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Lately the fad on the Shmack RQ server is for players to vote to enable rune drop, then search for the vengeance and vampire rune so they can do their little trick whereby the vampire-holding player throws gas on the vengeance-holding player, triggering a chain reaction of death/resurrection, and rolling off a chain of frags for the vengeance-holding player.
If it happens organically it's probably one of the coolest things that can happen in RQ. But what is happening is that Sheep FKR and his band of followers are doing their best to impede the game. I thought this "fad" would go away after a day or two, but they keep on and on and on, round after round, day after day, week after week.
Sheep FKR and his vampire troll followers berate and insult any players actually trying to play the game so that they can do this little trick. I am not fond of this, but it actually is pretty fun to frag on them while they are doing it. However, it absolutely does drive away players which I am definitely not fond of. I see that as a big problem.
The other big problem is that Sheep FKR now connects to the game with 2 clients. If none of his band of trolls are on the server, he uses his 2nd client as a pawn so that he can still do the trick. When he does it in the middle of a game of actual players, it pretty much defeats the purpose of the game. I've attached a demo of him doing this. The demo was in a mostly empty game (3 players). But even in a server full of players, he will still do it, effectively ruining the game for every other player.
I have called him on this behavior and his response is that he thinks it's funny, he thinks all the other players think it's funny, and he'll stop doing it if Slot Zero tells him to stop. Lame! I'm sure we'll hear from Sheep and his band of vampire trolls telling everyone how cool they are and how funny their trick is, and how much of a whiner I am. Har har. It was funny once. It's not funny round after round, day after day, week after week. And I'm definitely not the only one who hates it.
I'd like to suggest a couple of ways to address this major nuisance:
1. As an immediate deterrent, disable rune drop voting. The result of rune dropping is that after a few minutes, only the strong runes remain because they are the ones that people hold until they die. This tremendously increases the chance that any rune will be vampire or vengeance, which are the two runes needed by the vampire trolls. Disabling it would make finding the runes much more difficult, and serve as a deterrent to their nonsense.
2. As a permanent solution, fix the vampire rune so that a long series of death/resurrection events is more difficult or impossible. Perhaps max it out at 3 or 5, or add spawn protection for 2 or 3 seconds after resurrection, or disable it entirely. Resurrection is a cool feature of the rune, but not at the expense of the entire game. Vampire rune would be plenty strong without resurrection at all.
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File comment: Enclosed demo shows Sheep FKR switching between his two clients to shamelessly ruin the game.
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