foul play

[cazort]

There's a player who is totally abusing some of the glitches or features of the game.  He has killed two of my characters, and he has been a lot tougher on newer players.

He tends to attack people in the town, while they're shopping.  He also "scums" for new characters--I have caught him numerous time creating new characters, dropping the items, then selling the items and equipping a new character with obscenely good equipment, then assaulting new players.  When you attack him, he quits (which happens instantly in the town), and then signs on with another such character and attacks you before you have time to even type the new character's name into the attack thing (so you can't attack him).

You have to give him credit; he's skilled; this technique works pretty well.

But this isn't the point of the game.  He's ruined a week of progress for two of my characters, and done the same for other players--he's also making mangband TOTALLY unfriendly to newbies (if an angband veteran like me would have trouble holding his own with level 10 and level 17 characters, imagine what new people would be like) which is bad because we really want to attract new people to keep this community vibrant.

I dunno?  So I'm just saying (1) we need to ban this guy, and (2) we need to modify mangband to get rid of these bugs.  I've worked with the angband source before, never with the mangband one, but I might be up for the coding if no one else wants to do it.  As to the rest of it, I don't know?

P.S. How much of a load on a server does mangband put?  I have a server at my disposal; it's nothing fancy but it's out there on the net with a fast connection.

[packrat]

I have a server at my disposal

Cazort, since you mentioned you have a server could you put up a copy of MAngband in the gameplay style akin to easy-high-speed? I miss that server so much.  :'( The lag was bad sometimes but monsters moved relatively slowly and didn't attack as hard. Still, you can die on the server but it sure makes gameplay more fun (for me at least) to not die so often.

I'd really appreciate it, but then again it's up to you. I'm an ADOM junky myself. Good game.

[Maegdae]

What nicknames does he use, and what does it show under his player name on the @ menu?

(i.e. Player@something)

Edit:  By nicknames, I mean the character names.

[raamo]

whats the guys nickname and if its kull the insane go in the dungeon cause he's a ghost he uses bugs to so im just assuming thats who ur talking about

[Avenger]

I've heard way too much about Kull and Bigjuan pk'ing everybody who moves just for fun. You two are the reason I stopped playing for the past couple months. You are driving away new players and veterans alike, and it needs to stop. Your style of play is ruining the game for everyone. I am asking you now to stop for the overall good of the MAngband community.

[Berendol]

Good going, Oregon crew.

Seriously, stop killing everyone. You're killing the GAME.