Don't Be Greedy!

[Orophin]

Someone in my FC told an anecdote about how someone at the Burning Wall told him to go away because the Golden Fleece were his. All 50 spawns of them.

[Amnesia]

Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly:

People who are farming a lot of mobs, are greedy.

People who show up and demand that they not farm so many so that THEY can now have the mobs instead, are not?

No, you're not understanding correctly.

Let's take sheep, for example. There are about a dozen sets of 3 sheep each around Coerthas. Let's say there is a person who is farming one group. There's another group nearby that no one is farming.

Is it greedy to farm the empty group? No, of course not.
Is it greedy to farm both the empty group and to try to out-tag the person who was there for the other group? Yes, it definitely is.

[Ryios]

The real dicks farming are the guys that get the entire spawn area claimed and they just sit there getting wailed on, not dieing, and not killing them. You can kill them yourself, but get no items (he/she does), and then they do it again.

[Dale]

I'll never understand why SE thinks it's fun for players to compete for mob spawns. It's really not. It's annoying, frustrating - and I am of the firm belief it was the HNM hunting that held Final Fantasy 11 back from being the genre defining success it could have been.

So I support the spirit of your post 100%. SE needs to wipe this concept from their Dev playbook and never re-visit it. It was a failed idea that no one but a tiny tiny minority of players could ever enjoy. Get rid of it and don't bring it back. Ever.

[KrazyKupo]

QUOTE]

Welcome to the Final Fantasy forums, everyone is in competition for everything, and time is money :P there are considerate ppl who would be nice to you, and then there are jerks who just don't care what you do or think. But as long as their not violating their account or anything or harassing you in any other way it's just plain fair game on mobs. Imagine waiting on a 24hour spawn with 200 people there waiting to claim it all for themselves at the same time! N if it's bots report them square will get to them one year.

[HaplessHermit]

I farm mobs that drop mats that I need: this ranges from Aldgoats to Apkallu to Banemites to Karakuls and beyond. If someone is already there, I don't bother them, however if the spawns aren't occupied, you better believe I'm going to Aero and Holy as many clusters of mobs as possible. If you just walk in without saying anything and start killing mobs, I'm not obligated to oblige you. If I'm in a good mood I may offer to party up (you'll get a lot more chances at items with me AoEing mobs, this is me being nice), and if I'm offered, sure, what the hell, I'll party up usually.

But when you just come in and start tagging the mobs I'm obviously going for, you're just competition.

[Rylee]

Let's take sheep, for example. There are about a dozen sets of 3 sheep each around Coerthas. Let's say there is a person who is farming one group. There's another group nearby that no one is farming.

Is it greedy to farm the empty group? No, of course not.
Is it greedy to farm both the empty group and to try to out-tag the person who was there for the other group? Yes, it definitely is.

This is exactly what I meant, I guess I just could not think of the right way to word it.
I'm not sitting here going "How dare you try to make money/get the materials you need!" What I'm trying to say is "Does it really hurt you that much to let others do the same?"
I'd gladly welcome a party invite or lend a hand if someone wanted to share a spot. Hell most times I will have a silent agreement when it comes to camps like sheep, keeping to one side while letting them farm the other no matter what class they are.

[Rylee]

(stupid character limit o3o)

I don't bother a spot if I see someone is already there, it'd be nice for others to do the same or if they're really that hard up for cash or materials to ask if I'd share. Because I will share! I've even handed out fleece to someone once, poor guy could not tag any mobs cause of people taking up spots and not wanting to share. He only needed 6 pieces of fleece xD So it's seeing stuff like that where no one wanted to give up their spot for a little bit or let him tag a few until he got what he needed that kinda rubs me the wrong way. I guess I just like to treat others how I'd like to be treated ^^

[Edenholt]

I agree people need to be less greedy. I was farming some fleece north of dragonhead. I was there for about one hour alone, then a SMN come and start killing. I leave the left side for him and stay on the right side so we both can get some. Do you think he wanted fairplay? He started out-tagging all the sheeps, even with me running toward them. Speaking of d-bags.

[RyuujinZERO]

I agree people need to be less greedy. I was farming some fleece north of dragonhead. I was there for about one hour alone, then a SMN come and start killing. I leave the left side for him and stay on the right side so we both can get some. Do you think he wanted fairplay? He started out-tagging all the sheeps, even with me running toward them. Speaking of d-bags.

Indeed. I've had black mages (they're the worst in my experience) follow me around and deliberately wait til I'm running towards a sheep, and then blast it with wrack or whatever their instant-cast ranged attack is; I had a rather enlightening conversation with one black mage; who revealled they didn't even need fleece. They just enjoyed forcing people to go home, they saw it as their little PvP game, finding a farmer and the harrassing them til they quit farming.