Sandworm/Campaign glitch

[matt4684]

so, a little while ago on Sylph, Sandworm popped in Rolanberry Fields [S] directly beside the tower for campaign. While we were forming some dumbass claimed it and called for help. Then, for some reason all the campaign NPCs attacked it relentlessly, and even as campaign started they refused to switch to Campaign mobs, and in about 5 minutes, Sandworm was taken down, by almost nothing but campaign NPCs. Anyone else have this happen?

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...4/sandworm.jpg

Called a GM, they were no help

[Gippo]

This is retarded....

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8673/sandwormid4.jpg

[Souj]

GMs can't help because that's not their job. do as he said and go to service/support.

[Chupunpupun]

Actually you should have called GM on the guy that CFH cause that is suspendable.

[Scorp]

Actually you should have called GM on the guy that CFH cause that is suspendable.

If that is suspendable why not just stop call for help on impossible to gauge.... yay

[Robert]

You can only be punished for it if its a grief tactic, and they have evidence in the log of you doing it to grief someone, or they witness you doing it and draw their own conclusions. Its one of the reasons I never talk about anything ingame and prefer Ventrilo, because bioing Nidhogg, calling for help and escaping to leave it to a group of unsuspecting japs while we push the time back would otherwise result in LM-11 for me(in 2006..for any newfags on Cerberus that feel the need to interject) On another related note, who the fuck cares? Its Sandworm, its not like it drops anything

[Ruth]

On another related note, who the fuck cares? Its Sandworm, its not like it drops anything

Did you read the full screen capture? The whole point they were going to fight it was cause they wanted to test whether or not a drop had been added to the pool since the last update.

[Tankjr]

Wow, I feel for you. But on the other hand this is probably the funniest thing I've read about in a while.

Also, Still no loot pool.

[Nyuneko]

On the GM part: What did you expect the GM to do?
Ban the NPC? lol...?
Repop the Sandworm? They wouldn't even repop a pop NM that you got stolen(remember the Kirin glitch long ago?), you think they would pop a random NM for anyone? Was there ever an instance that the GM reimburse the players for what is rightfully theirs? Let alone the fact that the Sandworm, from the way you described the situation, was claimed by someone else.
Reporting a glitch? Then I see a normal GM doing their usual nothing, but they are not doing anything wrong, given that their job is (supposed to be) police the game community and not fixing bug, it's obvious that they would redirect you to the proper section for reporting errors.

On the campaign NPC: Wouldn't be bad if I was soloing in the area and bounced into some trouble, I guess. But yea, suck to have idiot cfh on any NM.

[matt4684]

Let alone the fact that the Sandworm, from the way you described the situation, was claimed by someone else.

Well, he had been claimed about 25 times before this happened or so, mainly by people solo claiming and then promptly getting dropped like a bag of bricks. NPCs had been present the entire time. After about 20 minutes or so of people dicking around like that, Campaign started. Someone who had tags, then claimed it (hey, no xp loss!), called for help.....and the NPCs went apeshit. So, it wasn't like these were serious claim efforts being put forth by the people who were claiming and getting flattened. Claim, call for help, die, hope for a raise seemed to be their train of thought. But instead, it wound up being that the NPCs ate through Sandworm's estimated 70,000 HP in about 10 minutes.

[Nyuneko]

What I was saying is, even if you "attempted" to claim the NM the whole time, it doesn't mean anything unless you actually had it claimed by your party/alliance for a moment, and... if GM wouldn't reimburse force-pop NMs for LSes, do you think they would do anything about a NM that you "would have a chance at killing, but didn't manage to claim"?

If you had call for the possible grief tactic the retard(who cfhed) probably had in mind, you might be able to get him suspended, but as you have called to complain about a possible glitch, I don't think the GM has done anything wrong when he tried to direct you to the "bug report" section.

And that's all that I was saying.

[Thistle]

I like how the GM kept calling you "my friend".

[Judai]

NPCs been doing this since wotg release.

[Akucaen]

Krondros is a jackass and I hate him. That is all.

[The Stig]

How weird. It seems NPCs only attack "Impossible to gauge" mobs? I'm sure on every server everyone aggros them tigers in Jugner and they all Call for Help on them, but the NPCs never even take notice.

I had a NPC MPK me too, pre-hate patch. I slept a link. Then suddenly NPCs appeared out of no where and one of the stray NPCs hit my link. It woke up. I promptly died. ... was rather humurous though.

[Sepuku]

How weird. It seems NPCs only attack "Impossible to gauge" mobs? I'm sure on every server everyone aggros them tigers in Jugner and they all Call for Help on them, but the NPCs never even take notice.

I had a NPC MPK me too, pre-hate patch. I slept a link. Then suddenly NPCs appeared out of no where and one of the stray NPCs hit my link. It woke up. I promptly died. ... was rather humurous though.

Yup and thats the main problem with it.
NPCs arent supposed to attack non campaign mobs , but since that worm reads impossible to gauge it is considered their enemy.
awaiting next patch and a fix ^^, just send in your mail to the support.
Nice find and thx for sending in that mail.

[Slott]

Eo'Tho the Cruelheart ( I think that's the NM...molione's ring NM) gets involved in campaign as well. We found him fighting some campaign mobs the other day and he lived with 30% hp