To Those Opting to Play 'One Player Mode'...

[Frost]

First, to the majority of you, this obviously does not apply. For those who responded thinking I was addressing them specifically, either you harbor some sense of guilt for something you've done, or you missed the first paragraph:

While you may have found freedom from cooperating or socializing in an Massively Multiplayer Online Video Game, we unfortunately still have to deal with you. Sometimes you guys make that a really unfavorable experience. For those folks, I'd like to have a word with you.

Moving on.

"There are always two sides to a coin."

Careful when starting this kind of thread with such a general situation.

Just something to think about.

There's three sides to this coin. Anyone who reads my posts by now should be able to see that I always have a reason for doing things, and that the majority of what I write has double/triple meanings. Usually I mean no malace, and am trying to 'do right'.
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I generally like what you write SNK, and it's kind of unfortunate I have to do the following:

(Cherry-picking my argument, I know, but you seem to be no stranger to that considering BST isn't the whole topic.)

Why you gotta pick on my fucking job?

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Case in point crawler's nest beetle camp on the upper level. It's a great camp if you're soloing or in a party but hey I've always made it a point to make sure nobody was there before I went to exp. Hell I even went so far as to put up a search comment in translate saying where I was and what I was doing. It sure as shit didn't stop those people who weren't in one player mode come down and try and force me out or talk shit to me in say like I didn't have a right to be there even tho I was there 1st.

Suffice to say I enjoyed their ignorance pre-MPK patch by dropping a few charmed beetles or 4 on top of them and sat back and watched the enjoying of their asses getting wiped. I disgress tho since I strayed from my original point.

Stop singling out people who solo and just make it a point that it's anyone be it in a group or a person alone can make your day goto shit.

Again, don't pick on my fucking job.~

You do realize that that group of people all suffered because one person in it mouthed off and you MPK'd them right? There may have been people in the party trying to get the group to leave, but you MPK'd them too, giving "your job" a bad name.

Which goes back to what Dreaming was saying. "There's two sides to every coin."

As a Beastmaster you should be able to appreciate your portability. And while I'm not saying you don't have a right to EXP wherever you want, especially if you were there first. You're much more able to exp anywhere, where group locations are kind of limited. Also, you could achieve the same results competing groups do, just out pull them and kill faster. Eventually the EXP will be so bad for them they have to leave, you didn't have to MPK the entire group. (Yes I'm aware sometimes it comes down to not being able to get a pet because they're all pulled. There's ways around that too, which make it even worse for parties trying to move in.)

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As with SNK I have to open saying I like you, I like anyone that has an opinion and is able to actually voice it COHERENTLY.

I just see this as a passive-aggressive attack on everyone who lowmans events these days with a mule or pet. He probably got camped on in Dynamis or something.

People who duo with mules pay twice as much per month and make a little less than twice as much gil per month, but they invest less than twice as much effort to make it and it takes the same amount of time. Mules are essentially just a fast forward button. If it is worth it to you, make one. If it is not, don't!

Either way, making passive-aggressive threads on the forums reminding people (specifically with mules) to play nice is kind of futile and misguided. In the last six months of dynamis, I definitely saw more single-character players committing dynamis faux pas than mule-owners or BSTs. I bet about half my runs in Dynamis - Tav end when parties of single players fail to check my very explicit search comment and show up only to realize I am clearing the relevant monsters on upper floor duo with my mule. Then they sit there getting 3/10 clusters breaking my rhythm probably complaining to each other about my mule and me.

Agree'd this is very passive-agressive, about as much as adding "He probably got camped on in Dynamis or something." in the following line of your post. lol...

Anyways in a nutshell, you expanded what I was saying, I should have been even more general sure. I should have included "Soloers of all kinds". I just find the multi-boxers to be particularly interesting because they go to such great lengths to be uncooperative, antisocial. Solo soloers are easier to deal with on two fronts: If they come in, you're on equal footing, and if they're dumb enough to try to move in, they're usually dumb enough to, umm... "over power". When someone is multi-boxing you don't have that same luxury. Solo soloers also tend ot be more apt to team up, where multi-boxers come fully equipped and don't generally feel the need to be diplomatic.

Though ironically, I believe you are a proponent of "If it's yellow, it's fair game" correct? So what good does a seacom or "claiming a camp" really do in your eyes when there's unclaimed mobs? Maybe the soloer is happy pulling three mobs, and you're reading too much into it because they're "breaking your rhythm"; you're not breaking thiers'. Did you bother to ask if they were looking for an item specifically? Maybe offer what they're looking for they go kill something else? (We both know those are loaded questions right?)

Maybe the OP isn't just some guy who "probably got camped on in Dynamis or something." Maybe it's some guy that's also a soloer looking for civility, where there's limited mobs and yet, seemingly plenty to share.

But that'd only be a part of the argument since I was pretty intentionally "general" or vague yet specific. I can assure you there's more.
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Cammiie, only thing I can offer your questions is one word: "Bait".
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Ica, you should try group shitting, it's quite enlightening.
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Tamoa, Arcon, Saefinn, You get it. Nail, Head, Etc.
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The rest of you are trying way too hard to be witty. Protip: In order to be witty, you have to have wits.