Note for Noobs (and possibly some older players)

[painhertz]

When you take damage and fall down (With yellow stars spinning round you), you are not dead, you have just been knocked out. You will lose a point in two random proficiencies, drop everything not carried in your hands and will respawn back at whatever is your homestead. (Claim, leanto) This is NOT death, only another character can kill you, with the murder skill once you are knocked out. Death is permanent and your character ceases to exist forever. (You can however "Inherit your previous characters property). Animals so far cannot kill you and as far as I know, nothing but another character with Murder can.


I make this thread because I'm running across a lot of new players (And some who were even in Alpha.) lol, who don't realize that getting knocked out isn't death.

Edit: I even had one of my townies quit because a bear knocked him out. Apparently he didn't realize the difference.

[Glennfinnan]

I applaud coming up with an idea to create a thread about this.

It is actually poorly advertised and a lot of people mistake a simple KO with death.

[Sevenless]

Good point pain. I ran into someone who had this issue as well. Will add a very short blurb to the top of my guide and credit to you

[painhertz]

Was in a Skype conference last night when a guy I know to have been in Alpha says "Salem isn't perma-death at all." and I'm like.... "How in the hell do you figure that?"

He says "Well, you just re-spawn at your claim and lose a couple skill points."

I was flummoxed. In addition, like I said, one of our better townies got knocked out by a bear, mentioned something in Skype about being killed and never came back. lol

[TotalyMoo]

I was flummoxed.

Beautiful word.

Thanks for posting this thread, I can imagine many new players cry out when they get KO'd the first time.

[Qukatt]

I didn't even realise this was an issue :O

Also +1 to Flummoxed

[MagicManICT]

And here I've been just correcting people when I see them state this in a thread.

I blame the right wing media for this state of affairs!!

[TotalyMoo]

And here I've been just correcting people when I see them state this in a thread.

I blame the right wing media for this state of affairs!!

Blame Canada!

[MagicManICT]

I'm US, so when I say "liberal" or "left wing", that's like being conservative in the rest of the industrialized first-world nations

[sabinati]

And here I've been just correcting people when I see them state this in a thread.

I blame the right wing media for this state of affairs!!

but the media is liberal