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okay people have been saying dude im gonna pop that trade and shiz like that but i dno what popping is.

and people say they can pop lvl 1* trades.

im guessing its something like attacking a mob next to a trade with something like a lightning nuke so the splash goes and pwns the trade? thats as best as i can come up with on my own

lvl33 and you dont know what popping is? popping is when a thief who has goods spawns his npc thieves to attack the 1* traders...thus killing him and you kill the thieves then taking the loot (kinda mean imo...but thas why ima hunter)

use the freaking search button lol

popping 1* = having a thiefsuit with a trade and loot
you will spawn npc thiefs but npc thiefs are programmed to attack hunters then traders then thiefs/ normal players

so basically 1* popping is just letting your npc thiefs attack the trader just because they are programmed to attack them firsts instead of you.

told you before you keep whining about repeating stuff but still you do the same.
my point is then ... practice what you preach.

good luck and enjoy the game.

i searched for it, the search here sucks you get 10,000 topics that dont have anything to do with what youre looking for.

yeah the search is pretty screwed up right now....

done by noobs, enuf said

Done to noobs, more like

Seeing as most people popped are fresh out of jangan and want to earn some quick dough.

dont forget its the most annoying thing done when there are non-jobbers around and we become the main dish

It's darned good fun in my opinion

If you are the thief, have managed to get hold of some fallen trade items, you try to stay with the trader by running alongside him and then hopefully your pack animal will keep pace with the trader's and when the thieves spawn they jump on the trader's animal instead of your's (hopefully).

Then you hope that his animal dies quick so you can kill him and steal his stuff. Or if you are a nice guy you might not kill the trader, but usually your thieves will do this anyway, if you are a few levels higher than the trader.

It's an art and deserves to be applauded

really, they're making millions out of trading at low lvls..

for low lvl his cargo can mean a lot, for high lvl cargo of low lvl means close to nothing as for gold... and since it's more about showing everyone the mighty "I CAN PWN U, SEE?" instead of actually earning some real profit.. it's lame and clasifies the popper as a NOOb. Therefore ur statement is wrong

Popping will be gone..... soon. Well, when Euro comes out? Or is it the 90 cap? I can't remember

it is not always about the I CAN POWN you, it is more about what you find funny or enjoyable in a game, some people find it cool to pvp all day some others find it great to pop 1*
i personally find it lame to use this "bug" but sometimes it is great fun

It's a huge risk on Oasis, as I have heaps of capped botter enemies who love to Hunt me when thieving, and vise versa

Get a bull and 3-4 stars in a thief suit and you're a sitting duck.

Lol.. I miss the days when we'd run around purpling camels and slappin em to death (letting the npcs get the last hit), but nowadays we just end up murdering noob's camels XD

Well said. Besides, what's the challenge in sitting on your horse following a trader waiting for him to die? How can that be fun? I guess 1 star popping thieves are the type of people that enjoy taking candy from babies and hearing their cries? I do enjoy grinding on the popper's thieves, even if I'm in a thief suit myself. They give up after a while.

To me, it's much more fun to hit one of those large caravans and rob the 5 star that is mixed in amongst the several 1 or 2 stars -- and get away with it. Much more challenging and more rewarding.

how else am i able to get any thief fun without popping with ANY lvl 20-80 running around in 1stars?rofl..

Well you could rob multi stars for starters. You can't say they're not out there, because they are. If a thief claims there are no multi stars, that thief isn't doing his/her job right.

im thieving since like 5 weeks on weekend evenings and ive seen ONE multistar
this is on oasis.

You're just not looking in the right places. Maybe you're better at searching than some thieves, but most thieves I've seen complain about no multi stars will just sit at the jangan crossroads or ferries waiting for a multi to come through.

Not again, ffs poping is fun, and yes i PWN YA ALL

But that's besides the point >.>

So, anyway, poping rox, it's a part of the game, can't deal with it? GO CRY ELSEWHERE!!!

Which is why their will always be hunters (like me ) nuking down any thief I see one at a time ^_-

There will no more popping when the new job update comes... if ever it comes

I personally make sure to kill every 1* popper before I start in on my normal hunting rounds. 1* popping is a way of life, but its still kinda shitty to starting out traders.

Damn right oasis needs more multi*

popping is fun, so fun sometimes i try to pop multistars haha.

Did you even read my post? I was implying that 80% of people that I/guildies pop are under level 24.

If there were no poppers, everyone would get rich with 1stars. Works both ways. Traders need something to be afraid of.

oh i read it twice, still u sayin that you get rich with lvl under 24 doing 1*??? rich? like 1 million? or like 100m np? well lol, b/c if u wanna get rich with lvl 24 and less then gl 24/7 trading for several months or years.. wow so fast init

oh, but popping in dr can yield results just as much as in jg.

popping may be a cruel way to have fun, but then again, its fun

you actually enjoy disappointing the new comers by doing such thing?

yes . i enjoy it greatly.