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[quote="FINITO"][quote="YOKOHAMA"]So, whilst hunting away with a few other people at Hoarde, Tongskie rocks up, looking to PK I presume. He then realises he is about 40 levels too high to attack ~lvl 50/60 chars. As if by magic Tongskie multi boxes his other char Sven in and begins to attack with Tongskie off screen. So instead of just letting ourselves be killed by a similar leveled char we attack back. At this point he switches clients and is now able to hit us with a lvl 100+ because we tried to defend ourselves. Now I'm all for PVP but this is just blatant abuse of a game mechanic to grieff noobs.[/quote] This has nothing to do with the PK immunity system that was added today. It is a change that was made 11 months ago (Characters that attack a grey or low moral character will be flagged into a mode where they can be PKed by anyone at any level.). I forgot to note what the context was for this change so it can be removed but I know that it does cause another issue when it is removed (it wouldn't have been changed in the first place). [b]Edit:[/b] Found the thread about it: [url=https://myth-of-soma.com/Forum/Thread.asp?ID=12946&title=pk+cap+change+%2D&Page=1]PK cap change[/url] The change was made because a gray character could be attacked by characters of any level but then the gray character could not attack back if the other character was not within level difference. I'll have a think what can be done about it. Maybe only allowing gray characters to attack characters that can be PKed by anyone at any level. Or maybe keeping a list of characters who attacked the gray character and only allowing the gray character to attack those characters.[/quote]

[quote="FINITO"][quote="GANDALF"]I fully agree that when grey any character should be able to hit you, but if you are defending yourself that shouldn’t break the 15 level put in place.[/quote] Yeah the issue is the gray character cannot defend themselves (against the higher level characters) if characters outside the level range start attacking them. So maybe a fix is to only put characters into the mode where they can be PKed by anyone at any level only if they attack a gray character while also being outside of their level range. So then characters that are within the level range will not be put into that mode and therefore cannot be attacked by anyone (including characters outside the PK level range).[/quote]

[quote="FINITO"][quote="FINITO"][quote="GANDALF"]I fully agree that when grey any character should be able to hit you, but if you are defending yourself that shouldn’t break the 15 level put in place.[/quote] Yeah the issue is the gray character cannot defend themselves (against the higher level characters) if characters outside the level range start attacking them. So maybe a fix is to only put characters into the mode where they can be PKed by anyone at any level only if they attack a gray character while also being outside of their level range. So then characters that are within the level range will not be put into that mode and therefore cannot be attacked by anyone (including characters outside the PK level range).[/quote] I have added the above fix to the server (hopefully not overlooked anything that can cause another problem). Characters will now only go into the mode where they can be attacked by anyone if they attack gray or low moral characters that are outside the PK level difference. If you attack gray or low moral characters within the PK level difference then you are not put into the mode and therefore can defend without having characters outside the PK level difference jumping in.[/quote]