...by your logic, we can never claim another character to be stronger. so....no boasting. no arrogance. no taking on a fight because you assume that the other person is stronger than you and can beat you down to the ground easily. no making any trouble at all because everyone around you is strong enough to hunt you down before you can cause it.
sounds a little ridiculous to me...
I think you are mistaking Duraza's statement. There is nothing wrong with playing a strong arrogant character. The only problem is when you start "godmodding", and I think your your definition is slightly different then ours.
From my experience in Planeshift so far, Godmodding is when you do something to somebodies character without their consent.
For example: Your strong arrogant character gets annoyed at someone in the tavern
You: /me beats down other player with a chair and other player dies
other player : [You can't do that!]
You: [Yes I can, i am so muc stronger then you. Now type /die]
What is perfectly fine to do is:
You: /me attempts to beat down other player with chair
other player: etc...
As you can see, by following the path of not forcing something on a character throug RP, a much more amusing and lengthy bar fight can take place, even ending with someone using /die at the end, if they so wish.
It's just common sense really, I wouldn't be to impressed if someone came up to me and said "I'm an uber strong thief, i just robbed you, give me your whole inventory then type /die"
And of course if you wish to go by game mechanics you can just /challenge I suppose.