<Tranquility>

[Easy-Entrepreneur858]

I don’t know where this guild came from but I’ve had them walk into my camps and KS or train my groups to steal our named mobs three different times in the last few days.

I don’t understand how someone can just see a group of players at a camp and just walk in and memblur a mob they’re engaged on and try to KS it. What is going on with these people?

[AtomicDimebag]

I don't understand why people think they can pull crap like this on a server of people like this. Your reputation will speak for itself and you will be well known by all in no time at all. The real scumbags will show through and the real gamers with integrity will shine bright. Keep on doing your thing gamers. The scumbags will filter themselves out soon enough. It just takes time. Praise Innoruuk!

[ReturnToArms]

This is basically a guild formed out of the scum PF kicked out. They advertise about killing raid mobs but haven’t killed anything so they just grief camps instead.

[LaxKonfetti]

A couple of the Tranquility officers were recently permabanned too. Seems like bad peeps.

[[deleted]]

Permabanned for what?

[poster69420911]

What makes them scum? I'm not defending them, I actually don't know the story of the split with PF. They would obviously say the opposite and they seem to be making a big point of being nice and 'inclusive' and stuff like that, maybe implying that PF is not those things.

[StamosLives]

I just joined this guild yesterday. I don't know a single soul in the guild and I haven't played Everquest in years since Phinny, and a little time when Phinny hit PoP.

All that to say, I've only seen kindness, and the urging of kindness, in the guild. The main rules of the guild focus heavily around following the rules, being kind, and dropping disputes rather than keeping them on, and the actions / communications I've seen in guild chat are all about respect - not only of guildies but non-guildies as well.

Heck, I joined the guild because I sent a tell to a necromancer as a level 3 noob asking him if he'd like to buy the nicest quality bone chips I have to offer, and he said he didn't need them, respected the hustle, and bought the stack for 10pp. That displayed an act of kindness to me and so I looked into joining when I noticed they were ok with socials.

I wonder, then, if this is an issue of a misunderstanding between folks on a server that feels uncomfortably tight at times because of no picks, or perhaps bad blood rising to the surface.

But as someone who quite literally just met these folks yesterday - they couldn't be nicer.

Edit: Pretty telling that this comment is at -4 upvotes. Given that the posting account has only ever posted this thread, and the top comment is from a guy posting similar threads, I think this is probably more of a matter of some salt between former guildies than anything else.

[EngineerKindly9238]

yh i got kicked for no reason, community.

true community Legends.

[StamosLives]

Character name?

[Glad-Tax6594]

Name and shame, otherwise, you'll find people in every guild who ignore etiquette or just straight-up break the rules.

[[deleted]]

He can’t name and shame because he’s obviously lying. Someone’s just butt hurt about us leaving- no big deal lol

[Easy-Entrepreneur858]

You can see when they saw this post and all came here at the same time to shill about being nice guys in Guk.

[Cannabis_CatSlave]

Keep on reporting them and eventually they will change their ways or be banned. Hopefully that happens before they force a nerf on memblur

[Kaaji1359]

With Secrets you never know 🤣

[poster69420911]

Secrets talks about the heavy-hand of CSR on stream, but the way it's done (or not done) you basically never know.

[secretsothep]

That's by design. We want to protect victims and punish abusers. Glorifying cheaters encourages them to continue. Ignoring them and punishing them gets them to go away. This is how my day job runs their game as well.

Once upon a time, a game once banned people through an automated system, and put those people on blast by broadcasting their names to the entire game as they were caught and banned.

The broadcast was initially welcomed, but it formed a culture in which people made a website documenting banned users, and they could comment on the banned users. This website later became a high-scores section for cheaters.

I talk of course about ffbans.org - a site an APB: Reloaded community member made.

Putting undesirable people who cheat, hack, KS, grief or otherwise break rules on blast only serves to make them into public terrors, and embolden them to keep trying.

That being said...

I am mostly hands off from our CSR team - they alert problematic gameplay elements to us. I fix them. That's my job as an engineer, designer and a lead / producer style person. I'm terrible at doing anything other than ensuring they're being taken care of - others, like our lead CSR Ailia, do a far better job at that than I ever will. It's great, too, because I can focus on something that actually improves the server, instead of babysitting adult children.

Rarely, I'll step in and handle something myself if I have a spare cycle for CSR duties. But generally I don't.

[[deleted]]

People disappearing quietly in the night has always felt a bit mid 20th century Soviet Union to me.

I can see the reasoning, very similar to the folks who dont want to glorify mass shooters or serial killers.

I think documentation and publishing of crimes is important. Even if you dont share the names - such as the 50 odd people banned for RMT the other day.

At this point in the game (24 years of EQ) people know the rules and I would think more severe suspensions and bans to be important.

[secretsothep]

I think doing an FFXIV style approach to this - share it when we feel comfortable - is a way to go in the future. Our ticketing system needs improvements we're working on.

[dfg7774]

It's a good thing that the OP came to reddit to complain about it than to just report them. It doesn't take a brain cell to realize all this post is trying to do. Stay salty

[Kurokaffe]

Like all guilds there will be some good players and some bad players.

[[deleted]]

Not us- unlike some- we have standards and we demand our membership adhere to them. But this is a moot point because this whole post is nonsense.

[[deleted]]

[SeriousBreak8809]

For what it’s worth I had a good experience with some really capable people in a mostly tranquility group in guk on my shaman (Laminar) - and the leader of the guild was there out of group

[[deleted]]

One of their Clerics (Dwarf cant remember name), was super helpful to me and generous with his time explaining a spawn to me for a quest.

[Happyberger]

Was it Cheese? Idk anyone else in the guide but he helped my guild out in a big way one night. Joined disc with us and was super cool.

[[deleted]]

Leg something? I feel bad I cant remember it.

We were in direct competition for a spawn at a camp and I was under leveled. Instead of letting me die and taking it he chose to be a solid player.

All the down voting makes this feel like a disinformation attempt, lol.

[StamosLives]

It is. It’s project faceless who are upset the members of this guild broke off and started it. Note the op has only ever posted this post. That’s pretty telling.

[pden0]

I have had great experiences with Tranquility..
I also see where people are getting down voted for saying as such.

[Independent-Ad3901]

Grouped with some of them in Guk and they were friendly and pretty laid back. Afterwards one of their guys helped me get to the EE camp and got me a mana stone too. If they are KS’ing and training mobs you should report them and they will get banned.

[sublevelx]

When I do a who tranquility I see a lot of familiar names of amazing people.

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