PvP area returns!

[Jackdaw]

Ever since I started in PS, there was always the concept that one player could kill another if they both agreed to duel. I think it's great that there is a place where simply entering it means that you have agreed to take your life in your hands.

Those people who want to RP being a gladiator have a place to train. And those idiots who stand aound all day telling everyone they could swat them like a fly have a place to hang out and leave the rest of us alone.

It's those poor noobs I worry about. "You're new here? Look, somone left a rat hide out in the middle of that arena, bet it is worth some money, you better go out there and pick it up."

[Earl_Listbard]

Few crimes are punishable by death but you can kill anyone at the Arena? 

stealing in medival england was punishable by death...


You forget planeshift is set in a medival time period, where the people have little next to any rights, guilty until proven innocent.

So actually many crimes would be punishable by life in prison, torutre, or a nice hanging.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Midieval Planeshift != Midieval England.

[Narure]

If it did it would make alot more sense than the settings.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Something does not make sense?

[Narure]

The whole death being a rare thing then having somewhere for us to kill each other legaly.

[Earl_Listbard]

Midieval Planeshift != Midieval England.

My spider senses are tingling, are you by chance being sarcastic?

I can point to several rps that point to Hydlaa's goverments being one ruled by an iron fisted nobility class. - As a midieval kingdom should be, for the sake of being a mideival socitiy... Only Hydlaa has a little more developed socitiy, then again mindless butchery and gore is a form of entertainment (hence the arena, and the stands for spectators)

All im saying is this PVP thing does not go against RP, it is very IC indeed.


@naurue: in the golden days of the roman empire it was illegal to 'murder' but within the colloseum(sp?) Gladiators or Volunteered Gladiators may fight to the death for the entertainment of many. By entering the PVP area you become a Volunteered Gladiator in other words, a Gladiator by choice, rather by force.

[Narure]

but death was a common punishment also in the roman empire wasnt it?

[zanzibar]

Planeshift != Any real world historical society or civilization

[Narure]

planeshift settings = not so much    ?

All the utopianess and stuff

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

you mean to say that as a result of placing in a PVP gladitorial area you are complaining that ps is too utopian?

there is some hubub here also about water being worthy of death . . .

Yliakum does not have nearly the water resources of earth and even on earth if whales got a vote and made up roughly a 12th of the sentient populace i think itd be a fairly harsh penalty.

"I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers and you will know my name is the octarch when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

By the way treason is worthy of capitol punishment too in Yliakum.

Narure players now see only a bit of the puzzle, but there is a puzzle.

[lordraleigh]

By the way treason is worthy of capitol punishment too in Yliakum.

Treason? Is there any known country with constant contacts with Yliakum you could benefit by betraying Yliakum?

Unless...

Treason -> Sedition -> Crimethink

Yliakum = Oceania
Cool, time to change my "Organization" to be called as "The Brotherhood", be fully secret and rename my main character as Annera Goldstein  Too bad IngSoc Octarchs will crackdown it soon 

Change date too, to 1984AY 

And the utopia thing. I don't think a peaceful and/or utopian land would have slaughters as their main form of entertainment 

Wait. "Yliakum is an utopia" / "Yliakum is a violent land" . Do you want a better example of doublethink?

After all

Government, Laws and such is still a pretty "Grey Area"...

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

trea·son      /ˈtrizən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tree-zuhn] Pronunciation Key - S
–noun
1.   the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2.   a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3.   the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

I will see what I can do about some of the other meantioned things.

Please return to discussing the PvP area. What do duelists think? Is anything useful or interesting happening with the room yet?

[John80sk]

The problem with dueling in the PvP arena is that once you die, you go to the death realm.  It's just not practical to fight there because you will spend more time running than fighting (especially if you're an enki).

[bilbous]

I was killing the dlayo glad from the corridor...