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This could be true, but let's take your example of having only a limited number of some eq in the game. For instance, a really cool sword.
The sword is put in, and let's say that someone manages to grab two of them from the outset, not necessarily uncommon. This is fine, until some random newbie who's never played the game before, stumbles upon this guy's corpse, loots the sword, and goes on a power-levelling trip.
Once again, not a big deal. But said newbie starts getting big, and realizes that this sword is a really good piece of eq, and although it's not necessarily any cooler than say the really good dagger for the thieves and the really cool wand for the mages, it's still very valuable.
So he singlemindedly kills every player in the game who has said sword, and hoards them all onto a carrier char which never logs on again.
Seeing the problem? I've actually seen it happen before; one guy who was very powerful from hours upon hours of character building, collected every valuable and hard-to-get piece of eq in the game, and then disappeared for 6 months. It can be a serious issue, and that particular rule/code especially has, in my experience, caused more problems than any other individual one.
-Visko
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