This is just a topic that I have been puzzled by on mume.


A lot of things in the game has people whining and say it is lame to use,
examples include:

* storeporting
* using poison
* using quake
* using call lightning
* backstabbing
* trapping/bash trapping
* hugegrouping/overkilling

Except for storeporting the whine is that the one whining ended up in a
situation where he had no chance of surviving. Why I find it surpising
to hear whines on storeporters, ie someone who got away from a certain
death using his spells in a way supported by the game.
Likewise I find the whines on quake and call lightning strange. They 
are 2 options available to a caster both with major drawbacks and
difficulties. I agree that they can be powerful in the right 
circumstances but not too powerful.  Bolt-fball-spray kills far more
victims in pk than quake and call do.

The same goes for backstabbing, powerful but with drawbacks, especially
since the sneak movecost/moveregen changes.

When it comes to poison I don't have any char at the moment who use
it, but I still don't think it is wrong to do so. Using poison is an
option open to all chars who use a weapon to inflict damage to their
opponants. There are ways to beat it (rem poison, antidote).
If you do not prepare for dealing with poison it's like a caster not
castin armour up before entering battle, it'll hurt like hell but you
can't blame your opponant.

Trapping, bash-trapping, hugegrouping and overkilling is mostly the same
thing, with just diffrent twists to the setting. And noone likes to have 
it happen to them.
I to, think hugegroup trapping is pretty lame, having died repeatedly to
mochotraps(TM) and other types of hugegrouptraps.

But grouping up 2-4 for xp/pk is not uncommon and perfectly ok (IMHO).
And so if such a group runs into a single opponant it's not an even
fight. But then again who's looking for an even fight? We all want that
little edge that will win us the fight, it's all in the game.

That edge can be a lot of things. Although I hear noone claiming warriors
should not use ornate when pounding or warsword when smiting. Ofcourse
not, you wouldn't get many kills using cudgel or quaterstaff, you use
your best option. 

So what's all the whining about?

-Pontus  p(filas,kasper,ulrika + a bunch more)