Shattered Kingdoms

The guy infront of whoever is being attacked would still be able to just rescue him and then be included in the combat, and if whoever was behind him is wielding a reaching weapon, naturally he would still be fighting whoever started to hit him in the first place. (Also this wouldn't break sanc, whereas him typing kill xxx would)

One issue I can see however, is that in fast paced pvp, which undoubtedly most pvp still would be, alot of "bad rp" would naturally arise. I am thinking in the case of fighting people with obscure adjectives, or lawmobs/charmies with obscure names. Take for instance CoN lawmobs (no this isn't a whine about them, just using them as a random example)... they're called Losquez, Ghazzaz and Aposomething obscure that I can in no way remember nor ever will probably.

Meaning that in a stressful situation, me attepting to spell apoopinmypants in a gtell instruction, would result in a bunch of people not being able to target it. Because of this, I would of course be inclined to gtell Everyone strike Apo! or Attack apo! This would be a slippery slope on the path of gtelling attack cross-e or attack limp, attack brown-h to give people the shortest easiest instructions available.

I am not saying I am naturally opposed to this, seeing as a gtell "channel" during massive group pk isn't where I'd expect to find "leet" rp, but it should still be considered imo.

Here's an idea coming from the opposite direction, but might just create the effect that is desired. Instead of removing auto assist, it would work differently. F1 would auto attack F3 in the opposite group, F2 would auto attack F2 and F3 would auto attack F1. The middle and back rows would be similarly distributed. This would disperse that initial burst of damage across several party members. If you wanted to focus firepower, you'd have to do something to manually switch your attacks after starting melee.

Here's an idea coming from the opposite direction, but might just create the effect that is desired. Instead of removing auto assist, it would work differently. F1 would auto attack F3 in the opposite group, F2 would auto attack F2 and F3 would auto attack F1. The middle and back rows would be similarly distributed. This would disperse that initial burst of damage across several party members. If you wanted to focus firepower, you'd have to do something to manually switch your attacks after starting melee.

Here's an idea coming from the opposite direction, but might just create the effect that is desired. Instead of removing auto assist, it would work differently. F1 would auto attack F3 in the opposite group, F2 would auto attack F2 and F3 would auto attack F1. The middle and back rows would be similarly distributed. This would disperse that initial burst of damage across several party members. If you wanted to focus firepower, you'd have to do something to manually switch your attacks after starting melee.