Unwritten rules thread

[RitsukoSonoda]

1. You ask me to heal at your own risk. I have killed more players in this game than any other healer ever in this game... and I have never queued PvP as a healer... >.>

2. Friendly fire isn't.

3. Suppressing fire doesn't

4. If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough.

5. Make sure that cute girl isn't really an effeminate looking guy before you start hitting on her

6. Never play a pirate when you are sober

7. Chew my food before I eat it... *stares at tasty lala*

[Cakekizyy]

1. You ask me to heal at your own risk. I have killed more players in this game than any other healer ever in this game... and I have never queued PvP as a healer... >.>

2. Friendly fire isn't.

3. Suppressing fire doesn't

4. If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough.

5. Make sure that cute girl isn't really an effeminate looking guy before you start hitting on her

6. Never play a pirate when you are sober

7. Chew my food before I eat it... *stares at tasty lala*

Helicopters have been described as nothing more than 50,000 parts flying in close formation. It is the mechanics responsibility to keep that formation as tight as possible.

[Stealthyboy]

Rule 1: Don't Be A Dick.

Rule 2: When joining a party, give them a hearty Ahoy. When leaving a dungeon, thank the party for the run.

Rule 3: If there's downtime in a duty (lifts in copperbell come to mind, or if a party member goes afk), try to keep the others entertained with emotes.

Rule 4: If setting up a party finder, ask anyone who joins if there's anything they need from the duty, and be considerate.

Rule 5: If I see a Lalafell in an adorable glamour, I'm gonna pet it.

Rule 6: As a RDM, if someone dies it's my job to get them up. Only if I'm out of MP should the healer need to.

Rule 7: Don't stand in the stupid.

Rule 8: Unless everyone in the party is a complete nincompoop, always give a commendation.

[Alaray]

Here's some I try to follow for myself:

- Always try to be friendly and welcoming in a partied up, group environment or any environment where it's applicable. I'll usually, if not always, greet my party and thank them for their time.

- If I'm tanking, or healing, I'll often choose to take the responsibility for a wipe even if it's technically someone else's mistake -- thus far, it just helps reduce teammates tilting, or performing worse. If someone is making a wipe-the-group error multiple times, I'll point it out (or like, missing a mechanic, I'll just explain it to make sure the player's aware since people do forget/are new to content).

- Generally, I'll pull aggro off people. But if someone's pulling everything, or is insulting, demanding and so forth, I'll gladly ditch the run and take the deserter. If you don't want to play as a team, I don't want to play with you.

- Admittedly, I do pull big sometimes when I probably shouldn't because I do get curious and want to see if I can survive it. I'm sorry to healers I stress out because of this.

- Try to make sure I'm having fun (since there's no point in continuing if I'm not, though if I'm committed to something I'll see it through), and try to keep a friendly, fun atmosphere. Sometimes I'm just really quiet in runs, but that's generally just me feeling tired (I'm more introverted, so excessive communication does wear me down after a while).

- And I always try to be friendly/helpful to new players if I come across them. Sure, they could be an alt of someone's, but I'd rather let whoever the player is learn how to perform their role in low level content than bum-rush through everything as fast as possible. I also try to be mindful of my aggro generation as a synced down RDM when a newer tank is leading, last thing I'd want to do is discourage someone from continuing to tank in the game (or heal).

- I also try not to type if I feel frustrated/in a general bad mood. Random folks in a videogame don't deserve that experience. I'll also go do something more relaxing if DF has me a bit frustrated, though I haven't really been too frustrated with DF in a long time (majority of players I run into are quite friendly and joys to run with!)

- Since I also roleplay, my basic unwritten rule for that is: If *I* want to interact with someone, I'll send a whisper. And if someone wants to interacted with *me* I'd love to receive a whisper, just in case I'm alt-tabbed and not actually paying attention to my game. I also try to type as much as the other person involved, so the work put into the storytelling isn't too one-sided. (Granted, I also happily answer questions and stuff if people whisper me with curiosities)

- I don't PvP much in this game, but I did *heavily* in other games and over the years I just kind of... go with the flow. I don't care if it's a loss, a win, just so long as the game itself is fun and engaging. I also try not to BM players, I got all that anger out of my system back when I played Archeage and created a killing ground in a low level zone (to be fair, I let them all climb on my land boat and took them up into trees ok).

But that's generally about it, kinda just boils down to "I don't really want to be a dick to other players, because I know it's miserable to have players who are dicks in the party." coupled with "everyone was new at some point."