Aria Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have a rule, if anyone does that to me I follow them and do it to them for as long as possible until they log off or change instances. It's a great way to teach them manners. No offense but that makes you no better then them, I just make a note of the person and move on. Thankfully most players I met so far are nice but there are a few rude ones here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_Vega Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I've been encountering more and more players who seem to think that it's okay to ninja somebody else's objectives .... ***. Today I was battling a mob when another player took advantage - ran right by me and destroyed the target I was after - seriously that is f'ed up and cheap........ It's not gonna stop. Get creative, send your pet to occupy the mob, while you secure the objective. If someone is out looking questing, how the heck do they know if you are going for that objective or killing stuff as part of a bonus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryn Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I've been encountering more and more players who seem to think that it's okay to ninja somebody else's objectives .... ***. Today I was battling a mob when another player took advantage - ran right by me and destroyed the target I was after - seriously that is f'ed up and cheap........ first MMO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stenrik Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Whenever I see someone going after my objective, I quickly group invite them. They almost always accept, and then we both get it. Win-win. Just disband after we have it and move on. Now they're REALLY a jerk if they decline my invite for no reason, but I've found it rare. Edited January 20, 2012 by Stenrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotardNosef Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 The other day I ninja'd some pt as the another guy was fighting the mob at it, but at the next point I was battling a mob and he ran by me and took the objective. All in all I think these things even out, but worst case you end up waiting a minute for the objective to respawn. And the quick spawning objectives make it a lot easier to complete missions since you can just camp a single location for 5 min instead of running across the map. Now though I try to keep an eye out for ppl who look to be doing the same quest as me and just party up briefly so we don't have to fight over the objectives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferroz Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) It's times like these that make me miss a good old fashioned EQ train. EQ had some excellent tools to police d-bags. Mostly it boiled down to needing a group to level, so if you made a reputation for yourself as a jerk, you couldn't level anymore. Ah the good ole days...you know, I watched plenty of the worst jerks on the server continue to find groups and guilds. the 2 of the top guilds on my server (EV and companions) both had some real pieces of work. I remember getting trained on several occasions by a particualr enchanter in Comps, and the leadership just didn't care. I remember that there was obnoxious druid, name began with an E, well known for ninjalooting and training people. I remember him being in guilds even after he made the POMS (Piece of monkey S***) list Edited January 20, 2012 by ferroz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swisspease Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just last night I had my bounty hunter running at a quest objective, a boss on Nar Shaddaa, when a sith inquisitor sprinted right past me to try to get to it first only to run into a mob that he couldn't see from his angle. I couldn't help but laugh as he was tied up with the group as I went on to defeat the boss. I normally would have helped him out and then offered to join up with him before taking out the boss, but that's what you get for trying to pass me over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalPremise Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Bottom line: If it's a fast - respawning quest objective, it just isn't that important. Let it go. If it's a loot chest, that does not respawn very quickly at all, and it's guarded by mobs, and a player is fighting those mobs, and you loot it, then you are by definition a ninja looter. The chest is clearly supposed to go to the person who defeats the guards. Anyone saying "I don't see your name on it" is a child and will reap their own punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerandar Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 its not ninjaing kill things faster next time or wait till the other person aggros it and take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalPremise Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 its not ninjaing kill things faster next time or wait till the other person aggros it and take it. Objective or chest? Again, if's a chest, that is ninja looting, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vydor_HC Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Respawns are fast enough for this not to be an issue for me, my wife absolutely hates it and screams everytime some one does it. I think she had some serious verbal engagements in other games and has never gotten over it. But it is bad form to take an objective that is not meant to be sharable when others are engaged near it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swisspease Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Objective or chest? Again, if's a chest, that is ninja looting, period. Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalPremise Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Agreed I think people are so up in arms over the objectives simply because someone beat them to it, or took it while they were fighting the mobs. But it literally comes right back. If it's one of those "bonus missions" where you have an NPC on a long respawn, or something like that, just group... I don't even notice anymore when someone does it except to ask if they need help, which usually shocks them. One guy was all like "I didn't see you, didn't mean to take your objective" and I pointed out that it had already respawned. Moar kindness, less grrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barracudastr Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I've been encountering more and more players who seem to think that it's okay to ninja somebody else's objectives .... ***. Today I was battling a mob when another player took advantage - ran right by me and destroyed the target I was after - seriously that is f'ed up and cheap........ And people were boasting that after all the haters left this wouldn't happen anymore because everyone left in the game would be super nice and giddy with swtor loves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Malice Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Welcome to the internet. Get used too it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisar Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Everything is not a race? When did this happen? I thought there was an unspoken understanding that the best man will get the objective first. I just thought they were really bad losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurakk Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 And people were boasting that after all the haters left this wouldn't happen anymore because everyone left in the game would be super nice and giddy with swtor loves. I don't think anyone claimed that unless they were misguided. Most posts I saw along those lines were that the FORUMS would be much cleaner without all the whiny I hate BW/EA! and I AM QUITTING! posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akaanalor Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 No, it's very Sith and expected of all young apprentices. j/k...I feel your pain. Wish there was a way to "like" or "dislike" another player. Sort of like a reputation. That should definitely be implemented. You'd be able to tell at a glance who is, in fact, a douche, and who is not. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShotByBothSides Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Welcome to the internet. Get used too it. This is such an overused phrase, and one that seems to use to justify bad behaviour. Just because the internet is, to a greater extent anonymous, does not really justify that we should leave all our manners behind in the real world; assuming that decent manners still exist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeseer Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I guess I've just seen this so many times that I don't really notice it much anymore. The objective will respawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdee Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yeah I always have that when I battle the two elites in front a chest and someone just runs up to the chest and loots it. Yeah its rude but I won't let that destroy my good time with this game. Chests respawn usually quite fast so I just stick around a little and get the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurakk Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) If a chest always has a mob in front of it just make the chest only be opened by a "key" the mob drops. Solves at least one portion of this issue pretty easily. Kill mob = get chest. Do not kill mob = no chest. Edited January 20, 2012 by Saurakk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlong Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I don't defend the ninja attitude because this isn't ninjaing Still no one has come up with a logical argument against me. Once again - These are not your items. Get it? they don't have your name on them, they are not owned by you and you thinking you have the right to loot them just because you saw them first is disgustingly arrogant. Oh, ok. So if you are in a parking lot waiting for a spot, and someone goes around you and takes the spot, it’s cool? The parking spot didn’t have your name on it and you can't claim it since it is not yours, you were just waiting for it. Well with your attitude you are probably not old enough to drive yet. People just lack common courtesy these days, not just on mmo's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrotmikelima Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have done the same thing in the past. Usually it gets the point across. But I'm not real proud of it ... two wrongs don't make a right. Not in my book. Obviously mommy and daddy failed this one...so its not a problem with me to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperPixie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 the only problem i have with the ninjaing of quest mobs if its in a heroic 4 or 2 zone where my group fought for a long while to get to the boss to finish the quest just to have another group follow us in not do anything since they hung back to let us clear the way and just take the boss when we fought the last trash mob between us and him... other than that if i see a group ahead going for the same thing i just help clear trash so they can get to it faster so it can spawn faster for me I have had the same thing but this happened twice in row to my team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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