Dude, I got griefed so hard when I was new on SZ. There were whole days where I made no progress because level 50+ assclowns would routinely clear out low-level zones and corpse camp and fuck with you just so you couldn't level. Your only choice was to ask others for help, and since the SZ playerbase was not too unlike red99's, you'd mostly get people going "lol blubie lern 2 play nub" as you know. The level range ensures that you're never completely incapable of fighting back.
It's not much fun fighting someone 7 levels higher than you and you'll lose almost every time, but the alternative is worse. Every time you're in a situation where you'd want to compete with someone over content rights but can't attack them due to the level range, the essence of PvP is pointless. If someone is in the same leveling area as you, it should be natural to be able to fight them. That won't always be the case with a smaller level range. Taking the occasional unavoidable death from randomly running past someone who's just within your +range is something you just have to live with. It can often be avoided - gating, hiding or even just running will let you get away from many of those situations once you're at a level where your class can fend for itself.
I'd have no problem limiting cashloot and XP loss to +/- 4 levels, but the attackable range is the way it is because a smaller range would create a bunch of problems that are much worse than getting ganked by reds now and then. Most of them won't make a habit of it if you keep your mouth shut about it.
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10-05-2011, 06:18 AM
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