To double down on my previous comment, if you’d rather hear less about what people are doing during their voluntary breaks, stop making breaks voluntary.
On our 3 hour nights starting at 8pm we do 5mins at 9pm and 5 at 10pm. Outside of that people really do just kinda leave during trash. No one worries about it unless somehow it causes problems.
If you have a schedule and people are going to work outside of the rules, they’re much less likely to announce they’re doing it.
Outside of that, if someone saying they’re smoking is annoying you, they probably annoy you for other reasons. Leave the group or get over it.
If they gotta take a smoke break, let them.
It’s not like you’re going to contract in-game secondhand smoke.
At least they’re telling us why they’re going afk, rather than leaving us without warning. As long as we get the job done and it doesn’t cause any particular problem, then I’m fine with it.
Well in reality they do… I developed a web based app to work on their smart phones so they can check in and out on the job… Construction still has a tendency to use paper sheets, but I wanted more detailed information… It is basically two drop downs and a click.
a kid.
a pet.
anything I don’t like.
anything I do like, but don’t have.
anything anywhere I just want to have something to be offended about.
Extra breaks are a nogo, but what you do on your time is your choice. If they’re not going to be within readycheck range, I’d prefer to know that X people are AFK.
and pee, and get tacos, and hookers, and blackjack… wait, I just went full bender… never go full bender… so just pee and tacos on that smoke break.
Only really bothers me if it’s unnecessarily frequent. More than one or two breaks in the span of a 2-4 hour raid, and I start getting salty about it.
As for the habit, doesn’t really matter to me. It’s not really that different from someone feeling entitled to extra breaks because they willfully chose to get married. Or willfully chose to have a child. Or willfully chose to have the cops show up at their house. Or willfully chose to be arrested for possession of narcotics. Or… well, you get the idea.
i usually smoke a cigarette once an hour or so. but when i was leading the raid i would smoke every hour and a half to two hours. no more than two cigarettes per raid.
we had a tank who would get into a new group and then afk to smoke randomly. was quite annoying. -.- and i mean as into a mythic dungeon with random people he’d go smoke. >_>
I’ll never understand why people do it, even knowing how hazardous it is. You may not care about living a long time, but do you really want to wind up all wrinkled and coughing all day - before you even reach 50 - until death mercifully comes for you?