But you still haven't addressed another point that IS a valid complaint: Quest site camping. All are vulnerable, but the middle of the map is a paradise for duelers.
Okay. I've spoken up for the non-dueling population. Not that I expected anything positive in the responses, but you know I had to do it. Harping over.
I can relate to what you're saying because believe it or not, it's been a long time since I've duelled actively. My perspective comes from years as a dueller, a fort fighter and a worker and my own personal benefit is the last thing on my mind when I participate in this thread.
I'm not as active as I once was, so I'm using a construction build at the moment and casually building my church at a leisurely pace. While my motivation's down, I tend to use up my energy doing jobs in the middle county. There are more duellers around than if I went and sat in, say, the north east corner of the map, but in the three months since I founded my town, I've been duelled 30 times (checked using my mortician). That's an average of approximately one duel per three days and I've never been KOed. In fact, I've never been missing more than 2k HP out of 6k total. The "duellers" who have hit me back to back are too bad to do a significant amount of damage, and the decent ones hit once and leave, which is generally how it works.
Granted, I do wear full Cullen's set and a Golden Tomahawk, which is enough of a deterrent for most worker beating njubs, but even with less intimidating gear I'd expect an average of perhaps one duel per day, also accounting for the fact that without 6k HP you'll probably be spending a couple of days KOed here and there.
I'll admit that quest givers can be popular camping locations during holiday quests (the ghost town during Halloween is an absolute duellers' paradise), but I've never had an issue with those as a non-dueller either. If you're travelling to a quest giver, just set yourself to sleep in the nearest town rather than sitting idle. Most holiday quests that involve quest givers don't take long to complete, so it's unlikely that you'll be duelled enough times whilst working or travelling to be KOed, and if you are, you get two days in which to come back and finish the quest in peace. I've never noticed an influx of campers around regular non-holiday quest givers. Regardless, camping now has absolutely NOTHING on camping when it was actually realistic to call it that, ie. when you could sit at someone's town and duel them no matter where they were on the map, then sleep immediately. No one job KOed then.
It's not that I can't understand the points being raised by non-duellers or that I'm incapable of seeing things from a certain perspective. It's just that, based on my own experience, I genuinely find the concerns being raised by so many job KO advocates here to be completely overblown. The mentality that the majority of non-duellers have adopted over the last couple of years is causing more of a problem than the update itself.
People don't seem to be afraid of duels because of any of the negative effects such as the possibility of losing money, the inconvenience of sleeping while you're online or the loss of HP before a fort battle. It's like having the ability to job KO for so long has bred some kind of irrational fear of duels themselves and everyone is absolutely determined to do whatever it takes to avoid the possibility of being duelled at all costs, regardless of whether it will actually happen more than once every three days or whether they even have anything to lose.
EDIT: And seeing dell's post has prompted me to include something more. I won't pretend that it's not possible to come across some njub dueller who does like to spend all day repeatedly hitting you or your town. In fact, I know what it's like more than most, having been the biggest tank on a world with a bounty of $200k and also having made it to rank 2 in the duel rankings and then respeccing to pure HP as an adventurer, in both cases refusing to job KO and being duelled up to twenty times every day (not even exaggerating). So I'm capable of dealing with that, but I'm not stupid enough to expect everyone to be the same. Dell's already made a great post regarding the strategies of overcoming campers, but I'll also throw in another one about asking your friends or allied duellers to KO the culprit. Job KOs have never been the only method of self defence.
