Damage

Hi everyone,

So far I've always tried to stay out of the zones where you can take damage , but I have got some questions about them.

If you get shot there , you can die right? What exactly happens then? Do you just get teleported to your home location? Or is there some form of negative effect?

Regards,
Jenny

It hasn't happened to me in months because I don't fly around as much as I did in the beginning, but as I recall "dying" simply meant being teleported home.

ok thanks

I just find it as a anoyance. many times i been TPed home for just bumping into a wall or being on a friends land when a greifer shows up. They say it's a fast way to remove a griefer. BUT SO IS EJECTING!!! I usualy take offence to people using this function on the mainland or in dreamland.

Yiffy, sometimes I have my land set to "not safe" just for fun. It's not meant to be a torment to you or others. My friends and I just goof around with it sometimes. I don't understand why you would take offense at this. And you would have to bump into a wall VERY hard to do enough damage to kill yourself. If you are visiting a friend's place you can always ask them to turn it off while you are there, as a favor to you.

Besides, sometimes just ejecting a griefer isn't enough, a lot of them just fly right back since it doesn't throw them very far. However, if you kill them they usually go back to the welcome area, since a lot of them are noobies. I have found that a lot of them were wandering randomly and have no idea how to get back to my place, so problem solved.

It's also a lot more gratifying to blast a griefer with full auto than to just eject them.

Oh, and Jenny, it doesn't have any negative effects. I have been killed in Rausch more times that I can remember. Well, ok sometimes you do have to relog, but that is usually caused by the script a weapon was using, not the being killed part.

Thanks for the infor hun , it's much appreciated

I take offence cuz its anoying being sent home while minding your own business. One time i was in a car with friends driving around the mainland. The car plows into a wall and kills us all. Later the car gets returned by the land owner who has no idea what happened "dang newbs leaving junk in my yard" lol.


Some people use security scripts. I know some don't wish to get one. But only setting it to TP home selected people is a good idea. I do this in the sim i work in. Does a pretty good job.


I would shoot back but that would put my account at risk, and the lindens seem to be harder on the people who shoot back then the original shooters.

Why Yes! Every time you die, you encour a 5% vitae penalty, which effects all your major skills and attributes. And, if you die again while running back to your body, you will encour another 5% vitae, which will stack until it reaches 40%, then the ammount of XP you will need to lower it back down (which raises every time) will reset, thus making it easier to get it back down.

Oh wait, wrong program...

D'ya know I just went back to Dereth the other day and found my old friend Felecia to be 40% vitaed from trying to loot her body. There are loads of cottages available on Harvestgain. And oh wait, wrong forum.


We must have damage enabilization on The Grid All Hail The Central Grid. It's a necessary part of the game.

They could do like on that beta game "Planeshift" where if you die you get sent to this dark place and you have to find your way out through a labyrinth of bridges and canyons till you can return to the waking world! XD

But Yiffy, if the land is set to "not safe" you can shoot back all you want with no risk of getting in trouble.

For 'damage' yes, this isn't neccessarily true for push.

Yes it is. You can attack with any kind of weapon in a non safe zone. All kinds of push weapons are used in Rausch every day.

Basically, it's a free fire zone. You don't even get an option to abuse report someone in a non-safe zone.

You can abuse report anyone for anything you want in any region. I heard this crap a few years ago, from people saying that the "TOS doesn't apply in Jessie in Rausch".

That's complete bullshit.

-Even if- you do fancy yourself a bad-ass with giant virtual testicles.

If you disagree, do a forum search or ask any Linden.

Ok, yes you can AR them, but nothing will come of it. The person was within the ToS, so the Lindens won't do anything to them.

And everyone will think you are a winny cry baby for doing the AR. If you don't want to get shot, don't go to Jessie or Rausch.

Gets confusing though when someone arbitrarily turns damage on for their own parcel, while the rest of the sim is 'safe'. I was flying well above one parcel recently in a sim that was, as far as I was aware, zoned entirely 'safe' and was shocked to see the little heart show up, indicating I was subject to potential damage. Wasn't intending to land there. Was just flying through the area.

No one shot me, but on that one home site, they could have... and there was no warning about it other than the little heart appearing on the menu bar.

That same home had earlier had a very non-forgiving and violently pushing security script. It was against sim policy, and there were no warnings posted or given. Enter the parcel, and you got pushed out, hard. (The sim owner made them take that security script down).

If people want to play with guns in Jesse or some other free-fire zone, that is up to them. I won't willingly enter such sims.

Oooh, well aren't you a big manly man.

Certain things (auto-launchers, for one) , even if they are "omg war lols" are not within the TOS, even in Jessie and Rausch.

Flicking 'damage on' on your land doesn't suddenly make you shielded against the TOS either. The "damage" checkbox is not a "TOS APPLIES: YES/NO" button.

And, please. Of course you did this to torment people. To folks like you, there *is no fun* unless someone else is getting screwed with. It's the whole point of the game.

In that light, it's beyond me why guys like you don't stick to WWIIOL. Maybe because everyone else there expects it, and on SL, launching someone who didn't expect it gives you more LOLs and embiggens your unit.

But soon enough I'm sure you'll take it "out of bounds" and get yourself suspended.

I never go to combat sims cuz I'm a lover/RPer not a fighter/PKer. Even though i never go to their sims, they sure come to mine, waving their leet speak and push guns. I know how to show them the door though. People that type like 10 year olds and think SL is a FPS where your supposed to shoot everything that moves, are people i don't allow where i work. Sorry to say but SL isn't for those types. They would be much happier playing Counter Strike or whatever (not familiar with those games)...

EDIT: I'm not saying everyone who enjoys combat is like that. Don't want to stir up the waters.. A lot of people are mature about it.

Wow, you sure make a lot of assumptions don't you? To start with, I am a woman.

The rest is just you venting over your own frustrations. I bet you were picked on in school a lot, weren't you?

The only person I torment is a friend of mine, and he deserves it! LOL (He would never report me anyway, he just gets me back in his own way. )

If you came to my land and were rude and disruptive, you would get what you deserve. If you come to my land and are friendly and polite, you will be welcomed and treated with respect.

So relax, it really ISN'T all just a plot just to get you. Honest.

The main reason I go to the combat sims is that it's fun as hell to whup ass on the kinds of people Yiffy was talking about. They hate getting beaten over and over again by a woman. Drives them nuts, and I love it. LOL So when I get bored, I go there to take em down a few pegs. It's good for a few minutes of entertainment anyway.