Farming - a term used too freely!

[smooshable]

why is it ludicrous? im asking because everything done in this game is based on the opinion of the player, from the reason or excuses used to mass people to deciding what a vulture is or is not.

so why cant a person decide was farming is? after all some mass after X number of hits, some only give you hit and mass you into the ground for it.

seems fitting a person should decide for themselves what farming is if they can decide to mass you back for one hit 5 hits or to run to their CO or alliance for help.

i guess this is similar to the people who get mad for getting massed for hitting someone or farming someone. they feel they shouldnt be massed for only a couple hits while at the same time are not willing to let someone else hit them a couple times in turn.

i've massed people for a single hit. that one hit to me is farming. the reason i view it as farming is if i do nothing about it, it implies im ok with you taking my resources and you'll come back to take more resources. so i mass before the 2nd, 3rd, 4th hits occur. i call it farm prevention.

you can call it whatever you want, i'll call it whatever i want and that'll be that. because fact is its all up to the individual player to decide what it is and how to react to it, not you.

Sorry to double post - this was made while I was posting and I feel is a brilliant and much more succinct way of saying what I was trying to say. Attack for what ever reason you want, if you get asked nicely then stop or keep going, ENTIRELY up to you. But complaining that you were asked at all, especially when it's asked so nicely just seems a tad silly to me.

smoosh

[Psi Kiya Trist]

why is it ludicrous? im asking because everything done in this game is based on the opinion of the player, from the reason or excuses used to mass people to deciding what a vulture is or is not.

so why cant a person decide was farming is? after all some mass after X number of hits, some only give you hit and mass you into the ground for it.

seems fitting a person should decide for themselves what farming is if they can decide to mass you back for one hit 5 hits or to run to their CO or alliance for help.

i guess this is similar to the people who get mad for getting massed for hitting someone or farming someone. they feel they shouldnt be massed for only a couple hits while at the same time are not willing to let someone else hit them a couple times in turn.

i've massed people for a single hit. that one hit to me is farming. the reason i view it as farming is if i do nothing about it, it implies im ok with you taking my resources and you'll come back to take more resources. so i mass before the 2nd, 3rd, 4th hits occur. i call it farm prevention.

you can call it whatever you want, i'll call it whatever i want and that'll be that. because fact is its all up to the individual player to decide what it is and how to react to it, not you.

Sorry to double post - this was made while I was posting and I feel is a brilliant and much more succinct way of saying what I was trying to say. Attack for what ever reason you want, if you get asked nicely then stop or keep going, ENTIRELY up to you. But complaining that you were asked at all, especially when it's asked so nicely just seems a tad silly to me.

smoosh

it's also an example of one of the other things i've heard wolf complain about over the years. the free flowing of AT.

both people's definition of farming and this attitude towards it would not have changed if AT's were not as plentiful as they are now...

but, that's another issue, from another time.

~_+Psi Kiya Trist+_~

[Wolf359]

I understand the situation and I don't think what you're doing is unreasonable but I just don't see what they're doing is unreasonable either. They asked you not to do it again, so you've got a choice. Do it or don't, either is fine and entirely up to you, just be prepared for the concequences (Assuming they have the stones to do it of course).

At the end of the day, it's a wargame and you attacked them. Why on earth shouldn't they threaten war back? I quite often see members of certain large unnamed alliances leave large sums of naq out. I always suspect it's so that they can just hammer some poor sucker who takes it. Again, it's a war game, why do it? Because you can.

Farm freely my friends, farm freely.

smoosh

*sigh*

You're missing the point smoosh - I don't mind being asked to stop attacking (I don't even mind being threatened) - and as I mentioned in the first post, the majority of the time I am asked I will stop. But when people bleat about being 'farmed' after only ever being hit twice - that's when it gets annoying and I wish that people would simply bother to play the game instead of moaning and whining.

Again, you are right - people can attack for anything they want, and as I have said - I don't mind being asked to stop - but the whole point of this is saying that the term 'farming' is being used far too liberally these days. Which is an indisputable fact!

It is strange that when things were more difficult, people didn't moan as much about being hit.

You see, this has what has become by making things too easy (as Psi hinted) - the easier things are, the more people don't like it when something happens against them - even something as small as 2 (TWO) whole attacks (shock, horror!). If they had asked me to stop attacking, because they are trying to build - fine. But it was specifically 'Stop farming' - and 2 attacks isn't farming - not in anyone's book!

I mean, I tell my own alliance members and officers not to whine about 2 or 3 attacks - because it's not farming! If it is 2 or 3 attacks per day over a number of days, then that is a different matter.

If people are going to bleat over a couple of attacks, then I'd suggest that a war game isn't for them - otherwise perhaps some people just need to grow a pair (no offence ladies), stop their whining and actually play.