On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jesse wrote:

>
> And what if that person that retired their main character, who got that
> rubicite? Should they just delete that character and lose the rubicite?
> How are they depriving anyone else?

I have no problem with that. But...

> I think it's quite clear that simply twinking a character and CAMPING for
> items to twink another char are quite different.

But these are indistinguishable. Given a symptom that has a
neutral cause and a negative cause, you are going to share in
the misery handed out by those bitter about the negative
cause.

> I had a ranger with two polished granite tomahawks (both ripped from gnoll
> paws before everyone heard about them). I retired this character
> eventually. I don't play my ranger anymore. Should I just throw all this
> away?

I've had friends do the same thing as you. But I daresay,
most twinked characters are secondary (or third, or fourth,
etc) characters made by players who want to build up a
different class/character quickly, with little regard for all
the toes they'll be stepping on on the way.

> Please don't automatically associate all the evils of camping rares to
> twink newbies with simply twinking.

The alternative is to ignore the evils. Rock and hard place.
Most people choose to shoot the occasional innocent rather
than let the bad guy get away with it.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...