Despawn Hellfire Warlock Spawns to Prevent Trolling

[PJtheFey]

In the last week I have run accross four hellfire warlock spawns left at rest areas or on roads by a certain warlock (DM PM me if you want the character name) to kill lower level adventurers. This is kind of a problem as it prevents characters with lower levels going into places that they should be able get to, because another player seems to think it is funny to to summon and lose control in these areas.

Is there way to make it so these summons disappear a minute or two after the warlock has left the map? I've been killed by them twice, and sometimes it's not easy to find a higher level character to come kill them so that lower level characters can just play the game.

[tankteddy]

This has been an Issue before, I agree I had one of my spawns run wild before, but I raised anyone that Died to it at My cost and tried to get a DM or High level to kill it for me. ((I'm sorry to all that have died by mine!!!)) As a player with a Hellfire warlock, This is just wrong.

I am sorry this has happen to you PJ and I hope this doesn't reflect poorly on the people on the server, MOST are good people ((With And Evil RP side >:D )) If you can I recommend Screenshot them summoning it if you see it, Or the spawned monster left there and send this to the DM, They will catch him/her.

[Tsidkenu]

This is griefing, plain and simple. Having dealt with this kind of thing not even last week, it troubles me that this player still 'doesn't get it.' And yes, I know who you are. This is your only chance to stop it. Now. There will be no more warnings, only DM penalties heading your way.

PJ, I hope you took some screenshots at what happened. Send them over to the DM team (or at least your chat logs at the time; the Hellfire Warlock summons have distinctive names so its easy to tell if they are one or not) and hopefully you can get your xp returned.

And thank you for raising me that time, Tankteddy. It's good to know you have a conscience

[LISA100595]

Just two days a go a certain person was running in and out and through the middle of beregost with one! Luckily I happened to be RPing with a higher level, while doing quests, who ran after it and killed it right away.. in the middle of the city! He has the screenshot if needed. I was like . . .

[PJtheFey]

It's just an ass thing to do. Bad enough that we are getting DDoSed every day, just think of newer players that finally get in and then get trolled by this player. Do you think they are going to want to come back?

One time the person ressed me (I suspect because I was buddies with one of their party members) but also sent me an LOL in tells.

[chad878262]

You should definitely PM the DM team the details. This is unacceptable behavior.

[Calodan]

Any chance this person might be our DDOS buddy? People who tend to do shite like that are usually suspect number 1 for a problem being had..........

[Nyeleni]

I don't think it's something personal: the DDOS attacks. It is painful and unfortunate.

[DM Cradh]

Ok this is something that really isn't up for debate.

If you have proof in screen shots please send them to the DM team and we will handle the situation.



**My apologies, I realized there was a typo in this post. I have corrected it thank you.

[PJtheFey]

Hopefully Lisa has them, I didn't think to make them although other people were with me that can vouch for it. Next time I see one I'll try to SS before running awaaaaaay.

Diana Redsteel killed the first one for me..

Omar killed one for me...

Belladonna killed one on the road...

Araikas Krosst and several others were present once when the red robed doll masked PC summoned one and lost it at HH near the fountain.

I don't know who took care of the one earlier today...

[Tenebrosity]

Greetings,

Since it's up for debate, I'll add my two cents..

I don't think it's "griefing" for someone to roleplay what's on their sheet. Not everyone is a cuddling smiling PC roleplaying around the campfire in FAI. I think that the "Chaos" or "Grief" call it the way you want is what to be expected from a Chaotic Evil character. Now, this person doesn't seem to have much of a plan behind summoning them devils, maybe he/she will find itself burning at the stakes by the group of good guys that populate the server.

Regards,
Tenebrosity.

[Boddynock]

The problem isn't in being evil or chaotic and killing PCs, the problem is that the spawns fugue plane people, instead of the normal PVP no death penalty...

Killing a lowbie isn't griefing if your character has an RP reason to do so and you aren't continually following them around and killing them at every chance.

If you want to RP having your summon kill people, fine, but toss them an OOC raise instead of, you know, not doing that.

Edit: I am pretty sure everyone knows who it is at this point...

[Tenebrosity]

Yeah, I can understand the fugue part, but I was generally talking about the unleashing of devils to cause chaos in an area.

[Arazmith]

Right, so the area where this happened was an area where said griefer was leveling, not an area where people of much lower level were trying to grind XP.

I think the motivation behind the actions was to RP Evil, not to grief. As i stated to PJ at the time, (and no, i am not the summoner) if i were out adventuring, and came across a Devil in the wilds, one of my good characters would have all sorts of fun going on a mission to find help to slay the thing. Followed by trying to find out who summoned it, and bring them to justice.

I would not take it to the forums OOC, but thats just me, and an opinion i guess.

That being said, can we get a definitive DM response? Also, and no this was not the case, it was intentional this time, but understand that sometimes a summoner may actually lose control of their "Pet" and have to flee from it themselves. =P

[DM Cradh]

Ok this is something that really isn't up for debate.

If you have proof in screen shots please send them to the DM team and we will handle the situation.

That being said, can we get a definitive DM response? Also, and no this was not the case, it was intentional this time, but understand that sometimes a summoner may actually lose control of their "Pet" and have to flee from it themselves. =P

And how is what I said not a definitive response?

I guess there was some confusion on what was not up for debate.

To be a hellfire warlock that can summon a demon one must be at least 11th level. If you are summoning them and leaving them in an area where low level characters that have no chance of defeating the demon are expected to be since it is a level appropriate area, then we do consider that to be griefing and trolling and just bad all around behavior. We will take steps to correct this behavior if we find it or if we receive proof of it.



And since there is no need for further debate, I will be locking this thread.
Thank you all for your contributions.