On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

>
> One thing I always thought was strange. Why didn't Verant make corpse
> dragging dependent on a different permission than looting? Adding a /drag
> permission to the game wouldn't be all that difficult, then they could
> enable people to drag a corpse without being able to loot it. If that's too

They excuse they gave on the official website discussion forum
is that they don't want to do too much that'll free us from
having to trust other players.

> Add in a penalty that every item you loot off a PC corpse that you do not
> have consent to gives you a major faction hit to that players race and
> class. This lets such things have in game consequences. To further prevent
> 'mule' abuses, make some percentage of these faction modifications carry
> over to the characters station id so that every character they play would
> share in the responsibility for these anti-social actions.

Well, now you're getting into another hot topic of mine. I
think eventually anonymity in these virtual worlds is going to
have to take a back seat to maintaining a player-friendly
atmosphere.

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John H. Kim
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