Capture the Flag question

[sainy_matthew]

Now i'm not that new to DDO, but i've yet to play capture the flag. Mainly because no one is interested in playing it. As such when i saw some one posting a group for CTF or PVP, i thought i would give it a shot. The person who looked like he was incharge seemed obsessed with PVP, but said "sure we'll do CTF in a minute". So i hung around watching him and a couple of others play PVP in the brawling area... now i have nothing against PVP, but the people who become "obsessed" with it, really are the worst sort of gamer.

Eventually i got a little invite message pop up, inviting me to PVP. Now i've not had a chance to run either special PVP or CTF before, but when i quered i pointed out was not interested in PVP, only capture the flag, i was told that CTF came up as PVP on the little quest accept block you use to get you group in Capture the Flag. Is this so or what, because i had a serious belief that the person telling me this was just looking for ahem... "noobs to pwn." Is that how the kids say it these days?

I do have a after the fact screen shot of my little group chat bar, where it comes up as "you have declined the PVP invitation" if you want to see that. It may be nothing, but there are some people who are just so very slimy, that you feel like taking a shower straight after you talk to them... even if it is via the internet. Just got a slimmy feeling from this guy.

[Angelus_dead]

i pointed out was not interested in PVP, only capture the flag
The only CTF in DDO is as part of PVP. CTF, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Dueling, and brawling are all kinds of PVP.

In some other games you can play PVE CTF, but even there it is normally done by means of inserting bots into a PVP session.


i had a serious belief that the person telling me this was just looking for ahem... "noobs to pwn."
Yes, that would be the expected result from playing CTF in a game that wasn't designed for PVP. It can be avoided if you carefully restrict the abilities of the characters you invite, but that would take a lot of work.