I have a few questions regarding rules based on recent events which will be explained in this long story that many will either skim or not read at all.
First off, is bounty killing (aka Noob farming) allowed in PVE? Here's the story if you have the time to read it:
I had lag on my end and could not craft or break anything wihtout it rubberbanding, so I went and reset my router and immediately logged back on. When I logged back on, someone (was just standing there in my new house-in-construction. Said person then immediately proceeded to pelt me with magical arrows of fire and ice, I had no idea what was going on. I ran and was at half a heart when a miracle appeared, a small mine ditch in the middle of grass! I quickly hopped into it and started filling up behind me with my house materials (stone bricks). I kept going deeper and deeper til I thought I was safe. Then I heard something, stone being broken, and fast. I quickly went further down into the mine, (this was all while shift walking) and found a hard to find spot and waited for what seemed like 5 minutes.
Then, thinking that I was no longer marked for PVP, I did what any logical person being chased by a high level ranger would do, I warped to spawn thinking it was a protected safe haven like on all other servers, I was wrong. After waiting for about 15 seconds, I warped, "Whew, I successfully escaped for once!" I thought. Once in spawn, I turned around. Low and behold, guess who was waiting for me, 'said person'. I didn't catch his nametag originally so it took 3 seconds to register that said person had the same armor as my invasive attacker, and when it did register, I bolted and hid. Of course I didn't and couldn't go far, I was in spawn, so he killed me. I tried to warp back to spawn to at least get my stuff, but there was a 50 minute wait. So I did the next best thing I could do I walked, and walked and walked to /spawn only to find that it was hovering in the sky like a giant parade float, without any way to get up to it.
I asked around about what just happened, raging like any other newb who had his butt kicked in a seemingly unfair way, but on a much, much smaller scale. I asked around about what happened and people told me that I had a bounty. I had never done anything wrong on the server, being a noob and all. I then hear a user hear the term "noob farming", and judging that this is even a term, I realize that this must have been around a while. I do some research on the forums and see this chain of posts just like mine;
http://herocraftonline.com/main/posts/454655/ and
http://herocraftonline.com/main/threads/illegal-killings-in-pve.57676/#post-454153 .
Which brings me to my queston: Is this REALLY allowed? And how did this even happen? (read OTHER NOTES below for facts I missed to say) I would like some clarification of this event. I mean no disrespect to anyone and hope not to get any disrespect aimed at me, which is why I named the attacker "said person" (I just like "said person" over "anonymous"). And I am very sorry about my tiny outrage, (its many questions with not alot of time in between each message to me, but its considered spamming to others) and I wish to make friends and continue playing on this server. But I just don't feel as though this is right.
OTHER NOTES: I checked /war at the time and it said that in PVE was DENIED at the time (not the specific text that came up, but ti did say PVE DENY in /war)
Also I saw no bounty notification and since my internet only took less than 4 minutes to reboot there is no way that a bounty could have been placed on me and accepted within those minutes since I read it takes 10 mins before someone can accept a bounty, but yet when I died I saw a bounty collected notification for me, yet no bounty was seen to be set on me prior to the internet reset.
And lastly another rule I have a question about is can people grief my area if I have not yet had the chance to protect it? Im talking about placed blocks, not including containers.
Thanks to whoever reads this whole thing and replies to me. I wish I could make it not a story, but I just couldnt put what my real basic question was into words, so instead I typed out my whole entire event. BTW I would do paragraphs/ indents but my tab button does not indent, and the % spaces I put in front of the new paragraph do not show up.
P.S. Now afraid to get onto the server and am looking to find/join a noob town.
Thanks - Vid
