Shattered Kingdoms

Thead necro because the previous page in particular is the heart of a current discussion taking place elsewhere.

Although I don't mind other players weighing in, I'd like to have some immortal (or coder) perspective on this: with the understanding that it is an out-of-character action compensating for bugged NPCs / items, is it still considered an offense for lighties to kill lightie NPCs that have either not been flagged correctly, or when a requested item is blown up, which results in the item not respawning correctly?

Dude I watched lighties IC butcher and sell other lightie NPC's loot on a regular basis. It is ok so long as you don't get caught. Seriously.

You just got done saying you're forum trolling and you have no stake in the game. Apparently, integrity is not your thing. But hey, if you like being a liar IRL, more power to you, loser.

Any item that appears to be contrary to your character's IC persona can be penalized at any time by an administrator. Killing a fellow light-aura for gear falls under this, regardless of whether it is a PC or NPC. If you see other people do this, you should report them. If the NPC in question is flagged incorrectly, you should typo log it.

Fair enough. Thanks for the speedy response.


EDIT: I have to admit, I'm a little surprised at the heavy-handed response, as I would have expected a little bit of grace where typos are at play. But that's a risk you take when you ask the question.

What about slaughtering your allies as a grey aura in order to farm coin? I have seen both of these things done in the past.
There has been a lot of questionable things, I have seen very little of it punished so I have to wonder if it's valid or not. Gold farming seems to supercede IC conduct also.

I do have a vested interest in fairness and equality so that everyone can have fun.

There have been other times that I have pointed stuff out that it seemed to work, so I will continue to do that. If I see some sense of fairness and fun infused into the game I may have a more vested interest in devoting my time into it.

Whether or not you should kill grey auras as a light-aura character isn't black or white. (Go figure.) There may be some justifications depending on whether you are principled or scrupulous, the alignment of the grey-aura character and what types of activities they are engaged in. But in general, light-auras should not be killing grey-auras. I would expect light-auras to be requesting from light-auras, looting dark-auras, and only obtaining grey-aura items if they were purchased from a shop.

That's a pretty dumb restriction on items.

Light-aura characters should not be penalized just because you introduced a requesting mechanic to the MUD.

Except that request wasn't added as a restriction, it was added as a bonus.

Without request, there would be no way for a lightie to get EQ from lightie NPCs unless they got it through PKing darkies.