I rarely die at all, but you seem to be trying to say that since it shouldn't happen often it's not a problem?

And the crawling would of course be optional, no one forces you to move, only to sit still

and don't come with an excuse that there is a bank, because there isn't one in-game, the feature only exists in the engine, and only for money so far afaik

you are missing the point there, I am not against a punishment for death, I just think it should be a sensible one.
*Sitting for 30 minutes is not a sensible punishment
*People do die, not often if you're not a risktaker, but accidents do happen
*Is not mules considered a cheat and OOC? it should not be necessary
*Everyone that dies is _not_ a miner taking a shortcut, not everyone has the majority of their inventory filled with things that you can just dig up from the ground, personally I carry several items that come from people close to me, that I keep as memory of them, those are no worthless things you would just throw away

yes, slow crawling is good, so people will have something to do while waiting, and apart from that it will help avoid having several characters merged into each other at the spawn points.
And another note: I think the death curse should start when you spawn into DR. Perhaps that does not fit 100% with the story of Dakkru and her curse, but that is where you are actually dead, when you respawn you are actually alive again, though still weak probably

Edit: and perhaps crawling could be special for when the affected stats are too low to carry the items but the original stats are not, for the sake of compatibility with old ideas and rules

don't you think if you were able to run with those items before, then you should at least be able to crawl with your items when your stats are halved?

hmm, true death? I hope you don't mean char deletion or something.
apart from that, it sounds quite good, make people run in horror, not in excitement to do everyday stuff like selling their ores

Socius: what if you are not going into battle, just walking from one place to another?
and let me remind you that there are yet no banks to unload our things at, so it only works if you're carrying around on worthless crap.

Under the moon: your solution is very good too, and about disabling trading, it's more for those who see it as a possibility to abuse, personally I don't mind. I just think requiring people to keep PS on but do nothing for 30 minutes is a very bad solution to it, it brings my mind to powerlevelling by standing in the clacker pit in defensive stance..

As many of you have noticed, respawning from DR can now result in 30 minutes of being pinned to the ground at the spawn point, unless you drop or sell your items
(because of the death penalty halving your stats, resulting in half capacity of carrying things)
The point of this was to stop miners from taking a shortcut back to melt and/or sell their ores (yes, the pinning was the actual point of the death penalty, not a bug, according to Xillix)

I find this to be the wrong way of dealing with this issue. Today I spoke to a dev who agreed that it was a bad way of doing it and he came up with a great idea for an alternative, that instead of holding people by their spawn point for 30 minutes if they carry too much¹ they would respawn where they died, making it more of an out-of-body experience, and it wouldn't be a shortcut to anything, just a delay (but not a delay where you sit and do nothing at all, note that in this alternative you would not still be pinned to the ground)

1. (and keep in mind that also people that do not use it as a shortcut suffers from it if they happen to carry 50+% of what they can normally carry)

The point of this thread is that the issue needs focus so it can be brought up at the PS team meeting