Rubber-stamped PC Death request tracker

The RPT was almost two weeks ago. We're talking about this week. Pay attention.

qwerty: "you guys need evidence before you discuss or accuse anyone of anything!!!"

players: "ok, well that's kind of hard because we get in trouble for talking about this stuff and you have access to everything. can you check the complaints?"

qwerty: "ummmmmmm no i'm not spending the time doing that."

players: "ok well can you just send them to us and we'll look?"

qwerty: "no you have to get your own evidence"

players: "fine, we'll gather our own. *posts thread*"

qwerty: "wow what a goblin loser"

I pledge... to serve and protect... those who are unable to hold their own... against tyrants

I suggest we rename ourselves to:

Tyrannical Armageddon Revenge Defensive Squadron

Or ... TARDS

There are three main ways that staff kill you:

1) Apathy. There are serious abuses going on, usually by other players, and staff does not care or create an environment, pro-actively, where such abuse is less possible. Sometimes there are favorites involved. Certain nobles, templars, and sorcs in the past have gotten away with slaughtering people, where if someone who wasn't friends with them had tried it, would've gotten themselves deleted. Also, sometimes the staffer in charge of a clan just loses interest in it, and let's it get killed off, or actively looks the other way when others are hammering at it. This is by far the most common way that staff have been responsible for death.

2) Because They're Lazy Idiots Who Don't Know The Combat Mechanics Of The Game They're Staffing. There have been a ton of staff who have no real idea how their own game works. They run an RPT, and then load up a dozen NPCs and throw in a mul with master polearms and maxed offense. They have no realistic idea of just how insanely overpowered such NPCs are. Perhaps because the staffer mostly played gickers. But the mundane NPCs will have batshit stats would take a twink player like 80 days playtime to even begin to approach. Sometimes this is deliberate. I had Nergal drop a gortok on me with maxed offense, and which grievous'd me through the best armor possible. But I still killed it one blow later cause it was a gortok.

3) They deliberately set out to kill you. Animating, or sometimes even specifically creating characters with which to hunt you. Fortunately, in my experience, most staff sucked horribly at PvP. I believe Nyr, Adhira and one or two others once made raiders to attack the Salarr (over some bullshit). We brutalized them in the one or two encounters. Sadly, since we had too much fun at it, Nyr petulantly decided that the VNPCs were having better luck against Salarr than they were against the PCs, and increased all the prices of Salarr merchandise to represent it.

Still, imagine some basically clueless staffer that got there because they played the best tressy-tressed cocksucker for years, trying to engage in PvP. But really, #3 is a best case scenario, and even #2 is mostly more your fault for going to the RPT than their's. I was essentially fine with #2 and #3 deaths (albeit, even though I died in several stupid ways, I was never stupid enough to die from #2 or #3). The main way staff killed people off was via #1.

Silly Bonus Way: 

4) They try to force really bad advice on you. One of the Salarr staffers, whose name I forget (O-something...I can't be bothered to look up my previous recitation of this event), once animated an NPC Salarri captain to berate me that I was wearing kuraci camos instead of Salarr armor. I asked him what Salarr armor he was talking about, and he decided on the spot that the worthless, heavy (and less protective) tembo hide armor should be worn by Salarri hunters to advertise Salarr products. I told him to get fucked (which was the most ICly appropriate response) and everyone else in the clan was behind me, it went nowhere, and we all kept wearing kuracis. He did however put a completely bitchy hidden note on my account (which Adhira showed me accidentally, years later) that totally lacked context. 

Lots of people get killed trying to please staffers. And no one was ever earned karma from it. They just laugh about it.