Last night I logged on and into my linkshell chat to find out a rather disturbing problem. I found out that former members of my linkshell that I knew and trusted defaulted and went out of their way to betray our ideals.
My linkshell, Axiom, is a linkshell devoted to an internal standard of helping people out. We strive to make the game a more enjoyable experience in whole, for everyone. When Varion, a ranger, logged on he complained about a linkshell message sayings, "Done unto others as you would have them do unto you." For some reason, there's an issue with that.
Apparently Varion created his own linkshell [Anarkee] along with ZxSephirothxZ decided to train Goblin Smithys six at a time and kill anyone leveling there at the time (including a member of Axiom).
Aside from the grammatical inconsistancy of his poorly named linkshell, I really truly find this behavior appalling and ignorant. For someone to go out of their way to kill people just trying to level is unnecessary. If there was meant to be PK'ing there would be forced PVP.
Naturally, I stood gaurd with two other high level linkshell members for hours to make sure that this didn't happen again.
I hate to complain, but apparently these people have set the goal to be as disruptive as possible. Even though I considered them friends and good people, I will not stand by and abide this sort of behavior without some sort of action in the only way possible for a player, spreading the word about destructive behavior.