That likely, while nifty, would cause heavy tax on the server.

Consider this would mean any item that is bough, picked or traded would be checked for history. Then the history would be checked for names. The the names would be checked for account and CDkey and compared. And that with every item every chara on the server gets. Pretty sure that would drive the server to the knee with script spamm, but I may be wrong, I am not exactly our biggest script expert here.

I know this is not true, because this is not an original idea. I've seen it on a comparable server with as big a playerbase as ours. So no, if done right I know it works just fine on comparable server

I know this is not true, because this is not an original idea. I've seen it on a comparable server with as big a playerbase as ours. So no, if done right I know it works just fine on comparable servers.

As for losing the item? Eh. *shrugs* That's a featherweight consequence weighed against A) DMs manually having to stop what they're doing when they notice something to act and wasting their time and energy to now deal with this, B) stripping (and likely losing a player) entirely, and C) DMs spending any amount of time Ruleslawyering as opposed to creating fun or helping others with legitimate, actual problems.

An armor was lost. Boohoo. Buy another.

Wanna know something interesting? I can spawn PCs straight from the vault as NPCs (I can even give them an AI) which also includes everything they have on them.

So could I also can write a program that could scan the entire vault and track every single item that has ever been stored on the players and look for naughty words.

...I wonder how many Thayan items still exists.

Wanna know something interesting? I can spawn PCs straight from the vault as NPCs (I can even give them an AI) which also includes everything they have on them.

So could I also can write a program that could scan the entire vault and track every single item that has ever been stored on the players and look for naughty words.

...I wonder how many Thayan items still exists.

I think we should be able to buy in-game epic gear with DC Coins somehow. A lot of characters can't justify running in circles murdering sentient beings to steal loot off their corpses, so boss grinding turns into a semi-ooc activity anyway.

The punishment for muling seems unnecessarily harsh and, as we read in the OP's post in the last topic, definitely pushes away new players. Why not just strip the item/items in question?

Only taking the items they muled means they still got to use the items to get to where they are now. Essentially, it's not a punishment at all: They muled them, broke the rules, used them to their advantage and benefit, and we only take the bits they moved over, and nothing to do with the actual point of why they muled it in the first place.

That's why you lose everything.

I kind of agree... during my newb-stupid muling incident, the character in question was about level 14 or so, and working with mostly store-bought +3 gear, and got stripped of items but not gold. I felt like it was kind of a dire punishment in that moment, but like an hour later I realized I still had all my money and could just go buy mostly identical store-bought gear, and it really didn't turn out to be much of an imposition at all.

While that certainly sounds reasonable, whose bookkeeping would the repeat offenders find themselves on? Are the DM's to be required to conduct an investigation on rules violations that are posted?

Then there is the nature of rules violators and the internet. Most players are not complete fools, how long until players realize that they can have a free pass and then take it upon themselves to make it really worthwhile by stripping the gear of a 5 year old level 30 and starting over...

Draconian punishments are harsh for a reason, it's not exactly meant to be fair except in applicability to all. In the end, gear is replaceable, and no character that has been stripped that I know of has been ruined for any length of time, and the players involved are very much less likely to transgress again.

Wait, what? Who said anything about a "free pass"?

Only taking the items they muled means they still got to use the items to get to where they are now. Essentially, it's not a punishment at all: They muled them, broke the rules, used them to their advantage and benefit, and we only take the bits they moved over, and nothing to do with the actual point of why they muled it in the first place.

That's why you lose everything.

Must admit, I have done a 180 on the subject of muling being Bad For The Server, and now see its prohibition as a pain in the arse that keeps my new epics off the RP grounds and in the bosses' caves. Solo, of course, since the tweak to the +5 loot roll never arrived.

If I could mule, I'd never have to run another boss again, since I've got the kit for just about any character type scattered among my 30-odd epics. I could just grind them up superfast with stacks of Summon IX scrolls, hit 30 and then RP with them until I got bored after a few months and moved on like I always do.

The obvious argument against that is 'stop being a short-attention-span chap who doesn't consider a character ready to RP until it has a decent endgame gearset' but I can't. Trust me, I've been trying for just shy of ten years.