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Old 10-06-2002, 03:10 PM   #10
shadowfyr
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Where I play you have to specifically set yourself to be PK and only about 5% of the players do. Then again you do get someone who goes completely bonkers once in a while and starts killing people randomly or some newbie that doesn't feel like reading anything before attacking someone/thing. There is also a no-death arena (well.... no-death unless the injury is so great it causes the code to bug, but that generally only happens when some mortal challanges a wiz and they decide it would be funny to accept) and one full PK area that involves defending a much prized tower.

In general though you have a sort of catch-22. If you make it illegal except when a registered PK or under other specific situations then you have to enforce the rules and even nuke those players that go on a killing spree. But without limits it is hard to play without constantly worrying some clown is going to attack you and steal all your eq. This is one reason I don't play the sort of 'always active' graphics based games (the other reason being money). On them there have been cases of large groups of new players signing in, just to hunt down and kill as many large players as possible. Thankfully this is not a concern with muds and recovering from disaster is not a major problem. Though on ones that run a 'if you are dead, start over' system....
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