People and mannersFollow

Now im sure there are other threads on this topic, but i wanna log as soon as possible so bleh :P

I only got a couple of things to say to people who either are polite or not.

To people who complain about rudeness ect... (oh boy im gonna get flamed) I think people need to understand that some people take this game very seriously or in some cases not very serious, now when people who are at diffrent ends of this bar i would say 9/10 times problems are gonna occur... so if your a care free player then people being rude or serious, may just roll off your back which in most cases is what happens..

Then there are the serious players who in most cases these players who just dont care much really gets under there skin due to the fact the game is serious to them and that they like to accomplish as much as possible in any given day (i know a few people like this and hell some days im one of them) so these people can get very angrey very fast to people who are goofing around...

Also some people tend to get offended very easily which varies from person to person because we all come from diffrent places raised diffrent ways ect.. an good example is my buddy calls me a ******* on a daily almost hourly basis or that he wants to kill me (this will most likely sound wierd to many people) and to me it almost meaningless if anyone on EQ2 spoke to me like this, however i know a few cases in which if they were spoke to in this manner /report /cry /complain /cry agian... ect ect

Now everyone is diffrent, so im not saying anyone is good or bad.. i'll im trying to say in a nutshell is were are all gamers playing one game and my words of wisdom for the day are....

1) Think before you speak, take into account who you are talking to, how well you know them, country they live in, age (for you may meet a 12 year old and talk about things not accetable to parents ect) gender ect (and yes gender does matter, i know it shouldnt, but it does)

2) If somone says something to you, take into account them, how do they speak? whatever they say may not mean how you feel it does? like i said my budy threatens me with death, i think its funny other people think hes a psycho

3) Now i dont expect everyone to read this thread and all of a sudden everyone gets along... but im just trying to say, to understand the message you need to understand the source and the opposite is true...

Manners and people. Hmm, almost an oxymoron. I applaud your effort at promoting civility. I for one would be happy for start if expletives and hidden expletives (w*f for example) were not used and actually enforced against, here and in game.

Player rudeness can be a fun thing, as in role-playing. I’m not expecting an evil player or a barbarian to play kissy face with me. Example, if I see a big ole hairy ogre or barbarian I’m gonna say to him “Dang you big and ugly.” In the opposite, if I see a lovely, regale high elf, I’ll tell her how pretty she looks. If I see a lion or a wolf in the bank and I’m gonna ask him if he’s house trained or “Don’t **** on the carpet.” And btw, the only ones who EVER talk back to me are the ones in RPG mode. Otherwise, I’m pretty much just muttering to no one. I find that to be a real drag.

Since I’m an older person in RL (probably old enough to a mother to most of you) I assume everyone else is under 20... or 15 so I usually take that into account.

Now the REAL rude stuff gets my leggings in a twist. Like stealing harvesting nodes, or deliberately standing in front of me at the bank or merchant when there’s tons of other places to stand, or putting up your pet in the city... just another THING to walk around.

I say Hi to everyone I see in my crafting society and hardly anyone talks to me. Now I know we’re all busy, and I’m not asking for a novel, just some idle chit-chat, a line or two. Nothing... “Man it sucks you can’t sell back those maple scraps anymore.” Nothing... I talk to myself a lot!

When I was a young crafter, I made some jewelry. Of course as a craftsman, I sucked at it and quickly gave it up. I figured, what the hell, I’ll give em to some newbie. I COULDN’T GIVE THE STUFF AWAY. Literally. I walked around looking for folks just out of IoR and send them a tell. Nothing. Even ask them, “Would you like this little necklace?” No response. Eh, watcha gonna do.

Moral of the story, it’s a game, have fun and don’t be so sensitive or frightened :)

y'all define older differently than i do :).

though, imho, my grandfather was just starting in on "older" when he was 85 :).

i plan to be young forever ... all ya need is a twinkle in yer eye :D... or was it a twinkie in yer hand... no wait... those'll keel ya...

There are really only two behaviours that tick me off.

1) Harvesting a spawn someone has begun harvesting before you
2) Trying to tell everyone how to play their character (these people inevitably suck at their own as well)

Other than that, people communicate the same was as in real life. My guess is if they're rude on EQ they're rude IRL and you're not gonna change them. Just don't associate with them ;)

ive noticed that there are alot more people who are rude in this game compared to other games ive played. if you ask something in /ooc you will hardly ever get a reply back even when there are 100+ people in the zone. i try to answer questions in /ooc if i know them and it really sucks when you ask a question like where the zone in to wailing caves is at and not get 1 reply back. i just think that is rude we are all new to this game and if someone needs help at least if you know the answer tell him back it doesnt take long to type out a sentence or two.


people trying to harvest off your rock that your already harvesting off of really sucks. i get pissed when this happens.

oh and those jerks that leave right when someone dies causwe of xp debt is rude as well. i was in this group last week and we had everything but a healer so we find a healer and the first pull the healer never healed and our tank died. so the healer starts ******** to us and disbands saying i dont want to group with anyone who gives me xp debt. dont they realize that you will gain your lsot xp back faster in a group then trying to solo. now ive left groups but it was because everyone kept dieing cause they kept trying to attack things taht we couldnt handle so the group died 3 times in a row even after i told them we couldnt handle those mobs and they wanted to go again so i went see ya.