Why Anonymous

[Berri]

<p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p>

[Kizee]

<p>Most healers do it to avoid getting pestered all the time for groups.</p><p>Raiders do it so other raiding guilds don't see where there are if they are killing a contested.</p><p>Probally a few others but those are the main ones.</p>

[archimidesX]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote> lots of people used it in EQ1...druids, wizards, clerics, enchanters, shaman...pretty much anyone who could provide buffs and/or ports when they didn't feel like doing such... why people do it here?  maybe they don't want to be bothered...

[bensilvi]

Helps with lowering the plat spamming.

[Siclone]

<p>do people who go Anonymous get spammed tells for plat or groups?</p><p>I think this is the reason, if you go Anonumous you dont get tells, to buy plat or hey want to do this or that </p>

[hobi]

<cite>bensilvi wrote:</cite><blockquote>Helps with lowering the plat spamming. </blockquote> i agree i believe this is the main reason

[Mirul]

I don't know if it really helps or not but I do it because I don't want to get "spam" from Plat sellers.  It seems to help me.  I know within the last couple of weeks alot of my guild mates have been inundated with tells from plat sellers and I haven't received any.  I have gotten 1 in my mail box but that's it.  One may have nothing to do with the other but I feel like it helps so I keep mine on.

[interstellarmatter]

<p>I used to do it a lot with my healer and tank.  People would send me ninja invites in which I would politely decline.  They would then go off on me for not helping their group.  Instead of having to explain myself to everyone with a temper, turning on /anon just saves me the trouble.</p><p>How does it interfere with group formation?  If they have /anon up, then they usually don't want in a group.</p>

[Nuhus]

<cite>interstellarmatter wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> If they have /anon up, then they usually don't want in a group.</p></blockquote>Not necessarily. I am anon all the time on my Coercer, well.. most of the time. So I don't get a bunch of tells asking for spells.

[Anoz]

I hate the fact that you cannot see what people are. On the RP server everyone is set to roleplay which makes it very hard to know what level they are or what they are. I suppose that is to give your character a 'real person' feel instead of a 'gamer' feel.

[mee]

<p>I used to get annoyed by /anon or /role, mostly back in EQ1, and I was a chanter there. You just learned to say no, despite the really tempting offers. Like this one time, I was on a raid somewhere, I think Time, and some random low level necro sent me a tell asking me to come to OOT at the AC camp to give him C. It was pretty hard to not just leave the raid for that. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>But now I put /role on most of my toons, and it's only to avoid the plat spammers. People tell me it doesn't help, but really, it's helped so much it's not even funny. I took a character off /role to see if it wasn't just a fluke, but she gets spammed and the sneaky ones get nada. It used to be that if we were in the same zone, my husband and I would get the same spam on both our toons at the same time. </p><p>But ya, put in one vote for plat spam avoiding reasons. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Edit: And I'm on a /role server, but personally I feel that using /role on a roleplay server is simply redundant, and actually counterproductive if you want to stay completely IC. If you're not on /role at least someone could do a /who and know if you were the right level to join them in X dungeon or something. But I believe I'm in the minority on that opinion. </p>

[Kursa]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote><p>so that the lvl 1 Ghyuryur Froglok Paladin doesnt /tell me saying:</p><p>"psst...hey! Come to our website at <censored> to get 100 plat for only 69.99!!! It's a great deal. If you come within the next 23 minutes we give you extra 2 plat, good deal, no?" </p>

[Slayer505]

No /anon doesn't stop plat sellers.  I run around /anon and I get plat seller tells all the time.  I run around /anon on my Berserker so I don't get random PUG invites.  I pretty much only group with guildies and friends (PUGs make baby Jesus cry <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> ).  If I take /anon off I get constant tells from PUGs asking me to tank stuff.  The tells in raid zones are the best.  About to pull some named and a random tell from some PUG comes in asking if I want to tank OOB or something.  I mean, come on, can't people see you're in a raid zone and clearly busy?  Much easier to just type /anon.

[Kursa]

well, all I know is when i was on default, I would get /tells about once an hour.  On /anon I get a /tell every four hours.  That's why I use the /anon

[mellowknees72]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote><p> All of my characters are /anon to curb plat-seller tells.  Since doing it, I get about 90% few "buymyillgottenplat.com" tells.</p><p>I also run /anon because I got tired of random group invites...and I also got tired of soloing on my conjurer and getting tells inviting me to raids (because they only love me for my shards).</p><p>But then again, I'm anti-social. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  I have to be VERY social in my job, all day long, and it wears on me.  When I'm in Norrath, I'm a loner, Dottie...a rebel.  You don't want to get mixed up with a monk (or fury, or conjurer, or berserker, or whatever alt I'm on) like me.</p>

[Lasai]

<p>I have been /anon since the day some guy went foam at the mouth ballistic at me for not dropping what I was doing because he NEEDED a pair of Imbued Iron Daggers NOW.</p><p>I craft for me, my guild, and at my own times.  Therefore I do not want people to know my tradeskill.</p>

[Mirul]

<cite>Lasai wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have been /anon since the day some guy went foam at the mouth ballistic at me for not dropping what I was doing because he NEEDED a pair of Imbued Iron Daggers NOW.</p><p>I craft for me, my guild, and at my own times.  Therefore I do not want people to know my tradeskill.</p></blockquote>Going /anon does not hide your tradeskill as it isn't displayed (at least I don't think it is).  All you have to do is "inspect" the person that is /anon and you will see what level they are and class and what TS that person is (if you are in the zone with them and can click on them).  It just hides it from "normal" view of the tag above the person and when doing a /who or when checking LFG.

[cronar]

<p>Doesnt matter if you are anon or roleplay, if someone wants to know what level you are, all they have to do is inspect you. </p>

[Lasai]

Mirul@Butcherblock wrote: <blockquote><cite>Lasai wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have been /anon since the day some guy went foam at the mouth ballistic at me for not dropping what I was doing because he NEEDED a pair of Imbued Iron Daggers NOW.</p><p>I craft for me, my guild, and at my own times.  Therefore I do not want people to know my tradeskill.</p></blockquote>Going /anon does not hide your tradeskill as it isn't displayed (at least I don't think it is).  All you have to do is "inspect" the person that is /anon and you will see what level they are and class and what TS that person is (if you are in the zone with them and can click on them).  It just hides it from "normal" view of the tag above the person and when doing a /who or when checking LFG.</blockquote> Being hidden from /who is exactly why I do it. 

[MysidiaDrakkenbane]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote> All of my characters are anon. It's so I don't get plat spam.

[liveja]

<p>Why? Because it seems very much to have eliminated plat spam.</p><p>In any event, most of the people with whom I group know if I'm on & how to contact me, so it doesn't impede my ability to get groups at all.</p>

[g0thiC_iCe_cReaM]

<p>i use annon to avoid people looking for a random crafter for doing work and it cuts down significantly on the plat spam, i almost never get plat spam on my annon toons, it's usually a barrage of plat spam on the non-annon toons durring peak hours...i use annon on my warden to avoid tells for groups since i'm usually 2 boxing her or already doing something with guildies</p><p><3 annon</p>

[Khurghan]

Other than when you are LFG/W is there any reason not to be /anon?

[Lornick]

Anonymous really irritates me.  When I'm trying to put together groups I do /who all searches for classes needed.  I don't bother people that are obviously busy in dungeons and I usually don't send tells to players in tradeskill instances unless I've run out of options.  But I hadn't really considered the plat spammers aspect.  I two box quite a bit so I'll experiment with leaving one character anon and the other not to see if it actually makes a difference.

[DarrkElf]

<p>I use it mostly for two reasons.</p><p>1 - My main is a healer, and tends to get a huge amount of tells and ninja invites begging for her to join groups and raids</p><p>2 - Sometimes I'm travelling through a lower zone to get HQ starters or harvest and get heaps of request to mentor other players or join a group.</p><p>I turn off anonymous the rest of the time.</p>

[erin]

<cite>Lornick wrote:</cite><blockquote>Anonymous really irritates me.  When I'm trying to put together groups I do /who all searches for classes needed.  I don't bother people that are obviously busy in dungeons and I usually don't send tells to players in tradeskill instances unless I've run out of options.  But I hadn't really considered the plat spammers aspect.  I two box quite a bit so I'll experiment with leaving one character anon and the other not to see if it actually makes a difference.</blockquote>No offense, but you are one of the reasons people go anon.  Assuming you do what this sounds like, and send tells to people who are "the classes needed" whether they are lfg or not. Many people go anon because of plat spammers, but honestly I haven't found a difference.  But to each their own.

[danmuntz]

<cite>Lornick wrote:</cite><blockquote>Anonymous really irritates me.  When I'm trying to put together groups I do /who all searches for classes needed.  I don't bother people that are obviously busy in dungeons and I usually don't send tells to players in tradeskill instances unless I've run out of options.  But I hadn't really considered the plat spammers aspect.  I two box quite a bit so I'll experiment with leaving one character anon and the other not to see if it actually makes a difference.</blockquote> There's one of the reasons for /anon, people like you who use /who all searches to send out group invites to those not /LFG. Sorry, but I don't care if you're the most uber <insert class here> on the server.  If you send me a group invite or ask me to join a group and I'm not /LFG you are on my crap list.

[InsertNeko]

When I'm anon, I NEVER get plat spam. I'm /anon a  lot <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Mareth]

I'm just in it for the pink name.

[Berri]

<p>So i let this post run through...</p><p>Plat spam is the main reasonn why peeps are anon, Well thats shocking and sucks. You've allowed that crap to destroy major social aspects of the game.</p><p>How fun is it zoning into an area and seeing</p><p> /anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>You really think i a big ignore list is worst than a going anon, PLAT spammin aint that bad.</p><p>The only class and level i ever see is from the opposite city, never know what power my own city holds in a zone....</p><p>Play on RP server if you want anon/rp, and ban anon on the rest</p>

[interstellarmatter]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>So i let this post run through...</p><p>Plat spam is the main reasonn why peeps are anon, Well thats shocking and sucks. You've allowed that crap to destroy major social aspects of the game.</p><p>How fun is it zoning into an area and seeing</p><p> /anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>You really think i a big ignore list is worst than a going anon, PLAT spammin aint that bad.</p><p>The only class and level i ever see is from the opposite city, never know what power my own city holds in a zone....</p><p>Play on RP server if you want anon/rp, and ban anon on the rest</p></blockquote>Sorry that you feel this way but that's just your opinion.  For others of us, there isn't anything wrong with /anon.  In fact, it helps immersion.  People don't walk around with ShadowKnight written over their head.

[Stuge]

<span style="font-family: courier new,courier">The only thing that irks me about anon is when you are <i>both</i> /anon <i>and</i> /lfg.  When I am trying to do a <span style="color: #00ff00">/who all LFG</span> to start forming up a group, am I expected to send tells to half the people who are LFG on the server on that list to ask them what level and class they are?  Bah.</span>

[Berri]

<p>They have rp servers for immersion, I'm just saying that zoning into a 95% anon zone is pointless and does help build a team feel. I actaully like to see diff puppets lvl and class. /Anon is dull</p>

[Mwahaha]

In PvP people claim to use /anon and /roleplay to hide your class from the enemy, however anyone can counter this just by looking at your buffs.

[Ruut Li]

anonymous lfg..thats funnyl. Whats even more funny is anon asking for group/help in chats without specifying class/level lol. good luck! Im not gonna ask for info because anon to me is a sign to leave the person alone.

[Stackmaster]

I never saw Annon very often except on the PVP sever.  Unfortunatly on PVP I can't use the LFG system because everyone is RP or Annon for the same reason.  I might as well have a HUGE sign "kick me I am alone out here ps. my level and class are...."

[mellowknees72]

Stugein@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote><span style="font-family: courier new,courier">The only thing that irks me about anon is when you are <i>both</i> /anon <i>and</i> /lfg.  When I am trying to do a <span style="color: #00ff00">/who all LFG</span> to start forming up a group, am I expected to send tells to half the people who are LFG on the server on that list to ask them what level and class they are?  Bah.</span> </blockquote><p> Does the new LFG window show their class and level, even if they're /anon or /role?</p><p>It really, really should.  Once you put up /LFG, that info should be available to folks using the LFG window.  (Meaning if it's not already, that's something that should be corrected - I don't know offhand if it does that or not).</p>

[Stuge]

Pipes@Najena wrote: <blockquote>Stugein@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote><span style="font-family: courier new,courier">The only thing that irks me about anon is when you are <i>both</i> /anon <i>and</i> /lfg.  When I am trying to do a <span style="color: #00ff00">/who all LFG</span> to start forming up a group, am I expected to send tells to half the people who are LFG on the server on that list to ask them what level and class they are?  Bah.</span> </blockquote><p> Does the new LFG window show their class and level, even if they're /anon or /role?</p><p>It really, really should.  Once you put up /LFG, that info should be available to folks using the LFG window.  (Meaning if it's not already, that's something that should be corrected - I don't know offhand if it does that or not).</p></blockquote> <span style="font-family: courier new,courier">To be completely honest I haven't had the need to recruit random folk for groups since the updated LFG utility was put it.  I'll check it and get back to you.  In either case, it was still silly prior to that. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> </span>

[novok]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>So i let this post run through...</p><p>Plat spam is the main reasonn why peeps are anon, Well thats shocking and sucks. You've allowed that crap to destroy major social aspects of the game.</p><p>How fun is it zoning into an area and seeing</p><p> /anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>/anon</p><p>You really think i a big ignore list is worst than a going anon, PLAT spammin aint that bad.</p><p>The only class and level i ever see is from the opposite city, never know what power my own city holds in a zone....</p><p>Play on RP server if you want anon/rp, and ban anon on the rest</p><p>.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .</p><p>You want to ban something that thousands find useful purely because it makes things a bit less fun for YOU?</p><p>I doubt if you can possibly even conceive of how little I care for how much fun YOU are having.</p></blockquote>

[Cele]

<p>I go anon so people will leave me alone.  5 seconds after removing /anon thie morning, some [Removed for Content] asked me if I would come to MMC and have my pet tank.</p><p>UMMM, evne at 70, conjy pets cant tank MMC. Hence, I use /anon to avoid morons</p>

[Astrlidia]

<p>I use both on all my characters. /anon and /rp, because I can. I loaths ninja grouping too, and I'm not interested in PLing my toon(s) to 70 in a week. I rather take my time. I know I'm mising the intances, but actually I'm not. I don't have put up with the ninja looters, like you all do. </p><p>What really irritates me the most is how most of you form these guilds, and NEVER have your guildmates online, when you need to do something. Those of you that do use /anon, aren't hiding your level if you have a pet. Your pet will have your level too. No need to do an /inspect.<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>I also have " decline to join groups and raids " checked too.<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Daysy]

I don't like being Anonymous but when it reached the point that there was so much platspam that I had to keep scrolling up to see the guild chat I'd missed, I had no option but to use it. If guild chat could be displayed on more than one chat tab, like custom channels are, I wouldn't have used Anonymous.

[StarryEyedElf]

If you've had a post removed from this thread, it is because it made a stereotyping comment. Now carry on.

[EtoilePirate]

On Test a lot of the 70s go /anon because otherwise we get tells like, "omg how u get 70 I want copy too!" from people who refuse to believe that the answer is, "one quest and one mob at a time." On my Live toons I go /anon because I generally don't want to socialize.  Spam is spam and it'll come and go, but if I wanted to talk to people I'd join a guild over there.  I don't so I don't. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Surething]

The real reason is because being Anon drives so many people crazy; Muahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

[kanidana]

All people who mod MORP forums are nerds. Carry on. J/K. I didn't mean to be politically incorrect. That being said, anon is like avoidance without being rude. People in American society hate being overtly rude. They prefer to not have to speak rudeness, just think it, and act it. Thus, ANON in online games syncs perfectly with political correctness and not having to say no or to overtly ignore or annoy people.

[tass]

lol not all of us are well mannered. For instance i'll openly go out of my way to play mind games with telemarketers or belittle a fool I happen to encounter on a walk somewhere. Also just wanted to add the ever current blind tells for invites because their is only like maybe 13 people in the entire server lfg could be another reason.

[kanidana]

Mind games? What the heck is that. It sounds like 'PLAYING WITH BRAINS'. Very macabre. I hope you wait until they're dead to do that, and if you do that after they're dead, I hope you're a medical student, pathologist, or any other person that deals with body parts in an experimental and/or playful manner. Many times I like to just say what's on my mind in a very blunt manner. Spell it out, sort of write (speak). I know it's not much of a game, but I'm not much for games...unless they are MMORPGs.

[Beezilla1]

Could one reason for playing /anon be  so that people can't see where you are when you advertise loot for sell? I roll completely open and hardly get any spam tells. Hardly get blind invites. If I have someone giving me a hard time for some reason or another, /ignore works!!! Sorry, but the anonymous tags annoy me. I can't help it. My gf does it with her toons...I tell her all the time she's being sneaky and underhanded.

[Yngwiem]

<p>Like a lot of others, I go /anon to decrease plat spammers. I can't recall the last one I got. </p><p>If you're curious about someone, just inspect them, it will show you their class & level. </p><p>When in a group, your group bar shows what everyone is.</p>

[Effie]

<cite>Yngwiem wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Like a lot of others, I go /anon to decrease plat spammers. I can't recall the last one I got. </p></blockquote><p>When this thread was created (almost 9 months ago), anon or roleplay was the only effective way to cut down on plat spam tells.</p><p>Since they implemented the spam filter, I stopped being anon on all my characters.</p><p>I have gotten about 3 or 4 spam tells (in total) in 6+ months.</p>

[Frijoles]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote><p>Very simply put, all my characters are flagged 'Anonymous' or 'Roleplay' for privacy purposes.</p><p>When I want to group with any one of my toons, I put up the LFG flag, holler out in the appropriate chat channel, and/or respond to others in channels who are looking to get something started.</p><p>I absolutely abhor strangers who send me tells asking me to do things for them (or group with them, etc) without so much as an introduction or a hello.</p><p>I don't think <i>"Hello, can you spare a moment?"</i> is too much to ask.</p><p>Just yesterday someone in the same zone I was in did this - after watching me spawn at one of those 'death' camps nearby. I'd just been killed by a nearby named and was buffing up to head back when I get: "r u busy? i need hlp killing a mob for a upd8."</p><p>In the end, I wound up helping this person (on the condition that he grow some communication skills) before going back to what I was doing.</p><p>I find that /anon helps me to keep these rude interruptions at a minimum.</p>

[Midevlconevl]

Anon has its good point's, but the fact it makes your name <b>pink</b> screws it up for me. As far as spam goes its best to turn it off in chat options.

[Rahatmattata]

You can change the color to whatever you'd like.

[azekah]

<p>It annoys me when people say LFM in chat, then I click on their name to see their level and if I might be too high or low for their group and it says anon : (</p> <p>I know I could ask them, but that requires more work…</p>

[Birn]

<cite>azekah wrote:</cite><blockquote> <p>It annoys me when people say LFM in chat, then I click on their name to see their level and if I might be too high or low for their group and it says anon : (</p> <p>I know I could ask them, but that requires more work…</p> </blockquote>Or when you actually send that guy a tell and he respond is "Fool, we already have <insert class>, ME! Sheesh!". Remove anon and I could have checked before you had to insult me.If you put up LFG or LFM I think it would be a rather good idea to drop /anon at the same time just to avoid these silly things.

[Katariel]

<p>How about when you are forming a group in channel, and LFM, then get personal tells saying "need a healer?". When you do a /who [insert name], it says anonymous. Now, first of all, maybe I need a specific class healer, but what about a certain level (thinking specifically to zones/instances where one level makes a big difference).</p><p>I am not trying to be lazy and not asking them what level/class they are ( I usually end up doing that), but sometimes you are stuck in a tell hell, getting messages from a bunch of different healers. In the end, I sometimes miss one or forget to reply to that tell after doing a quick /who <sheepish> .</p><p>Of course, I could send a channel thing like: "Sebilis Group LF Plate, Leather, Non-Chain Healer level 79+" or "Sebilis Group LF Cleric or Druid Healer Level 79+"</p><p>But really, something like that just bogs down compared to :"Sebilis Group LF Healer"</p><p>Is it so hard to take off your /anon tag? : ) Ok, this is sounding a tad like a pet peeve. I'll move on to that post. : )</p><p>Kat : )</p>

[Jehannum]

<p>I turned on /anon (or /role, or both, I can't recall now) because as a level 50 trouby I was getting massive numbers of random tells and invites to Prismatic raids and such.</p><p>I kept it on because as a level 60 trouby, when I opened it up briefly I was getting too many random tells and invites to God-King and other DoF raids and instances, despite being locked out most of the time - and once I had my spoon I wasn't that interested in doing the instances much anymore.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>I opened it up for a day or three prior to Kunark and received a dozen blind invites, all declined, some during times when I really could have done without (while crafting, kiting, etc) and lots of tells.  Seems cap-level troubies were still in demand.</p><p>I haven't removed my anonymity since Kunark was released, but I know if I did I'd be bombarded with more blind invites and tells for instances and raids where I'm either locked out or not currently interested in participating.</p><p>My guildies know how to find me, my friends know to ask if they need a trouby, and they all know I'm max level.  And if the pick-up-group isn't already primarily composed of friends, I wouldn't want to have joined it in the first place, typically; blind pickups don't respect my mez and often include at least one ninja-slacker and one toon with sticky fingers.  I'm not inclined to put up with either one.</p>

[Rqron]

Funny that I see this tread today,until 2 days ago I  thought that having the RP tag up should be enough to tell people hey, if you want to  invite me unsolicited do it in a manner according to my wishes so at least send me a tell or in say introduce yourself and ask if I would be willing to help you.But running through SQ a couple a days ago with my Warlock, I got 4 back to back raid invites from the same person that was looking for more in the lvl channel . I mean gawd, how rude to just send a raid invite without asking and then..continue to do so after I declined. Looking around I saw HER sit on the side way facing the gate so she must have seen me zoning into SQ. Nevertheless to say she is on the ignore list from now until eternity.Now, after this incident, not only do I have the RP flag up, I also have no group invite and no raid invite checked. I feel if I want to join a raid or group I can un-check  before I answer the people looking for more in a group/raid.It is similar to the nonsense that happens if I announce that I am looking for group, What is wrong with sending me a tell asking ..hey we wanna do XXXX want to join? This gives me the option to say yes, or no, or hey sorry I have a lockout.... It is absolutely nonsense for someone to just send a group invite or raid invite without asking first.. I usually decline them ..some people ask why and understand..most people just send nasty comments....but fact is, I get an invite, then I  need to ask what do you want to do, and if it is something I don't want to do have to tell the group that..and some of them probably have no idea why I would say no after an invite because they assumed I was invited knowing what they want to do....it is just not a good situation all the way around....and now I have to disband and put up the lfg flag again...and there is a ever so slight chance I missed out on a group that wanted to do what I was looking for because my lfg flag was off when they where looking.J.C.

[azekah]

Pretty strange, I have never used anon/rp and I get very few spam tells, and don't remember ever getting a random invite. Occasionally I get a tell asking if I can join a grp, but thats it...Maybe I'm just lucky...

[phoenixshard]

<cite>Daysy wrote:</cite><blockquote>I don't like being Anonymous but when it reached the point that there was so much platspam that I had to keep scrolling up to see the guild chat I'd missed, I had no option but to use it. If guild chat could be displayed on more than one chat tab, like custom channels are, I wouldn't have used Anonymous.</blockquote>Just set up a new chat tab/window and only allow guild chat to come there in the options.  I've done that for group, guild and private chat and just have level chat in its own chat tab.  Works wonders for me.

[mellowknees72]

<cite>Berri wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Why is Anon is prelevent(sp?) in eq2 when it was only druids in eq1 who used it lol.</p><p>Seriously, it impacts on group formation and the general feel of being 'city' teams</p><p> btw, i dont play on a RP server</p><p>Any thoughts peeps</p></blockquote><p>My personal perspective:</p><p>* My conj runs anonymous because if she doesn't, I get spammed with requests to join pick-up raids (they only love me for my shards!)</p><p>* My other characters started running anon when plat spam became overwhelming.  It helped make a significant dent in the amount of plat-seller spam I would get.</p><p>* I am a solo/duo person and don't like pick up groups.  I'm much less likely to get blind group invites (grr) and random tells from people asking me to group if they can't easily see which class my character is.</p><p>There are lots and lots of reasons why people choose to turn on the /anon option.  But I think the main one you'll find is people using it to avoid plat-seller spam.</p>

[Maalek]

Had a 600 AA Cleric in EQ1,Inq 60/82 AAs here.That said I consider anon/role most annoying and never use it,it just takes away from the comunity feeling and leads me to theconclusion there is something you want to hide(though I dont know what this should be in a game).I never was anon,easy to ignore unwanted tells.If you want anything from me you'd better be not anon.Pester me more than once you go on my hand written ignore list.Luckily in EQ2 this is by far not much as a problem as in EQ1.

[Gustuv Wynd]

<p> If you are /anonymous...I leave you alone.  So if you don't want to group go /anonymous.</p><p> For the people that are /anon only to avoid plat sellers...that is dumb.  Are you still saying you want to be incuded in groups?  I should make bots who only send tells to the purple folks asking what level and class they are...over and over and over.  </p><p>I wish I could have an option to have you not show up on my screen.  To not allow you to buy thing from me.  You want to be all alone?  fine with me...but I hate it that you still can talk in chat, be LFG, and sell and buy on the broker.  because that all social aspects of the game and if you're purple you are saying you have absolutely no desire to be even remotely social.</p>

[Tae]

Everyone on the PvP servers is Anonymous or Roleplaying. Most are roleplaying because then it shows your guild tag after your name in a zone /who. If you weren't, opposite faction people can log in a character on your side, do a /who for your name and find out exactly where you are. To be honest I never even considered that on the PvM servers people would be anything other than anonymous. When I see a person with a blue name that means they're either a newbie or they're Taldier. I can't imagine seeing same faction players as anything other than purple. It also doesn't stop spam tells, because as I say everyone here is always set to it and we all definitely get them. It's never impeded groups, but on the other hand everyone at T8 on Venekor knows everyone else so I don't think our situation is very similar to the other servers.

[erin]

<cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> If you are /anonymous...I leave you alone.  So if you don't want to group go /anonymous.</p><p> For the people that are /anon only to avoid plat sellers...that is dumb.  Are you still saying you want to be incuded in groups?  I should make bots who only send tells to the purple folks asking what level and class they are...over and over and over.  </p><p>I wish I could have an option to have you not show up on my screen.  To not allow you to buy thing from me.  You want to be all alone?  fine with me...but I hate it that you still can talk in chat, be LFG, and sell and buy on the broker.  because that all social aspects of the game and if you're purple you are saying you have absolutely no desire to be even remotely social.</p></blockquote>If you had bothered to even read the thread, you'd know that it isn't because people are anti-social.  Most people said it was to avoid plat spam.  You may think "that is dumb" but most of us get very irritated with plat spam.  Seems like a pretty valid reason to me.I've gone anon sometimes when people have gotten too aggressive about wanting my troub for raids.  Where every time I log in I start getting tells for raids.  And the people wouldn't take no for an answer.  Doesn't mean I'm anti-social either, just means I didn't want to raid.You are entitled to your opinion of course, but thinking other people are dumb because they have different opinions isn't going to gain you a lot of credibility.

[Gustuv Wynd]

<cite>erin wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> If you are /anonymous...I leave you alone.  So if you don't want to group go /anonymous.</p><p> For the people that are /anon only to avoid plat sellers...that is dumb.  Are you still saying you want to be incuded in groups?  I should make bots who only send tells to the purple folks asking what level and class they are...over and over and over.  </p><p>I wish I could have an option to have you not show up on my screen.  To not allow you to buy thing from me.  You want to be all alone?  fine with me...but I hate it that you still can talk in chat, be LFG, and sell and buy on the broker.  because that all social aspects of the game and if you're purple you are saying you have absolutely no desire to be even remotely social.</p></blockquote>If you had bothered to even read the thread, you'd know that it isn't because people are anti-social.  Most people said it was to avoid plat spam.  You may think "that is dumb" but most of us get very irritated with plat spam.  Seems like a pretty valid reason to me.I've gone anon sometimes when people have gotten too aggressive about wanting my troub for raids.  Where every time I log in I start getting tells for raids.  And the people wouldn't take no for an answer.  Doesn't mean I'm anti-social either, just means I didn't want to raid.You are entitled to your opinion of course, but thinking other people are dumb because they have different opinions isn't going to gain you a lot of credibility.</blockquote><p>On mistmoore I've been playing three months (left EQ2 for a long while).  I haven't had a plat tell yet.  I have had two for powerleveling services but both came with in 15 minutes of each other.  </p><p>And SERIOUSLY...they send you a tell...big deal...the worst thing it can do is make you have to click some one's name to tell them instead of doing a reply.  I very seriously doubt that every one that is purple is sending and recieve tells so constantly that a plat sell tell will interfere with any thing at all.  </p><p>So...completely removing your self from any chance of a PUG to avoid a couple lines of text on your screen isn't dumb?  Well, I'd certainly like to hear how it's intelligent.  </p><p>You know...the plat sellers sending those tells are also most likely purple...so the /anon is actually helping them because it give them more cover.  No way to know who is who.</p>

[Gojira_Shipi-Taro]

As someone who considers PUGs as the pinnical of wasted time, I certainly don't consider excluding myself from them by going /anon to be a negative thing in the least. I'm in a large level 65 guild. I could care less if Joe Random can figure out my level so he can spam me with invites. Don't know ya, Don't owe ya. Don't expect me to come DPS for ya.

[Gustuv Wynd]

<cite>Gojira_Shipi-Taro wrote:</cite><blockquote>As someone who considers PUGs as the pinnical of wasted time, I certainly don't consider excluding myself from them by going /anon to be a negative thing in the least. I'm in a large level 65 guild. I could care less if Joe Random can figure out my level so he can spam me with invites. Don't know ya, Don't owe ya. Don't expect me to come DPS for ya.</blockquote><p>And that is perfectly fine...that is the whole purpose of /anonymous and when the day comes that I am in a large guild or have developed a nice network of people I like to group with I will use it my self.  You don't want to be disturbed execpt by certain individuals.</p><p> However, turning it on for the only reason to avoid plat tells is a completely defferent animal. If you turn it on you are hanging a "Do Not Disturb" sign on your character.  I wonder if any of these purple folks are also complaining how hard it is to find groups?</p>

[bks6721]

I never used it until I rolled a templar.   In my mid 30's I would receive blind invites every few minutes and it became annoying.  I don't mind a tell, but blind invites from strangers annoy me. (especially when I'm trying to craft)

[-The Man-]

I am ANONYMOUS because I don't want Tom Cruise to try and kill me with his Super OT9 Powers!<img src="http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h151/Evillant/anonymousdnf.jpg" border="0" alt="" />We are ANONYMOUS. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. We do not heal for PUGs. <span>Expect Us.xenu.netwhyaretheydead.net</span>

[erin]

<cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Gojira_Shipi-Taro wrote:</cite><blockquote>As someone who considers PUGs as the pinnical of wasted time, I certainly don't consider excluding myself from them by going /anon to be a negative thing in the least. I'm in a large level 65 guild. I could care less if Joe Random can figure out my level so he can spam me with invites. Don't know ya, Don't owe ya. Don't expect me to come DPS for ya.</blockquote><p>And that is perfectly fine...that is the whole purpose of /anonymous and when the day comes that I am in a large guild or have developed a nice network of people I like to group with I will use it my self.  You don't want to be disturbed execpt by certain individuals.</p></blockquote>I'm sorry didn't see that your name was a red!  Oh wait it isn't.  It isn't up to you to determine what anon is and isn't used for, or what is a legitimate use and what isn't.  Its perfectly fine to express an opinion that you don't like people using anon, but calling people dumb or telling people they are essentially using it wrong isn't ok.  Its not your call.As far as I know, I've never seen a definition of "the whole purpose of anon" by a developer.  Do you have a link where a developer says that using anon to avoid plat spam is not the intended purpose?You may not be bothered by plat spam, you may see it as just a tell to ignore.  Some people go ape over plat tells.  Yes, even a single one.  If going anon helps them avoid more plat spam, and makes them enjoy the game more because of it, that's just as legit as any other reason.

[Talz]

If anybody knows what TPTP or 2P2P means in the context of EQ /anon I'll be impressed which doesn't happen very often in this forum. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[StormCinder]

<cite>Talzar wrote:</cite><blockquote>If anybody knows what TPTP or 2P2P means in the context of EQ /anon I'll be impressed which doesn't happen very often in this forum. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/908627bbe5e9f6a080977db8c365caff.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote><p>I know (but I'm not telling YOU).</p><p>SC</p>

[Rqron]

<p>It is unfortunately that the /RP tag and the anon tag have the same basic characteristics. Someone at SOE took the easy way out in writing the code. To assume that anyone who puts up the RP tag is wanting to behave in an anti social mater and don't wants to join groups is just plain un informed and childish.</p><p>The RP tag tells others that I am willing to RP my character..yes even in groups and raids..for rpers this is a lot of fun and adds to the experiance of this game..it is just one of the many aspects of it. Some people like to grind some people like to build the perfect pu group some despise pu groups ..al part of that individuals game stile...and just because someone has the RP tag up should not exclude them from any activities if they want to join. I could care less about a occasional tell from a plat seller and have taken care of random invites by checking the tabs in my personna window, still I have the RP tag up because i like to RP.</p><p>To just trow all of the RP community and the people who for whatever reasons really want to stay anan into a pot and say hey this is a MMO and you are excluding yourself because you wear a coloured tag is short sighted at best.</p><p>J.C.</p>

[Baccalarium]

I'm surprised noone has mentioned the "Pardon me I'm talking with someone over here for a moment" use of /anon.   Have only needed /anon myself,  and usually it was because I was in tells with someone and didn't want to be interrupted by others.I've not found /anon a requirement to prevent undesired invites.   If someone sends me a tell asking for help with their PUG,   and I'm not interested,  it not really that hard to reply to them to that effect.    Any one that asks me a second time gets a more stern no, with a hint of annoyance to it.    If the hint of annoyance isn't understood by the person and they try again they'll get a reply to the effect of I already said no thanks twice already before being added to my /ignore list.    I have a fairly large /ignore list, but no need to go anon.    I get group invites from both folks I know and occasionaly from folks I don't,   and they seem to be at a frequency thats quite manageable, and allows me to choose when I want to group or not. If I'm in a group with extra spots and see some one soloing the "while you're waiting"  trash near the top of a dungeon,  I might see if the group wants to pick the person up.   But, if the person is /anon,  I assume they don't want to group and we run on by.  Yes, using looking for group by tag or channels or tool, and /anon at the same time  doesn't make sense to me.

[Gustuv Wynd]

<cite>erin wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Gojira_Shipi-Taro wrote:</cite><blockquote>As someone who considers PUGs as the pinnical of wasted time, I certainly don't consider excluding myself from them by going /anon to be a negative thing in the least. I'm in a large level 65 guild. I could care less if Joe Random can figure out my level so he can spam me with invites. Don't know ya, Don't owe ya. Don't expect me to come DPS for ya.</blockquote><p>And that is perfectly fine...that is the whole purpose of /anonymous and when the day comes that I am in a large guild or have developed a nice network of people I like to group with I will use it my self.  You don't want to be disturbed execpt by certain individuals.</p></blockquote>I'm sorry didn't see that your name was a red!  Oh wait it isn't.  It isn't up to you to determine what anon is and isn't used for, or what is a legitimate use and what isn't.  Its perfectly fine to express an opinion that you don't like people using anon, but calling people dumb or telling people they are essentially using it wrong isn't ok.  Its not your call.As far as I know, I've never seen a definition of "the whole purpose of anon" by a developer.  Do you have a link where a developer says that using anon to avoid plat spam is not the intended purpose?You may not be bothered by plat spam, you may see it as just a tell to ignore.  Some people go ape over plat tells.  Yes, even a single one.  If going anon helps them avoid more plat spam, and makes them enjoy the game more because of it, that's just as legit as any other reason.</blockquote><p>1. without any name acknoledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like</p><p>2. of unknown name;whose name is withheld</p><p>3. lacking individuality, unique character, or distinction</p><p>Hmm...the dictionary deffinition of the word anonymous.  Why would I ever come to think that using the /anonymous tag would mean you want to be left alone by every one?...not just plat sellers.  Had they made a tag like "/I am eating a sandwhich and am too busy to play", well...I'd assume they are eating a sandwhich and are too busy to play.  I think it safe to say what the /anon tag was meant for is its deffinition says it means.  You wish to have no one know who you are so you might be left alone.</p><p>And people really are that desturbed by plat tells?  If they get a piece of junk mail in their mail box do they run screaming into the night?  I take back every thing I have posted.  If you have that fragile of a persona that a plat tell is so distressing, I think it is a very good thing you choose to remove yourself from the rest of the players who are in the PUG crowd.  Like I said, if you truely do want to be left alone by every one except certain people and your guild.  Use the /anon...that is why is it is there.  So strangers are less likely to know who you are or you don't want to be disturbed.  I do use it if I am crafting or if I start to get random invites a few minutes before I need to log, but I trun it off ASAP if I don't want it up.  </p><p>Just think it through is all I ask...you might be fun to group with and it would be a shame to the rest of the players LFG if you're /anon for the wrong reasons.</p><p>peace out</p>

[erin]

<cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>If you have that fragile of a persona that a plat tell is so distressing, I think it is a very good thing you choose to remove yourself from the rest of the players who are in the PUG crowd.  </blockquote>Which is where you are making your major error in judgement.  You assume that most people WANT to be part of the PUG crowd, when several people in this thread alone have clearly stated that's one of the reasons they go anon, to avoid PUG invites.The whole point is, there's many many reasons to go anon.  Being anon is not automatically a sign that you are anti-social.  Some people go anon for short periods, some are anon full time.As some folks have stated, they only group with guild mates, and guild mates can just look in the guild window.  Therefore they go anon.  They are very social with guildmates, anti-social to pugs. You are making huge assumptions with no basis in fact.Think abut THAT.

[Gustuv Wynd]

<p>Ugg...I had to click this thread again.</p><p>I already stated that if you don't want any one to bother you...go /anon, but here are all these folks saying they do it <b>ONLY </b>to avoid plat tells and for no other reason.  </p><p>The whole reason of /anon is to remove yor self from the PUG and LFW crowd.  I just don't want folks to remove them selves from these groups of players un-intensionally by going /anon to aviod spam tells.</p>

[Gladiia]

<cite>Gustuv Wynd wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Ugg...I had to click this thread again.</p><p>I already stated that if you don't want any one to bother you...go /anon, but here are all these folks saying they do it <b>ONLY </b>to avoid plat tells and for no other reason.  </p><p>The whole reason of /anon is to remove yor self from the PUG and LFW crowd.  I just don't want folks to remove them selves from these groups of players un-intensionally by going /anon to aviod spam tells.</p></blockquote><p>Probably not as common as it used to be.  Most of those past statements are from June of 2007.  Still, there are going to be those who do not realize that the messages are almost non-existent now whether or not they are /anon simply because they have been anon for so long, or read it some time back, and went /anon after the couple of days of spam that occured not to long ago.</p>