I remember you Tmo, but only as a really, really old player when I was just starting out; I think you were idling in the church while I was reading my newbie booklet or something (or rather, not reading my newbie booklet, since who does read it anyway?).

1. No time.

I play when I can and want to (not too long ago I had a couple of weeks of play and I had a lot of fun), but of course, free time is short-lived. I do miss Nanny though. 

ESAK

ESAK players often see the game world as a great stage, full of things to see and people to meet. They love teaming up with people to get to the hard-to-see places, and they relish unique experiences.

Breakdown: Achiever 33.33%, Explorer 73.33%, Killer 33.33%, Socializer 60.00%

A decent number of the questions were PK related, so for non-PKers like myself, I ended up answering a certain way even if I didn't particularly agree.

I don't stash anything, but it made me think of leper stashes and how they're usually rather worthless to the non-leper player.  I have seen people tossing leper-tainted equipment into the trash (this was years ago though), so I suppose that's raiding with more malicious intent as opposed to raiding for personal profit.  Or maybe people just can't stand stuff lying around and feel the need to clean up the mud.

I've run across many stashes, some worthless and others fairly impressive, but I've only ever looted stashes right before a reboot, when there's no point in the stash sitting there anyway.  I suppose I'm just a goodie-two-shoes and feel like a jerk if I just take stuff, when I honestly don't need it (I'm not a great player anyhow and don't mind having mediocre equipment, since I haven't taken the time and/or don't have the brainpower to figure out the specifics of "good" weapons or armour).  Besides, if I'm playing my leper or my druid, there are so many restrictions on what can and can't be worn/wielded already, so what's the point?  And the gold you would get from it all is pointless anyway, at least for me.

Now, I have had people take items that were dropped in the room I was in, with the usual comment "It was on the ground, it was fair game" as a reason for taking it.  I'll say I was decently pissed off by that, particularly because the time it first happened, I was in a group that had all died after being unprepared for dragons and giants attacking Vamilio, and we were nursing our wounds in the Church while other friends brought our equipment and gold back for us.  Then again, I was still a new character of sorts, and I took this whole thing rather too seriously.  When you're little and all, equipment and gold actually has some meaning/value to you.  Though now I realize some people like to take on a certain kind of persona because it adds to their character (or because they just want to), at the time it was like someone in real-life snatching the wallet I had dropped on the ground right as I was trying to pick it up.

That being said, I've seen people take things of far less consequence/intention much more seriously (e.g. a made-up word by the Spammers became an inside joke that people went up in arms against, as though it were a war of the "clans with made-up names" ...of course no one in Spammers at the time had any desire to be confrontational, so it was really quite dumb), so who can say what is and is not taken personally.  And thus, I conclude that getting angry over a made-up word is dumb.  That was the topic of this thread, right?

Talk about pressure, certain people (*cough* Carrion) sure are eager to know who these unfortunate folks are.

Yeah, they are emptied.  At least, when Thefly bought the pack back, it was quite empty.

You probably don't know the player: it was Thefly.  He was spamming the green by putting the gold 1k at a time into the backpack, which meant a ton of scrolling.  Haha, poor guy though, he was so shocked when he realized where the gold had gone.  At least he didn't take the loss too badly.  It's just gold, after all.

I've done a similar thing.  The mud spontaneously crashed, but seemed to be up and running immediately after the crash.  Since things had refreshed, the bailiff had reappeared and was patrolling Larstown.  He snagged 18-19k from me (whatever the maximum amount is), and ran off.  Since I was playing my knight and not about to kill him, I immediately put all my gold on hand into a backpack, forgetting that the earlier crash might not be the last of it.  Of course, no more than 60 seconds later, the mud crashed once again, and when I could log back on, my pack and the 90k gold in it was gone.  At least when the bailiff came by again, I didn't have any gold for him to steal anymore.  Can't beat your 4.3 M though, Carrion.

On a more amusing note, I saw a person taunting other players with all their gold by putting it into their pack, only to accidentally sell the pack some time later without having removed the gold.  I think the loss there was in the millions.

No, you're not wrong.  No, you aren't the only one who thinks that.

I think I remember you, Zozma.  You were always idling somewhere in the Lepers guild.   I'm afraid I can't contribute anything beyond that, though.  Heh.

Here's a list of the FIFA World Cup 2006 teams, by continent...

Africa:
Angola
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Togo
Tunisia

Asia:
Japan
Korea Republic

Australia:
Australia

Europe:
Croatia
Czech Republic
England
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Serbia and Montenegro
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine

Middle East:
Iran
Saudi Arabia

North America:
Mexico
USA

South & Central America:
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago

Sscorpion!  It's very good to hear from you.    Was getting worried by your disappearing act...

A toupee.  Leprosy has made a great deal of my hair fall out.   

The riddle pot you mentioned, Tredon, is from Snowstar's area.

While hunting certain monsters is a more active way for a newbie to earn money, I remember being somewhat traumatized after I unknowingly entered Padrone's castle from the kitchen, and then got my butt kicked by the Kung-Fu chef.  There are multiple entrances, and only the front gate prompts you to buy a ticket (I think).  So, when sharing such a tip, I think it would be important to inform newbies about purchasing a ticket to enter.

On a similar subject, I admit to giving out directions to certain kills/areas (but not quest-related), when I should be encouraging exploration.  While it might be necessary to tell a lost newbie how to get to the rabbit tunnels, at some point they have to learn how to explore and find things on their own.