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Should Activating Anchor Pinions have a Cooldown?

Fruitmass
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Okay, so as I've been grinding out dolmens trying to get my achievements, I've seen a lot of generally unpleasant and unsportsmanlike behavior from other players when it comes to grabbing pinions.

I've seen players stand around just expectantly waiting for the pinion to be clickable so they can grab it and doing absolutely nothing in anyway to contribute to clearing the anchor. I've seen players swoop in as other players are trying to clear mobs, grab any active pinions and run off. I've seen players yelling and trying to run each other off so they can have all the pinions to themselves. I've seen players purposely let others die so they can grab as many pinions as they can before said dead player can get back in the fight. There are other things but for the sake of keeping this from becoming too much like a rant I'm going to let be at that.

Now I'm not unsympathetic to those trying to clear the Chainbreaker achievement. I've gotten it on two characters and I know it's a pain to grind out. With so many people trying to clear it and only 5 pinions per anchor sometimes you have to just seize an opportunity. I also know that in an environment where your going to interact with other people, all of whom are trying to do their own thing, misunderstandings can happen. Sometimes a person could honestly be trying to help and not understand or realize they're doing something that inconveniences others.

In those situations nobody's really at fault. Things happen, dust yourself off and keep trying. What concerns me is the unnecessarily cut throat attitude that seems to be growing in popularity lately.

So my question is, should there be a debuff on players who've activated a pinion that would prevent them from activating another for 5-10 seconds to promote fair play?

*Now please keep in mind this poll is mostly just out of a sort of philosophical curiosity on my part so please don't take it too seriously. I'd also like to apologize in advance if anybody found this a bit long winded :).
Edited by Fruitmass on September 24, 2014 6:11AM
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Should Activating Anchor Pinions have a Cooldown? 10 votes

Yes. Sharing helps us all in the end.
0%
No. There's nothing wrong with a little compitition.
70%
dreadlaxb16_ESONeizirSoupDragonbabyloninf.toniceb17_ESOZedChelos 7 votes
Unsure. Would the ends justify the means?
10%
Tavore1138 1 vote
Other. Poll
20%
Nox_AeternaVoldathur 2 votes
  • fromtesonlineb16_ESO
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    And you felt the need to post this twice .. why?
  • Fruitmass
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    Ack! Ignore that "Poll" part on the "Other". Sloppy editing on my part..
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  • Fruitmass
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    Did it post twice? I didn't know that. apologies.
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  • Nox_Aeterna
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    Other. Poll
    While i understand where you are comming from , if the person is really a achiv hunter , then they will want both the general and closing the anchors achiv.

    I completed this one a LOT before even getting close to those other 2 and without any hurry or trying to close them myself all the time.
    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
    -Hanlon's razor
  • Fruitmass
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    While i understand where you are comming from , if the person is really a achiv hunter , then they will want both the general and closing the anchors achiv.

    I completed this one a LOT before even getting close to those other 2 and without any hurry or trying to close them myself all the time.

    Oh I've got no beef with somebody trying to get their achievements done. I'm working on the generals myself.

    I was just thinking was more along the lines of preventing one person from getting all the glory while others did the work. Nothing drastic, no lock outs or anything like that. Just a fighting chance.
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