Catshops/Cowshops on NPC's Heads

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  • Alphae - Lost City
    Alphae - Lost City Posts: 1,512 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I used to care, then came the "Repeatable Quests" section of the quest finder.

    Now I simply ignore them.
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  • Dalamaar - Heavens Tear
    Dalamaar - Heavens Tear Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    AndromedaB - Sanctuary wrote: »
    ERR... sorry? O.o
    u always got shift click or whatevr that was ctrl click? i forget

    Shift Click doesnt mean **** when you can't even figure out where the NPC is.. BH is new and I dont know where he is standing really so I spent a few mins circling the bugger till I could finally find him.

    Cat Shops on npcs are annoying, mounts all around where an npc makes me want to bang my head against the wall.

    CS makes sense, 10 mins so ppl just auto path to it and wait 10 mins but something like BH is just uncalled for.. enough people sitting there to lag you out while you try to find the npc is to much.
  • Vinat - Sanctuary
    Vinat - Sanctuary Posts: 1,200 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    yea, as many have said, shift click doesnt help in actually locating the npc and clicking it, neither does the mini map. the trouble is sifting through a mob of 20+ players, mounts, cat shops and finding the exact spot of the npc. most difficult around the auction in west arch, the cs and wq people, and sometimes the bounty guy.

    seriously, handing in cs and wq is my least favorite part of the game day. it's a hassle.

    cant say how many times ive screamed irl "MOVE YOU SON OF A *****" to some moron on a nein who completely swallows the npc. same thing when theyre standing in arch blocking like 10 cat shops at once. nice place to go afk, **** hole.
  • Narnia - Dreamweaver
    Narnia - Dreamweaver Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    never a problem targetting npc, but i make a point to not look in shops at npc heads, purely cos they suk for parking there imo. and if a shop annoys me i park a lvl 92+ yeti on top so they cant sell anything b:chuckle
  • AndromedaB - Sanctuary
    AndromedaB - Sanctuary Posts: 1,376 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    if you are too lazy to look at minimap or shiftclick then thats too bad
    QQing about having to take a extra half second to do something is just stupid and annoying
  • Mirabeth - Sanctuary
    Mirabeth - Sanctuary Posts: 246 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It has nothing to do with being lazy, it has to do with it being exceedingly difficult to do so because somebody decided to place themselves in the way and afk. You sure like to be very judgmental, Andromeda. There's no need to namecall when people are stating a valid complaint about a valid issue. Could it be possible you like to place your shop on top of NPC heads? :o
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  • SkinAlive - Harshlands
    SkinAlive - Harshlands Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    If you believe that you should probably avoid using it as part of your vocabulary. I'd suggest the phrases "Easy as cake." "Easy as pie." or my personal favorite, "Easy as Indiana Jones."

    Cake is not easy. Every try to make one? It's laborious and time consuming. Also might not taste good if you not a good cook or have bad recipe.
    Narnia - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    i make a point to not look in shops at npc heads, purely cos they suk for parking there imo.

    Ditto that. I have limited time and plenty of cat shops to check in Archy. I almost never check a shop that is off the road and absolutely never check a shop on top an NPC. From auction house to crazystone quest on the road get first look from me.

    I start crazy. Then go to auction house. Next jump fence and start checking those shops on the road heading toward crazy NPC to turn in. By the time i get to crazy NPC 10 minutes are up and i rarely check others shops.

    General rule of thumb is the closer a shop is to an NPC the bigger **** he is. Azzholes in general try to sell there stuff at inflated price so its a real time saver to skip those on top of NPC.

    As long as I'm giving cat shops to skip advice, here is another little trick that can be a real time saver if you are in a hurry. Skip any blue (on PVP server player below 30) named player advertising high lvl items. That is a person with a 24 hour cat shop and those people on average charge the premium price for their items and i guarantee you can find cheaper if you search around.

    P.S. Why do people sign their name when it's the same as their avatar name?

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  • Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I'm a baker, I make cakes all the time, easiest thing there is to make. Now pie, pie is trickier, at least if you make the crust from scratch. But of course both are easy compared to a lot of other baked goodies, especially ones made from filo dough.
  • Aadi - Lost City
    Aadi - Lost City Posts: 4,449 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    I'm a baker, I make cakes all the time, easiest thing there is to make. Now pie, pie is trickier, at least if you make the crust from scratch. But of course both are easy compared to a lot of other baked goodies, especially ones made from filo dough.

    Maybe the saying comes from eating cake and pie, not buying it...?
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  • Slake - Lost City
    Slake - Lost City Posts: 348 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I can see how this would be an issue for players who have just started the game, but like 90% of the ppl responding in this thread are 60+.
    How is it possible that you don't already know exactly where an NPC is that you have gone to day in and day out?
    I personally have had zero trouble finding NPCs and if u want to sell something quick, put it in a high player volume area I say (eg wq or cs NPCs or AH).
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  • Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    For the record, I'm a true newbie to the game, I don't even know what people are talking about half the time since they abbreviate absolutely everything and just automatically assume people know what two vague letters are supposed to mean. TT, for example, best guess I can come up with is I'm going to have to fight Robin or Beast Boy at some point, and I find people crowding their shops together annoying for multiple reasons, when they do it around NPC's, it makes it difficult to find the blasted NPC I want. I spent a good fiften minutes trying to find the teleporter in Etherblade the first time. There's also the amount of lag created, and the fact that if I were going to buy any of their overpriced stuff, it'd be annoying clicking through a dozen shops trying to find the one I actually want to click on.
  • Escorian - Dreamweaver
    Escorian - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    look all you people who are defending the catshoppers on npcs just mean you are probably one of them putting your catshops on npcs just lowers your rate of customers because frrankly it irritates most people to no extent maybe if you tried putting your shop on the path to an npc you would make some money instead of wasting time.
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  • Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Accusing people of doing something because they defend doing it doesn't really help your cause you know, just makes you seem paranoid. You can defend doing something without doing it, or for that matter even liking it yourself. For instance, I don't like people selling things for way more than they're actually worth, for instance I've seen people trying to sell logs for up to 1,000 coins, but I'd still defend their right to do it since they're not really breaking any rules, and if someone is willing to pay 1,000 coins for something that can be easily harvested for free hey, easy money for the seller yes? I wouldn't sell mine for that much, I'd charge 400 coins per log at most.
  • Escorian - Dreamweaver
    Escorian - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Accusing people of doing something because they defend doing it doesn't really help your cause you know, just makes you seem paranoid. You can defend doing something without doing it, or for that matter even liking it yourself. For instance, I don't like people selling things for way more than they're actually worth, for instance I've seen people trying to sell logs for up to 1,000 coins, but I'd still defend their right to do it since they're not really breaking any rules, and if someone is willing to pay 1,000 coins for something that can be easily harvested for free hey, easy money for the seller yes? I wouldn't sell mine for that much, I'd charge 400 coins per log at most.

    selling stuff high priced and placing catshops on npcs are way completely different things ><
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    Everything has its beginnings, but it doesn't start at one. It starts long before that... The world is born From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes 2. 2 becomes 10. 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one solves nothing. so long as zero remains... One.. Will eventually grow to 100 again.
  • Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver Posts: 432 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    That's completely beside the point, which is that you can defend doing something without actually doing it, or even approving of it yourself. Heck, just like in real life, I neither smoke myself, nor do I approve of it, however I'm a firm believer that you have every right to smoke if you want to, it's your body, your lungs, you can fill them with all the tar and poison you want. Just because a person defends something doesn't mean anything other than the fact they feel you have the right to do it. And while I admit I'm new to the game, to my knowledge there's technically no rules regarding where you can or cannot setup shop, so technically they do have the right to crowd around the NPC's. If you pay attention to my previous posts you'll note that I don't approve of doing it, and that I do think they should enforce some type of system that prevents you from setting up shop within a certain proximity of NPC's. I do not defend the people who crowd the NPC's, however I can understand why one would defend them even if they themselves do not approve of it based on the lack of any rules against it.
  • Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
    Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I personally don't like it but obviously the ones that are there day after day are doing so because it is effective.

    Stop buying from them and they will move.

    What really peeves me are the NOOBs that set up shop right in front of an NPC like the Pet Skill Trainer in Lost City. It completely blocks the NPC so that Newbies that are already having a hard time finding their way around can't locate essential NPCs.

    Fortunately, they don't seem to stay around too long. Maybe they get the point after the 100 hate messages and no sales, LOL.
  • Brael - Dreamweaver
    Brael - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,430 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I don't care if catshops are right next to an npc, I think being on them though is just as bad as being in the same spot so you can't click it. A 5 foot radius from npc's to place a catshop would be nice. That still lets someone put it in a high traffic area if they want.
  • FoxRunning - Heavens Tear
    FoxRunning - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,048 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    its not just that...i've been collecting pics of stacks of people on top of WQ npc heads. for some reason, barbs in tiger form seem to be the ones who do it most, and stay there the longest. a coulple times, ive gotten to do back to back WQs,, and hours laters, found the same barbs-plus a few more people!-parked on the same guys head

    a couple times, my son and i, with a few friends, tried to see how many we could put on an an NPC head. our max was 6, all madly dancing, playing dead or whatever else stupidity we could think of that late at night ^o^


    KatieMorgan - Sanctuary wrote: »
    If you are one of these people that likes to set up shop on top of an NPC's head, please stop. It makes it very difficult for other players to see if this NPC has a quest icon over it's head, and all it does it make people generally annoyed with you.

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  • Saitada - Sanctuary
    Saitada - Sanctuary Posts: 3,220 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Rurik_Niall - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Wouldn't Hell be hard? The entire point is to be tortured for eternity, I wouldn't think that was easy. I suppose it's easy to get into Hell, I mean, just about everything is a sin apparently, depending on who you speak to. But then it should be "Easy as getting into Hell."
    If a **** is sent to Hell, are they in Heaven?

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  • Redmenace - Heavens Tear
    Redmenace - Heavens Tear Posts: 908 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    AndromedaB - Sanctuary wrote: »
    if you are too lazy to look at minimap or shiftclick then thats too bad
    QQing about having to take a extra half second to do something is just stupid and annoying


    Being an arrogant, self-centered clown is even more annoying. You are not the only player on the server, this is not a single player game.

    And I will be more than happy to call out your douch-baggery in CAPS, in the square, whenever you do it.

    You choose to ignore others, I choose to make that choice as miserable for you as I can.

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  • Zerza - Harshlands
    Zerza - Harshlands Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    LOL

    Press Q, click "find quest", locate the quest you want, and click link to autopath to npc.


    Gee, that was hard b:chuckle

    Think Ill start putting my own cat shops on npcs b:bye
  • Mirabeth - Sanctuary
    Mirabeth - Sanctuary Posts: 246 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Zerza - Harshlands wrote: »
    LOL

    Press Q, click "find quest", locate the quest you want, and click link to autopath to npc.


    Gee, that was hard b:chuckle

    Think Ill start putting my own cat shops on npcs b:bye

    I hope for your sake they're in safe zones. ^^ b:chuckle
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