by KruskDaMangled » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:14 am
Friendly is for well on your side of a wall and outside stomp radius.
This is the kind of game people will attack you on general principal just because it's fairly likely you are dangerous or up to no good by default, or so their thinking goes.
It's probably not going to be true all the time, but it's true often enough (most of the time probably) that it's better safe than never.
Also, petty cruelty/punching you in the mouth like an ass. You know, because. For the lulz. That is another reason that might happen. I got mugged the first week I started a new character and it wasn't even that good of stuff. He did it because he could. It was too early for anyone to be able to kill me, so there was that. I also actually got beaten up and robbed on Popham once, but not my clothes.
(Actually until Darwoth getting feisty just recently Popham was amazingly safe for months. The other nasty thing that happened was some guy bashing some stuff I hadn't claimed yet like a *****.)
I swear it's our failure as players in some part on Popham because theoretically, it was supposed to be pretty dangerous. This was not my experience. Providence is typically even safer if you take reasonable precautions. Hell, you can gather and hunt a little bit on the Providence claim. There are some things you could get all you want early on from that claim and only fear disease, and people bullying you with push and tickle.