Hopped on for the first time since persistence was disabled, was heading north towards severograd and saw a smoking helicopter near the NWAF! not seen one of those in ages... was cautious but approached, then I saw/heard a blue truck going towards it. Being a pretty decent/neutral guy I decided not to shoot and instead revealed myself, wiggling and speaking over VOIP.
The silent driver merely circled me for a while then I got sniped by their buddy. Woke up from unconciousness twice to be shot again each time, the reaction of the truck driver that I saw between unconciousness made it obvious they were in cahoots with the sniper.
Anyway, 30 seconds later I respawn north of Novod... I wander down into the industrial area and find some decent military gear off the broken down trucks, not bad! tactical shirt, gorka pants, tortilla backpack, pristine combat boots etc all within 60 seconds of my new life. By some bizarre coincedence with there being a dozen people online, 80% of which were friendly polana residents in said town - I somehow run into a guy almost immediately!
I talk... he is silent. A zed goes for him and I hack it down with the pickaxe for him as a gesture of good-will, engaging him all the while with conversation. Not a second later he starts firing at me (Missing 3 times while I'm literally stood still 10m away), still not saying a word! I run down the hill, double back to get him with my pickaxe when his buddy pops out of the trees and catches me with their shotgun. I'm on the ground talking and they say not one word as they finish me off.
Man, the persistance-off PvP came back HARD.
I don't mind hostility at all, it adds some spice to the server! somebody in both of these encounters could have at least said SOMETHING though. It's an RP server, it's not very RP-ish or interactive to silently kill person after person, regardless of role/class/colony.
Anybody else noticed more hostility? Does anybody feel it ought to be a quasi-rule to interact before murder if the situation allows for it?
The silent driver merely circled me for a while then I got sniped by their buddy. Woke up from unconciousness twice to be shot again each time, the reaction of the truck driver that I saw between unconciousness made it obvious they were in cahoots with the sniper.
Anyway, 30 seconds later I respawn north of Novod... I wander down into the industrial area and find some decent military gear off the broken down trucks, not bad! tactical shirt, gorka pants, tortilla backpack, pristine combat boots etc all within 60 seconds of my new life. By some bizarre coincedence with there being a dozen people online, 80% of which were friendly polana residents in said town - I somehow run into a guy almost immediately!
I talk... he is silent. A zed goes for him and I hack it down with the pickaxe for him as a gesture of good-will, engaging him all the while with conversation. Not a second later he starts firing at me (Missing 3 times while I'm literally stood still 10m away), still not saying a word! I run down the hill, double back to get him with my pickaxe when his buddy pops out of the trees and catches me with their shotgun. I'm on the ground talking and they say not one word as they finish me off.
Man, the persistance-off PvP came back HARD.
I don't mind hostility at all, it adds some spice to the server! somebody in both of these encounters could have at least said SOMETHING though. It's an RP server, it's not very RP-ish or interactive to silently kill person after person, regardless of role/class/colony.
Anybody else noticed more hostility? Does anybody feel it ought to be a quasi-rule to interact before murder if the situation allows for it?