Hey, I would like to clarify some stuff, even though its not all that important.
First off about the timer and all that drama.
On the day that TTK first killed Simurgh (WED), someone claimed that FS had been camping it all week and left someone behind to get the timer. That wasn't how it happened at all. That wed I was in windy doing some cooking, and chatting with my friend who happened to be leveling in rolanberry around the Simurgh spawn point. He then says he its that Simurgh HNM, and its been unclaimed for like two minutes now. I ask him, no one has claimed it? and he says, nope not only that but there is not one person around. I am fairly low level noob at the moment, but I knew that an unclaimed wondering HNM sounded like a rare occurrence, so I switched to the only HNM LS I have, TTK, and tell them that Simurgh is up and completely alone. Eventually 12 TTK people ran out from jeuno; it took at least 15 minutes overall from when I first told the LS that Simurgh was up to when someone could finally run through CN and claim it.
During that time Grim also did a check to see where everyone else was, and noted that only 2 people were also in Sky at the moment, FS members, and that now might have been a good time to camp there also.
Now as Simurgh got down to around 75% life I remember looking around and seeing other players from other LSs show up, including FS members, as well as members of my Main LS that the person who spotted Simurgh in the first place is from. Also, I split the profits from the first Simurgh drop with the friend who first spotted Simurgh, since it was really his sighting and his timer >.>
I guess the point on this long and pointless ramble is to show that no one was camping Simurgh in the first place, it was chilling all on its own on Wednesday, and not one LS had any type of previous claim or timer to it. I would assume if there was someone else there besides my friend they would have rallied their troops faster to take it down or actually claimed it in the first place. Instead TTK got out there with moderate haste and claimed it, with no one else present at the time other than my friend watching. When the boots didn’t drop TTK decided that it would go out the next day, but knew they would have some camping company. ><
Now, as of what happened the next day I can't really comment cause I wasn’t there I was xping in the tree, and had a diff LS equipped so I didn’t hear about all the drama till hours after it happened. I don't really know or care what should be done about the boots, maybe the money can be split between the campers to make everyone at least sorta happy? I really cannot imagine any solution that would not anger or alienate one side. I think both parties should talk it out and agree on a solution, even though I know that is impossible...
I wish I hadn’t told TTK about Simurgh in the first place now that I know about all the drama it caused. Extra gill is nice to have, but it’s not worth losing friends over. But I don't think many people are stepping back from the situation and thinking about what should be done before they open their mouths and start flaming others.... It makes me sad that certain people left different LSs over such petty things. But I can respect their decision to leave I guess, even though they did leave before either party had made a “Formal statement.” Geese, this is all getting blown way out of proportion. I know I am just a Noob, but I wish everyone could just get along
