Oldwin

How about, something that would activate, when the holder died? Something like a handgrenade, equiped on the character, and when that character died, all crits on the square die as well? Would be a nice anti-PK device... (and hopefully, not used in a mosh.... LOL). As it is now, a large party of thiefs/druids/mages, can run around invis, and clean up anything they come across, while others are training. Granted, it would kill everyone on the square (including your other crits), but, it would remove the attackers as well (perhaps, a no item drop death, or no gold, to prevent 1 random person from walking in and picking up 200 lode's or pots.... lol)

I know this will get ridiculed, but, I think NM is a nearly dead horse... Anyone actually stopped to compare some of the total user infp from now, and back say, 1-2 years ago? On a NORMAL Online game, the numbers would have doubled since then till now... NM is not at like 40% the player volume, that is was just 1 year ago... (I know, I've been gone for a year, and just getting returning). I gave my crits to someone before I left, not knowing for sure if I would actually play again. Now that I HAVE returned, I see WHY I left... and things seem to have only gotten worse.. It seems, almost all of the more recent 'improvements' to the game, are actually focused AGAINST new players... that is exactly the opposite, of the way a game should be run...... it should be encouraging new players to play, not making it nearly impossible to learn, and play. It just seems, that all the 'main' players in NM, are turning into the equivelant of 'gray old men' sitting around a campfire..... Maybe its just my opinion... Players have to leave the game from time to time, its a fact of life, if you don't reacquire new players to take their place, you lose the total player base... Like right now, 9:40PM (Eastern US time), at this time of day, 1 year ago, there would be 70-100 'players' online... there are 81 characters online, (36 users) at this moment....
I know there are a lot of the older players, who will swear up and down against that... Heck, even a couple of the more recent changes, are driven to the exact opposite of atracting new players (like the 10 level difference attack range..... come one, 10 level 20 alts, stand absolutely 0 chance, against 1 arch..... come on..). But, ehh, o well. Even the mention of a post like this, will probably get deleted within a couple hours..... lol