PK Rant

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Look, one of the arguments against PKing was that some of the PKers resorted to dirty tricks like waypoint trapping or cast-hydra/tp-to-town-and-hostile, with which they could kill people without running any risk whatsoever.

Now, this is indeed lame and it's certainly something Blizzo could improve on.

So, if dirty PKing tricks are removed from the game and PKers are forced to play fair, that leaves anti-PKers with *only one* argument: that they have the right to play the game without being bothered by other people. An argument which I can refute by saying exactly the same thing: if some one is bothering me in game, I also have the right to kick him out, by force if necessary.

You see, there are always two sides to the story. Democracy is also a fine principle but in practice it's the guns that rule.

Now, as designer, you can either make your game a faerie tale and eliminate PKing OR you allow unilateral player agression, like in the real world. Blizzo chose the latter, but know this: it wasn't an easy decision. Inside Blizzo there's about as many pro-PKers as anti-PKers. (This was known during the Max/Sirian debate.)

I like unilateral aggression for various reasons. I can assure you in the faerie tale world, I'd be done with D2 in 4 weeks... :)