The “Golden Rule” is an almost universal principle of ethics. The ‘Golden Rule’ is summarized by the phrase “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Last night my mates Darrian, Ardra, and myself were all farming. There is a few things to keep in mind here:

1. We three were the only players in this particular area for some time (maybe 45 minutes to an hour).
2. This area is a small triangular’ish isthmus.  Small enough that 3 players at each angle can easily see one another.
3. Unless you’re team farming (which we were) this place isn’t big enough to support more than two players.
4. We were also using this area to XP in order to catch Darrian up.
5. We three are extremely laid back.

After a bit of farming, another player shows up as a high level Thief.  While we didn’t appreciate someone coming in as high level job and thus distrupting our XP’ing, and we questioned this players wisdom in attempting to farm an area currently occupied by 3 players, though able to gain experience points, were able to quickly dispatch the local flora and fauna, we were none-the-less willing to share anything he could pull.

Indeed, as spawns showed up near this player, we’d all three let him have the monster he was obviously going to engage, and had clearly beat us to.  That however wasn’t enough, and quickly this player started going out of his way to pull monsters we were clearly enroute to engage.

Being the one in the group to have lowest flash point, it only took a couple of stolen monsters before I started using Provoke to return the favor.  Pretty soon things escalated into a tit-for-tat session.  It didn’t take long for all three of use to make the decision to starve this player out — which we did with a high degree of efficiency.

Things could have gone slow, but smooth for all of us had this player show the same courtesy we showed.  Instead, he had to try dominating the entire [small] area, even though we had clearly made capitulations to allow him prey he had clearly made first move on, but not claimed yet.

In the end, he had three players doing unto him as he had done unto them.