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I am posting this on our public web site on purpose because I don't want any misconceptions about this.
A member of Koso has sent me numerous icqs complaining of 3 things:
1. At least one PAS called someone a "trammy" ingame, and this Koso player told me that was a racist remark. OMG how incredibly lame. Exactly what race does "trammy" defame? It doesnt folks, thats a ludicrous statement to make.
2. PAS members are "stealing their spawn" by coming to the Ilsh spawns at the end and helping finish those spawns. Heavens to mergatroid, how dare we not recognize the fact that their guild can claim a spawn! Why not the whole server then? This is incredibly selfish to think that any spawn 'belongs" to anyone. Now there are rare circumstances where ingame etiquette does call for something like this. If you are farming a monster that spawns in a particular area, one at a time, then tamers will normally not attack the spawn there, for a period of time. But people who claim to "own" things like champ spawns, where players can get unique item drops, are the most selfish people Ive ever seen ingame. I told him he needed to get over this, because this happens at ilsh CSs all the time with PAS, and we dont
3. He claims that PAS is using a hack/script or something to "know when the spawn is near the end". ROFL this guy doesnt get it. This reminds me of the time a PAS said someone "dissed" them ingame because they didnt reply to a comment they made. I went on to post 278 reasons that someone could not respond in UO to a comment. Theres no way this guy knows how or why folks show up at the end of spawns. Are those other guilds doing that when they show at tokuno at the end? Hell no. They are likely like us, they have a friend that tells them (or they scout it themselves). With all the PAS and alliance folks ingame, on ventrilo, in alliance chat, talking as we play, its remarkable that we DONT know when every single ilsh spawn is getting near completion. The fact is the people that like those ilsh CS will spend more time scouting, jumping between the spawns, etc, so DUH they are the ones we see there the most.
Anyways this guy sounded legit at first, but the more he talked, the more I realized this is a very selfish player that is just bitching because he didnt get EVERY cool item in the world. Sheesh.
So from here forward, even though our guild policy is to help all other players except ZOGs, and most recently COP due to their luring in tram rulesets like gauntlet, please add Koso to the list of guilds that you are no longer expected to help in any way.
As always, understand that they will likely not res our folks or help us, so dont get mad at them for it, just get a PAS or alliance member to help if u need it. And DO NOT lure stuff to them or in any other way try to ruin their day. No trash talking, we are treating Koso like any other griefer guild. We ignore them ingame (ask other PAS how to do this if u arent sure how to), and just have fun with the game.
Now if you happen upon one thats farming spawn in a non CS area for gold etc, like arctic ogre lords, etc, just leave them along, do not try to run them off or anything.
So keep playing nice, ignore them, and dont feel that u need to help them. Treat them like we do COP. If you have a friend in COP that needs a res in tram, u can still do that, unless they are harassing other players. Same here goes for Koso.
Their chars are no longer welcome at any PAS event. This includes the shard events that we do from time to time.
If you have any questions, icq me.
KD
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remember, see the Feb 20 reply in this thread for updated information.
KD