What's so bad about going Anon?

[DeathByCactus]

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

Feel free to go /ano or /role but DONT expect me to answer you when you ask for tp since I have NO clue where you are, who you are or nothing so then WHY should I move from my camp and TP you when you ask me???

Offering me 20-30pp for 10-15 min of my exping time to TP a /ano or /role person isnt anything for me............ thats what boring people can do.

If you go /ano or /role fine do that but dont bother me whit some TP questions since I dont care you are just a /ano person I dont know anything about.

I have never answered a /ano or /role person who sent me a tell if they didnt stand behind me and why should I when I dont know where you are?

I always try to help out low lvl or none /ano-/role people when I can and have time but I dont like hiden people since I have spent to much time traveling to zones and just find out its like 5+ /ano people in the zon that I was trying to camp something in...........I just hate it and thats why I have stopped to answer tells from them. If they will be MR ano and nobody its up to them.

My new rules is if they go ano TP will cost 500pp.......... :-)

What a idiot. You know who they are, their name is right there on the list. Who cares what level or class they are it doesn't matter.

I hate bluebies, crybabies, and whiners. I use /role, reason being? Some dike thought it was funny to follow me around and train me, since the GM's do nothing I use /role.

[Gorgetrapper]

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

I hate bluebies, crybabies, and whiners. I use /role, reason being? Some dike thought it was funny to follow me around and train me, since the GM's do nothing I use /role.

Go back to tz/vz then.

[Akame]

I just got a ten minute lecture from someone for being anon, seriously? I prefer a purple name, it's not that big of a deal and really rude to be talked down to about how I'm not helping others grouping and checking camps because they don't know what zone i'm in. I'm rude if I don't help them be lazy.

[Yellow]

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[rioisk]

So I assume everybody here is okay with the patriot act or the US government keeping tabs on you? That makes perfect sense - big brother watches out for us. If people try to hide from big brother they must be up to something? Punish those who hide!

Guys, seriously, let people do what they want. It's a game for christ sake.

[Weekapaug]

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

I dont understand where you people get off thinking that you should be able to know where I am if I don't want to be found.

The fucking gall of some people.

Totally.

I was anon for about an hour earlier and had people pestering me about it.

If I'm in your group or guild and I'm actually *doing* something that's an actual problem for the group or guild (as in a real problem, not whiney asshats getting their pink undies in a wad and purporting to tell others they can't be /anon or /role), then call me out on it, by all means. Like Spicoli said to Mr. Hand....When we are together, it's OUR time. Knock yourself out.

But when I'm off doing something on my own on MY time, whatever the hell it may be, I might go /anon or /role and I don't have to (nor will I) offer any justification for it other than I fucking feel like it.

The balls on some people never cease to amaze.

[Nedala]

Its your own problem.

As a lowbie who is anon or role it will be harder for you to:

-find grps
-find ports
-find rezzes
-find buyers on anything you sell

and also you minimize your chance on some nice gifts.

If this is worth it for you, go ahead.

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

I just got a ten minute lecture from someone for being anon, seriously? I prefer a purple name, it's not that big of a deal and really rude to be talked down to about how I'm not helping others grouping and checking camps because they don't know what zone i'm in. I'm rude if I don't help them be lazy.

Well i was just trying to explain you, you make your own life harder.

Look you were asking why your med skill always resets. I did /who all "you" and saw your anon. Mostly i would just decide not to answer your question because of that.

If you werent anon i would see youre , for example, a lvl 6 cleric. I would have told you "you can train meditate at lvl 8". But when i see your anon/role i just dont gonna ask you what lvl and class you are, i just leave you with your question.

Same thing for ports. I read ooc cause im bored. Someone asks for a port. I do a /who, i see this guy is a low level so i decide to port him for free. If i see the guy is anon...i wont port him, not because im mad hes anon but just because im not gonna send him a tell "what lvl are you" and he might response "lvl 40" and then i say "oh sorry, too high for free ports"...

I totally understand when higher levels especially clerics and druids go anon/role but where is the point for lvl 5s to go role/anon? you just make your own life harder.

And if the reason is because you like purple more...i tell you its not worth it.

[Weekapaug]

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

Its your own problem.

As a lowbie who is anon or role it will be harder for you to:

-find grps
-find ports
-find rezzes
-find buyers on anything you sell

and also you minimize your chance on some nice gifts.

If this is worth it for you, go ahead.

I totally understand when higher levels especially clerics and druids go anon/role but where is the point for lvl 5s to go role/anon? you just make your own life harder.

It's not like turning in your Book of Discord or something. It's /anon...a temporary conditon, ffs. Anyone who can handle actually playing EQ, probably has a handle on the appropriate times to use it or not use it.

When someone is sitting at a camp, working on tradeskills, windowed out lookinh at porn, or just feeling like being anon, they aren't necessarily doing a trade or are in need of a port or rez are they? And with the stroke of several keys, they can be un-anon can't they? How difficult a concept is that to grasp? It's not, unless you are veiling a need for telling other people what to do and sticking your nose in their business with concern for newbies.

Arguments like this is what I find so galling in these discussions....for 11 freaking years. I will fully conceed that there are many reasons why one would not want to be /anon at certain times, but people who are against it generally never conceed that there are legitimate uses of /anon or they have to have some golden reason why someone would need to do it. You don't. It's none of your damned business if they are anon or not or why. Let them worry about it. Honestly, I find the level of concern that some people have for this a tad manipulative and, frankly, kind of creepy.

Weather you port them or not is up to you. They probably won't care if you don't. They probably particularly wont care if you don't and they find out you are so petty as to worry about weather they are anon or not. Especially when you can't throw a rock without hitting 3 druids.

If anyone ever refused to do a trade with me because I was anon, I would laugh in their face and nominate them for Shithead of The Year.

Seriously, why don't we all concern ourselves with something that actually matters to newbies, beyond free advice, gear hookups and ports conditional on being /anon or not. It's petty as all hell. Like aggro control being a group effort. I've grouped with like 4 people under level 20 who got that memo and, frankly, the worst of them are often the ones that claimed to have left for WoW during the awful terrible Luclin and PoP eras because "things got too easy." Ponder the irony of that for a moment. Or the fact that just because you can play a mage, doesn't mean you have any clue about how to play whatever class it was you twinked with the mage...Particularly twinked bards and enchanters. Maybe we might not almost wipe every other pull. I've run into like 2 of those who weren't a detriment to themselves and others every other moment in a group. I'd love to see an 8 page thread about all of that.

There's an old expression: Don't sweat the small stuff. /anon and /role are about as small as it gets.

[Tallenn]

I sometimes go anon just because I know it gives some people hissy fits.

WHO ARE YOU???
WHERE ARE YOU???
WHAT IS YOUR CLASS AND LEVEL???
IT DRIVES ME NUTS NOT KNOWING!!!

PAPERS PLEASE!!!

[Akame]

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

Its your own problem.

As a lowbie who is anon or role it will be harder for you to:

-find grps
-find ports
-find rezzes
-find buyers on anything you sell

and also you minimize your chance on some nice gifts.

If this is worth it for you, go ahead.




Well i was just trying to explain you, you make your own life harder.

Look you were asking why your med skill always resets. I did /who all "you" and saw your anon. Mostly i would just decide not to answer your question because of that.

If you werent anon i would see youre , for example, a lvl 6 cleric. I would have told you "you can train meditate at lvl 8". But when i see your anon/role i just dont gonna ask you what lvl and class you are, i just leave you with your question.

Same thing for ports. I read ooc cause im bored. Someone asks for a port. I do a /who, i see this guy is a low level so i decide to port him for free. If i see the guy is anon...i wont port him, not because im mad hes anon but just because im not gonna send him a tell "what lvl are you" and he might response "lvl 40" and then i say "oh sorry, too high for free ports"...

I totally understand when higher levels especially clerics and druids go anon/role but where is the point for lvl 5s to go role/anon? you just make your own life harder.

And if the reason is because you like purple more...i tell you its not worth it.

I get the gist of your reasoning but it's still rather presumptuous to expect people to not be anon for someone else's benefit. Voice chat and such prompts people to be lazy with their text, and while I know that not everyone types as fast as I do, I still find it hard to believe someone has an issue with sending someone a tell asking their level. It's just the life of the game, and trying to twist that, even if it is "for everyone's benefit" is just going to frustrate you in the long run and piss off everyone else you are trying to enlighten.