I'm in Alaska and I can't get on until late most nights, so I already normally only go farming when its quiet in game. I never farm in the middle of the day on the weekends because what I can gather in the same amount of time is super lame when its much busier. While I don't like people that steal nodes right out from under me (rarely happens) if I see someone going in a direction collecting mats I immediately go off another way as to TRY and not be fighting over resources.

Currently between the 3 factions there are 3 maps each to farm top tier mats ( 9 maps ) After one Tamriel every map will scale so unless they nerf spawns it should be much better for mat farming.

My reaction after reading the posts on this thread...

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To me, it's common courtesy. I have cleared mobs from nodes and chests only to have someone else run in and harvest. I find the lack of consideration to be quite rude. It is really offensive how self-centered people can be.

Yet, it does work both ways. Cut me off? Okay, I am offended, but I can still be gracious. There are more nodes where that one came from.

Consider myself lucky. Not once, has anything like you describe occurred while collecting nodes. Not bad for close to 2.5 years of game play.
I'll just go to Cyrodiil for egocentric players.

phairdon wrote: »

Consider myself lucky. Not once, has anything like you describe occurred while collecting nodes. Not bad for close to 2.5 years of game play.
I'll just go to Cyrodiil for egocentric players.

I once had the extreme opposite - player followed me around as I was farming, and then would sprint ahead of me as I approached a node to take it before me. I'd go off in another direction, only to be followed and have it repeat, again and again. After 5-10min of that (I kept waiting for them to get bored and bug-off but they didn't), I went to a wayshrine and left. That was just pure and simple griefing though.

smacx250 wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Consider myself lucky. Not once, has anything like you describe occurred while collecting nodes. Not bad for close to 2.5 years of game play.
I'll just go to Cyrodiil for egocentric players.

I once had the extreme opposite - player followed me around as I was farming, and then would sprint ahead of me as I approached a node to take it before me. I'd go off in another direction, only to be followed and have it repeat, again and again. After 5-10min of that (I kept waiting for them to get bored and bug-off but they didn't), I went to a wayshrine and left. That was just pure and simple griefing though.

Griefing. Plain weird if you ask me.

"I saw it but someone else got to it first, it should have been mine" Is exactly how I read this.

I was originally thinking the post was going to be about getting hate whispers from other farmer saying you were in "their area", or that people were taking nodes while you were fighting mobs for said nodes.

I've heard some crap in zone chat about node thieves, but it really hasn't happened to me(or if it has it wasn't a big enough deal for me to even remember it). A one sided argument I have seen in gold zone kind of amused me. The complainer was following someone who was only taking the stuff he wanted from the nodes and leaving the useless stuff. The amusing part was when he mentioned he was reporting the guy each time he left trash in a node. Amusing and sad really, this kind of abuse of the report feature is probably why it takes forever to get ZOS to take reports seriously.

Typically if I see someone near me, I won't bother killing anything for the nodes they are close to and if I see us going towards same node most the time I turn and go a different way. Even in Craglorn back when I did a lot of node farming, it wasn't as bad as most make it out to be. There are plenty of nodes and the respawn rate isn't bad.

The fun ones are the ones in Craglorn that will snipe the mats while you fight the mob knowing full well the reason you are on that mob is to get the goodies. For a while I would just wait by a mob with no goodies near by them for an unsuspecting evil gatherer to come by. While he was still a ways off I would start the fight and sure enough here he would come a running, looking for something to snipe. Fun to watch them frantically look around for some flower or rock.

Wouldn't be so bad if they would at least join in on the fight then we could both scramble to try and get the flower.

Even more fun is the people that think closing the anchors at the dolmens somehow does something for them so they try and sneak in and grab them instead of helping the fight.

Only one way to fix this...

Put major expedition on your bar and find a way to get minor too. Dog eat dog world on ESO.

smacx250 wrote: »

Humatiel wrote: »

Alhatariel wrote: »

Hi! :-)

Just wanted to ventilate my frustration here about the behaviour of some players. When I gather mats they are there, trying to get as quick as possible to the ore, flowers or other mats which I was on my way to. Gathering mats at the Gold Coast is very frustrating because of the behaviour of many other players. Even when they see I am on my way to get ore, they sprint so they can reach it before me. When I see another player is on her/his way towards ore or flowerd or wood I back up to give the other space to take it. Also gathering alchemy reagents in The Hollow City show that kind of egocentric players. And all that behaviour in spite of that there is anough for all of us!
I have been in many other games and there are `the egocentric players` also present.

Definition on Wikipedia of an egocentric: A person who is egocentric believes they are the center of attention, like a narcissist, but does not receive gratification by one's own admiration.

So I just decided that I shall only gather mats for crafting during the night when it is quiet, it really blows my day to be confronted with this kind of childish players.

Ala

While I wouldn't begin to discuss RL age on here what your describing is how the vast majority of adults act, and for good reason. Those that arent ambitious tend to get left behind, more so then ever in today's work force and certainly here where every good guild has such competitive requirements to gain entrance to and stay in.

If you want to say let someone cross the street when its not "technically" time (and assuming you have no cars behind you) then hey good on you, but that behavior doesn't then automatically transcend into saying "hey I dont need that promotion and pay raise you go ahead and take it". I for instance wouldn't give up my spot on a raiding team because Pug Force One decided to take five hours in ICP and "felt" I was elitist for leaving. The world (and by reflection games) revolve around those that place themselves first, and as long as your being reasonably civil and not harming anyone I don't see a problem with that.

Wow! I can say that I haven't ever been "ambitions" - just loved what I did and in large part because of that, been good at it! And as such was successful enough to ease into "semi-retirement" (I love what I do so I still take some jobs even though I don't need the income) in my mid 40's. Ambition is certainly not the only way to succeed - and I'd argue not the best way. I certainly never tried to push anyone else down or aside, and actively took my time to pull others up for the benefit of all. And, further, to make this statement in regard to node farming? Really?

The OPs problem isn't node farming, node farming is just how its being displayed because thats the playstyle. With less then half of all college grads getting a job strictly in there degree field in the first year out of college I respectfully disagree about ambition not being relevant.

Besides, there is a difference in being better then someone and striving to beat them and "pushing anyone down". Unless of course you look at any type of competitive game-play as us vs them then I suppose in every instance its an "us vs them".

Humatiel wrote: »

smacx250 wrote: »

Humatiel wrote: »

Alhatariel wrote: »

Hi! :-)

Just wanted to ventilate my frustration here about the behaviour of some players. When I gather mats they are there, trying to get as quick as possible to the ore, flowers or other mats which I was on my way to. Gathering mats at the Gold Coast is very frustrating because of the behaviour of many other players. Even when they see I am on my way to get ore, they sprint so they can reach it before me. When I see another player is on her/his way towards ore or flowerd or wood I back up to give the other space to take it. Also gathering alchemy reagents in The Hollow City show that kind of egocentric players. And all that behaviour in spite of that there is anough for all of us!
I have been in many other games and there are `the egocentric players` also present.

Definition on Wikipedia of an egocentric: A person who is egocentric believes they are the center of attention, like a narcissist, but does not receive gratification by one's own admiration.

So I just decided that I shall only gather mats for crafting during the night when it is quiet, it really blows my day to be confronted with this kind of childish players.

Ala

While I wouldn't begin to discuss RL age on here what your describing is how the vast majority of adults act, and for good reason. Those that arent ambitious tend to get left behind, more so then ever in today's work force and certainly here where every good guild has such competitive requirements to gain entrance to and stay in.

If you want to say let someone cross the street when its not "technically" time (and assuming you have no cars behind you) then hey good on you, but that behavior doesn't then automatically transcend into saying "hey I dont need that promotion and pay raise you go ahead and take it". I for instance wouldn't give up my spot on a raiding team because Pug Force One decided to take five hours in ICP and "felt" I was elitist for leaving. The world (and by reflection games) revolve around those that place themselves first, and as long as your being reasonably civil and not harming anyone I don't see a problem with that.

Wow! I can say that I haven't ever been "ambitions" - just loved what I did and in large part because of that, been good at it! And as such was successful enough to ease into "semi-retirement" (I love what I do so I still take some jobs even though I don't need the income) in my mid 40's. Ambition is certainly not the only way to succeed - and I'd argue not the best way. I certainly never tried to push anyone else down or aside, and actively took my time to pull others up for the benefit of all. And, further, to make this statement in regard to node farming? Really?

The OPs problem isn't node farming, node farming is just how its being displayed because thats the playstyle. With less then half of all college grads getting a job strictly in there degree field in the first year out of college I respectfully disagree about ambition not being relevant.

Besides, there is a difference in being better then someone and striving to beat them and "pushing anyone down". Unless of course you look at any type of competitive game-play as us vs them then I suppose in every instance its an "us vs them".

Ambitious:
"1. an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment"

Better:
" 1. of superior quality or excellence"

The two are not in any way synonymous. Yet you present "ambitous" as "better", and not as striving for an ends. Ambition simply isn't what you say it is. And regardless of if your stated statistic of college grads is true or not, it says nothing about the absolute success of those that are "ambitious" vs that those who do what they do because they love it. In my experience, on average, the ambitious ones aren't the ones that "make it" - the ones who do the job for the job itself and not some ends are those that actually succeed. I've been involved in the hiring of lots of people, and I can tell you that "ambition" has never been a positive attribute named by anyone on any hiring team I've been involved with. In large, it is how good the person currently is, how well they can work with others on the team, and what their prospect for growth within the organization is (skill improvement and likelihood of staying with the group vs flipping for a position elsewhere).

I'm more concerned about the dude that just scammed me for 75k lol.

I just need to pay more attention.. never again lol.

But still that guys just a huge troll.

Happened with me @ Craglorn and made me so frustated.

I am not farming mats now, just picking up anything found across my way..