Evil is Unchecked

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

One can also advance via questing

[Illysia]

I think that old players not playing as much (if at all) and new players filling their place is partly responsible. There are in fact way more bad/evil characters than there used to be. I think it springs from the notion that the only fun/complex characters are bad/evil characters. I don't think a lot of new RPers understand how much effort goes into making and RPing a BELIEVABLE good character. It's more than always "being good" and killing "bad guys". 

[Raa]

I haven't ever really found any completely evil characters in PS recently (probably because my definition of evil is rather skewed), but I've seen a lot of "bad" characters running around. "Bad" meaning that the character can also be good, but just doesn't follow the rules. Which is kind of annoying since you have a bunch of "heroes" assaulting people who they think have done things, and somehow they avoid the guards... even though they're in a position that would probably leave them on a megara flying toward the Crystal...

But I haven't been playing for a while, so I could be wrong.

[Candy]

I've seen quite a few evil characters running around, and it DOES seem like there are very few good characters left. I guess it just depends on who you RP with and what plotlines you're involved in.

[Zan]

Pure evil characters would either be seen as noobs for fighting and cursing all the time or be banned from planeshift because they grief too many players.  Again, I say .. being completely evil or good is unrealistic and shows no depth of character.

We're all shades of grey, though I admit the darker shades of grey are more succesful in-game lately. The darker religions could have something to do with it, along with the lack of government endorsed conflict. The latter causes people to go against the law and the government to find conflict and automatically labels them as rebellious, lawless and bad.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

* Xillix Queen of Fools gives evil a check for 1 tria.

There, now evil is checked.