I think that one thing everybody agrees on is that pets shouldn't be as easy to steal as they are, if at all. It can really destroy any plans or ambitions you had to get yourself in a position to start being more independent, to start making GG and upgrading gear. My plan was to do just that, but it was crushed within an hour, TWICE. People may be right that it takes years to get gear and that's fine, I'm all for the grind. I enjoy grinding! I grinded may ass off to get where I was, I want to grind, I want to do bosses!! But, when people constantly steal your greatest asset, and one that you pretty much need if you don't have the gear or a big guild for help you get the gear, you just can't justify playing alone most of the time, because it's no fun at all for reasons stated previously. And I've had plenty of tongs stolen by the way, I like tongs, but bug cave is pillaged to death, if someone steals a tong I have to spend over an hour clearing the cave out for a respawn and I only have so many hours a day to play I work full time and have responsibilities. It's a constant routine of finding pets, pets stolen, finding more pets yawn. You kind of just look at things and say what's the point, you hit a wall, and just stop playing, the wizzy player drop off rate really is down to just that, I'm 100% confident of that, because that's where I'm at right now, and I've spoken to many who say the same. The only thing we have is bosses to try and find gear / make GG, so we can make the step up to go to the recommended zone, to progress further - we cannot hunt in the recommended areas like prasko said without the good pets, or gear and they are all are interlinked. It's just a never ending cycle of getting nowhere and achieving nothing but pure frustration. I have never even been to RDD, I don't even know what it is or how I would access it, most of you live in a bubble where group play is commonplace, if you haven't been around for years most people simply don't have that luxury. I've never even seen 5 x RDD tongs or even 1 for that matter in my entire career, so they can't be that good or sought after. I have never seen one top player in my life running round with a tong or 'RDD Tong' that says it all, again.
It doesn't have to be a drastic change. How about at a bare minimum a 10-zap (I call them zaps) grace period so if you do leave pets unattended and they get stolen you actually have some responsibility for the loss. The issue for me is you can be killing a boss and a top player can just use a tele ring to port in right next to you (after you've spent 20 minutes random teleporting or running to the boss I should add because you cant afford a tele ring), and half the time just steal 1 with 1 hit. I used to play on peaceful mode, I don't need that shit. I'd happily just TT and take my pets with me and go somewhere else, you have the boss. They ain't after the boss though are they, they want easy access to the pets you've grinded hours to get because they know how desperate you are to get them so why should they take 4/5 hours + trying when they can just take them from you, they can hunt with their big expensive kit in the meantime right
. I sound like a broken record but does that seem fair, to anyone? Really? It just isn't, it's game destroying for a lot of players, extremely annoying and quite frankly enough to make that many people quit that it's clearly detrimental to not only to the server, but to the income of the the costs to support the server, because every wizzy that has left because of it, was worth a lot of money, I still had a fair few transactions / subscriptions in me.
