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PK-ready flag
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Haha, that is a great snippet.
For me, the difference between this (a PK flag of some kind) and the existing PK rules is similar to the difference between arranged and spontaneous roleplay. Sure, someone could contact me OOCly and we can arrange a fight or start an official rivalry or just make sure both sides are okay with everything. But it's not practical to do that constantly, and having everything be pre-announced and accepted beforehand largely removes any element of suspense or surprise. A flag like this would allow for spontaneous conflicts that don't need to be pre-arranged.
Being entirely open PK and having people attack you just because they can isn't the goal, it's just a side-effect that seems nearly impossible to avoid. For me, it would be an acceptable sacrifice, even with me being a complete noncombatant (I don't even participate in raid defence except on rare occasions).
In an ideal game with only mature, responsible players, such a flag wouldn't even need to make you open PK or change anything at all with regard to the rules. It could just be a way of announcing to other players that you don't mind PK, so they don't need to be as cautious about attacking you if they have an RP reason to do so. In reality though, different players have wildly different ideas about what is and isn't acceptable, and it could be intentionally abused as well, so it has to have some official impact on the rules.
The Mark orgs, in the past served two primary functions:
1. Allow players who were better fighters and enjoyed fighting to expand their potential combat options. This was obviously seen in differing ways in how contracts were fulfilled and doled out, but largely you saw the 'big name' PKers such as Tanris and Jhui receiving a lot of contracts because they enjoyed having more chances to fight.
2. Allow players who were involved in combat or interested in being involved in combat to 'show' that they were willing to be attacked. This came in varying forms, from Iocun's desire to fight more as a Cyrenian to me knowing people would want revenge on me after raids, so removing the need to worry about cause if they cared to try.
There are differing levels of each of these, but those seemed to be the two primary functions Mark served for most of its members.
After the change, the system more-or-less retains the first function, in a slightly different form, but now punishes random players for those who wish to use the second version. Sure, there are some, like myself, who have taken to the new system and changed how they deal with contracts (I accepted -maybe- two contracts prior to the change, and now I'm the Silent Executioner, who knew?), but there are some who have either removed themselves or are planning to remove themselves because they don't wish to inconvenience others because they don't want to complete contracts. Varying reasons, but the result is the same.
A PK-flag, properly implemented, would remove nothing from the Mark system except those who don't wish to complete contracts but do wish to involve themselves in PK. The rules are there to put it as close to the prior Mark system in terms of showing you're willing to fight. It might be worth considering giving the XP perks to PK-flagged people, but it's up to the admin whether they wish to tie that to people who can be freely attacked or to people who work for the Mark orgs. I'd go with the former, personally, to keep only those who want to be Mark for contracts in the system.
Nothing would change in terms of PK rulings for Mark members, so there would be no purpose to being both Mark and flagged. Honors lines wouldn't coexist, so you're either open PK flagged, Mark, or neither. Flagging yourself for PK to try to be a 'badass' (-_-) wouldn't even be possible for those who stay in the Mark.
Cascades of quicksilver light streak across the firmament as the celestial voice of Ourania intones, "Oh Jarrod..."
This.
WTF
ETA: How much of this thread did you read before you handed your 9-year old the keyboard?
Jinsun ganked me non-stop for weeks, until I finally learned monk combat well enough to turn the odds in my favor. Then I killed him a bunch, and I get issued for harassment. I never teamed him, and probably killed him about 1/4th as much as he killed me. Additionally, even in that quote, as well as in more depth, immediately prior to it, I explained that virtually any form of in-character resolution would be fine to end the grudge, all he had to do was make some form of effort (or, as I mentioned, quit mark or keep dying).
The entire thing was 100% reasonable, and was well within the bounds of legal and rational PK. Seeing that quote pop up for like the 5th time out of context, trying to spin it to make it sound like jumping a mark on the clouds a few times is "griefing" is actually starting to get on my nerves a bit.
Not feeding him
Didn't you issue Bonko and Eari over killing you over and over while you were mark since it was harassment instead of quitting mark?