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Originally Posted by Tradesonred
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They do radical changes that fuck up the server without brainstorming anything and then dont touch it for months and months, even if its instantly obvious it was a bad idea. Gustoo mentioned OOC, im going to mention yellow text:
you dont broadcast the location of some poor ungeared newb getting shit on by a griefer to the whole fucking server, so other griefers get attracted to that like flies on shit.
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Global OOC is great on a sub-500 population server. Makes things feel more alive and it's accurate to the MUD roots of the game.
I never saw much griefing of noobs happening, and there was a whole "starter guild" on the server anyway for those people to band together. Yellow text made kills more exciting to me and I think that aspect can add extra tension to the gameplay, because if you are trying to secretly camp an area and get killed, then now you've given away your zone. The combination of global yellow text and OOC actually lets the server call out the griefers, it doesn't promote more of it on the whole. It's not as if griefers need the yellow text info anyway, to know where the most populated leveling spots will usually be to hunt fresh meat.