Camping and Looping

Camping

Camping is defined as waiting continuously at a specific area for monsters or CNR to spawn and "farming" the spawns in that area for continual experience/loot/CNR. It is abusing the spawn system and is by no stretch of the imagination considered role playing. Another form of camping is to enter an area, kill the creatures and/or harvest the CNR available, then log out for a time, log back on and repeat the process.

• Camping is not allowed in Layonara. It is a bannable offense, but usually only after a few warnings are ignored or if one is trying to work around the system and claims innocense a few times.
• Camping CNR materials is acceptable, as long as it does not last over 30 minutes, and you don't weigh yourself down silly, like 300 lbs when you can only carry 150. If you are camping CNR, GM's have the right to drop whatever monster they want at anytime. If you can not run away, or fight it due to being weighted down that is a risk you and your character should consider before getting into a situation that leaves you vulnerable. Think and play smart.
• When one is harvesting/gathering items in the world it is not acceptable for one to log out after they have reached the 30 minute mark (or close to it) near the resource(s) and then log back in some time later just to rinse and repeat. This is a person that knows the rules of the server and is trying to work around the rules so that it seems like what they are doing is RP and/or acceptable, it isn't. It is a blantant abuse of the rules as clearly the player knows what they are doing. Keep the spirit of the rules and server in mind please.
• Think and play smart. If you think it is pushing the line and/or would be frowned on then simple do not do it.

Looping

Looping is defined as going through the same few areas in a short period of time in order to keep continually harvesting CNR, reaping XP and loot from killing the creatures there, etc., and then repeating this sort of thing over and over in a given span of time.

We ask the community to limit any looping behavior through a small number of areas to sixty (60) minutes. We ask the community to limit any camping behavior in a single area to thirty (30) minutes. In the case of logging in, harvesting and logging out, we ask that you simply do not do this more than three (3) times in a row over a twenty-four (24) hour period.

The GM Team understands that not everyone has a lot of play time. Sometimes there is only a small amount of time to log in, take care of a few things and then log back out, and we do not wish for people with limited time to feel like criminals. However, we also believe that players should exercise some degree of self-restraint when doing such things. While we will not be actively policing for camping and looping behavior, if we observe such in excess of the stated guidelines, we reserve the right to intervene and inform the party that they have pushed the boundaries of what we would like to see.

Unless taken to the extreme, the GM Team will not be applying in-character or out-of-character punishments to any groups caught looping or camping in excess, however we may remove the group from the situation if our requests are not respected.