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[quote="PLUM"]As a community I feel we could come up with a few suggestions on how to avoid getting attacked and upset by bastards. These are a few things I'd like to suggest. 1. Don't antagonise the bastard. 2. If the bastard is stronger than you and runs at you with murderous intent - 2a. Run away. 2b. Use a TP. 3. If the bastard finds you again - 3a. Run away again. 3b. Use a TP again. 4. At all costs refrain from sending hate filled PMs, this is what the bastard wants. 5. Rally your friends into what will inevitably become a huge fight around VoD entrance. 6. Remember that he/she is spending as much, if not more, of their own time trying to find and kill you. Be happy that someone cares this much about you. 7. Don't get bogged down, the fact that someone might be lurking nearby should add excitement to your day. 8. Lavender Tea. It is easy to claim that pking is harassment, because getting chased by a bastard is not everyone's cup of tea. But we need to accept that it is part of the game. Most of the time there is a human on the other end of that character that you can talk to, to resolve your problems, even if that human is a bastard.[/quote]

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[quote="PLUM"][quote="PLUM"] 1. Don't antagonise the bastard. [/quote] [/quote]

[quote="IMCON"]Haha. Well put. I'm about as anti-PK as they come, but I agree completely with almost all of what you said. People really do tend to make things worse for themselves than they need to be. There are ways to reduce how often you are targeted, and you're quite right in your observations: Give people what they want, and they'll only come back again and again. The issue is where the PKing happens so much that people end up logging off, or cannot hunt where they need to at all. And that can happen even to people who do follow your suggestions. Ultimately imo nothing excuses the behaviour of people who... yes, harass is the right word. Or when people try to shut down spawns... I don't see that as part of the game so much as selfish, crummy behaviour. But the last thing you should ever do is send abusive PMs, or fight someone whom you can't win against (or frankly fight at all if you really want to be left alone). It's just not going to help. [/quote]

[quote="KAIDONE"]You have basically just stated someone spending so much time on you (whilst trying to pk) is not harrassment i feel if someone is chasing me for a while i am being harrassed more so after i change spawns, some of us have important real life commitments and refuse/cant afford a pilot meaning the only tme we get to effectively hunt is severely ruined by someone following you i'm not complaining on my behalf as i have never really been "Grief'd" or followed everywhere other than supersayian or w/e his name is but that char/player doesn't really have the firpower to kill me easily, however on behalf of people who struggle to compete anyway unless they are being a total d*ck they shouldn't have this "much time spent on them" it is unenjoyable and drives people away. (Not a flame) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[/quote]

[quote="RTPR"]Plum, at what point would you say PK'ing does become harrassment?[/quote]

[quote="LINNYI"]Camoline Tea is much better :P[/quote]

[quote="YOSHIMITSU"]Run to the closest town, or run to the corner of the map and tp, they want to annoy you at least waste their time ;o[/quote]

[quote="GANDALF"][quote="ISYLVER"]I can see the community effort lasted a whole 2 days. Monopolising spawn points is a sure fire way to get banned, particularly in Conti. Some players are very close to gaining a ban: Iceblue, Zyzz, Haux, Chronos and whoever the devils they were allying with to lock down conti/spawn points. Take this as your only warning.[/quote] Assuming this warning is also going to quicksilver kajoken lafite Kortex and the other devils doing the same against EQ? (I'm not a part of this but I feel both sides doing this should get equal warning) /gand[/quote]

[quote="MONTEL"]How on earth can people be banned for pking? What is the purpose of PK mode? What is the purpose of Guild village war? What is the purpose of leveling at all? Didn't No_Mercy run something of a monopoly on various spawns during their week of GV? Are they all close to a ban as well?[/quote]

[quote="ZYZZ"][quote="ISYLVER"] Some players are very close to gaining a ban: Zyzz[/quote] And why is this? :] [/quote]

[quote="MONTEL"]Are Phyra and Kortex close to a ban?[/quote]

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[quote="HAUX"][quote="ISYLVER"]I can see the community effort lasted a whole 2 days. Monopolising spawn points is a sure fire way to get banned, particularly in Conti. Some players are very close to gaining a ban: Iceblue, Zyzz, Haux, Chronos and whoever the devils they were allying with to lock down conti/spawn points. Take this as your only warning.[/quote] There's no smoke without fire, I don't know who's reported this to you but its very one sided. I was at LB all day where No_mercy and Arcanix hunted there trouble free. It wasn't until Iphios decided to try kill me while I had LB on me, I shrugged it off and carried on hunting. Later in the day more No_mercy and Arcanix showed up and decided to stand in the LB spawn I was at and try take it for themselves. I asked in guild chat for help, Devils were already in conti & on Mumble so everyone showed up and cleared up an issue No_mercy and Arcanix had caused themselves. [/quote]