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

[Frost]

Please try to be a civil adult.

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.

I cannot make threats or "pwn j00", I can only ask nicely for you to be a civil adult.

You want to get away from those "idiots" that piss you off. You may have been treated unfairly by people, and you may lack the needed social skills to overcome such obsticles, but part of growing up is knowing how to handle such situations, and to not take out bad experiences and misdirected anger on others.

I only ask that you be a civil adult to the people, especially strangers who didn't force you to play alone.

Sure it's within your rights to play Bst, or pay two to six times more for extra characters, just to be alone... But when you cross into the territory where you adversely affect the experiences of others, you're no longer "alone"... You've become the antagonist or bafoon in someone else's story. Don't be a jerk AND a hypocrite.

Try to be a civil adult in situations where you may have caused conflict or a misunderstanding.

It's not a stretch to say that you can "Do what you want", and that yes, "It's just a game". If "It's just a game" then why do you feel so passionately as to pay two to six times as much as a normal player? Can you accept that people may feel just as passionately about the game as you? Maybe foster a sense of commonality in this game, rather than perpetuate your childish thuggery and tantrums?

Be a civil adult, stop acting on your impulses; you're being one of those "idiots" you loathe so much.

What kinds of stories do you have to tell? Are they about the triumphs of you and your friends in a shared experience where you overcame a situation flavoured with comradely and personalities? Or is it a boring report about how you got another item alone? Not to be too cheesey, but friends always have been and always will be the best thing you get out of this game. No one in real life or in game cares about your "Golden Dildo of Perpetual Smiting +3", but they do love a good story about how you met your friends, and what you guys do. People like people, when they're civil adults.

Imagine if you were a civil adult and could get along with other civil adults, you'd be able to integrate, have friends, experiences, stories, and shit...

Eventually, you wouldn't even want to be alone.

At the very least, you'd save you some money.

[Vivik]

So someone took too long to solo something and you came here to be a mature adult and cry about it? Sounds about right.

[Tamoa]

Somehow I doubt that's what made Frost post this, almost certain there's more to it than that.

[Frost]

So someone took too long to solo something and you came here to be a mature adult and cry about it? Sounds about right.

Swing and a miss there chief.

[Dreamin]

"There are always two sides to a coin."

How many times has a solo'ing BST that is in an area without anyone to begin with and then 5min later, a group of ppl came in and start to overrun and claim every single mobs? This happens pre-, during, and post abyssea time.

Likewise, same thing could also happen when you're out there skilling. Why do ppl who FC (whether 2ppl or a full ally of AFK'ers who may/may not have paid to get leech xp) feels that they have the right to just come into any camp and just takes over regardless of what other people (solo'er or lowmen group) are already there doing?

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

Fact is, this is a MMO, there are a lot of different types of ppl who play this game. Some nicer then others. Some cares whether they are being rude to others or not. There will be those that will come in and camp over someone else regardless of who/when/where/how/how-many/etc.

Fact also is that in this MMO, even with friends, sometimes you just want or need to do things on your own (skilling comes to mind). So you're not always doing things with your "friends" or "ls-mates" every waking moment you're playing this game.

"There are always two sides to a coin".

Just something to think about.

[Vivik]

Swing and a miss there chief.

So how about not being so general and actually say what happen. That way people don't have to try and guess exactly what you're bitching about. There must have been some point that you said "Thats it! I need to go post this on the Official Forums!". Why?

[RAIST]

umm.... rage much?

And which is it...are they opting to solo, or are they forced to solo?

Just saying....your passion may be muddling up your argument a little.

Personally, I solo most of the time simply as a matter of convenience with my schedule. I frequently have to go afk during the day, so I opt to do campaign/besieged a lot with a little FOV/GOV thrown in sometimes. When I can focus for a couple hours, I'll run into aby for skillups. It allows me to get a lot of the tedious crap for my personal goals (like magians, farming/crafting, skillups, etc.) on my own time, then I can set aside time when everyone is on to do the more intensive stuff that requires or simply goes smoother with a little help.

It sounds like you have a grudge against all soloists or something, guess someone has just been pissing in your corn flakes something fierce lately. Just because you see some people "soloing" while dual-boxing doesn't mean every soloist is doing it, and not always just people running around on BST---many solo on mage classes too. It is a small minority that are a nuissance (at least on my server). It's an unfortunate side effect of all the "easy button" mentality the design team has taken with the game in the last year or so. But, in my experience, many are willing to team up if it is a goal that can be shared or simply to speed things up. How you approach them makes a big difference...if you are confrontational, then they are going to push back--it's human nature. Sometimes it may not necessarily be the soloist that is the antagonist....

Oh, and I've only had one character in this game. 7/10 90+ jobs to 99 all with empy +1 armors (all but maybe 6 pieces were completely soloed via quests and NM kills, and those pieces not 100% solo often were b/c of odd seals I got that no one wanted when I assisted them with their farming sessions) and working to +2's with a host of magians to +2, +3, and final stages (still working on finishing them, again on my own time for the most part) and 6 at 51 with no mule, ever--been playing for roughly 7 years now.

[SNK]

Sure it's within your rights to play Bst,

Why you gotta pick on my fucking job?

And straight up, When I was soloing back before ToAU even came out, I used to make it a point to exp in places where most people didn't go. Sometimes tho I was forced to go exp in some places that sometimes a party would come and try to camp on top of me.

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.~

[Vold]

Why you gotta pick on my fucking job?

And straight up, When I was soloing back before ToAU even came out, I used to make it a point to exp in places where most people didn't go. Sometimes tho I was forced to go exp in some places that sometimes a party would come and try to camp on top of me.

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.~

Sounds like you are the kind of person he's describing. Just a FYI and observation because most BSTs I know don't need to wash their mouths out with soap.

[Arcon]

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

His post basically just said "play nice", and there's nothing to be careful about with that. Of course, some people will read something else into it (Vivik for example), but these people always read whatever they want, so who cares about them.