Does anyone know if the escaping skill helps avoid the guards during a situation like this?


-Coralin

Cierzen whispers to your group, "I'm stone sober and the dragon isn't pink so I kind of think this is real."

That is absolutely false. I had EOTB up the first time i ran into town and that did nothing to stop the successful accuse as well as the gaurd catching me.

Yeah from the "evil, evil necromancer we hate you" perspective it makes sense that there's no relief from the heat, but from an "I pay money to play this game" perspective, what you described kinda sucks. Even 60 seconds would be enough.

I've never been in that situation, but I've always been paranoid enough to carry at least like 5-10 plat at all times just in case. I'd be curious about the escaping question... Pretty sure it helps avoid guards, since I've always trained it as a top 8 and have never been nabbed anywhere except the Market Plaza (which seems to be like insta-arrest if you have a warrant), but don't know if it makes a difference using the bank, etc. That might only be about SO.

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Markat says, "Pleasant people without moral faults, going to church every week and abstaining from sins such as vanity and zombies. Feh...."

Spare me your condescending "ooh its hard mode".
Its not hard mode, its mech abuse when someone can script a accuse over and over again to prevent me from even leaving the guard house without another accuse already waiting to land seconds after i leave. Hard mode is getting accused in the first place, it landing, me being a pariah, thrown in jail, paying alot of plats, then forcing me to leave town in shame and disgust for several days. 4 accuses in a total of 7 and a half minutes and 3 trips to jail...that is not "hard mode". I wouldnt even complain about that if given a opportunity to face my accuser who feels its necessary to run to the guards shirttails instead of RPing a confrontation. Or if i was even given 30 seconds to a minute to get out of town before being thrown back in jail.

If someone is spamming 'accuse' then thats just mech abuse and I'm pretty sure in policy it says something about people preventing others from playing the game are to be jumped on and hit multiple times with a stick with a mysterious brown substance on!

I hope its fixed soon as I can really imagine how much it must suck.

>>Personally, Id leave town and wouldnt come back. Learn to live without items, learn to live without town services, learn to be known as a Necromancer and above all learn have fun with what you have.

Or move to Hib. You can squat around town all day there and no one gives a crap. It's an undead town anyways, in the sense of being a ghost town.
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I think it sounds more like the SO death spiral than a series of successful accuses, but again this has never happened to me, so I'm basing that on things I've heard from others.

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Markat says, "Pleasant people without moral faults, going to church every week and abstaining from sins such as vanity and zombies. Feh...."

Im not speculating on what happened. Im reporting what i was told by a GM who answered my assist. I was being spammed accused by a individual who was successful. "Busy accusations" was the words used. Im not disagreeing with anything anyone says about staying away from town etc etc. Or that i made a mistake in going in....but when i leave jail only to be thrown back into it with in seconds....that isnt me being stupid and not leaving, that is complete mech abuse and frankly it gets old. If you win a successful accusation...congrats! you won, here is money, and here is the stick we are going to use to beat the necro....that should be end of story for a few minutes.

Guard "Greeting citizen"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Thank you, we are on it"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "My god! He must be powerful indeed. On it"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Sweet mercy! He is already in jail but i will make sure we jail him again!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "God help us all! He is in front of the judge right now but i will make sure he is arrested again!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Unholy mother of god! He must be powerful!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Sweet beard of Merauld! Thank you Jerk McJerkface for you vigilance!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "He just paid his debts! That will show him with another arrest!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "You are a saint and a gentleman Jerk"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Great teeth of Trothfang! Is there no end to this necromancers evil! To jail again!
Guard #2 "He is already in jail!"
Guard "let him out, charge him, take his money then THROW HIM BACK IN!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Guard "Im out of guards to find this necromancer. I will go myself!"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"
Jerk "I accuse necrodude of necromancy"

.....no ya i see how this is completely legit and in the spirit of how DR works.

Just to ask, you said you were nabbed the first time you were in town with EotB up? And when trying to leave town, you didn't put it back up? I'm curious if it would have helped.
And yeah, I agree that there should be a pause between allowable accuses to prevent people from spamming a guard.

>>the person who is accusing you is getting "free" money from the game.

I don't know if it would be abuse for that. As far as I understand the person accusing essentially just gets a cut of what the necro gets fined.

true, but if someone set up a 24/7 type script to accuse a person, they are gaining money while afk, which is against policy.

it should be relatively simple to figure out who is doing it, have some friends take a tour of crossing or whatever town it is happening in, and see who is sitting near the guard, moves when the guard moves, etc. Do not confront them. If they are open, melt his/her face off. If they aren't, wait for them to log out of the game and then go get your gear. If they never log off, see the above paragraph and report 'em for afk scripting. If someone seriously has nothing better to do in the game than grief others, who needs 'em?




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>>I don't know if it would be abuse for that. As far as I understand the person accusing essentially just gets a cut of what the necro gets fined.

My understanding is that it's a portion of the coin they have on them at the time. I've accused a few times and received zero coin in return, reason from the guard was that the necro/accused was broke.

<<zero coin in return, reason from the guard was that the necro/accused was broke>>

reason for that isn't no coin on the necro. reason for that is necro has no coins in the bank. In ANY bank. I did that a couple of my necros in the very beginning when accusations were flying around like wildfire and my necros were too young to fend for themself. I wasn't about to give anyone collecting names in the guild any reward for abusing things in that way.




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>>I really hope there arnt circle 50+'s doing this...if that was the case...thats extremely sad.

In my experience, griefers tend to be of reasonably high level. They tend to be survival-prime or of a guild with an invisibility spell/ability or both. Odds are, the reason they tend to be higher-level is because they buy mid to high level character with the expressed purpose of griefing. Most greifers who start off small probably find greifing difficult and time-consuming, then quit. Clearly, this isn't 100% applicable and further, there are greifer who don't consider themselves as such (2 or 3 potential candidates come to mind), but as a whole, this is my perception of them.

--Croegar/Shatteringwave/Someone Else

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You try, but in the cramped confines of the tunnel, there's just no room to do that.

>>I am suprised that this hasn't been addressed or responded to yet. I mean regardless of what did or didn't happen to the Origional poster, I think that this shines light on a very clear problem with the current accuse system. It would only make sense that once a necromancer has been successfully accused under the current system they should be immune to further accusations for a reasonable length of time (an hour?) so they can get their things back and get out of town.

The system is balanced against the assumption that people will try to abuse the system to accuse people. Ergo, necromancers actually get the better end of the deal, since that doesn't happen all the time.

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