Leaderboard

Agreed. I understand defensive and just don't like it. I think the chap just found a workaround effectively - basically the system is too weighted towards avoiding death. Players can mess with one another and the game forgives them as long as no one dies. I need to work on my non-lethal responses (although all I did was punch him and he was dead, which is a bit extreme, lasso from now on I guess). The game didn't mind his headlock, or his shooting at me as he missed. I don't have a any real issue with griefers (and the odd one can be fun, now that I'm tooled up enough to be able to defend myself). It was just the oik pressing charges which irked me!! But thank you for your thoughts.

Ah, ok. Yeah, well perhaps the whole "headlock" thing is a way to get around it as mentioned. Also, just to clarify, Defensive Mode doesn't make you invisible. You can still see people on your radar that are in this mode but they simply appear as a faded blue dot rather than a distinct, blue one. It's easy enough to see them IME / IMO although some say they have trouble with it. Either way, not a bad deal if your intention is to avoid randoms. I rarely have problems with griefers myself but a lot of that is simply due to avoiding those I feel will likely cause problems. .....I know you know the drill already. You can usually tell just by observing them but then again, there are situations where these folks learn to exploit like hanging out in areas where it kicks people out after missions, etc. .....but again, I just don't feed into all that and it's usually a non-issue after a brief hassle. The tools work but they can also be exploited to an extent. The good news is that Defensive Mode is there if you find folks getting more annoying and it does help in that regard IMO / IME.

My favorite are Bayo NWA near the moonshine shack. I love the swamps.