Harvesting Rudeness?Follow

/rant on

OK, this is p***ing me off. I thought it was common courtesy to not touch a harvest node that someone had already begun pulling from. But the last several nights I'm in the tier 1 areas (Oakmyst, primarily) and keep getting little dweebs running up and harvesting from the same nodes I'm in the middle of harvesting. So now instead of kill stealing we have harvest stealing? Ninja looting, with a twist.

Are these just inconsiderate idiots forshadowing the downfall of civil society? Or is it now a free-for-all where it's OK to take resources from anyone anytime you feel it's convenient?

Maybe Sony needs to lock harvest encounters the way they lock mob encounters.

/rant off

You will find it mixed in many areas.

In the end, the nodes are not locked so get over it.

I will generaly avoid harvesting a node someone is on. And the only time you realy see this happening is in the newbie areas, Once you get past the newbie areas you can harvest for hours without seeing another player.

I know many times when I worked my first character past 40, I would spend 10 minutes clearing all the fishing nodes. Then as soon as something usefull appeared 6 people would jump on it, who had not been harvesting anything up until then.

I feel your pain! :( When that happens to me I do a /rude after targeting the offending toon. I have so far managed to resist actually sending them a tell or starting something in ooc. I have tailed someone who did it to me first and shadowed every step they took and looted off every node they were on to make sure they knew how fun it was to fight for the nodes also. Childish? Yes, but it makes me feel a little better. :)

They do seem to disappear after a while though.

Like I said, that is just a justification for being rude.

Nimmdaar
12 Sorcerer
13 Scholar

I found out why it was annoying !
When I'm lets say mining, I can fail twice in a row, then a guy shows up and mine my node.

Result : I didnt get anything, so my Sandwashed Rock is not even shared, the guy might have gotten something but he might have failed too. We both lose on that :(

So yes, in antonica I dont try to share someone else'node, it could mean I'm stealing something from that guy, not sharing.

I thought about Sony not locking nodes, well maybe it's for us to make it work nice and smooth :)
It's too easy to hide behide Sony, it's not because we can do it that it's moral (then again I'm "good" , I stick with the game, I try to be fair, if I was evil maybe I'd junp any nodes I could get)

If you think about the math, the people jumping on the node your on are actually hurting themselves.

You get there first, you'll get 2 attempts to their one. During that time, it's more than likely that they could move on to the next spawn,(while your still on the last)and get at least 2 attempts themselves.

Whenever I come across a node someone is on, I move on to the next. The majority of the time I'll find one right away. Just hang in there, like Corison said, after you tough out the newbie zones, there's tons out there untouched.

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Oh, another thread on this topic. It's a dead topic leave it at that. If you don't like this portion of the game, then leave!

I think once the game has been established and aged a little you will see this kind of thing decrease. The same used to happen in EQ1 when it was first released. It takes a while before the 'unwritten rules' are established between players. Obviously there will always be players who dont obide by them, but you will find that the majority will!!

Well thats my 2cp worth

Just out of curiosity,(and to /hijack the node debate)

Are the "?" collection nodes on different tiers? I wasn't sure how the spawns in different areas worked.

I just hate having 30 collection quests open!

ok plz no one lower my rating on this post but as we all are here i am only expressing my opinion on the matter as we all are ...
with that said:

i am among the people who believe that if sony intended this to not be able to be harvested by multiple people at once then they woulda made it a locked encounter like they did with mobs. Not saying i come up and harvest nodes others are on nessasarily, just that i am in favoer of the choice for people to do so.
for one thing - in the name of roleplay ( i know alot of u EQ gamers out there are wondering what that is right now) an evil char could come up and harvest a node u are on and then destroy it in front of u, that why he is called EVIL. and other roleplaying evils would prolly find this funny. just the same a good char could offer to help u collect multiple nodes thus reducing collection times.
another thing to consider is that these nodes are the BASE LEVEL for most of the game economy. that makes them a high demand object and any such item causes controversy. thats right i was awake in economics class, weird huh?
i have had many many many people get all pissy with me as i was lvling my char just by virtue of the fact that i happened to be standing next to a node that someone was havesting cuz thay thought i was taking their node. Ok now some of u all out there are just a bit too greedy and need to calm down, take a deep breath, and keep gaming. i have worked on plenty of nodes that gave me only one or two harvests, just cuz some one is standing next to u doesnt give u the right to turn into a phyco crazed 1949 california miner protecting his/her claim.
this is eq - if we were all meant to suddenly be 99th level artisians we would start our chars that way and the game would be boring and sony wouldnt make any money cuz no one would play. we all spend alot of our time tuning out of reality to spend our time paying online games that simulate reality more and more, the only difference is that we can experience a bit more freedom that we dont have in reality.

Yes I agree with Payzee, rules between players will be set after a while :) For now I doubt we feel as a strong community yet.

Also maybe some people with a good character did so because they felt it would be easier and are acting like evil ones ?

alas, there is not much you can do if the person just really doesn't care they are doing it, but often the other person just doesn't know any better yet.

when i see someone starting to harvest the node i'm on, i just do a /say sigh then a /say no respect and usually they end up sending me a tell apologizing.