Shattered Kingdoms

Hel-lo, you're leaving the newbie over a plat's worth of EQ on the floor. I've started a few trash alts in taslamar, and I have to say that that would've been much more fun with free stuff.

Yeah, I so missed this topic. Anyway, I designed the area so that ONLY the leveling area is newb only. I wanted any level character to be able to walk in and help newbies just like they can in Nerina. I thought that this design was optimal for new characters because when people get the announcement that a newbie has entered there, they can meet up with them. This is a double edged sword really. Jardek is right, he is leaving free eq for newbies, he isn't hurting a newbie, he is not there to harass them and their respawn times are REALLY fast. I think that this should be a base by base situation. If someone is harassing newbies then they will be punished since it is a newb area. Until then I don’t really have an issue with the mentors being killed, they are in Nerina after all. If someone goes there to screw with low level characters then you may refer to the severe newbie harassment rules.

I find the problems exploiting a game mechanic that was intended for the benefit of respawning NPCs for newbies to kill. Unless I have competely misterunderstood why there are quick respawn rates in exactly newbie areas.

I don't know if the respawn rate can be changed on those specific NPCs or not (it's probably area-specific), but I honestly don't think it's that much of a problem.

As long as newbies aren't being bothered, I think it's fine.

if I was new to this mud and would create my first character to see someone killing the healing or teaching NPC i thought to be there to only assist me getting on in the game i would likely think i had found my way to a hack n slash mud. But thats just me