Soo.. ive just had an issue were i had been in a map for a while, someone else came in, some how they managed to get map ownership and then someone else came in and made it impossible for me to grind and demanded that i CC because i wasn't the map owner, even though i had been on that map longer and had came onto that map when it was empty, i just want to know who is in the right and who is in the wrong :S
Technically, you would be in the wrong since there's "hard evidence" that shows that you are not the map owner. So despite what had happened before, if you were there longer, etc., if the mapowner decided to report you, you could be punished for that. The only explanation I can think of is that you went into the map and were grinding without having originally done the ~mapowner command to transfer the map owner-ship to yourself. Therefore, when someone else came in and did it, it was their's to claim. An easy fix for this is to ~mapowner every now and then, or even just put it on as a macro for one of your skills/buffs.
I suppose that makes sense but its really unfair, just because someone claims mapowner they suddenly get the right to boot you even if you were there long before them :/
Map rules have nothing to do with who was there first or who was there the longest. If that was the case, people who afked in a map for days would be able to claim they're being ksed when they wake up after sleeping for eight hours. Mapowner is a system that is designed to ensure that people in a map are actively using it, and it's intended to prevent that sort of map hogging. Anyway mapowner is absolute. Whoever is mapowner has the right to train at the map without being ksed. They also have the right to train at the map without being harassed. If you afk in someone else's map, not saying anything to them, not moving, not attacking, you don't have to cc. But if you do something distracting, like talking, moving around, and, of course, ksing, and they order you to cc, you must comply. The mapowner system is very simple. If the old mapowner has not attacked in the map for three minutes or more, the next character to attack in the map will become the new mapowner. If you had mapowner, you lost it because you failed to attack three minutes from your last attack. Every time you attack, the mapowner timer resets. The only possible way to lose mapowner is if you don't attack for three minutes. This doesn't mean you have to kill a mob or even hit a mob. Even whacking the air counts as an attack in the map. Also, let's say someone smegas free skele map in channel 1. The old mapowner logs off to go to sleep and ten people come to the map to try and get mapowner. They're all attacking, using ~mapowner to see who the new name will be. The INSTANT three minutes are up since the old mapowner's attack, the person who attacks first since those three minutes are over will be the new mapowner. So, like mapowner rules, mapowner transfer is also absolute. You don't have to do ~mapowner to make yourself the new mapowner, either. ~Mapowner only checks who is the mapowner; it has nothing to do with transferring. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions!
