Inconsiderate!

[Feynman]

I don't know why I'm crazy enough to jump into this but here we go.

To the OP: As long as both parties are able to be productive I don't consider it inconsiderate. I understand where you're coming from though. The whole, wide, empty zone and you camp on top of us? Why? What benefit is there to anyone? But the main thing is just what you mentioned. "We always camp here." Old habits just die hard.

To the discussion that has broken out instead, I include my two cents. If a mob is unclaimed, it's unclaimed. One of the most annoying phrases in the game is of the form "Hey! That's my monster!" Really? If so how did I kill it? Hack the game code so I could attack claimed targets? I think not. But if I'm killing something and you're trying to do trials or something, I'll move elsewhere out of a courtesy. Assuming you approach me with something other than "I hate you" or the other messages I've gotten.

Someone taking a mob you fought against hoping for a drop can burn, but didn't the death itself do that already? I understand Katz's points about stealing. He is taking the ultimate moral high road. Stealing is stealing and it is never justified. But in this case I don't think you can call it stealing. SE set up the rules of the game. They consider this appropriate behavior. SE doesn't consider it stealing, and heck, it's all their property anyway.

However, sitting around watching a party and waiting for a chance to claim the target they are working on is just plain rude. For instance, a party fighting a mob and the whole party gets charmed. You take the mob once it turns. That's pretty crappy. Just because something is allowed, doesn't mean that it agrees with simple basic rules of human interaction. And yes I'm considering online interaction as human interaction. It is still two people regardless of the medium. But some people are just total jerks in real life and online interactions tend to heighten that quality in those people.

Lastly I may not (and often don't) agree with Korpg's point of view, and he is a bit more....abrasive.... than I think is needed, but I think we all need to let up a bit on other people's viewpoints. Seems like most posts degrade into fighting and personal attacks. Let's accept that we all have different opinions and that true discussion requires different opinions! This is a forum. We will not always agree. I personally don't find Korpg's "***" any harder to take than anyone else I don't agree with. (Not trying to pick on Yugl; I'm just taking a common term that they used.) But you know what? He's changed my mind on some things before.