Achernar wrote:
I completely agree that there are often more factors involved than what the pk-ee sees. I also belive that the rules state that your intended victim need to be aware that they are in danger. So, basically, as I said in my previous post, you're putting yourself at risk of being punished when you initiate playerkilling without inititiating RP with the victim before hand. Assassinations could very well be against the rules, but in the end it all comes back to how its handled by the one doing the assassination and how the one being assassinated sees the effort. If I don't get a log about it, I'll assume the kill was of satisfactory quality. If I get a log, its likely I'll end up having a chat with the person who initiated playerkilling without roleplay. I've done so quite recently and did not need to penalize anyone. I did so last week and instead of penalizing the one who initiated an attack without prior role play, I watched it play out and rewarded the one that was attacked. There's not really a chance to mark a line in the sand and say after this point you will be punished. I can outline the bare minimum that is expected and warn that doing less is likely to end up unfavorably.
I had a log of the entire events that took place if you ever want to see what caused me to bring up the who list topic to begin with, not that it matters much now since he deleted, but so you can see my problem with what happened.