Hm. Now that I'm a little calmer, I feel compelled to address a couple replies to my vent post, as well as go over a couple other things:
Why not just kill him back?
There's a few reasons I didn't just kill him back:
First and foremost, and I'm somewhat ashamed to admit this, I was already having a horrible day when he attacked me for no reason. You can ask around, I was pissing and moaning about every little thing after a while. (As I said, creepers and spiders were constantly on me, I dug into a giant crevice and lost a number of things, and so forth.) I'm sure on a perfectly normal day, I still would have asked what his problem was, but my shitty day climaxed with me telling the entire server to fuck off and leaving in a PK Shitstorm of my own impotent rage and frustration. To the rest of the server, I apologize for that.
Now, even if I
had been more rational, I still wouldn't have killed him back. I'm not much into PvP for a couple reasons -- my lag gives the other person/people a
huge advantage, plus I suck at it. Plus, what would have stopped him from killing me again? Were we just going to spend the rest of the day killing each other for no reason other than "he started it"? I have better things to do that get into a pissing contest, really...
Pvp is fun and pvp IS enabled.
PvP is indeed enabled and can be a lot of fun. Provided you're aware that you're at risk of being attacked at any time. Given that in my entire almost-a-month stay on the server, I had not been intentionally (being the key word) attacked
once prior despite PvP being on the entire time, I was reasonably sure no one would attack me. And then along you come and whacked away at me with what I can only assume was a
stolen Iron Sword, since brotoad mentioned you were rifling through his stored inventory prior. As mentioned above, I could have handled the situation better, but that doesn't change the fact that what you did was, at the absolute very least, extremely rude.
Now, in the last server, someone utterly destroyed a random NPC village, so we designated that as a dedicated PvP arena. I think a PvP arena in this new server would also be a good idea, if only so people have a place away from the main town to bash each others' brains in. But PvP isn't for everyone and just because it's enabled doesn't mean that it's a good idea to go attacking whomever you want. Not everyone is going to find it as amusing as the attacker. Let's say for instance that someone attacked and killed you, DT. Just completely on a whim. You might laugh and say "nice one", but for how long? Let's say they did it again. And again. And again. Let's say this prevented you from re-equipping and being even remotely prepared to defend yourself. Then what? Would you still laugh it off? Or would you get sick of it and leave?
I believe this was the point Mike was trying to make in his post; that the server is whitelisted to prevent things like this from happening. Of course, there's always going to be one or two people that cause chaos regardless, but at least the chaos can be controlled to a degree if you narrow down the suspects to just people you personally know or people that regular your forums.
So. All that said, I'm still taking a break from this server at least. I need to. I'm sure people have been getting sick of my whining in-server the last two days besides. My place is still up for grabs if someone wants it. I have some degree of random items and a little bit of livestock. The coordinates for the entrance are at about x:28, z:219.
Have fun.
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