Looting Rant

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Maybe that is my issue I never see anyone be polite about it.  I play the game as escapism.  One of the things I'm trying to escape are rude people so it just pisses me off even more.  Of course I'm just naive to think people will behave better online when I know that studies show most people are even more rude online than face to face.  It's just a lack of common curtesy that really gets me and not just in the game.

Yes there are a lot of nodes, and no I haven't had an issue keeping my profession up by just working on it as I quest, but it just pisses me off when I'm working to a node and a high level just walks in and grabs it.[right][snapback]69306[/snapback][/right]

This is kind of a reply to the whole thread, but this comment bugged me. If "working to a node" means killing the one monster right next to it that will aggro you if you mine it, sure that makes sense. If you're talking about clearing a swath to get to the mine from where you are - no way. That high level got there somehow, most likely by killing just as many monsters as you did. Just because you were heading in that direction doesn't mean you own that mining node. He has the same right to get there and mine it that you do.

The fact of the matter is that if a high level is heading towards a copper mine, they probably need it. You stop using copper for engineering or blacksmithing very quickly. If you're keeping your crafting up, you stop using it for anything meaningful about the same time you start seeing tin, or later iron, show up. If that player is mining copper, he probably needs it because he switched professions or is providing support for low level players. (The argument that Artega was maligning low level players by supplying equipment for low level players has a lot of irony embedded in it.)

I guess what I'm saying is, if I see a high level player mine a node, it doesn't upset me. I don't feel I had some divine right to that node. He needed it, good for him. There is TONS of copper out there. If you need copper just go walk around Dun Morogh for a bit - you can pull out a hundred bars in one trip if you like, almost enough to get you up to using bronze. The game isn't hurting for copper and getting upset because you were eventually going to get to a particular mining node but it was gone when you got there ... well, sharing is a good thing.

Not to harp on it, but on a similar theme if two people are playing monster leap frog to get to a mining node (which happens all the time) and the other guy gets it - that's just life. If you had gotten to the mine, he'd have had the same story to tell about that rotten guy who'd stolen his mining node. Just hang out and get the next one. :)