Halloween Event; It's like the Jerk Store had a sale on their no. 1 all time best seller

Since Halloween has come live, been finding the ToT/H-Tip cycle to be a very good source of inf, purples, recipes, and rare salvage. And in addition to that, a very good way to meet Victory's more sociable members. And by sociable, I mean those without social skills.

I've petitioned three people for language, one/two starred ten or twelve people and have put a similar number on ignore.

The common way this has been going:
My team at level 50 is at a set of double doors, fighting for a while.
Random person or three comes up, almost always not at level 50, and starts attacking the mobs we're spawning.
I'll ask politely in local or tells for them to go to another door.
They'll respond in broadcast (ALWAYS broadcast) with claims that I don't own the server, they were there first, I'm a noob, I have no right to tell them how to play, or with theories on my sexuality (these are the ones that usually result in petitions).
Internet stupidity fight ensues.

I really don't understand these types of people. They really seem to come across as truly believing that THEY'RE the ones being wronged. That their rights are being infringed on by someone DARING ask that they change their behavior.

And the thing is? 95 percent of these people have been level 47 or lower. Not their natural level; that's what they're sk'ed up to (besides the team leader, obviously). Our doors are spawning 52-53's. Any time they click the doors, we one shot what comes out. Our spawns they're not even damaging. They can't be getting any xp what so ever on these actions, and yet they are dead set at doing them just because they were asked to stop.



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This same reason is why I grew tired of leading mothership raids. People either don't listen, want to argue or intentionally act like words that I would get in trouble for writing here. I think people think you are being rude by correcting them, but really you are just trying to help THEM not look bad.

But you have to admit it's funny watching someone log off in a huff because 2 Robot/Trap Masterminds are rocking the socks off of some doors with little effort. Then an hour or so later watch that same person log on and see the same group still going at it only better because there is more people on the team. Good times... I love you Hamster, you bring delicious whiners to the yard regularly. Something about Hamster seems to bring out the worst in people, I wonder why?

Ok, I admit that guy was hilarious.

(backgroup, techno, me, and maybe 3-5 others were ToT'ing, due to the fact we were both bots/traps, we were covering both sides of the apartments the Cove marker in PI. then this logs in, level 43 or so, and starts to flip out on us for "taking over the whole square." didn't ask to join us (there was room on the team), didn't ask for one of the doorways, just started flipping out and trying to poach us. the mobs we were spawning were +8 to +10 to him and our mines were one shotting OUR level 50+ spawns, much less his level 43's.)


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Maybe it's the same dude over and over on different accounts, getting revenge for a SatHam ITF gone bad?

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Speaking of arguments, we just had a 10 minute debate on how to end the MoITF we just did while in mission. But at least we still got the badge :P

*blink* Wow.. Just... watering the owl has to be one of the coolest random pictures I've seen in while. Where on earth did you find that one?

Another problem in similar vein.

We have a mixed group 41-49. We find with the 49 leading, the 41/42 are not getting costumes and H-tips. We have the block of 4 doors in PI and have had them for 20 mins. We switch to the 42 leading and all are getting H-tips and costumes.

A couple of 50s turn up and start getting us killed by releasing 53s and running away just to get possession of that set of doors.

Weird. Usually the big events can be okay when you have someone willing to lead in broadcast, and people will follow it. But I have had one Rikti Raid where one team was off doing whatever the heck they felt like the whole time, so whatever... some people are idiots. Perhaps we are getting more idiots since there are more people playing again: the better players are usually those who have been around for awhile (not saying new players stink, just that along with good new players come new ******* that we don't know to avoid just yet).

Me, unless I'm on a team, I usually just scoot to a door away from other people Trick or Treating so I don't have to deal with any door click issues. Works for me.

I have come to hate events for the reasons outlined above. Winter event: People are either yelling at you for taking presents, running ahead of you for a present, or yelling at you for not killing a spawn. Halloween Event: People are mad at you for being at 'their' door. You have jerks who cherry pick the ghosts that spawn around the GMs (I forget what they are called right now), then and only then will they broadcast the location of the GMs.

I think the only event that doesn't breakout into a hockey game is the Valentine's Day event. Which was fun the 1st time but now... yeah.

Which makes me glad I got the event badges I needed and dont need to go through it again with any other toons. The fun of the Holiday event and the Halloween event is long since gone with all the rude behavior, griefing and general bad behavior brought out by selfish people.

Well technically going back and forth between two doors is not how ToT was originally intended. It's farming. So you have to expect that people will try to abuse the system that way, or not understand why you are staying at one door on and on. But that does not excuse them from broadcasting over PI about their gripe.

People who farm experience this same rude behavior 365 days a year once the word gets out about them farming. Not just Halloween.