Random thoughts and comments

It's really a shame you can't direct-quote a line from staff to make a point because they may have used a word that violates Proboards' ToS because some basement-dwelling neckbeard is waiting to pounce on it like a big bag of cheetos to report it in the hopes of getting the boards shut down.

That, or everyone's dead.

Got banned for killing a newbie. Discuss.

I'm guessing there's probably more to it than "spotless player killed one newbie and was instantly banned."

You're right. Technically it was my second newbie.

I followed all the protocols .. I wished up, well in advance, on both. The first was a prostitute I lured into a dwarven tenement and murdered. The dwarven shopkeeper NPC told the Templars who then arrested me. Half His Arm turned out for the murder of an unaffiliated whore.

The second was an elven thief who spam-robbed me in Luir's. He failed and got dragged off to the jail. I looked in my inventory and noticed a bunch of stuff gone. Can I get my stuff back from that thief you just hauled off? Nope. Can I bribe a guard to let me into the cell to maim him? Nope. So I punched the half-elf stablehand in the face, got arrested for it, and went in the cell and beat the elf unconscious. Consent to maim? Nope. So I emoted that I brutally kicked his unconscious form after I took my stuff back. He emoted something about being undamaged because of his elven superiority. What? So annoyed by the poor RP, I killed him. (After wishing up that I was about to kill him.) They then wished down to complain about it being a newbie and said I was "power emoting" about kicking him on the ground. Really? Was he going to resist being kicked while he's unconscious?

I then said that, if at any point during the 20 minute ordeal where I'd wished up my intentions at least 4 times you'd said it was a newbie, I'd have abandoned that. There's no newbie flag. Only they know who is a newbie unless the person just ABSOLUTELY sucks at rp. So what exactly is wishing up prior to a PK about anyway?

I learned everything I needed about their attitude towards death when they let elves kill me in the mul outpost by shooting arrows into the building, restored a gick from the dead after me and a buddy killed him, and then threatened me for killing too many people when I was the Face of the Guild, you know, the Guild. That shadowy league of assassins who gets paid to kill people.

A good portion of the playerbase I enjoyed playing with. Didn't really know any of them outside of their characters. They could have been someone I couldn't stand on the forum but if they played their character OK, I was fine with it. But my interactions with the majority of staff just continued to go downhill the longer I played. In all my characters, I really only ever had one I considered great (Butcher Brons). That whole story arc really went well, I thought. I received a lot of kudos for him and enjoyed the play. But I never really could recapture that magic. As far as I'm concerned, there's no game there unless you're in the Guild and actively pursuing plots.

Who knew? I mean, they laid out the rules and I followed them. In one PK report you got an imm saying, "it's all cool, this is great" and then later you've got a different imm complaining about the very same thing.

I accidentally killed several people with sap. Wasn't my intention. I asked what could I do to maybe mitigate that. I got one response which said, "maybe just emote that you sapped them." Really? I had no idea that might work. I'll try that next time on the sergeant of His Arm and let you know how it goes. Another response said, "sometimes when you hit someone in the head with a big stone hammer, they die." Well, clearly that is correct. But then 2 years later I get complaints about how all of staff was watching in horror at how many people I accidentally killed. What?

It's like dealing with a dozen psychotic parents who don't communicate with each other. For one action you get rewarded, then later you get punished. It's really no wonder the majority of the playerbase sits in the bar and does mudsex rather than actually take any risks. Even if you survive the risk you took, you won't survive the blowback from staff.

I feel like I owe this board an apology. I saw all the horror stories and thought, "wow, what a bunch of malcontents. I'm sure that won't happen to me." And I then just avoided the complaints and searched for the useful information. Now I see that it's really going to happen to anyone who gets outside the ever-shrinking box the staff at Armageddon is drawing. Or who, you know, murders, betrays, and corrupts.