Recently I've had the "pleasure" of frequently running into a player who enjoys spawn-camping critters on three alts at a time, for very extended periods of time. Needless to say, this completely destroys spawn for the entire hunting ground, and when I'm just trying to backtrain a few weapons (a process which should only take a few minutes with frequent spawn), this becomes very frustrating.

So, suggestion: have a critter automatically despawn after X number of minutes engaged to the same player. I am thinking something like 5 minutes would be reasonable and accommodate even the slowest kill rates (like the joy of being an Empath and watching two critters poke each other to death).

I know I could just go in there and kill the critters to free up spawn and have before, but I still feel like a jerk doing it. I feel this is a nagging system issue, and have run into it infrequently for years.

>>Give the monsters a stacking debuff on the player, starting at 5-7 minutes they cuts your defense in half every minute. That'd fix the problem in a hurry.

While I was tempted to suggest something like this (how dare they inconvenience me! punish them!), it's as legitimate a hunting method as any other. I just hate the part where it can ruin entire hunting grounds for extended periods of time. Making the monsters gradually despawn to other players sounds like a solution to me that won't possibly punish "legitimate" hunters.

>>Right up until one despawns with a tyrium throwing axe lodged in them and the hunter doesn't get it returned.

Would be easy to make it auto-drop anything lodged in it like when a critter decays before being looted.

>>So a return to the old mechanics verbatim, which were removed because they were universally loathed and made training defenses difficult at best.

This never happened.

>>Creatures used to retreat and leave the room after being engaged for five minutes. I don't think they despawned automatically, but extremely similar.

I don't mean the retreating never happened. Yes, it happened. I mean the part where it was universally loathed on the boards never happened, and the part where it made defense training unreasonable never happened.

Hahaha... This happened to me last month too. I went to confront the people and Slowdog appears out of nowhere and says he is going to kill me if I touched any of the creatures.

I think Slowdog is on the level of a chinese farmer in WoW.

Why don't more people share critters? I find that generally if someone comes in and goes, "Hey, you have a lot of critters, can we hunt together and share a class?" Or "Hey, can you get rid of a couple of those so I can have some?" everyone wins. Note these are both more polite and not as abruptly OOC as "You're hogging the spawn." And I'm fairly well known for (unintentional) spawn hogging, which just happens. I'm also known for sharing with people who have manners.

Some people like to hunt alone, I get that. Not everyone likes scrolly combat with more than one person, and it gets crazy hunting with 2 people or more. It's almost like an invasion with 5 people. Some people have terrible scripts that loot everything that gets complicated with more than one hunter. Some people want to sit there with four mobs on them without person B killing them. Some people are just plain anti-social. Everyone has their reasons.

Sharing in a multi-player game seems like a better answer than forcing creatures to leave the room or reporting players. Out of curiosity, this person with 3 alts, have you OP attempted to join them? Is that a possibility or are there complications like I listed above? If they have three alts, I imagine they have to be paying fairly close attention to the game, because policy says they have to be responsive on all of them.

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>>And by that I mean "I have approval to build a system, but I need some tools that are outside of my control that may take awhile, then I have to build it, and then it will be tested on a very small scale before going full out."

So "Soon".

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>>Some people like to hunt alone, I get that. Not everyone likes scrolly combat with more than one person, and it gets crazy hunting with 2 people or more. It's almost like an invasion with 5 people. Some people have terrible scripts that loot everything that gets complicated with more than one hunter. Some people want to sit there with four mobs on them without person B killing them. Some people are just plain anti-social. Everyone has their reasons.

I'm not a fan of group hunting as a warrior mage or barbarian. I usually end up standing around for extended periods of time watching the other person dance endlessly.

>>Sharing in a multi-player game seems like a better answer than forcing creatures to leave the room or reporting players. Out of curiosity, this person with 3 alts, have you OP attempted to join them? Is that a possibility or are there complications like I listed above? If they have three alts, I imagine they have to be paying fairly close attention to the game, because policy says they have to be responsive on all of them.

I think everyone agrees reporting is a silly answer, and as communicated above, even if I were to share a room with them, that would not fix the fundamental issue. Most hunting grounds spawn 3 per hunter, so if 3 of one person's alts taking up four a piece, that leaves a single critter for me. I'd have to kill there critters anyways to fix the issue, shared room or not.

>>And by that I mean "I have approval to build a system, but I need some tools that are outside of my control that may take awhile, then I have to build it, and then it will be tested on a very small scale before going full out."

Good to know, thanks Raesh.