>Accepting that people will be gunning for orcs is fine, but
>do it with some damn class and don't just jump people you've
>never interacted with for lolz and gear.

This is a PK mud very often the first interactions you will have with enemy characters is going to be a fight. To me this has always made sense. Enemies often fight; they don't often sit down for a nice chat. For friendly RP find some IC friends.

A couple things to keep in mind about CF

1) This is PK mud; generally speaking the people playing want to PK each other.

2) Along with number 1, it is often very valid RP for a character to engage in PK.

For example if you are playing a Maran type good character ALL evil characters will be free game in terms of killing. This isn't bad RP, the goal of a Maran is to eradicate evil, and killing is just a method. Similarly if you are playing a Battle Rager all mages, nexus, scions, and Imperials are going to be open for killing.

It is hard to make a character in CF that doesn't have a substantial list of "natural" enemies, the game is designed this way. Further, much of the RP within CF has a basis around these conflicts.


>There are -plenty- of
>NPC orcs and goblins out there to vent orc-rage on. I think
>it's perfectly fair to put the onus on presumably mature
>existing players to adjust the way they engage in PK in an RP
>game.

If you are repeatedly killed by the same character during the same login then in my opinion that person is being a pretty poor sport. Unfortunately, I've never played any online game that didn't have its share of poor sports.

With that said this is a competitive game. Most of the people playing enjoy the excitement of PK win or lose; killing NPC's isn't a substitute for that.

>If a guy and another guy want to establish a
>you-jump-me, I-jump-you relationship, that's one thing - but
>to put the screws to new players and total strangers with ZERO
>roleplay speaks to a undisciplined playerbase.

I think what you might be missing is that all of a characters actions constitute their RP PKing included. There is no reason to think that PKing your orc was bad RP for the other player(s).