Huixiang have had a lot of attention lately in competition over HNm and their foray into sky.
But tonight lets pretend they arnt gilsellers. Just asshats out to ruin FFXI for all players at all levels. No financial gain, just spite.
In quifim I had a fun 19-20 party form up in jeuno. Mostly good people except for one real quiet drk who wouldn't SC. Fine. At this level I'm not surprised. Plus he had a power leveler with him, so the party figured it was worth it.
But as we hunt worms at the cave exit, our powerleveler pulls a gigas right on top of another worm hunting party and its aoe pummels them. At first I though he was just bored and it was an accident, but he was following them. We had the good camp all to ourselves again, but this was dirty. Quite a jerk, but we were moving to the pond so no big deal.
Wrong. We get to the pond and there's another party here doing crabs. Our PL goes and rounds up every single crab in the pond zone and calls for help. He still cures us and he simply lets the CFH crab convoy follow him around. This completely shut down the other party.
being Friday after a long week I was tired and we were hitting chain 5 for 250, but I had enough of this behavior.. Then it dawned on me that I know this 75 galka paladin named Thin. Huixiang shell was even equipped on him and his little up and coming gil farmer friend Blub the 19 Drk, and I hadnt even noticed.
Here they are MPKing rival XP parties over control of the good camps. I can almost understand being aggressive at HNM like they usually are. There is real world money at stake for them. But this was a laid back XP session and here's a L75 wiping out party after party in the most common L20 Xp spot in the game.
We agreed to kick Blub but we knew the moment we did that we would be MPKd in a heartbeat. I called some LS help for backup and when it was safe to do so I said "Flying Gillseller <party> <no thanks>" and he was booted.
Blub went back to lfg without a word, and Thin followed us for a solid hour across the entire zone pulling every crab in sight and calling for help. He was glued to us and his only goal was to punish us for kicking his co-worker. We did a shout warning people not to invite them, and to report all MPK to a GM. My party leader also reported Thin's harassment and the way he stalked us.
The GM showed up an hour later, Thin had already moved on, and simply got a quick summary of the story and did nothing.
About an hour after this some shouts started appearing in qufim. We're 23 now and killing pugils. "Leave us alone" and "stop killing our mobs. Don't you have anything better to do?". I sent the people shouting a tell and they confirmed Thin was back at the Qufim crab pond ******** every party over again.
I asked them to call the GM... again. Hopefully with enough complains against a 75 pld MPKing and harassing people in a L.20 zone this would have been dealt with, but when I left the tower at 25 after a good gigas hunt, Thin was still there ruining XP parties for the "benefit" of flying LS/Huixiang.
Inexplicable. Despicable.
So sorry for "yet another flying rant", but this one is different. It's not about rival LS or gil farmers. No money or NM was at stake. Just a sample of what these players are really like with no LS propaganda or agenda at work.
It doesn't matter if you're in valk or in sky, watch your back. They are everywhere. They are no long just harmless gil sellers out to make a living. Thin and Zoome and their gang are "anti-players", in the same sense that the antichrist is everything that Jesus... isn't.
Report ALL abuse to a GM at every chance you get. Please. They have to be stopped.