Denisero is
fast! :laugh:
I don't know either why people like to send abusive telegrams to other players. Maybe that usual internet behavior where you sit in your own place well hidden behind your computer and therefore feel invincible is in play here too? It's a well-known mechanism on any bigger place in cyberspace, that people think they can behave bigger and more abusive than they ever would be in real life. I'll bet there sit a lot of not very brave people in their real lives who try to compensate for this by behaving like jerks in cyberspace where they are not at any risk of being hurt by their own behavior.
In my two builder worlds when I get dueled I either put on my best dueling gear and go and duel back, sometimes I win and other times I lose and then I just let it be with that. Or if it's someone I know I can't beat I just ignore it and move on as nothing happened. I have had some good experiences with sending a humorous telegram to them if it's a repeat offense, I've even got some good personal friends in the game.
I've only had one bad experience with one who wasn't able to grasp my sense of humor. I then had a friend sent after him with his H sword, which caused that person to start to stalk me over in this world with sending an abusive telegram to me, but the Ignore function took care of that. So ::shrug::
In general, the Ignore function is there to be used, if you don't think some other player has anything constructive to add to the conversation then use it and you'll never hear from him/her again, ever.
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Just don't understand what people are up to by picking on builders when so many people think it is a no-no.
There are just as many people who think that builders is a yes-yes. Some towns have it as their policy not to attack non-dueling players, but that's mostly to protect their own non-dueling players. What goes around comes around, so if your town's fighters go and attack other non-dueling players then expect that your own non-dueling players will be retaliated on. If a town where such policy is run well then people report these attacks and then the fighters go and retaliate on their behalf. In repeat offenses I'd say a telegram from the town diplomat to the founders of the town of the attacker should be sent to have things sorted out and if that ends in a deadlock a war can be declared. But some towns don't have any policies and they don't care, then declare a war and knock out everything that moves there. It's not that complicated I think.
