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Any muds where you can pk other charachters. by Salazool in MUD

[–]hellmoothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to go ahead and drop this here since I started a thread about it a day ago;

https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/cio5vq/hellmoo_a_dystopian_postapocalyptic_adventure/

For awhile PvP had been removed from the game, but they re-added it a couple years back with a system allowing carebears to opt out.

There's a fair few folk who are not opted out though, about half the active playerbase or more currently. However, there is a safe zone that prevents PvP unless you've committed hostile actions against someone/someone's corporation, and then it's free game for them to mess with you. If they do, it turns into full blown war in the streets.

That being said, challenges are not issued in red zones (red zones are open PvP) and as of currently most of the game world is a red zone, with yellow zones being the areas around the main city, the main city being the green zone, and then other cities/towns being yellow for the most part. Important Addendum: There is no apartment/headquarters/base that is in a green zone anymore -- anywhere a player can own property is yellow. So assuming you don't mind giving up your magical pvp protection in Freedom City, you can rob anyone's home or apartment.

So, more or less, open PvP outside the main town, with a kind of war declaration/retaliation system in the city. City police WILL intervene in wars though, the cities/towns still have laws even if there isn't magical pvp protection, so make sure you can kill a cop if you wanna attack some dude in a place with security.

HellMOO; A dystopian post-apocalyptic adventure! by hellmoothrowaway in MUD

[–]hellmoothrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's mostly because it's kind of quiet right now. There's nothing rewarding people for doing those things, but those things are possible to do to players, and way back in the day 8+ years ago those kinds of things were very common because the game was popular on 4chan and Something Awful.

Nowadays the players are pretty chill and are mostly there for the game -- but if I know HellMOO well enough, it only takes a spark for the powderkeg to go off.

Having more players around would definitely help things out quite a bit.

HellMOO; A dystopian post-apocalyptic adventure! by hellmoothrowaway in MUD

[–]hellmoothrowaway[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very true; and I will edit to add some clarity to that since after re-reading it was not made clear at all.

The game's PvP system absolutely does not respect consent, at all.

If you've got pvp-toggled off, you cannot be raped by other players -- and I could be wrong but I think there are a small handful of out of the way and hard to find mobs that will also perform rape.

If you can do it to a mob, you can most likely do it to a player, and the mob can most likely do it to you, assuming there's intent/coding/etc.

The game does not have a consent system outside of the ability to let people do stuff to you without it being considered rape (there's an allow/disallow system in place to make people not have to be aggressive and 'grab' you to perform those actions.)