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Old 2012-08-05, 00:27   Link #154
Clarste
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Age: 37
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier View Post
All the high-level front-line players seem to know each other quite well. Regardless of their individual play styles, guild affiliation, or personal likes or dislikes of each other, they all get together when the boss is found and work together to kill the boss to advance to the next floor. It's unlikely anybody on the front lines would be a PKer because of this. All the PKers probably are lower level than the front-liners simply because they spend time hunting and killing players and they would not be welcome at the front lines, especially in a boss fight.
It's not a fair fight, they just need to be able to hurt him. Which... isn't really that hard unless you're much lower level. Someone only a few levels behind could probably kill a sleeping player. People seem to really really overestimate that regeneration skill. It was the insult on top of the injury, not the gamebreaking ability that let him survive. Even without it it would have taken about 6 hours to kill him with the damage they were doing.

Also, I think you're greatly overestimating the "closeness" of the front line people. Kirito's a front-liner. And he told us himself that turning orange for a few days would make no difference to him. And of course he seems to constantly take breaks from the front lines and help out lower level people. It really wouldn't be hard at all for him to secretly kill someone and then lay low for a while to turn back to green. I'm not saying Kirito himself would ever do anything like that, but we've hardly met anyone on the front lines. How can you say that none of them would ever murder someone? Even if they wouldn't kill a random person for no reason, who's to say they wouldn't act on a grudge or something? People in real life are faced with great penalties for murder, but that doesn't mean it never happens. Either it's a crime of passion or someone thinks they won't get caught. Why would that change in a VR world?
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