I get into this line of thought at least once a year, during Halloween and such in AO. Now also with the 10'th year anniversary we got running atm.
Here's an example of what I'm on about:
A zone or tower-site is 25%. There are mobs there to kill for loot.
The rules of Anarchy Online dictates that if you wander into a 25% zone, you CHOOSE to take the risk that this activity brings. You may die to an attacker. The attacker enters the field accepting the same risks. He may die as well.
Now, in PW today there were like 8 mostly level 220 omnis (doc, engie, fixer, shade, keeper, NT, MP, crat and so on) and 2 clanners in a 25% field hunting mobs (the clanners were me on my trader and an agent friend).
Me and the agent kill some random omnis, most of them were hard to kill because engie with 7x blockers and doc and MP and keeper and so on were teamed and running together in a big blob. We killed 3'ish from that team and another 3'ish random omnis that were not in that team. In between kills we would continue to kill mobs for loot.
When someone died, I would get tells that technically speaking is harassment. Calling me names, cursing at me and questioning my sexual preferences and such. Typical childish stuff. We never sent them any tells at all. So it was only their death within the 25% field that caused them to send such tells.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't care enough about such tells to petition anyone for it. I don't care enough to tell them to stop sending them either. I just give them the silent treatment.
The interesting thing about this scenario is that these people run into a 25% zone, knowing full well what that means. They attack mobs and loot stuff. I don't know who they are and I don't know if they are interested in PvP or not. All I know is that they have chosen to enter a 25% zone and open themselves up for attack. There are even fields with same level mobs nearby that is still 75% that they could go to if they didn't want to be attacked. But as of right now, they are in the 25% field.
So when we attack them, we get harassed in tells because we are, to quote them, "attacking PvM'ers that don't care about PvP".
So to me this means one thing:
I play the game the way it's designed. You accept the risk of death by going into the field. This risk becomes a reality for you and then you think you are morally superior to me and are able to tell me that I'm doing something wrong? This logic means one thing and that is that you think everything that makes Anarchy online the game it is, should be completely put aside whenever you feel like it.
So I follow the rules, play as intended and don't harass anyone.
These omnis want to ignore the rules that AO is built upon, don't play as intended and they harass people that are just playing the game like normal.
So these "PvM'ers" (their words) are doing everything wrong and they think they are morally superior. All I wanted to point out here is how.. incredibly misguided that is.
I understand that this is an anniversary and that you for some reason expect the game to be put on hold while you go out there and farm all your stuff for hours on end. But just because you think that, it doesn't mean that anyone has to follow suit with your line of thinking. It definitely doesn't mean that you get to harass them in tells for attacking you in a 25% zone.
You think you are being harassed by "those evil solo-kill farmers" when you die in a 25% zone. But the fact is, you are harassing them with your childish tells. You just need to know where you are in the space time continuum in order to realize that.
If you don't respect AO for what it is (and harass people that do), then I don't respect you. Now grow up and take some responsibility for your own actions.
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Originally Posted by Sheffsammie
