First off, I just want to say: CF isn't all about PKing.
Second off, I was beating ass before I got my Nightmare form, before I was leader. And I beat ass with or without the scepter. (Read with or without despoil/nightwalker.)
I did not have despoil up 24/7
I did no have barrier up 24/7
Hell, I even spent A LOT of times running around killing people using no wands at all, with or without despoil.
I used my despoil items for tough fights, such as wading into a defense 1vs4, or attacking those 4 Marans moving down the eastern road, or soloraiding ANY cabal with defenders.
With such a powerful characterbuild that Zameida was in the end, the hard part is to get people to still fight you. Sure, I could've used despoil and ABS 24/7, but then NONE, absolutely NONE would fight me. So, what I did was pushing the edge on what I could manage.
Ask Tiarhelle, I moved in to retrieve against a berserker commander without more protection than shield and stoneskin. (Not sure if I had a decent despoil up or not.) I did it to make him stay for longer than 2 rounds in combat, so that I could kill him, it ended up with my own death. A bit later, with the same protections it got him killed.
I judge other characters on how I play my own characters. I've never 100% refused to fight any other character. I at least show up, give it a round of combat or two.
And about having fun, Zameida was so much fun because of the RP. Not the PKing. The PKing was a part of the RP, and sometimes in lack of people to RP with, means to get time to pass. I can't say that I find it very exciting to trample down a sleeping lvl 42 gnome shifter. Zameida did die quite a few times, I was down to 8 con in the end, after having taken the new vitality edge. And I died not only to gangs, but I think most of her deaths were in 1vs1 fights, just because I did skip using all protections availible to me.
Why wouldn't anyone thank the imms? They've built this game that so many of us love and spend so much time in. In my entire time on CF I've only personally had 1 semi-bad experience with imms. And that includes the multiple times I've been in ROTD for cheating (Yeah, I've spent my fair share of time there, both 12 years ago and 5-7 years ago.)
And, as I mentioned... I had A LOT of great interactions with different imms over the course of Zameida's life.
I don't think that she was overrewarded in any way, Arrna was waaaay heavier rewarded, as were Fjodir (Due to getting his unholy back twice.)
If I'm not mistaken these are Zameida's rewards:
Lastname (Not sure when, maybe 100ish hours?)
Cabal edge (Not sure here either 150ish hours?, and can't remember why? runner up?)
Leader (250-300ish hours?)
Cabal edge (350ish hours?)
Quest form (Can't remember here, 500 or 600ish hours?)
Title (No idea when.)
7500imm xp (Yeah, that's a lot.)
Over the course of 710+ consistent RPed hours I don't think that's overrewarded.
Now, how many of your chars did I kill now again? And how many times? I know that Fjodir sure killed a few of your chars, more than once. Pre-barrier. ^^ Hahahahahahaha
It was good that you brought these things up, it's things that I didn't think of mentioning in my goodbye thread. So, there you have it folks.