On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

>
> Yep I have encountered this. Generally the people who do this have
> significantly more down time than I do (mine is nearly zero) so I usually
> just wander off to somewhere else immediately. I can then come back a
> little later and voila!, the whole camp is there again and the guy looking
> for the choice mob is staring at it and its buddies. I then lament the

Another trick if they want to forcibly take over (always seems
to be casters who do this, probably because they can kill
steal), is to just invis yourself/your group and let them have
everything. My friends and I rarely camp so we usually don't
space out the spawns. A druid tried to take our spot once so
I just invised everyone. Mob spawns, attacks druid, druid
fights back, 20 seconds later a second mob spawns, druid is
having trouble getting spells off, 30 seconds later a third
mob spawns, druid is still fighting the first mob and quickly
drops below half hp, I ask if she needs help.

A friend of mine and her group were in the barroom in Unrest,
with a couple people camping the knight upstairs. Apparently
they weren't interested in anything but the knight as they let
everything else run down (LOS bug) to her group. She got fed
up with it and just invised her group. Knight spawns, two
people upstairs drop their invis to attack, entire barroom
runs upstairs to attack them.

If you want to get into dirty tricks, our AE songs will blow
people's invisibility (people not grouped with you). I found
that out accidently when I was running from a train with
Screech playing. Dunno if I'd ever use it, perhaps given a
sufficiently obnoxious kill stealer.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...