amnie Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I won't jack a node if someone is killing the mobs next to it. However, if someone does not reciprocate that courtesy, I will promptly follow them and jack their nodes. I won't start it, but if they do I will return the favor in spades. hahahaha that is actually what I did a few days ago. I even helped someone out who was almost dying (healed him a few times) and a minute later who stole my node. twice. so what do I do? of course I steal his nodes right back apart from that I usually shrug it off, but that dude just took it a little too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnie Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I'm actually conflicted on this. On one hand, it does seem rude to not merge when you know the lane is ending, but on the other hand, if everyone merges early, then there's an entire lane left open, and traffic starts backing up when it could be spread out. On topic, though, people tend to be selfish. It sucks, but I usually just sigh and move on. huh? I don't know about the USA but over here in Germany it's actually law to stick to the 'zipper rule' (meaning you .have. to go to the end of the lane and then it goes 1 left, 1 right, 1 left, 1 right...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditboo Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 They're selfish, and selfish people believe every aspect of life including other people exists solely to benefit themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kthx Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Welcome to the human race. Many only care about themselves. When I see this behavior I think of my 8 - 12 year old children. Some only care about themselves. I would never do this and my 7-year old daughter would know not to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruthlessboy Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Some only care about themselves. I would never do this and my 7-year old daughter would know not to do this. Perfect answer, i do not have children myself, but my siblings children know not do do anything like this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyrrhusOfEpirus Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Hi, Why do people feel it's still reasonable to walk right past someone fighting some mobs guarding a security chest or gathering node and just take it? They could at least wait a few seconds to see if that's what the fighting player is going after. I've had this happen to me many times in this game already. *sheesh* Cheers. its funny you mention this scenario, because this happened to me lastnight. so im fighting the mob infront of whatever i have to deactivate, it gets taken by another guy, i tell him literally to go F himself, he than questions why i would be upset as he had done nothing wrong? some people are just ignorant of their actions and dotn even realize what they are doing. than again, some people are also just *****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtreme Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ninja do it because Bioware allows them to do. Bioware copied everything from WoW except the most useful tools, like the LFG tool, the PVP system, a decent Auction House, and the anti-ninja tool (where a Plate wearer cannot Need a piece of Cloth Armor even if he can wear it) Bioware just overlooked the things that make a great MMO from an average one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelist Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Because douchebaggary no longer comes with an butt-kicking, IRL or on the interwebs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 Edited January 10, 2012 by Evangelist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nizzemancer Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Hi, Why do people feel it's still reasonable to walk right past someone fighting some mobs guarding a security chest or gathering node and just take it? They could at least wait a few seconds to see if that's what the fighting player is going after. I've had this happen to me many times in this game already. *sheesh* Cheers. Yeah, this has happened to me too a bunch of times, last time I was doing one of the first quests on Hoth, fought some mobs guarding a sensor or whatever, a jk comes by on his speeder takes the sensor and moves on, sure it respawned before the mobs but it was frickin annoying anyway. If someone is fighting a mob that's guarding an object I'm also out for I wait to see if they get it first or if they were just after the kills if not I take it, if they do I can just wait for it to spawn again. the only exception is holocrons and the like since they aren't rendered unusable if I take it while someone else is fighting the guard. Some people are just rude f***s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelist Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ninja do it because Bioware allows them to do. Bioware copied everything from WoW except the most useful tools, like the LFG tool, the PVP system, a decent Auction House, and the anti-ninja tool (where a Plate wearer cannot Need a piece of Cloth Armor even if he can wear it) Bioware just overlooked the things that make a great MMO from an average one. Wrong. Then you prevent someone who says "Hey folks my main companion can really use that as an upgrade, do you mind if I need?" from rolling need if the rest of the group doesn't care. You seem to forget that companions aren't Warlock Pets or the latest dumbed down Hunter pets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KippTabor Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It is annoying but since this has happened to a great many players, I'm sure BW is aware and they likely have some fixes coming down the pipe - they'd be foolish not to do so. Especially the reset timer on quest objects - that's one of the sillier things BW did with this game. I like this thread: 1) It brings a problem to BW's attention, and; 2) It draws the ninjas to this thread like flies on dog poop -- and I get to place them on ignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KippTabor Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wrong. Then you prevent someone who says "Hey folks my main companion can really use that as an upgrade, do you mind if I need?" from rolling need if the rest of the group doesn't care. You seem to forget that companions aren't Warlock Pets or the latest dumbed down Hunter pets. Doesn't matter if it's not as dumb of a pet as in WoW. The point is that other players who are actually there doing the FP or heroic, or what have you, are more important than your companion, always. Common sense, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotmikelima Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 While I try my best to avoid this because I feel in many ways as immature as the person that wronged me. I feel by letting everyone in General know about this A-hole Im saving others the trouble of grouping with this person or letting their guard down when around this person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHiddey Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ninja do it because Bioware allows them to do. Bioware copied everything from WoW except the most useful tools, like the LFG tool, the PVP system, a decent Auction House, and the anti-ninja tool (where a Plate wearer cannot Need a piece of Cloth Armor even if he can wear it) Bioware just overlooked the things that make a great MMO from an average one. I am pretty sure Blizzard hasn't implemented anything that would prevent a ninja from taking a node/chest which you just cleared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethHoover Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Because they are failures in any other social setting...so why should the Internet be any different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjskull Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) It's the worst thing about our wonderful advancing technology. People don't get pounded as much any more for their d-baggery. Used to be, social stupidity would get you shunned or smacked. No consequences = bad behavior. It's human nature. Most of these people don't even know that they are d-bags. That's the worst part. As you can see from some of the posts already in this thread, people can justify anything. Total lack of self awareness... Edit: I mean, think about the concept of no consequences for yourself too... If you knew, you *absolutely knew* that you could steal 10 million dollars with *no chance* of getting caught... No chance at all.... Would you steal that money? It's just a degree thing. They are just willing to be a D-Bag for a Green Item in a chest and you only think about it for 10 million dollars. Lol. Edited January 10, 2012 by pjskull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nizzemancer Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It's the worst thing about our wonderful advancing technology. People don't get pounded as much any more for their d-baggery. Used to be, social stupidity would get you shunned or smacked. No consequences = bad behavior. It's human nature. Most of these people don't even know that they are d-bags. That's the worst part. As you can see from some of the posts already in this thread, people can justify anything. Total lack of self awareness... Edit: I mean, think about the concept of no consequences for yourself too... If you knew, you *absolutely knew* that you could steal 10 million dollars with *no chance* of getting caught... No chance at all.... Would you steal that money? It's just a degree thing. They are just willing to be a D-Bag for a Green Item in a chest and you only think about it for 10 million dollars. Lol. No, I wouldn't steal 10 million dollars, I have integrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game_Hermit Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Hi, Why do people feel it's still reasonable to walk right past someone fighting some mobs guarding a security chest or gathering node and just take it? They could at least wait a few seconds to see if that's what the fighting player is going after. I've had this happen to me many times in this game already. *sheesh* Cheers. It doesn't have your name on it. For all they know you're killing the mobs for a quest and don't even have the right gathering skill for the node. I hardly ever have stuff like that happen to me anyway so it doesn't really matter. The people who are against it are far worse. I accidentally harvested some node some dude though was his birthright the other day so he calls me all kinds of names and follows me around harvesting anything I even go near and stealing my quest objectives for at least half an hour until I got tired of it and switched instances and put him on ignore. It's just a resource node, people. They respawn and there are tons of them. There's literally an infinite supply. Don't get so butthurt over insignificant things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjskull Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 No, I wouldn't steal 10 million dollars, I have integrity. I didn't say you would... It's a hypothetical for a moral and ethical discussion. But, based off of your answer, I assume you would never ninja loot or a quest object? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankybrit Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 I am pretty sure Blizzard hasn't implemented anything that would prevent a ninja from taking a node/chest which you just cleared. Well, they have actually implemented tapped nodes so if you touch it and then enter combat, no-one else can take it. I guess that could be a solution, and then we'd know to start gathering/taking even if we know we'll get interrupted by combat. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfabulous Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 IMO they should implement a feature that stuns someone for 10 seconds if they aren't the tagged player of the surrounding mobs. Or traps like that in general, get teleported to the nearest graveyard, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneirophrenia Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 This reminds me of something that happened on my alt yesterday on Tatooine. I was in an area trying to complete a bonus mission (stage 2) which was to find and destroy some water tanks. The vast majority of sand people in the area were cleared out as stage 1 of the bonus mission required you to kill a number of them. Without needing to fight anything any longer, I hopped on my hoverbike to search for the glowies. Me and this BH spotted one next to the final objective tent so we both headed towards it. I was on my bike and he was on foot so naturally, I beat him to it. He obviously wasn't too pleased about that so he started saying things like "f***** a*****" in general chat to which I made no response because frankly, twits like him is of no consequence to me. Better to just ignore him than putting my brain cells in harms way by listening to his senseless drivel. Now with stage 2 completed, I parked myself at the final stage tent waiting for the boss to respawn. This twit then came over and started spamming his BH AoE attacks on top of me for the next 30 seconds and aggroed the mob as soon as it spawned, thereby claiming the kill. I guess I *could have* reported him but the GM probably wouldn't have taken action. I just wish he had tried to aggro the boss one more time, even after his objective was completed, so I would have had a more solid footing in reporting him for griefing. The moral of the story is, sometimes "ninjaing" is a perception issue. While one person feel that he is entitled to get the first crack at something, another person can also feel the exact same way. Unless the action was clearly intentional and beyond blatant, it is hard to determine who was right and who was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game_Hermit Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It's the worst thing about our wonderful advancing technology. People don't get pounded as much any more for their d-baggery. Used to be, social stupidity would get you shunned or smacked. No consequences = bad behavior. It's human nature. Most of these people don't even know that they are d-bags. That's the worst part. As you can see from some of the posts already in this thread, people can justify anything. Total lack of self awareness... Edit: I mean, think about the concept of no consequences for yourself too... If you knew, you *absolutely knew* that you could steal 10 million dollars with *no chance* of getting caught... No chance at all.... Would you steal that money? It's just a degree thing. They are just willing to be a D-Bag for a Green Item in a chest and you only think about it for 10 million dollars. Lol. I'm dirt broke right now because of a long chain of people screwing me over so yeah I'd take the money. I figure the world owes me a solution to the problem it created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 To much MeMe, to little ThemThem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kijjik Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 i'm sith and i'm rping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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