Pet peeves

Ticker123 · 08-08-2008, 11:32 AM

Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ?

Kellin · 08-08-2008, 11:40 AM

Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote:

Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ?

I can't say that I've ever had anything quite that annoying happen to me, though I do hate it when people jump down on top of me when I'm crafting. Another annoyance is people who have their pets up - the pets just love me and stand right next to me.

However, when things get too aggravating, I will do one of two things:

1. Swap to my weaponsmith - the forges are tucked away from all the riff-raff.

2. Go to a different tradeskill instance.

GrunEQ · 08-08-2008, 02:42 PM

I know, esp. in Qeynos there are some nice private areas where most people don't craft and you aren't bothered by these types of pests. Most of these niche places have fuel merchants that are close enough where you don't have to move to access them....

Also there are some very nice open air places to craft, too, and I find them pest free.Only down side is doing writs as they are only in the main crafting places.

Vain · 08-08-2008, 02:44 PM

Or go to 1st person... the tunnel vision will block out any distractions.

TaleraRis · 08-08-2008, 04:33 PM

Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote:

Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ?

Why couldn't they be leveling safe fall on the good side? I can attest that rangers get safe fall and we're on the good side.

Transen · 08-08-2008, 04:46 PM

In regards to the tradeskill instance, the Qeynos version has a 1st and 2nd floor...that's it...Freeport on the other hand has up to 4 floors of falling space in their tradeskill instance.If they're doing that in the Qeynos tradeskill instances, then they're not leveling safefall...just isn't enough distance to get that skill up..not even enough space to take damage from falling in there. However, it's plenty of space for Neurotic Tree Frogs to annoy the ever living Brell outta ya....Not even gonna mention the snowball effect on tradeskilling.

TaleraRis · 08-08-2008, 04:54 PM

It's been a loooooong time since I was a tadpole, but I do seem to remember taking falling damage off those balconies way back when. That was before the adjustments, however, so I'm not sure it could still be done. I would have to take one of my low lowbies and see. There's also the possibility they were doing writs, and jumping to skim off some time. I know I've done that before the outdoor tradeskill areas with the clipboards were made available.To the OP, did you ask them what they were doing?

Lodrelhai · 08-08-2008, 05:29 PM

...should I go hide now? ::see sig line::As for the pets, my conjuror and necro keep their pets up for power draining when crafting. Mostly because I have auto-consume off, and so my first alert that I don't have a drink active is typically getting to the 4th combine in rush order and realizing I'm out of power. My bad, I know, but my guess would be that's the main reason you see pets.That or they simply forget to banish them.

Zehl_Ice-Fire · 08-09-2008, 08:50 AM

That is really strange. All the time I spent in FPT TS instances, I rarely saw people doing that repeatedly, though I always jump down instead of the stairs, esp on the baby scouts for a possible skillup. No one would keep getting safefall skillups for that long before needing to go somewhere higher.

Liyle · 08-09-2008, 09:10 AM

The TS balconey isn't high enough to level safe fall since they upped the minimum distance to the height of a bird tower. These people are just burning off steam and being annoying. The same sort run circles around SQ and other places (like the bank) as well. I for one would love to see the "hut hut" jumping sound removed from the game or at least an option to filter it out. It's the prime method used by players to annoy one another and seems to serve no other purpose.My current pet peeve is the NPC in NQ. She likes to stand wedged up against the front of the woodworking station. I'm sure it was a cute idea to have mobile, chatty NPCs in these congested areas, but it is really annoying to anyone trying to work on a long project such as IFE faction or other writ-bound activities.

erin · 08-09-2008, 03:19 PM

Had a guy the other day send me a tell asking me to make something for him, and as soon as I got the tell, he started running around the area in circles, jumping around. I've rarely had someone do this for long periods of time though.The pets drive me crazy, especially when people almost deliberately seem to park them in front of doors or the fuel merchant. Not that I can't get around them, that's not the problem, it just seems a bit rude.

Calthine · 08-09-2008, 04:29 PM

On Nektulos there used to be someone who did this in the Willow Wood. Ran around the Tradeskill instance, not practicing save fall or anything but looking like they were deliberately trying to be annoying. They'd run "into" and behind the crafting station jumping and emoting, and if I moved they'd go there too. I always thought they were botter-hunting or trying to lag people out. It's annoying, but unless they're actually inturrupting your gameplay (I dunno, maybe my shooting off fireworks and stuff ot lag you out?) or verbally harassing you, there's not much to be done.

Ticker123 · 08-09-2008, 11:50 PM

Calthine wrote:

On Nektulos there used to be someone who did this in the Willow Wood. Ran around the Tradeskill instance, not practicing save fall or anything but looking like they were deliberately trying to be annoying. They'd run "into" and behind the crafting station jumping and emoting, and if I moved they'd go there too. I always thought they were botter-hunting or trying to lag people out. It's annoying, but unless they're actually inturrupting your gameplay (I dunno, maybe my shooting off fireworks and stuff ot lag you out?) or verbally harassing you, there's not much to be done.

Willow Wood is where I'm talking about!! lol

Beckah · 08-09-2008, 11:53 PM

I've had this happen too, it's annoying!

Arcueid · 08-09-2008, 11:55 PM

Hopefully I don't annoy people when I need to reach the broker in Begger's courts tradeskill instance by using that as a shortcut.

I do like how Castleview Hamlet's floor plan though.

Mellani · 08-10-2008, 12:11 AM

Ive seen this happen a few times in Willow Wood but since ive moved to Neriak it hasent happened once. Neriak is such a nice place for me.

08-08-2008, 11:40 AM	#2
Kellin Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 903	Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote: Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ? I can't say that I've ever had anything quite that annoying happen to me, though I do hate it when people jump down on top of me when I'm crafting. Another annoyance is people who have their pets up - the pets just love me and stand right next to me. However, when things get too aggravating, I will do one of two things: 1. Swap to my weaponsmith - the forges are tucked away from all the riff-raff. 2. Go to a different tradeskill instance. __________________

08-08-2008, 02:42 PM	#3
GrunEQ Tester Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,307	I know, esp. in Qeynos there are some nice private areas where most people don't craft and you aren't bothered by these types of pests. Most of these niche places have fuel merchants that are close enough where you don't have to move to access them.... Also there are some very nice open air places to craft, too, and I find them pest free.Only down side is doing writs as they are only in the main crafting places. __________________ GrunEQ2 "O to be a voyager and a yoyeur no longer."

08-08-2008, 04:33 PM	#5
TaleraRis Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 2,083	Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote: Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ? Why couldn't they be leveling safe fall on the good side? I can attest that rangers get safe fall and we're on the good side. __________________ Gwyneth Lecarde 90 Warty Arrow Flinger 90 Sword Shiner Najena Morgasand Ka'Bael 54 Roswellian Mind Scrambler 87 Shield Polisher Najena

08-08-2008, 04:46 PM	#6
Transen Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 732	In regards to the tradeskill instance, the Qeynos version has a 1st and 2nd floor...that's it...Freeport on the other hand has up to 4 floors of falling space in their tradeskill instance.If they're doing that in the Qeynos tradeskill instances, then they're not leveling safefall...just isn't enough distance to get that skill up..not even enough space to take damage from falling in there. However, it's plenty of space for Neurotic Tree Frogs to annoy the ever living Brell outta ya....Not even gonna mention the snowball effect on tradeskilling. __________________

08-08-2008, 04:54 PM	#7
TaleraRis Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 2,083	It's been a loooooong time since I was a tadpole, but I do seem to remember taking falling damage off those balconies way back when. That was before the adjustments, however, so I'm not sure it could still be done. I would have to take one of my low lowbies and see. There's also the possibility they were doing writs, and jumping to skim off some time. I know I've done that before the outdoor tradeskill areas with the clipboards were made available.To the OP, did you ask them what they were doing? __________________ Gwyneth Lecarde 90 Warty Arrow Flinger 90 Sword Shiner Najena Morgasand Ka'Bael 54 Roswellian Mind Scrambler 87 Shield Polisher Najena

08-08-2008, 11:32 AM	#1
Ticker123 Loremaster Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 147	Why is it 9 out of 10 time I decide to level my tradeskills there is some dufas who decides to run in circles up stairs then jumps off the balcony over and over and over non stop. And they are not leveling their safe fall as I'm in a good side trade instance. Last night for example I start tradeskilling and this person started this NON STOP FOR 45min!!!!!!! Is it just me ?

08-08-2008, 02:44 PM	#4
Vain Lord Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 190	Or go to 1st person... the tunnel vision will block out any distractions.

08-08-2008, 05:29 PM	#8
Lodrelhai Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,271	...should I go hide now? ::see sig line::As for the pets, my conjuror and necro keep their pets up for power draining when crafting. Mostly because I have auto-consume off, and so my first alert that I don't have a drink active is typically getting to the 4th combine in rush order and realizing I'm out of power. My bad, I know, but my guess would be that's the main reason you see pets.That or they simply forget to banish them.

08-09-2008, 08:50 AM	#9
Zehl_Ice-Fire Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NJ / Unrest Posts: 1,858	That is really strange. All the time I spent in FPT TS instances, I rarely saw people doing that repeatedly, though I always jump down instead of the stairs, esp on the baby scouts for a possible skillup. No one would keep getting safefall skillups for that long before needing to go somewhere higher. __________________ Zehl of Unrest SK DE/Provisioner/Transmuter/Tinkerer, Fashion Police Chief of Norrath & quest freak Deyala: 1/2 Elf brig/Carp/Tinker backstabbing vixen Katayira: DE Inquisitor/Alchemist/Tinker Musette: Evil Pixie Dirge/tailor also max woodworker, jeweler, and armorer ask me for FB

08-09-2008, 09:10 AM	#10
Liyle Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Pete, FL Posts: 446	The TS balconey isn't high enough to level safe fall since they upped the minimum distance to the height of a bird tower. These people are just burning off steam and being annoying. The same sort run circles around SQ and other places (like the bank) as well. I for one would love to see the "hut hut" jumping sound removed from the game or at least an option to filter it out. It's the prime method used by players to annoy one another and seems to serve no other purpose.My current pet peeve is the NPC in NQ. She likes to stand wedged up against the front of the woodworking station. I'm sure it was a cute idea to have mobile, chatty NPCs in these congested areas, but it is really annoying to anyone trying to work on a long project such as IFE faction or other writ-bound activities.

08-09-2008, 03:19 PM	#11
erin Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,834	Had a guy the other day send me a tell asking me to make something for him, and as soon as I got the tell, he started running around the area in circles, jumping around. I've rarely had someone do this for long periods of time though.The pets drive me crazy, especially when people almost deliberately seem to park them in front of doors or the fuel merchant. Not that I can't get around them, that's not the problem, it just seems a bit rude.

08-09-2008, 04:29 PM	#12
Calthine ZAM EQII Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,439	On Nektulos there used to be someone who did this in the Willow Wood. Ran around the Tradeskill instance, not practicing save fall or anything but looking like they were deliberately trying to be annoying. They'd run "into" and behind the crafting station jumping and emoting, and if I moved they'd go there too. I always thought they were botter-hunting or trying to lag people out. It's annoying, but unless they're actually inturrupting your gameplay (I dunno, maybe my shooting off fireworks and stuff ot lag you out?) or verbally harassing you, there's not much to be done. __________________ Please visit my non-gaming Blog! or follow me on Twitter!

08-09-2008, 11:50 PM	#13
Ticker123 Loremaster Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 147	Calthine wrote: On Nektulos there used to be someone who did this in the Willow Wood. Ran around the Tradeskill instance, not practicing save fall or anything but looking like they were deliberately trying to be annoying. They'd run "into" and behind the crafting station jumping and emoting, and if I moved they'd go there too. I always thought they were botter-hunting or trying to lag people out. It's annoying, but unless they're actually inturrupting your gameplay (I dunno, maybe my shooting off fireworks and stuff ot lag you out?) or verbally harassing you, there's not much to be done. Willow Wood is where I'm talking about!! lol

08-09-2008, 11:53 PM	#14
Beckah Tester Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 677	I've had this happen too, it's annoying! __________________

08-09-2008, 11:55 PM	#15
Arcueid Server: Guk Guild: Type Moon Rank: True Ancestor Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Castle Brunestud Posts: 188	Hopefully I don't annoy people when I need to reach the broker in Begger's courts tradeskill instance by using that as a shortcut. I do like how Castleview Hamlet's floor plan though. __________________

08-10-2008, 12:11 AM	#16
Mellani Server: Runnyeye Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 92	Ive seen this happen a few times in Willow Wood but since ive moved to Neriak it hasent happened once. Neriak is such a nice place for me.