It isn't an explore area thing. Those sorts of checks were placed at a number of areas in order to keep people from abusing ghost status to gather equipment, explore, etc.

So it isn't trivial to keep track of:
This effect could either disappear when the ghost leaves the explore area

and this could be abused:
or it could be permanent, i.e. entering an explore area as a ghost instantly rematerializes you.

At least now, if you kill someone off, you're guaranteed a bit of time before you have to deal with them again.

Unfortunately, we have a certain number of players who see cheating only as a risk/reward problem, so we have to code from this angle.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com