"Time to die!" /die being abused

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

We will in time move some things around, but as with posters of the past, telling us what we "should" do well . . .

Dear community,

After begging for this for years please do not make this a source of contention.

Thanks,

Xillix.

P.S. The Trainers stay, that is a price you pay for the dark way, eh? As for unstick two answers, more gms, or engine team fixes the issue asap.

 

[Siteri Kidachi]

You know... actually, having a penalty for training Dark Way does make some sort of RP sense (you get corrupted or something). Aren't most of the really powerful skills Dark Way after all?

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Currently one quest originates in the DR and one goes into there, both make rp sense to do as they do. Anyone who finds ones that do not make sense to do say may private message me. Do not cry that it is too hard, those are the breaks. Death sucks be happy.

[Miaua]

Finally!! How long I wished this. Characters will be hopefully now really afraid of death!
(Sadly... For some it might be still something like "omfg i lost teh skillz and m0nieyz!") 

[Jeraphon]

(Sadly... For some it might be still something like "omfg i lost teh skillz and m0nieyz!") 

To those I say, "you should have thought of that before you decided to do something reckless."

I think as with all things you'll get used to it. I'm predicting that at the same time people praise the new death system, people will all of a sudden decry the lack of transportation methods. We'll see.

[Lenade Lavor]

I think that you should die when you fall off the map. I used to jut do that to get back to hydlaa, bypassing even DR.

I also think that if you type /die BEFORE you have a failed /unstick, you should get a penalty. It would help at least a little bit.

For when going to death realm is required for some reason, and not just an aspect of being hit in the face with an ulber deadly claw... There could be on or a few places meant to take you to death realm, through some mechanism (maybe a painless death). This would allow people to still go to death realm without making it much of a shortcut to get there. It would probably work best if there were one place to do this, somewhere in between Oja and Hydlaa. Maybe also it takes some time to get into death realm this way?

[Siteri Kidachi]

Some book said something about being able to get into the DR without dying. Perhaps it's time to think about implementing that...? (It sounds like it'd definitely take a while though... It probably won't happen until at least the next time the DR is expanded, so there can be a place to go in through.)

[Miaua]

Some book said something about being able to get into the DR without dying. Perhaps it's time to think about implementing that...? (It sounds like it'd definitely take a while though... It probably won't happen until at least the next time the DR is expanded, so there can be a place to go in through.)

I bet Death Realm is called Death Realm cause you have to 'die' to get there. 
Btw. Will be the penalty related to kill by NPC, in PvP or perhaps jumping down the eagle head?

[Martine]

And if the die users come back, after leaving the DR, to the zone where he use the command ?
Not to the same place because if he is stuck in a wall he will be stuck again but in a define place for each zone.
The miner who do suicide in the mine in BR will come back to BD and not to Hydlaa.
This will slow the suicide rate I think.

[Rongar Elani]

Yes, that would be nice. But there should still be a punishment for dieing in general. Like many said before me: Dieing isn't a piece of cake and your character should suffer from its troubles. However, I welcome this new feature and I'm pretty sure it is only the beginning.

By the way:

*** 2007-10-04 by Kenny Graunke
- Changed death penalty to take effect when you exit the DR, rather than when
  you enter it, so living friends are able to help.  This also makes it no
  longer apply to NPCs.  Thanks, Xillix, Xordan, and Magodra!

[Zetsumei]

How exactly will living friends be able to help?

[ThomPhoenix]

It will all make sense when .20 is released

[theirah]

* theirah is scared of the unknown penalties

it wont be something too serious like losing levels permanently, right?

[neko kyouran]

Death is Death.

[Jeraphon]

it wont be something too serious like losing levels permanently, right?

In a levelless game?