It's not griefing when the game mechanics not only encourage it, but a quest tells you to do it. That be like saying killing players in EvE is griefing.

Maybe you shouldn't log out in a spot where otehrs can get to you. Did you used to complain about the Party bombs as well?

Except, if you're out doign that stuff, your chanced of beign infected are pretty slim unless your friend or guildie is chasing you down. Even then, you could havegotten it removed before going after the champion.

Do you expect me to be impressed by the fact you only pulled out the part of what I said that you could twist and completely ignored the statement about hwo it *benefited* them to have it done to them?

They aren't abusing it... they're *supposed* to go and infect people. It's a quest... which means you should go do it. It is safe... because nothign is harmign you. Quite the opposite, they are helping you. You get DNA which is selling fast adn for good credits (if you're not just keepign them yourselffor the pet and black/green crystals) and if you infect others you get credit toward the quest which is free XP if you're not at 50. They are helpign you, not hindering you.

Don't go fight a champion mob while you're infected? You do keep a tab on your current debuffs, right?

Now I will agree that event was full of griefing. Namely becasue it disrupted *everything* and it held no benefits at all to anyone. Auctioneers, quest givers, lowbies... anyoen and everythign coudl be infected. And you weren't doign it for rewards, just to be a tool. Now, I was on a PvP server and a group of us did get infected and then went storming a few horde cities... but that was PvP happening on a PvP server. Was interestign to find out that while in ghoul form you could all talk to each other since the ghouls used their own language.

It's still not griefing when they get somethign for it. Moreso, is if they infect someoen they get credit toward a quest !! that means free XP for exploding on people. yeah, helpign peole get currency and free XP is *totally* griefing.

It costs them what... 2-3 seconds of being stunned every 20 minutes or so? So costs them like 6-10seconds an hour... 24 hours would be 2.5-4 minutes per *day* if they played 24 hours straight while gettign infected every time they respawned. There is no running back becasue you rez right where you were and it costs no durability damage so no lost time to farmign repair costs.

EvE would like a word with you. As would EQ with mob training. And WoW with Hunter/Rogue pulling into another player's AoE and Feigning/Vanishing. There are ways to grief people in every game. This, though, isnt' griefing when it's working as intended.

You don't pay 2k a pop... the vaccine is 6 hours of protection. Moreso, if you're not on the fleet, you don't have to spend the credits!! Or you could just die from the infection and use the DNA to sell on the GTN and make money off of it.

If credits are so hard to come by... stop dying in HMs and Ops? They aren't that difficult. More so why waste 2k when it costs nothign to simply die from it or by jumping down the fleet openings? See... no credits wasted. You're playing a Bioware SW game and expected there not to be a Rakghoul invasion eventually?

All you have to do is mouse over the debuff and *gasp* ZOMG!!! It says the duration and the effect!! Yeah, so totally your bad you didn't know about the time limit. No oen made yoru choices for you. They played the game... you *chose* to play the game. You then chose to *cry* about the game. Hence why it's you QQ'ing. Nothign stopped you from going about your business.

It happens. It could happen at any tiem on a PvP server... that is why they rolled on a PvP server, afterall, isn't it? There is *always* a chance that PvP will happen and not in a fair fight. It's why I personally love PvP servers and wished my guild had choosen one. PvP happens on a PvP server and that's just eh way it is.

And last I checked, the Fleet wasn't even marked a sanctuary... and you sure enough can die on it. I see dead bodies on it on the time and have seen plenty of people die going for that +10 Stats Datacron. If it takes you 20+ minutes to consider your AC choices, I'm sure this event is the least of your worries.

Obviously, and I never said walk around with him while he quests. You statedthat it sucked for those lowbies gettign corpse camped. If they're gettign camped, they call for help. PvP ensues because you knwo the location of the enemy, come in, kick them around for a few rounds of PvP, then oneside eventually gives up, and you go back to doign what you were doing. No one ever said stay with the lowbie, so gret job on addign words to make it sound completely stupid.

I understand fully where you are comign from, but you are missing a very important aspect fo MMO's. It's supposed to be a persistent gameworld. So many people have complained that this game doesnt' feel like one... and now there is somethign that really shows how persistent it can be, and you al lwant to whine about it? Gamewide events are there to disrupt standard play. Other players can, will, and should seek out their gameplay crossing path with other players. If you dont' want other people beign able to affect your gameplay, you really *shouldn't* be playing an MMO. All of WoW's pre-expansion events involved disruptive events... cities undersiege, the zombie plague, and the stupid elemental attacks everywhere. Let's not forget the good old days of mob training to cause a disruption in older games. You're playing a Massively *Multiplayer* Online game. Other people are going to effect and influence the gameworld aroudn you, wether you like it or not. Addionally, if you were doign the dailies and gettign infected, chances are you would have gotten so anyway since it's spread by the Rakghouls themselves.

It should make all their characters look like Carebears

On a PvP server... yeah, I'm pretty sure most PvPers would jump at the possibility of actual world PvP. If not, well then it shows you the quality of supposed 'PvPers' in this game and would make me happy to know my guild decided on a standard RP server since it would make a PvPRP server very boring.

If you're trying to avoid the event, nothign is stopping you from playing. Leave the fleet and continue leveling. The only point you will probably have to deal with it is on Tattoine. Though with us not knowing how long the event will last (and me not knowing your play habits) you may not have to deal with it then, either. You're QQ'ing and complainign that you won't play when, if you're actually levelign and playing, it won't affect you for the most part. That's why it's QQ, because it is mostly avoidable without even havign to buy the vaccine.

Wow, this is hilarious. 1) I'm at work, not in game... why do you think I'm on the forums isntead of happily chasing guildies across the galaxy to infect them? 2) I'm almost never on the fleet because I go actually play the content. 3) The dude has no business being on the fleet for long peroids of time when he is supposedly leveling up a character. He sould be off leveling not sitting on the fleet throwing a tantrum. The Event does happen to include infectign people, there is a mission for it. So yes, sitting around infecting people is part of the event.

So PvP happening on a PvP server... I don't see the problem? If you're gettign ganked, call for back up... I'm sure your factio nhas level 50s there for the event as well. If you're not on a PvP server, just turn off your flag

Then stay away from the Fleet and the event? Gasp, such inconcievable concept, I know. Go actually do somethign instead of sitting in the Fleet all day and you'll find that isn't an issue. Though if you have no interest in server and game events that get the entire community invovled, why are you playign an MMO?

It's not exploitation when it's part of the game and the mechanic of the event. Please learn the definition of an exploit. You don't need to spend jack squat on the innoculation. Finish your business pm the fleet, you'll die sometime on Coruscant, sell the DNA at the GTN there, profit immensely, and keep questing. *You* profit from it. Except it doesn't involving attackign antoher player. All it invovles is standing around other players. Which, in an mmo, you should be aroudn other players constantly. As for asking others if they want to be involved, perhaps I should start reportign all those players killing the mobs I need for my dailies from now, yeah? They're totally griefing me because they didnt' ask to come up and get involved. As for wanting no part: Tough luck? It's a game event that is supposed to have an impact across the game. Moreso, it doesn't harm you in anyway. Hah, I'll be the first to admit that anyone who cried that they didn't havea 50 was a QQ'er. I don't spoil my neices and nephews when they throw a tantrum, why would I think different of a bunch of supposed adults acting the same way? People threw a tantrum because they weren't getting somethign someone else was. I have no problems withthe people who's issue was the wording... but the people that whined they weren't getting the time because they didn't hit 50 in 4 months... children throwing tantrums should be punished, not rewarded.

You keep complaining that you're refusing to play because you have no credits... and yet getting infected provides you with a way to get credits Shocking to see the circle your mind loops in.