A word about "rep-stealing"...

[william kid]

Rep Stealing is a pain agreed but if you go to Fort Charles you are likely to find new pirates our young players and as stated above they are not aware of a problem. They at this point are just having fun swinging a sword around and have no idea what "rep" is so take it easy on them and teach if you can. I find rep stealing to be a a problem in 2 areas.

1. Kingshead: I will when working on staff or grenades find a quite server with nobody on it even if I have to go to 2 or more servers to do so. So when somebody runs in and starts staffing or grenading the group I'm working on I'll say something to them. I figure at this point they are far enough along to understand and simply don't care or hope I will leave if they don't. Fighting over the parade group is bad form leave if you find somebody there even if you've gone to more than one server.

2 Ships: If I am fighting a ship by broadsides or by cannon it drive me crazy when people sail by and shoot the ship I'm working on, at this point they are not even working on rep just taking pot shots at my target and dropping my rep. Once again not cool just sail by and let the player get what he is working for.

Tormenta and most other areas if they attack your target they are usually not a high enough level to be going after this bad guy and fate will soon catch up with them.