PK Harassment Clarification

[itoki]

Hi folks,

The GMs discussed PK harassment yesterday, and we think that the current rules are sufficient, though we are making a couple of changes to ensure that the rules are enforced more consistently.

The specific PK harassment rules are:
-Stalking a player to kill him repeatedly is considered harassment.
-Killing a player while he is warping into a dungeon and unable to defend himself is considered harassment.

Stalking a Player:
There is not a "kill threshold" after which killing a player again would qualify you for harassment. Number of deaths in a span of time is a consideration, but so is intent and result. If it is clear that you are killing a player repeatedly with the intent of ruining his play experience then you will be punished. If we cannot prove that you were intentionally doing this but the PKs resulted in a situation where the player was unable to continue playing, you will be punished.

Important Notes:
"Kill On Sight" lists are allowed. If someone kills you every time they see you but makes no special effort to stalk you then it is not considered harassment. This includes guild-wide KOS lists.

If a player "claims" a spot and does not allow you to play in that spot, we will not interfere unless there is no equivalent area for your level. The exception is if a player tries to claim it on a long-term basis. Defending a farming area for a few hours is fine. If you pick the Laksy blue pixie field as your guild's "turf" permanently then you will be reprimanded.

If you "camp" an owned low level dungeon and kill everyone who enters for an extended period of time it is considered harassment against the owning guild. If for some reason you want to cut off access to your own guild's dungeon then we won't interfere unless there are circumstances which prevent access to the other copy of the dungeon as well.

Preventing players from experiencing game content appropriate to their level (e.g. killing all players who approach Gray Bridge) is not allowed.

If a player doesn't stalk you or repeatedly PK you but does PK you as part of an on-going harassment pattern, you should still report that player for harassment. Many players seem to think that PK harassment is the only type of harassment there is, but we enforce far more penalties due to chat harassment than PK harassment. Make sure you take screenshots of any harassing dialogue and send them to us. We will punish players for any harassment that is reported to us, but you need to report it.

Pulling monsters to another player or group with the intent to cause the monsters to attack that group is called "training" and is considered harassment. Crowd controlling a group's healer or otherwise compromising a group's ability to fight monsters specifically so that they are killed by monsters and lose XP from death is also considered harassment. If either of these occurrences happen to you, make sure you take screenshots of the act in progress so that we can prove that the incident occurred.

Keep in mind that frequently the punishment for a first-time offense is either a warning or a temporary ban. If your harasser harasses you again, you need to report it to us again so that we can take further action. If you are harassed and do not report it to us then we cannot help you.

Portal PKing
PK in dungeon entrances is not against the rules. This may have been against the rules at some point in the past, but has not been enforced as long as I've been with the company. PKing while a player is defenseless is against the rules and will be punished with a temporary ban for the first offense and a permanent ban for a second. The only place we can't enforce this is the non-entrance portals inside Palmir Plateau.

Also note that any PK with the purpose or result of preventing players from participating in a dungeon siege is strictly prohibited.

Reporting PK Harassment
Send all harassment reports to Rappelz@gala-net.com. Include the word "harassment" or similar in your subject line for faster response time. Include screenshots of you dead showing your killers if possible. If chat harassment occurred as well, make sure you include screenshots of that too. State clearly in your email the player(s) who killed you if you know who it is. Include any prior history with your harassers.

Please remember that false reports can result in a ban, so do not report players frivolously.