About combat zones

I had heard that somewhere in SL there exists combat zones where you can 'die' and wage war, etc.
Can anyone tell me some general info about this? Are there general rules that must be followed? Which sims are combat sims?

Jessie and Rauch(sp?) are the two sims specifically for this sort of activity. Jessie I believe is the more active of the two, but I could be wrong. Also, people can set their land to damage enabled, but often this is done so that the land owner can combat griefers. So outside of these two sims, it is best to ask before you blast! hehe..

Interesting...
So are there 'guilds' and such out there? Games of capture the flag, etc?

hmmm.. Now that someone else would have to answer. I know the WWII people have a group that wages battles and such, not sure if there are others. A search in the "groups" find area may turn up some results for you too.

SimCast is player v player medieval combat played across two private islands.

ya prong and his team have been hard at work to create their sims, check it out! but as mentioned above there are other areas that also have the health turned on but not many of them are designed for killing games just plain killing!!

That sounds very cool...
Where would those sims be? Who could I contact for more info?

DarkLife has kiling in a Diablo styleee, read me blog and the other DarkLife posts

PC

Out of the 3 combat systems, tartarus is the only one with vehicles and guns

Jessie is a joke, It's supposed to be a combat sim but people live there so basically don't even bother, You can go there and play for awhile but the residents have tracking turrets and Land Ban/Kill scripts you have no access too, Fighting face to face in Jessie is like taking a slingshot to fight a superpower nation, pointless. They won't disarm the trackers and security scripts/turrets becuase they pay for the land to live and build there. Jessie is a joke.

Rausch on the other hand is a free build combat zone, once in a blue moon if you watch or host events yourself you can get some people to come fight it out, team style or 1 on 1. This won't gaurantee you a fair fight by any means though as there are still scripted weapons that can track you, much akin to an aimbot in games such as half life-the person types /kill whatever "your name" and it just follows you around till you die, sometimes easy to avoid sometimes impossible, the Jessie versions are usually impossible becuase they are set on the land owners property hence they just say so and so is on my land kill and send home and it's instant.

There are alternative to the combat sims, although I do recommend holding events and offering prize money for fair team fights in Rausch, basically it's video card vs video card at that point though becuase unless people are using a tracker device you can snipe 300 meteres easily and that covers the whole sim without flight. Dogfights in vehicles is a whole different thing though and could be great fun if implemented right.

Anyway you wanted general rules well those are sorta biased depending on your standing with people.

Take Jessie for example, They go apeshit if you blitz or snipe them. Your gonna lose in Jessie no matter what becuase when people can set there home point there it's there home. You can't really use a turret, I tried I got chewed out for it because "Your turrets to powerfull." Or the your shooting from outside the zone garbage. Basically Jessie is just a hornets nest to piss on, I don't even know if the word war 2 onliner guys even log on anymore, there the ones that will go apeshit though if you come in barrels burning.
Huge thread like 20 pages deep in new worlds notes on that subject if your interested.

Rausch is open to events tough, I sugest just giving that a try a few times. Last time I saw a combat event posted I jumped on it fast, was a good time, some good even battles.
The host had a tracker bot and quickly learned that trackers are inferior to a pro sniper with a class 5 ;p.

So to end the saga of this, just host events if your looking for that type of thing, gun show maybe at first to see whats new, nothing I know of is new these days really, arms race seems to have died out since the trackers. If you want to practice IM me ingame and I'll come to Rausch and show you whats up with straight shooter guns in SL I.E. Class 4+5 seburos and a few others that can cut it.
but the resident can use whatever they want.