I rolled up a healer 1 time, knowing there was going to be a hell trip. It's the closest to cheating I have ever come in CF other than passing a shamans robe like 11 years or more ago. (who hasn't been caught passing a shaman robe? really?)
I was never banned. I never went out and participated in pk with anyone else that had planned to go to hell. Not at all. And in truth, since I was just doing some hell exploring, I didn't see the bad in it.
Of course its ok to game with your friends. Nothing wrong with playing a imperial cause a buddy is. The problem is when you start treating his character different than you would treat any other character in game, or when you knowing each other begins creating unfair advantages, or when you start hindering the fun of other people playing. Thats straight from the rules.
So while I dodged pk and in general kept to myself other than some hell wandering, I did not think about the fact that us knowing each other, gathering hell armor that would have been much more difficult if he didnt know each other at all, and bringing it to the surface would create an "unfair advantage". Obviously having all that armor is an advantage and I just failed to see the real harm for the game in that. .I failed to realize that having all this gear that we got created a HUGE unfair advantage, and I can relate with people that were irritated by that.
I was NOT banned for this. I got a talking to by Twist, and told I disapointed him. I deleted because I was ashamed and embarrassed and should have known better. (also, people had outted me at that time, killed the mystery of the satan empowered healer)
I did organize about 10 more hell trips in game, in character, by the books, with several of my next imperial heros and made it to satan and downed archdevils and pit fiends just fine. And these trips were monitored by the staff very closely after that incident I am sure.
So yeah, game with your friends, everyone does. Just make sure you know where that line in the sand is, and you don't cross it.
Edited to add, the incident you were speaking about wasn't me or my healer :P That was a different AP and Invoker entirely, and a different cabal entirely. My healer was a scion, that happened in Empire right?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/2012 08:58PM by Gaplemo.