Aggroing Mobs at others with a Mount...

[mrshad]

Ignore this...nothing to see here.

[lyrah68]

Unintentional is once or twice, griefing is KNOWING that a group is there and continuing to run to the guards when you know it will get a group killed. And as per Cerest's warning...it is now offically illegal. AND FYI...Cerest IS a gm...she CAN...and I rather think WILL, back up that information with action.

If anyone trains you and you catch their name, or you hear them in region or around chat bragging...REPORT it.

One thing I learned rather early on in open beta is the the GM's in this game aren't lazy, stupid OR slow. They can and DO act when their action is required, and repeated training "unintentionally" (after once...it IS intentionally) or not WILL get you in trouble. Also the GM responce time is WAY fast, last time took roughly a minute, but it was admittedly a BUSY day.

The community of this game is top rate, and the GM's WILL keep it that way. Play nice people, remember what comes around generally goes around.

[josephm]

Nothing says I have to play 'nice'!!

[xcomvic]

Nothing says I have to play 'nice'!!

thats right, this is a ROLE PLAYING GAME after all, where you can do whatever you want, for a monthly price that is!

[lyrah68]

And there is nothing stating that I have to sell anything I make over Q100, which means sooner or later, if you tick off ALL the crafters...you go naked. THAT says play nice louder than any words could.

[xcomvic]

And there is nothing stating that I have to sell anything I make over Q100, which means sooner or later, if you tick off ALL the crafters...you go naked. THAT says play nice louder than any words could.

most people craft their own gear or have friends that do it for them...

[lyrah68]

Yes, but after a certain point, it becomes untenable to even try to keep ALL crafting skills up to your melee/magic levels due to skill trees branching and rebranching. And if you don't play nice, sooner or later...your friends will dwindle.

Sorry, but if you trained me over and over...I doubt I would bother to answer a tell or listen to you in region, OR rez you if you died for any reason.

Once your action harm others often enough...you get noticed, and sooner or later people will just watch you die and let you lie there. And you won't be able to buy gear for ten times the market value.

[xcomvic]

Yes, but after a certain point, it becomes untenable to even try to keep ALL crafting skills up to your melee/magic levels due to skill trees branching and rebranching. And if you don't play nice, sooner or later...your friends will dwindle.

Sorry, but if you trained me over and over...I doubt I would bother to answer a tell or listen to you in region, OR rez you if you died for any reason.

Once your action harm others often enough...you get noticed, and sooner or later people will just watch you die and let you lie there. And you won't be able to buy gear for ten times the market value.

no one is training aggro on purpose so your points are mute...

[grandma]

I think that most of the people who can afford a mount are familiar with basic compass usage and know how to look around to check if they have agro, etc. This isn't ragging on anyone, just a proposition:

This is what *I* do..

I know where the agro is, I pay just as much attention while riding a mount as I do on foot....

I know when I am agro'd or not because usually mobs will strike at you at least once as you pass by, also because I'm paying attention...

When I am agro'd and I hit the full throttle on the mount, the first thing I do is point my mount in my desired direction, press auto run, then chat "/region Inbound to [location] with agro [mob type], following the road/path/coming from the south."

It doesn't stop there, I leave my compass set to 125 meters and since I know I'm already faster than the mobs while mounted, I have time to dodge the blue dots (players) on the compass, it's very easy to dodge them in a wide enough arc that they are safe if they didn't heed the warning message.

I think it's a courteous gesture to at least send the warning even if it's very brief and vague: "incoming to yrkanis with agro!"

I'm not even going to touch on purposefully training mobs/tribes/etc on players because that's just poor character.

Hey, maybe if enough of us do these kinds of things we won't chase off so many new players :0)

[cerest]

This seems to be getting a little out of hand. To further drive home the point of what I said earlier, you cannot repeatedly train aggro and expect nothing to happen to you. It IS against the rules. You may think you pay for the right to do whatever you want but everyone else pays too, so their experience must be taken into consideration as well. Some games don't care if this happens but those games are more open PvP oriented and the storylines are completely different.


So to recap:

Training aggro on other people...BAD.
Will anything happen to you if you do it repeatedly?...Absolutely, whether you think you're roll playing or not, this is not a practice that is allowed in Ryzom.