Troll Trolling

[fixitman]

If I'm farming mobs, and another player starts killing them, I just reduce my farming radius. Most will see what I'm doing, and just farm what I'm leaving alone. For those who don't, I try to nicely work it out with them via chat. If I'm ignored, I just wait for them to finish, or I move on.

I ran up on my favorite fleece spot yesterday, only to find another character there. They appeared to be prepping to farm them, so I asked if they were doing so via /say. They replied that they were done, and to go ahead. I thanked them, and got to work. Communication has made farming much easier more times than I can count...

I never try to compete for mobs, because I consider it a waste of time. There is plenty else to do without resorting to competition without reward.

[Sogi]

if you want to troll, troll. you go head and do it because its apart of our culture. period..

[Shadex]

I will be honest, I have had it with Square's inability to deal with the rampant botting and gil farmers so I have taken it upon myself to help myself to some fleece or diremite where one is operating. However, I will send a tell to the bot in question to test if they are a real person first. If they do not respond or display obvious bot behavior like targetting mobs not dropping what they are farming just because they came within radius then it is fair game. I am with the rest here, if you were there and did not like what they were doing, say something. Communication is key.

[Sogi]

yeah well the bot is help save the server economy.. becasue there a WAY too many players to give in to your silly needs, and thats a good thing. Stop over-defining your objectivity and let the players be players.

[Rjain]

What I'd like to get out of this thread is some stories from others who've had experiences with trolls and what they've done to counter such "common courtesy".
I'm the kind of guy who loves trolling trolls. ... That said, the point of this thread is to get a few laughs and maybe help a person or two in finding ways to deal with those FFXIV trolls out there in their various schemes.

Those aren't trolls. It's competition. No one has their name on anything in this game. It doesn't matter how long you were in a camp farming stuff. I could stand farming diremites for 12 hours, does that mean no one else should be allowed to get diremites? No. If they want diremites, they are more than welcome to come and try to fight with me to outclaim them. No one is trolling or counter trolling.

Edit: As a general note, I usually try to stick to a portion of a spawn zone instead of taking over the entire thing so several people can farm at once. In some cases this doesn't work, and the above takes place.

[Lyrro]

If I'm farming mobs, and another player starts killing them, I just reduce my farming radius. Most will see what I'm doing, and just farm what I'm leaving alone. For those who don't, I try to nicely work it out with them via chat. If I'm ignored, I just wait for them to finish, or I move on.

I ran up on my favorite fleece spot yesterday, only to find another character there. They appeared to be prepping to farm them, so I asked if they were doing so via /say. They replied that they were done, and to go ahead. I thanked them, and got to work. Communication has made farming much easier more times than I can count...

I never try to compete for mobs, because I consider it a waste of time. There is plenty else to do without resorting to competition without reward.

This is more what I'm looking for, a "Heres what happened" and "here's how I fixed it" scenario. I probably should've used two different examples when I set up this thread, knowing how tunnel visioned people tend to get in threads and as can be expected, this has gone completely off topic. I'm looking for more examples like this, giving an example of something that happened and how you coped with it.

I honestly couldn't care less how bad a person I am for not bending over when some guy who thinks he's higher level than me wants to try and hog all the spawns. As for the whole sharing kills thing, that works if the other person is willing to participate, not so much when you're a lvl 20 Arc and the other person does over half the mobs health in damage per shot and doesn't want to share. I also don't want to be spoon fed, I didn't spend so much time leveling all the jobs I have if I didn't think I should work for what I have, so don't try to spin that angle just because I call spawn hogs trolls. Don't take this the wrong way, there are probably more subtle ways of dealing with guys like the Blm or Smn I mentioned above, but I just have too much fun watching them get mad because I'm doing to them what they wanted to do to me. If they're willing to be cooperative, then I'm happy to share the spawns.

[Artemiz]

Well I'm sort of with the OP on this, maybe I'm old fashioned but I think if someone got to a spawn first then leave them to it and come back later or try a different camp, there are 4 decent fleece camps, with decent gear you can farm 2 at once if it's quiet. Competing over one of the spawns just slows both players down IMO, I can be more constructive with my time than fighting with someone over 5 sheep that take 30 seconds to kill.

[AdamuKun322]

I tend to kill Raptors by Coils for their Skin and Sinew. I've made good money off of them.

[Rjain]

but I just have too much fun watching them get mad because I'm doing to them what they wanted to do to me. If they're willing to be cooperative, then I'm happy to share the spawns.

So it basically sounds like you're the one doing what you are calling out in your first few posts. How do you know what they wanted to do? They most likely hardly even acknowledged your presence and only cared about farming what they wanted to farm. You assume that their intentions were malicious when you're the one with the malicious intention. You are trying to make them mad and assuming they are getting mad when they probably don't even know you exist/couldn't care less, all they probably wanted was whatever the enemies dropped like most people who farm.

[TeganLaron]

Competing for materials isn't trolling. Whether it's for a friend, to sell or to craft with, you're both gathering those items for a reason. If they stood there all day stopping people gathering then discarded everything they got I suppose that would be closer to trolling.