Kill characters, but treat players with respect. If you are a douche (and a lot of you are), you're likely to convince the player to log off or delete. A small playerbase isn't fun.

All this talk about playing to "win" and roleplay is ridiculous. The players who make the biggest differences in cabal wars are the ones everyone treats with respect and doesn't grief. It doesn't take anything to disrespect a nobody who you can dominate. But that's what everybody does. I'd like to see less griefing noobs, and more griefing vets, then the roleplaying arguement might hold weight.

Have you not played for very long?

When I first started playing it was the norm that I get summon/ganked by groups of 3+ and full looted to the pies.

EDIT: To add, it's possible they weren't actually saccing all my stuff but dropping it somewhere. I didn't know my way around and by the time I got to my corpse everything was gone. So it felt like a full-loot/sac either way.

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Sportsmanship is good. However, people should not EXPECT their enemy to stand over their body and guard their things. Nor should they expect to receive the GIFT of their stuff back. Both are nice, of course, but it shouldn't be such a given that people complain when it doesn't happen.

I don't think hating someone enough to kill them warrants destroying all their crap either. They are dead. That is enough for most of my characters' RP usually.

>Have you not played for very long?
>
>When I first started playing it was the norm that I get
>summon/ganked by groups of 3+ and full looted to the pies.
>
>EDIT: To add, it's possible they weren't actually saccing all
>my stuff but dropping it somewhere. I didn't know my way
>around and by the time I got to my corpse everything was gone.
>So it felt like a full-loot/sac either way.
>

Nope, they were definitely saccing it. After all, why wouldn't you leave someone you just killed totally naked? Dropping it someplace isn't much more difficult than hitting sac 1. on it after you drop it.

I was always wearing aldevari stuff heh. I thought the shield there was the best (because I didn't have lore/identify).

I've played for about 15 years or so. I don't remember if it was maple.can or one server before or after that, but it wasn't carrionfields.something. There were arbiters, masters and such. So I haven't played since the beginning, but I've played for a long time.

Full looting used to be the norm, but I never experienced routine full saccing. Usually if your corpse was empty they'd either tell you or you could ask where the stuff they don't want is and you could go get it. Or they'd just say they took it all. Either way, it didn't seem like they were usually saccing everything you couldn't use. But maybe there was a time before I started playing that full-saccing really was the norm. I suppose I shouldn't say "never" when I didn't play from the very first minute the game came up.

Maybe I started at a time there just happened to be a crop of douche bags roaming.