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While they could claim you're holding up the spawn and so are in the wrong...honestly they are just being petty.

I have indirectly tried it. Numerous times but not for the same reasons.

In the day of HP parties you'd find an empty building, make some porings, and try to get a class change into an MVP. Someone stumbles into the building, and immediately kills the porings.

Have a DB party in some quiet corner? Someone stumbles in, shouts that db are free for all (which is true) and proceeds to slaughter them (or in one instance get slaughtered twisted ).

Got a PLANT db once. Was laughing with a party member how this plant is managing to consistantly hit my 260 flee, but never his 180. Someone walks past? An immediate need to kill the plant fills him and so he does so.

I'm not sure if it's a desire to ruin your fun, or a simple 'just because I can and I'm there' mentality, but either way, it's common.

Altho I do have a cute memory of one novice thinking I needed saving from a creamy that was fanning my thief. He never connected but was sweet that he tried. (He had died to one and thought if we ganged up on it we could slay this nasty butterfly biggrin ).

Which prompts the question of WHY?

It isn't for the exp... even to a novice a single poring isn't THAT much, and if you're above level 10 you don't even see the exp from one.

It isn't for the drops...closest porings have to a useful rare is their unripe apple later in cooking.

It isn't because there is nothing else on the map to kill...there is plenty on those types of maps, since even a lowly novice can cleave a poring in a few strikes, keeping the spawn up.

It isn't a risk of aggro, or a FFA summons of a dead branch giving you the right to attack.

It isn't the fun of making porings blow up...if it were you'd already be roaming the map smacking porings.

The only reason to do so would because he wishes for it to be alive and you want to take that away. Hence 'being a jerk'.

...unless I'm missing some other possible reason someone knowing the rules and past novicehood might have for KS'ing someone's tanked solitary poring.

I'd agree w/ that last statement, Delaio. It's similar to something my husband said when he worked in phone technical support. He found that people calling in to get their internet fixed would say things and in general be more mean and spiteful over the phone than they probably would be had they been discussing the subject in person.

It's not so much to do with the rules as much as it is the principle? One's reason for doing what they do with your monster or whatever could reflect on how much of a jerk they are. D:

I mean, would you care as much if someone attacked the thing and apologized? Not really. [At least, I wouldn't. xD] But if someone attacked the thing and said something to just be mean or just 'cause they could or something, then I'mma be guessing you'd be pretty cheesed off, huh?

Butyeh. u_u

If a high level character decides to provoke a poring and just goes afk for the hell of it. Doesn't that in return make you want to ask him, why? And how would you answer that? Because I can, or because there no rule saying I can't?

You do something stupid then its bound to attract some stupid people. If your bored go vend something and do something else. Common sense and it doesnt cost alot of time nor effort to make a vend slave.

As for whether I'd go kill the poring? No, I'd probably have left you and the poring all together. Heck I'd leave you alone even if it was a HO hitting on you for that matter. Why? As high lvl character I got better things to kill, as a nub I'd rather go and kill some popos(poporings) than a poring. Novice pots last enough to make a nub from scratch to first class anyway.