I've been thinking of donating.  However I have a few requests before I donate.
I'd like to see the financial books become public, it's only fair since PS requires complete ownership over every artistic creation used in PS.
How have previous funds been used?
How were the use of the funds justified?
How much of the funds went to feeding, clothing, or assisting the devs pay bills?
How much money does PS currently have and how is it allocated?

What about Lineage 2 style.
A crafter 'breaks' a weapon to get it's base materials.
Instead of actually getting the metal he gets crystals.
The weapon costs 100 to buy from the store, the crystals can then be sold to the store for 90 or saved up and would get 1 piece of metal for a certain amount of crystals.

Thank you.
I've been looking at npcbehave.xml.
As far as I can tell all the AI for all NPCs are stored in this file. 
Does this file get compiled into assembly/stack style code, similar to the code in the first post? 
Is there a list of all the functions and behaviors?
Which file(s) define the syntax for npcbehave.xml?

Ah, thank you!
I'm still new here and I didn't know those existed.   
Listening now.

Oops bad grammar.  Fixed.

In a street brawl, both combatants decided to fight.  One challenged and the other accepted.  Both would be punished.
If someone used a negative skill on someone else and is caught, ie pickpocketing.  Then it'd be a provocation and the defender would be justified in using force to defend himself.
I think in town only challenge and provocation pvp should be allowed in the main public areas, with completely open pvp in the dangerous areas of towns, ie: back streets, alleys, and slums.
The guards should be extremely powerful.  If a fight starts without provocation then both get punished by jail time, fines, etc for breaking the peace.  If weapons are used then the fine increases.  If someone is killed then the guards kill the other person, unless he escapes. 

All crimes are noted and tallied.  If you escape you can pay your fine and charges are dropped or you can just let your charges increase.  Criminals would need to use non-public ways to enter and exit towns, ie: sewers.

I either case, there is a chance the item was in fact taken.  In a pen and paper rpg, I would determine this by how much the perception check was succeeded by.  If Char Y, just barely made the role, the item has changed ownership (Char Y, noticed the attempt once the item was removed form the pocket).  But if Char Y made the role by a bunch, I'd say Char Y actually caught Char X in the attempt, Red Handed so to speak.

I was thinking that there would be two different rolls.  One to determine success of theft, and the second to determine if they get noticed.
First roll is simple success or fail outcome.
Second roll is more complex.
Fail: Player given the opportunity to engage thief and summon guards or just summon guards. (summoned guards don't appear immediately, thief can still get away but the guards head towards the area making it harder for thief to escape)
Succeed Slightly: Thief is noticed and guards get notified.
Succeed Greatly: Thief gets away and nobody knows what happened.

I feel the following idea would greatly benefit us by bringing a new aspect and sense of realism into the game.  This should not be hard to implement.  Most of the coding would be in the AI of guard class NPCs.  A few new checks would need to be added to the server code.

Server determines type of fight, based on challenge code, if fight is within sight of an NPC or reported by player alerting guards manually, otherwise fight is not reported.
Server determines distance from fight to guards, utilizing x, y, z coordinate system already in game.  (this is the easy way, or this would generate a path the guards would take and then calculate that distance)
Guards despawn or start running. (Running would be the prefered method)
If despawned: Server waits period of time based off distance and type of fight.
If guards run: Server waits period of time based off distance and type of fight, then sends the guards running towards the fight.  (delay to simulate the amount of time it takes for a npc or player to tell the guards)
Guards spawn or arrive near fight and break up fight. If the fight began due to both players wanting or deciding to fight, both get punished.  If fight began due to provocation, skill used that if failed auto challenges person, then the person responsible for starting the fight gets punished.  IE: Failing to pickpocket auto challenges the person you tried to steal from. 

Types of pickpocket outcomes:
Item Stolen, no notification. 
Item Stolen, with notification of player and guards. 
Item Stolen, with notification and thief auto challenges person, person accepts or declines, if accepted guards summoned, if declined guards notified.
Theft Failed, no notification.
Theft Failed, with notification of player and guards. 
Theft Failed, with notification and thief auto challenges person, person accepts or declines, if accepted guards summoned, if declined guards notified.

If provoker goes near Notified guards, then they punish provoker.

I wouldn't know, this is the only pickpocketing thread I've read.