Yea, it's one of thoooooooose threads.
Been a while since I wrote a hate thread on Alla, ahh the good old days. Anyway, I'll get right to the story.
So, I'm sure up to this point in our FFXI careers we've all leveled one of those jobs that spends a significant amount of their EXP time as a solo player. Although just about all jobs can solo, I'm thinking more specificaly around the jobs BST, BLM, and SMN. Why, only a few weeks ago I was killing Pugils with Leeches in Buburimbu peninsula when some other BST shows up and starts killing Leeches with Crabs! lolwtf! Then just as I go running for my life from a Pugil, hunting the beach for another pet Leech, he claims it with his Crab. Of course the Pugil kills me and eats me like sushi while I stand dumfounded that another BST would to this to me.
But he's not the focus of my story as I believe this person was just stupid and not a good example of the regular population.
If you go to the BST forum, you'll see that there's a common code to BST, and soloing in general. Respect others camps. All BST eventualy have to deal with parties coming in and taking their camp. Nobody respects a BST's space, it's just common. But what's worse is when a BST takes another BST's camp. But this code I speak of is really just common courtesy. Much like common sense, it's just not that common.
So my friend Myst is a level 64 BLM. She has never done anything wrong, and is much to quiet to really make friends, let alone make someone angry with her. She's shy to say the least. She has been playing over a year now, and much like a lot of jobs between 37-70 is having a difficult time getting EXP invites. She gets them at the pace of about 2 to 3 per month, and usualy one of those were horrible parties. A friend of ours pointedus to a great solo guide! Myst went from 61-64 in about a week, it's really great!
Now for the story.
So there she is in Bibiki Bay killing "Goblin's Rarab" Having come over to my house at around 3:00 to play FFXI, I watched her play on her laptop while I did my own thing from my Laptop. As I'm watching, these other people show up. It's 2X BLU and 2X NPCs. Now, ofen enough Myst will get to camp and see that it's taken. At this point she'll do two things.
1) Log off and come back a little later.
2) Ask the person if they'd like to team up.
Well, these people just started pulling the Rarab.
Now, I know what you are going to say. The same jack-*** remark every self centered jerk makes opposed to doing the right thing and respecting another person.
It's not YOUR mob. It's not your camp. The mob isn't yours if it's yellow. And all that jazz that sounds great until you are the one being crapped on.
Also, it's necesary to explain how this camp works for a BLM.
To kill the rarab, you have to wait until the goblin is facing away from you, then pull the bunnie of doom with a tier 3 spell. Then you run the mob back to camp and sleep it, hoping that a shadow or stoneskin keeps you from being interupted. If you are, you have to stun the mob, then cast sleep again. Then if it is slept, you finish it with Flare. Flare will not one shot the rabbit, you have to pull it with a tier 3 spell. What that means is that you cannot pull with stun, or paralyze, or any fast casting spell, or else you will die. And that is why she couldn't compete with 2X BLU using a ranged weapon to pull bunnies.
So these people move right into her camp, and completely dominate the bunnie. Myst, having no chance just loggs off. She loggs back on maybe 45 minutes later, and they are still at it.
At this point, I'm pissed. I get on my 75 MNK and head out there. Damn strait I'm not going to put up with this crap. I killed the BST Goblin for about 45 MIN.
Then these people
Sariah
Modavi
start saying all kinds of retarded stuff in /say.
Stuff like "Fine, we'll log off so you little babies can have your way."
and
"See what happens when some 17 year old gets a job to 75"
(I'm 27 btw)
And just all kinds of immature stuff.
Apparently they are adults when they take a camp, but when I take it from them, we're immature children.
I log after they dissapear, but they come back within 15 minutes. They get one pull of the bunnie and the louder of the two Sariah says it must be Karma.... Heh.... ok.
Well, I invite Myst and we kill goblins for the better part of 2 hours. Then I had an event, and we quit.
Log on Sunday and she's there atarting at 10:00 AM for about 15 minutes before Modavi and Sariah logg in at the same spot. Same thing, no respect and just take the camp.
I head over there and killed goblins for about 2 hours, until I got bored. Then when I signed on at 7:00 PM for an event, they are still there. I killed the goblin once more and listened to more of their /say crap.
They said all kinds of things. They called me names like *****, and *****, and told me how much of a loser I must be if I didn't have anyhting better to do than kill goblins, and the whole 9 yards. It was a very good display of highly-intelectual people. The maturity level and respect of these two was outstanding. At one point one of them even said "It was great seeing Myst with her flag up all day and not get an invite. That's what happens when you get a bad reputation."
I'm not stupid, hardly anyone has heard of Myst, as she hardly ever talks. And if they did remember her, I don't think there's anything bad to be said about someone who never goes AFK, and stays in a party to the bitter end. You respect EXP more when you get one invite a week.
Oh did I mention that they won't even admit that Myst was there first? They say "Someone was here when we got here, but it wasn't Myst." First off, I know it was Myst, but 2ndly even if it wasn't, they still blatently took the camp with no respect for the person there already.
Ok ok ok, damn that was long. But I gotta tell you, I have been playing since NA release and I've had more than my fare share of asshats. The thing is, after 3+ years there's not many days I log on and have a great time like I used to. Then days like these when I have to share the game with little punks like those two just makes me want to uninstall. Well, I wasn't about to resourt to name calling, nor could I get to their level. But I'm not about to let them get the best of me, that's why this thread had to be created. Lets hope that there is some sort of "Karma" and I'm just gonna give it a little help.
Thanks everyone, see you in the game!
~Singular > Bismarck