, and just assumed it had to be you.

It's an injustice of the server if you ask me.

Rant off.