Game Ethics

Yeah I know, I've heard it before.

Who are you to tell me how to play my game!?

But honestly, some things should just be obvious. Atleast for anyone that has somewhat sense in their heads. Granted there isn't alot of people in this game that has any sense at all it seems.

If you decide to look for party, it usually means that you want to lv whichever job you are looking for party at. makes sense to me.

It also makes sense to me that when you put your party flag up, you are ready to go and party when you do get an invite.

This morning I made a party, since I was a Red Mage it made sense to me to start with looking for a tank. So I find this Paladin looking for party, ask him if he wanna join and he accept.

Note, he is the first of 5 people I invite. This is important and will make sense soon.

First when I have finally found people enough for a full party this paladin says he needs to go to sandy and put his gear on...

Because obviously the 20 min it took for me to get everyone else together, was not a good time for him to get dressed.

Maybe it was a her...Women are usually like that.

Man>> Honey, are you ready? We are already 20 minutes late.
Woman>> Just a sec, I have to get dressed, put on make-up, clean the kitchen, do the dishes and 50 other things.
Man>> But but, you have gotten dressed and been putting on make-up the for the past 3 hours...

So, well, anyway. He has to go to sandy and get dressed. This takes him (her?) about 20 minutes. By the time he gets back to whitegate, everyone else is already at camp waiting for him.

Shouldn't take him that long to get to camp though, would it?

Wrong.

Now he have to go to jeuno and recharge his empress band. Because obviously he couldn't do that while he was in sandy...

And while in jeuno, he decides he might as well browse through the auction house as well.

All this while 5 people are standing at camp waiting for him.

15 minutes later he is finally on his way back to whitegate. And while on his way to camp this is what he says.

Paladin>> Oh, btw guys, 1 hour from now I have to go AFK for about 45 minutes.

So in his opinion, we have already waited for him for like 45 min ad he isn't even at camp yet. Then he want us to actually stand around waiting for him for another 45 minutes shortly after he gets to camp.

Why did this guy even bother to look for party in the first place? Wouldn't it have been a bit smarter to first gear up his paladin, fix his empress band, browse through auction house, and then IF he has time, put his party flag up?

He finally shows up at camp, and we're getting very great exp. after about 10 monsters or so the exp rings already wore off. What happens then?

Paladin d/c...

Now, he might have a bad internet connection. And maybe it just happen to disconnect him right after we killed the monster that made our exp rings wear off.

I dont believe that though...

So this party I made, spent about 50 minutes waiting on this paladin, fought 10 monsters and then was forced to disband the party since there were no other tanks available.

This in my opinion goes against the unwritten laws of game ethics.

I'm not saying any names here.....Ajnix....

Oops.

Now, I could go on about people that have to use the bathroom for 45 minutes during parties, or people that gets hit in the head with a sledge hammer and get extremely sleepy within 1 minute, so much that they didn't even see it coming and could ask the party leader to find a replacement for them.

(I'm sleepy) (Good bye.)

/disband