At 04:05 PM 9/8/00 -0700, you wrote:

>There's many ways to deal with that, from involved quests to simply
>having a waiting period, like 10 days, before the change in status goes
>active.

And again, the problem here being people who create PK mules, kill off
newbies, log out for ten days, change status, etc. etc. etc.
No - there really is no solution because in order to mimic society, there
have to be social restraints - since people don't feel they "have" to
behave online, those social restraints are missing.
Thus, either we have grief-pk'rs waiting to exploit the system, or a
totally non-pvp scenario, which has the feeling of "plasticity", or
non-reality.

I had actually come up with an idea on it, but it also occurs to me that
we've spent an awful long time on this offtopic discussion. I suggest that
those of us dedicated to some form of "PVP" ideas congregate on the
Horizon's message boards (which David DOES read), and leave the ideas.

Talies the Wanderer