Posted by Helpless Baby on December 26, 2000 at 06:01:09:
In Reply to: Re: The ethics of player killing... posted by Proud Black(VIP) on December 25, 2000 at 04:22:50:
> > Given all the talk of killing going on lately, as in the last few hours, here are some thoughts I've been pondering. > > How realistic is it to full loot after PK? What does it say about the =player= who does this, i.e. not their character? Esp. if they loot/sac? > It says bad about the player. But so far I've been full looted most of the times I get killed so I just pay back. > > To me it just seems a bit harsh. Suppose I'm an Imperial and kill some goodie with a bunch of good-only gear. Clearly I can't use any of it, nor can any of my cabal-mates, since they're all evil. I could possibly trade it, but at the hero level that doesn't tend to happen very often. What to do? > What to do? How can you even ask it when you talk about imperials? Donate for the glory of your sect of course. I don't know about other cabals but for imperials it's perfectly clear what to do with good-only things. > > Obviously taking items I plan to wear is perfectly fine. So if I'm wearing a pitch black ring and he has one with a single sapphire, then it's fair game. Or, if he has a granite and I'm a mage, it's still fair game since some Blade Sect could use it. > > But what about other stuff? Say he has amethyst rings. Yes, these are usable by evils, but they're also fairly easy to get. What's the point of taking them? Just makes the guy waste that much more time having to re-equip. Or maybe he has a gleaming white sword? Not usable in the slightest, but most people will take it anyway, just to put the victim out of commission for a longer period of time. > Amethyst rings cost 20,000. They make fine donations. Don't know about gleaming white sword. I'll tell you how good it is for donation if/when I kill you. > > To me this is just lame. CF may be about killing others for their gear, subject to the boundaries of RP, but in my mind, it certainly isn't about killing people just destroy all their gear. And, lest this seem one-sided, good-aligned characters are just as bad about doing this if not worse. > > Does anyone remotely agree, or am I just too "kind" for my own good? > You just lack the means to full loot. I know the feel when you kill a giant and can't get a shit from the corpse. Make someone with big strength or walk with a merc :)