>1) Players don't know (and we'll never tell them) how many
>charges someone is worth, at which point they're going to go
>fishing with nets anyway.

This is a good point. This change would only be effective at deincentivizing the killing of scrubs if the killer is able to tell who's a scrub and who isn't.

>2) This is still abusable. It probably wouldn't happen often,
>but it would happen

Not the way I had in mind. I wouldn't tie the amount of edge points to the # of charges. If the threshold were "1" then killing a 1-charge guy would get you as many points as killing a 15-charge guy.

Technically, yes, some player worth 1+ charges could suicide on another player in order to give that guy edge points. But that was already possible under the system that was just scrapped. Not awarding points for multi-kills would also make it trickier. The player trying to suicide would need to make sure his deaths are interleaved w/ other kills or they'd end up not "counting".

>Again, I just don't care enough to do this. It would require
>a lot of refactoring to do this, all for a feature I don't
>think has much value. If I really wanted to make EPs for PKs
>work, this would obviously be a good idea though.

Isn't this already in effect for AP charges? That is, you can't get charges for killing someone who you just killed? For some reason I thought that was the case.

>It's actually not ganging that worries me.

Me neither. But I figured I'd throw it in there just to further deincentivize ganging.