Unless I have missed something (bar his post being a little hard to follow in places), can Dekade's post be restored? I do not know the reason for its deletion, but when I read it I saw nothing offensive about it, just an in-depth account of how he felt about this proposal. I am not giving any names, but I do feel that the forum moderators can be a little overzealous sometimes.
For my own take on PKing, most of my fears are psychological rather than from any actual incidents. I am a little more cagey and cautious now when I travel around, logging off unnecessary crits when fighting the Elder Treant and Genevieve, for example, and not sticking around the forests for very long. Personally, I find that other players seem to like me and know that I am not a troublemaker, and therefore do not bother me; similarly, I stay out of their way unless invited to tag along; if I run into someone on the way to a boss and there is not much in the way of a truce, I usually let them go ahead and not raise an issue about it - I will just try again another day. Though I am not a fan of PKing myself, the simple presence of PKing seems to put a lot more emphasis on a player's reputation with the rest of the playerbase. Respect goes both ways, and a long way.
Do not abandon a server just because of its PK status. Even before it was originally disabled, the multi-alt server had a very different society to the 1-alt server, mainly because being a solitary player on the multi-alt server, like I am, is a viable option, whereas on 1-alt you have to be in a big clan and, in a sense, sacrifice your individuality and personal needs in order to climb the ranks effectively. With areas like the Soft Places (Shifting Sands) and the Dvergar Stronghold, ones that generally require at least two very powerful players to complete, there is an incentive to team up on multi-alt, but it is not compulsory. In fact, I am pretty sure that there is at least one drop from Resca that has not appeared in-game yet, and team-players will be the first to discover what it is; to prove my point, what is this picture of?
EDIT: Grammar.
Edited by Crane, 22 January 2009 - 04:07 AM.