[zenith]

I put this off a long time. I didn't want to limit people. I know flat out a daily cap on attacking the same person would never work. But lately there have been too many players giving me absolutely no choice but to implement some sort of deterrent without putting in a hard cap.

I don't get to code much anymore. My entire day is spent trying to negotiate peace between players who want the other one to quit. I get to witness how players spend their entire day hospitalizing someone, then read their mails where they say they want to ruin the fun for whoever they are attacking. My day is spent sorting through countless emails of people telling me how I should interpret the rules. I punish someone and then I get reamed for it. I don't punish someone and I get reamed for it.

There has to be some sort of solution. Maybe this isn't the best solution, but what is? I can't make everyone happy, but I am not going to sit idly watching long-time players quit because someone stronger than them wants to keep attacking them all day long to ruin their fun.

Perhaps the chance at getting stuck in jail is too high. Perhaps 4 attacks against 1 player in a 24 hour period is just not enough before the CHANCE at getting stuck in jail happens (since that's what it is set to right now).

I could bring in 3 or so players to handle these complaints, but then people will either hate the people I bring in or feel like these people are getting some sort of admin privilege in-game. Do I really want to subject high-level players (the only people who could have an effect on FORCING someone not to be a jerk) to the effects of non-stop complaints? My job is to handle these things, not to unload them on someone who wants to play.

I agree, players who haven't logged in for a day or three probably shouldn't have the jail chance. NPCs likewise. I'll throw that into the code hopefully by the end of the day. But unless someone has some innovative way to stop players from being nasty to each other, this type of thing is here to stay.