You do have a solid point that there really is no "perk" to being red since they did away with the bounty system 15-20 years ago (at least then it was bragging rights).
I think if there was an actual advantage of being red, it would be abused by too many people (probably just kill their alt acct or a guildie to get red for the perk). One thing that I think would be kind of cool would be to have like Bucs Den "Murderer & Thieves Club" where you could only walk through the doors if you were a scofflaw (ie the anti-tram for reds).
I used to have 400+ counts on my red way back in the day from killing helpless miners/lumberjacks before all the resources became random. My PK also had poisoning so I'd leave poisoned food all around and got quite a few counts from that without even being on screen (I'd get a message that I was reported for murder while looking for people to kill). I stopped playing around when VvV came out and when I returned I wanted to make a treasure hunter because I heard you could get some good items that way. Problem was that I didn't have the character slots available outside of my red who had multiple dupe skills my blue fighter had.That's when I heard about a royal pardon to clear ALL counts. At that point, resource gathering was randomized and there weren't a ton of people in Fel roaming around solo so I decided to just clear all my counts and live out my days as a blue treasure hunter.
Being a Murderous S.O.B. is it's own reward.
Not long ago people were using a trick to gate Red's to tram / luna.
everybody went crazy about and paged GM's.
Mesanna said on the last M@G 202X who knows when was the last one, that they would probably allow RED's to travel to all facet's, since they cant kill anyone anyway and that would be a good thing bc PK's could finally use Town Bonus.
Any word on that update??
Why should reds get a town bonus?
Being red shouldn't be rewarded. Anyone can kill a blue character every 5 mins or whatever the timer is and get their counts up. A better idea to reward pvp would be to update vvv. Like any kind of update would be appreciated so long as it doesn't add more restrictions.
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if you're in VvV, you're attackable on site by everyone anyway, even non VvV members, you can't give murder count or call guards..
Well, if blue initiate attack in guardzone, you can call guard, but if blue initiate attack outside guardzone, they just turn orange and can continue to attack you in Guardzone and you won't be able to call guards.
Either way you won't be able to give murder count to anyone"
If you are flagged for PvP why would you give a murder count?
its funny how UO mirrors todays society, or is it the other way around? Greed rules the world, Criminals get rewarded and turned into saints. we put murders up on a pedestal, Criminals get more rights then their victims, but the innocent victims get forgotten and goes nameless.
