why people ks - it's not gonna make ya any friends, let's just put it that way. especially when the person who's kill you steal is actually running a quest, and you're 10 lvls higher than the targets, I just don't see the point. go farm somewhere that gives you some significant gain. of course, I will say my little piggie just loves it when you kill everything in sight and leave all your gold and alchemy drops around for him to grab
why people get pissed that other people buy silk - I bought silk just to get a crow. sue me. oh yea, and my ability pet. again, sue me. I'm not rich. far from it. but compared to what I've heard of other people paying for games, 5 bucks a month is hardly a big deal. look at it this way: I may have purchased silk, and actually used it for something other than cursing people with globals, but I haven't botted, bought gold online, had anybody powerlevel me, scammed anyone, begged for gold (and I have managed to build a tidy little sum, if I do say so myself) or any of the other lame things folks do rather than just play the game to earn their own xp/sp. all hand built and home grown here, thank you very much.
why people can't let other people pvp - I can't tell ya the amount of times I've been attacked by a lower lvl char, killed them, then had other higher level players come and kill me multiple times (and we all know that if you die in the game, you die for realz
) as if I did something wrong by "defending" myself. or just try having a 1v1 match outside dw without some higher level player coming along and killing you both, at least when there's a crowd of people there.
why people think that sro pvp is about skill - it's about lvl, skill sets, and gear. he who has the better gear, and the more properly allocated skills will always win in a true 1v1 match. the only skill involved is in how you build and outfit your character, not any inherent skill you have cause you were born l33t lol. nothing to brag about really. it's a video game. get over it. you haven't really accomplished anything in rl by being uberstacked in a video game (me included). it's a hobby, not a profession.
why people complain about turks specifically - as far as I can tell, any player that is affiliated with a guild is liable to steal a kill, rape you in pvp due to higher level, try to pull a scam on you, etc. not saying all guild members on all servers act like that, but it's pretty common in my experience on zeus. if you actually say something to them about it (in the case of kill steals while you're trying to grind a quest), then you're whining. if you don't say anything, they accuse you of botting (because you tried to remain silent and just keep working).
why people claim I'm a bot - I wouldn't even know how to work a bot. I don't even use macros to spit text in the form of city spam. matter of fact, this is my first mmorpg (always played multiplayer games at lan parties prior to that). I've only played one other online game prior to this, and that game didn't allow the use of macros or other cheat techniques that are apparently common with mmorpsg. I actually had a player (I'll leave his name out) tell me he thought I was a bot cause I was grinding black robber bowmen behind an obstacle. I was behind an obstacle cause they kept spawning for me repeatedly, and no one would come behind it to ks my kills because it was inconvenient for them to get back there.
why everyone is a noob to other players - I can't tell ya the amount of times I've been called a noob on zeus. even though I've been playing this game for 9 months, have managed to build a lvl 40 character with skills fully farmed to lvl 33 force books and 36 weapon books, and have deleted more characters than most people can imagine before I decided to go my current route, I'm still regularly called a noob when I make the simple mistake of dying to a lvl 50 character in pvp in which I was attacked by a fully buffed player while all I'm running is grasswalk
at least with regard to zeus, in my experience, I find that I love this game, but hate dealing with the server community.
my conclusions - guess I'm never joining a guild (unless I can find one that's not full of, how shall I say it, asses), never gonna pvp again until I hit at least lvl 72 (cause what's the point, really), and never gonna try to help a lower level player out again (they just wind up finding some 'tard to plevel them past me, and forget I ever did them a favor in the first place, and then come along and ks my kills while I'm trying to grind).
ok, now turning venting protocol off
feel free to flame me if ya like. I'm just speaking of my experiences on zeus. maybe I should just find another server, but after finally making the 4x lvls, I hate to dump it all and start over
and I ain't gonna quit playing cause of some asshats. to all who feel that I have unfairly lumped you in with the rest, my apologies. I know you aren't all the types of players I've described above, I just haven't met you yet lol.
server inspection times... the ultimate time to bitch in the forums
bye.
<---Big Thanks to DeShin (^_^)
. I'm still enjoying this game for what it is, even though the community (ingame) can be sometimes less desired.
