Pking is dead because most of the time you get ganged up on. Not ganged up by enemy friends or whatever, but people who log onto multiple accounts to kill one person.
If we’re to consider the future of pking for this server, how many new players want to log in and go PK only to find one user logs on 2-4 chars to take them down?
Yes there’ll be those who say “make friends and go pk” “go 1 ip zones” “create multiple accounts yourself”
This was never a thing in real RSC, it TBH has ruined pking. I understand that 1 IP in wilderness was global at once, but this free IP (western wild) ain’t working. For those who even pk or consider pking, all you see in death logs/kill feed are the same 10-15 people...
But then again how you expect someone to defend themselves on 1IP whilst pking solo against multiple people? There is nothing you could do. Multi isn't the problem, multi is what keeps the pking somewhat alive, you get 1 war a day and that would last 5mins with 1ip, with multi it can go on for hours. Usually the enemies will just back off until they get more and can outnumber u more. theres like 40 pkers left in the whole scene who try and keep it active, the problem is half of these pussies wont fight you until they have 10 friends with them because they're too scared to lose some _pixels_
It still doesn’t help the future of this server. If you need “someone to defend you”, that means you’re working on an alternate account, you already have a main account set up. Protecting your own account in the Wild was never a thing in classic RS
90% of what this server is was never a thing in RSC. Y'all gotta stop trying to replicate RSC to the state it was 16 years ago so hard, and yet still have no problem with all these Rs2 features. There was thousands of unique players pking in classic. You didn't need multi to PK, the situation is way different these days. Probably past 8 years, it has been 95% the SAME people playing on/off these servers keeping the pking alive, few fresh faces come and go every now and then. I have no problem pking with just 1 account, but 1 IP will just kill the server, trust me. It's happened before on Rev, on turnip, legacy, every server that has tried it. The end result always has been the pkers who keep the scene alive quitting and going to other servers, and the staff realizing they made a mistake and they'll revert back to no ip limits, usually it's too late. Sorry but that's just how it is these days, i miss the days myself when you could just login on your account and find action anywhere you went, but you gotta face that this is a dying game and probably wont have many years left and you just have to adapt.