Your counter is bugged, although it was pretty much the perfect storm - my level 35 wizard, Treehopper, had just visited the bank in Neriak and was bound in EC tunnel. So upon gating, I land right on top of Rinna who promptly gibs me.
My gut sank, obviously, as in the back of my mind I knew "oh fuck... deathloop".
So I did the only thing I could do instinctively upon zone loading and being attacked again... /quit. It must have bugged out your "death" counter, because I only had two corpses when I came back online later, not twelve.
There's a couple layers of irony here because I was one of the folks who was very against removing global chat channels. If I had to choose between a spammer shouting bad porn stories every couple of minutes and exploitative NPC warping/training... I'd say that the former did less actual damage.
GMs do everything for this game and do a tremendous job of it. But if you're going to brag about EC tunnel with a front page news story (
http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8109) you should keep the city streets clean. Enabling cowards by not taking swifter, stronger action empowers them. If their tools and means of causing havoc are removed, then they will get bored and move on - banning just makes them feel greater attention and sets them back about 5-10 minutes.
I got burned by this and it spoiled an afternoon that would have been otherwise a great XP day. But I play the game in spite of this because the parts that are fun
still far outweigh the parts that are fucking retarded. I think the majority of players on this server feel similarly.