Since you are not catching on, I DID play CF a fair bit, back in the Day. The RP was restricted to high level characters, I will admit that, but once you started to interact with, while ANY level they brought you on board. If you were a rampant PK freak and level sat between 11 and 25, there you sat, with your crappy RP.

This is why Julias and Pico were talking about having RP drive PK. To
get around that issue.

Also your point about Cimar justifies my examples for an area of moderate safety.. almost mininal at times, for new players to grow up in. You could level in Cimar, you could run there to hopefully prevent a gang bang with some luck. Etc.

I have been playing CF on and off for over fifteen years. I went off with the other games because they promised more roleplaying emphasis throughout levels OR because they promised all new areas with all new skills etc. Why do people leave CF? They leave because CF is not rewarding their efforts well enough, which could be a symptom of the need for a more broader brush applied to the game's offerings.

Anything else you want to try manipulate into supporting your point of view? Oh and Gurd was just a flamin' beast. And I disagree with the lack of RP but sadly the RPers tended to Imm. Matrika, Gawinn, etc etc and get fed up with the rest of the players.

I think I have adequately argued my point of view, with respect to all aspects of CF, so this will be my last post on it.

I tried another character with intention of taking advice of Rogue and others, but I can not get into it at all, I hate the idea of competing for gear, for leveling partners, and for worrying about getting skills up. I suck at munchkinism, much to my own chagrin, about as much as I suck at PK. Go figure.

As Bill the cat would say "Ack... thppppppptttt.........wubble."