Dread, does it make more sense to have someone "respawn" and then lose xp and gold and then port directly to where they died?

Woah. It didn't even cross my mind that such could be done with the system. I guess some players just have a mind twisted for exploiting.

I don't know what could be done to block it, but I will simply kill you again or extract the respawn penalty if I see you doing that.

People who die in teams, when entire team have been wiped. It ruins ANY RP while hunting, and usually breaks up the team.

I've done this twice and I obviously won't again. But I will say that it makes no sense to me whatsoever to lose gold and experience points after respawn. The servers have a modified XP range based on the CR system that is vastly different from normal PnP rules. This makes it much more difficult to gain XP and level up, so the penalty imposed for a respawn is made that much worse. It is adding insult to injury. There are alternate ideas that could be implemented that are much more in line with RP. For example, once dead a respawn will cause you to stay in "limbo" for X number of in game hours based on your level. I could come up with many more ideas but I feel it wouldn't matter what I suggest.

Let it be known now, THIS IS AN EXPLOIT. If you are caught doing it, you are subject to punishment. Let's say, from 12 hours now (time of this post) so that everyone has had a chance to read this warning and correct their behaviour.

Alright, waiting for server to reset to get raised is forbidden but dying in A and respawn to B is allowed!

Pretty clear!

Let it be known now, THIS IS AN EXPLOIT. If you are caught doing it, you are subject to punishment. Let's say, from 12 hours now (time of this post) so that everyone has had a chance to read this warning and correct their behaviour.

Avoiding them or logging off is silly in most cases, as you can get your XP back and then some if you bite the bullet and get back in the fight.

[I died] Fives times or so, until I wizened up and got a party member, and did much better, level 4 never felt so good!

Go die on Arabel with a character and then argue about Amian's death penalty again.

Take at look at this example of PnP vs Amia:

I dont really have any strong oppinions regarding the possible exploit since I ahve never been involved with anyone doing it so far, but the statement that you loose a huge amount of XP and gold on respawn is so unrteasonable that i just have to say this: Anma has one of the lightest xp and gold penalties of all RP servers, heck, even StormNexus had harsher penalities when I played abit there. And taking into consideration how easily xp is aviable on Amia, its not really a penalty at all. Now, i ahte making comparisons to others ervers, but on The Three Kingdoms you would get dying penalties twice, on death and on respawn, and those could be as much as 30k xp for a level 30 character, on a server with 1/10 of the XP gain Amia has.

Amia is obviously not 3kds, but I just wish to put things in perspective: The respan penalty on Amia is in fact more or less non-existant, and not much to complain over.

I stopped reading there.

[...]The servers have a modified XP range based on the CR system that is vastly different from normal PnP rules. This makes it much more difficult to gain XP and level up, so the penalty imposed for a respawn is made that much worse.[...]

I would say that its ridiculous how fast some people can level up. The experience is way out of hand, and the XP penalty is no match for it. People can level up in a matter of weeks with grinding, and it should take a few months, IMHO, as a pretty high reward for playing your character.

I would rather fight spawns half the size for twice the exp each and twice as powerful. That would make the game much more interesting and less grindlike.

The penalties of dying... its fricken DEATH. an END OF YOUR EXISTENCE. on amia, its more of a bad hair day type experience that can be weaseled out of by server switching and resets. The penalty should either be upped or have a limited amount of respawns and raises.

heres the main point though...
make magic unusable in starting areas. specifically spells and scrolls that raise characters.

I would say that its ridiculous how fast some people can level up. The experience is way out of hand, and the XP penalty is no match for it. People can level up in a matter of weeks with grinding, and it should take a few months, IMHO, as a pretty high reward for playing your character.

I would rather fight spawns half the size for twice the exp each and twice as powerful. That would make the game much more interesting and less grindlike.

The penalties of dying... its fricken DEATH. an END OF YOUR EXISTENCE. on amia, its more of a bad hair day type experience that can be weaseled out of by server switching and resets. The penalty should either be upped or have a limited amount of respawns and raises.

heres the main point though...
make magic unusable in starting areas. specifically spells and scrolls that raise characters.

The problem with the majority of Persistent Worlds is the Grind. There shouldnt be one to begin with. Quests are the meat and potatoes of adventurers. Killing that boss and splitting the loot is the background for many tales. Grinding to 30 in 5 days is rediculous and shouldn't be possible.