Your kid cant have that much of an imagination then Why would I troll a story as dull as this one? If I were going to troll (something I can never do anyway because im an idiot and suck at it) it would be a better story with weirder things happening like "OMG he turned up at my house and now is eating my food! Help!" - ala The Guild. So, UPDATE - I guess this is the last one as things are a tad boring on the stalker front now. I decided to grow a second pair and not run away, instead, im sticking on my main and ignoring/reporting the random comments I get. Ive done this for the past 2 days now and I reckon they're gotten bored with me because they've altogether stopped! YAY! Im now friendless again! My stalker is playing his character more frequently now and seems to be keeping himself at arm's length whenever we run into each other - apparantly, playing with men is something he doesnt like doing I have noticed though that he is following another female toon around and quite a bit too! At first it was a chuckle: "Another poor soul who cant get rid of him" I laughed to myself But then it hit me: Another poor soul who cant get rid of him? It wasnt the most pleasent experience for me so if this character is actually a female gamer - how is she gonna feel when she realizes he wont go away. She is gona log on to find him facing her! She's gonna be stalked if she puts him on ignore! Assuming it is actually a female playing the toon, that is. Perhaps, though, she'll have more balls than me and just tell him then and there where to go? I must say, the temptation to become a stalker myself and to meddle in their business has been overwhelming. I havent actually said anything and I dont think I will as it isnt my business and I dont want the guy to lose any friends because of it, but I still feel a pang of concern when I see him following "her" around. So that is it I suppose. It's been an adventure and a learning experience even for me! I played MMO's since Everquest and had experienced the odd 'Hanger-on' but I was grateful because Everquest was a LOT HARDER than any other MMO to date. Learn and Grow - im Learning and Growing with every new game

Hey guys! Im suprised this thread has generated the interest that it has - it just goes to show this community is a lot more (level-headed) nicer than another MMORPG community that shall, henceforth, remain nameless. I went away with a pang of guilt thinking to myself "Shame it's all over, im gonna leave all those guys hanging!" - it isnt. Im not sure what has happened, but... well maybe you will know? So, UPDATE: Im happily questing, being free from my stalker when I start getting whispers - only a few at first - telling me it's wrong to pretend to be a girl online and lead somebody on. I'd just like to point out, ive never ever done this. I read a thread from a NAMELESS MMORPG a while back where a guy did just that to get the in game equivilent of IRL cash from men giving "Her" items and found it funny - but it is just one of those things I would never do. One of those things like "Would you sleep with THIS GUY for 10 million dollars?!?!?" "No, ew!" - y'know? The longest conversation I ever had with my stalker went on periodicly for an hour and went a little something like this: "How many do you need now?" [Me] "30 you? :)" [Him] ... "How many do you need now?" [Me] "27 you? :)" ... etcetcetc - as we changed quests, the same, the same, the boring same. So, im taking the time to explain to these few people (some level 1 alts, others in their 40's) what happened and most of them have pretty much been "Oh, lol thats funny! Well, sorry, bye!" But others... Ive started to get more and more who wont listen to reason. Im going to assume they're nothing but trolls looking for some sort of reaction - but it appears I am guilty by association - playing a female toon means I NEED TO BE female. One went like this: "How dare you do something like that? Pretend to be a dude to lead somebody on! You're sick, this happened to my friend a while back and he got real upset about it!" [Him] "Ok, but that isnt what happend at all, this is what happened:" [Me] - followed by 10 minutes of explaining. "Well thats not the point [bEEP] what did you expect, pretending to be a girl!" [Him] "Whut?!" [Me] "How do you expect to be treating (sic) when playing a girl toon?!" [him] "With courtesy, decency and respect!" [Me] Followed by a swift /ignore This is happening more and more lately which leads me to suggest he's made his own mock up on a forum somewhere - so I googled my character name to check and found a great deal of nothing. My character name is a lot different from my forum name (it was already taken on my server ) and the only thing google shows up about it is a few pages about a hotel in Connecticut. So I reckon he has told a few people who have passed it on who have passed it on and now it's turned into a big game of chinese whispers. Seriously, i'll get small, random messages that amount to saying "lol you're a dude!" from people quickly logging off and then i'll get people who just want to cause some sort of argument. I cant keep blocking people! If I do i'll have nobody to play with lol SO, yes, I am back hiding on my alt. I think I should find a new server - one with a nice populated Jedi side (im sith at the moment and I HATE BALMORRA >.<! I cant do that place again!!!) Any ideas?

Heh. I will be honest and admit I miss his ability to just plow through heroic quests - im sitting here LFG for one now whereas before he just would have done it. It ends there though. When the group is finished, unless you're friends in a guild (or general) you're supposed to split up and do your own thing. He had a problem with doing this and that is why I dont miss him all that much - it's refreshing to /leave a group when ive got my social points. ! For everybody saying he is obviously an 11yr old kid - he did tell me he was 33, but he could have been lying. He has to be old enough to smoke though (a lot!) so I doubt he is younger than 16. Then again, why lie about being 33? Im 28 and I hate my advancing age! SInce all this happened, he hasnt been online (whereas he would be online all the time) and ive had a few whispers telling me im "warped" for pretending to be a girl (I never have done this) - but the idiots who insult you are a lot easier to handle than the seemingly nice people who wont go away! Im not against /ignoring a complete idiot Perhaps he is heartbroken that the only woman he ever truely loved has a pecker? Regardless though, I still feel disturbed by it. I keep thinking to myself "Holy-heck, what if he does this to an actual girl?" Enjoying my new found freedom stuck in the LFG channel

Ive been thinking this myself. Sometimes, ive been in the most random of places on a planet - even inside an instanced quest place - and when ive emerged, he's just been there! My IRL friend (I have 1 - yay!) says im just being really paranoid about it - he points out that we're around the same level and we're bound to be doing some of the same quest in the same area, every now and again. I did start to doubt myself, that maybe im just being super paranoid about it because it took so long to get rid of him the first couple of times - so when I was completeing some random quests and caught sight of him running behind a building, I followed him. His character was stood there, facing away from me, looking at a wall. It was him, but he did absolutely nothing - he didnt even move. I said to myself "Right, bugger this - just get on with it" and went out to quest again - he followed me. It was like a game of cat and mouse, I saw him run somewhere, I ran away, he ran after me lol. After a while, I decided to test his patience and see what he would do (and to prove to myself once more im not being paranoid) - I followed him and stood right infront of him in his latest hiding space, then went to get a drink (and make a sammich!) - when I got back, he was standing there still, motionless. I got a whisper from somebody saying "Why you blocked [stalker]?" I told this guy what was happening - he spoke broken english too so I hoped maybe he spoke the same language and could tell him to back off. This is where it takes a weird (scary) twist - the conversation went a little like this: "He say u r his gf" [RandomGuy] ... I would just like to point out at this venture, I am a 28 year old man. My character, however, happens to be female. "No lol Im a guy!" [Me] "But u play a woman??? lol" [RGuy] "Well, yeah, they look cool! :)" [Me] "Wow lol ok I tel him!" [RGuy] Two minutes later, my stalker ran away. "So, what makes that twist so scary?! Thats so funneh!" I hear y'all say. Well, im not going to get into a childish debate about men playing female toons - I just think they're more pleasent to look at when questing - but the fact he thought I was female because of that AND the fact he found it socially acceptable to follow me around, creeping me out, because he thought I am female is just - scary! What about other genuine female gamers? I was mildly disturb by what he was doing - how is a female gamer going to feel about something like that? I sent the random guy another whisper saying "Thats horrible thing to do!" He didnt answer me directly but he did shout a few times in general chat "[Myself] IS A MAN PRETNDING 2 B A GIRL! WATCH OUT!" - which was met by a fair few giggles before continuing their debate about Ewoks. Happily, ive been put on ignore and I havent seen him around me since but Ive been left reeling by it. We group for a week, yes. Sexuality never came into it. I just followed him around healing and questing and vice-versa. How that suddenly made us "Boyfriend & Girlfriend" im not sure. I mean, we didnt even talk a whole lot on account he couldnt string more than 3 english words together in a sentence! It's disturbing to think this can happen though. It didnt even occur to me that playing a female toon would leave some men so open to suggestion - I mean, there are no GIRLS on the internet - everybody knows that (Yes im joking to make a point!) I feel sorry for Female gamers. Stay safe out there! If this can happen to me, it can happen to any of ya!

Awesome Advice, thank you! Also, GamerInDallas - thanks for that. I read it (yup, all of it) and threw some of it around with a friend of mine who agreed for the most part.

Heh, interesting advice. Im on the RP-PVP server called Lord... something - begins with a P. Anyway, to update on whats going on, last night I logged on and he wasnt online so, the coward I am, I quickly blocked him and let out a sigh of releif before continuing on my merry way. Only, five minutes later, I got a message from some random person saying "Hi omw! :)" - you guessed it, it was his alt. To avoid an inevitible scene, I took him back off ignore and we grouped up, doing quests, following him around, collecting stuff why I waited, healing him etc. I decided to find out more about him, you guys gave some good advice and assumptions only serve to make an *** out of most people, so I asked him where he is from (Greece, as it turns out - not china) and asked him a couple more questions that he didnt (perhaps he couldnt understand?) He told me he is 33 though - so I know he's 33, from Greece and likes to smoke - a lot! Every 10 minutes "Smoking brb!" I decided, after an hour of folowing him arund, to be blunt - I said "Ok. I want to play by myself for a while so im leaving the group." He said "Ok, I come with you :)" "No. Dont come with me please, I want to do some quests by myself." (me) "You want my help? Ok (him) "No thank you, I want to solo them!" (Me) "Ok, you need help you shout! :)" (him) - and off he went. I sat there, looking at the chat thinking to myself 'No, it cant be THAT easy!' but decided to take my new found freedom to another planet and catch up with some quests there. Fives minutes later "You need help yet?" "No thanks! :)" I reply. "Ok, I follow you!" A minute later, he was standing infront of me, inviting me to a group (I dunno how the heck he found me!) *RAGE* My alt is now my main Im thinking once he outlevels me he will go away.

To be honest, I had been thinking the same. He does seem to have an awfully big amount of blues and purples, some of which are about 10 levels higher than he is. I could be wrong though - he could just be really savvy on the market place? He's a nice guy - he doesnt cuss, he will follow me around and ask me "Done?" for every quest he helps me with - it's what comes after, the feeling of obligation that "Ok, he did this for me, I better do this for him!" I keep getting. It was fine for the first few days but now im pretty sure I can do all my green and grey quests (im a quest hog) by myself, and dont really need a pocket dps following me around. Ive tried to tell him "No thanks, I can do it myself" and even suggested "WHy dont you go and do some of your own quests then when we get heroics/area quests we meet up and do them together" but he just says "Ok, I follow you :)" There is a creep factor to it though - ive just logged on with my alt, having placed it across from where my main logged out - and he is standing around there... waiting for me. He cant have been there ALL the time? Right? Oh my god im going to have to ignore him arent I? Just ignore him and run in the opposite direction. Suggestions on how to be friendly and amicable when you ignore somebody - but at the same time, making it clear you want them to go away - would be appreciated. Thanks for the replies so far guys!

Ok, about a week ago, I met a nice fellow on Korriban who helped me out with a few heroics. I was grateful he did because, being a complete noob (and idiot) I was finding the entire game a tad overwhelming. So I found my feet afterwards and got talking to the chap - he is a fine man, doesnt speak a whole lot of english but was perfectly understandable and fun to group with. So whats the problem? I hear y'all ask. After he helped me with a few more heroics, he asked me for help - fine, I dont mind, ive already done em but you've done so much for me, i'll help you out! Somehow me helping him do two heroics ment I should now follow him around healing him why he quests. He hasnt really said that specifically, but he will tell me "Come" and then "Follow me plz" and then proceed to run around doing random quests and collection stuff. I said to him "Dude, I cant follow you around all the time, I need to go and quest over here!" He replied "Ok, I help you :)" and he did. Still not seeing a problem? Ok, two days ago,m he was waiting for me online (weirdly in front of the exact random place I logged out the night before) and simply invited me to a group and said "Lets quest together! :)" "Uh... ok but I really need to go to fle-" "Come, follow!" SHARESHARESHARE a bucket load of new quests on a planet I hadnt even been to yet. "Do you buy this from me? 20k!" He said linking some purple armor I couldnt wear. "I cant wear it." "15k!" I said no and he went through an entire list of purple and blue items until he finally said, again "Follow!" I followed him around again, doing various quests but really I wanted to get away and do my own thing. I said to him "Ok, lets split up. I need to go do this and you can keep questing :)" He replied "Ok, I come help you." So yesterday, frustrated that he was eating up all my time again, I faked a connection death and did some work around the house. Im still ashamed of it, I left him hanging, but for the past week, everyday ive come on with limited time to play has been eaten up following him around! Three hours when I came back online, guess who was stood exactly infront of me! Thats right! THREE HOURS! He'd waited for me for THREE HOURS and said "Hi, come! :)" What can I do? He wont go away! ...I started playing an alt, but I really want to play my main character - I thought "I'll just play it a few days until he logs off, he'll move on then." But he hasnt. I went to where I last logged out with my main and he is standing there, waiting for me! I really dont want to put him on ignore - he is a nice guy afterall, he doesnt talk that much and he did help me all those times. I just dont want to spend every second of my playtime with him. Ive told him this and he said "Ok, I follow you." I made excuses to split up and he says "Ok, I come help you!" ITS DRIVING ME INSANE!!!! So I need advice; What do I do? Apart from making an alt with the same character and starting again, I cant see a way out of this. You guys got any advice to help?

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