It was a very strong armed message, and he was sure that it would encourage a fair bit of contrarianism.
Yes, there would be that fair share of players offended by the notion of being given orders or directed to be kind, and proceed to intentionally be assholes.
That was okay.
There were two main reasons.
One, players doing that now rather than later was preferable. That would get them blacklisted by various NPCs, which would end up suppressing their growth.
While a death wasn't the end of the world for a player, it still came with a respawn period, EXP loss, and certain other conditional penalties.
Memories made their way back to Lumi.
In every major city, there would be a common sight uniting them. A giant bounty board, full of players. Only players, marked to be killed. Every kill granted rewards, making many powerful natives farm the heck out of certain players to repeatedly cash in the prize.
