Advancing a danger level is managed by simply walking further to the north and is not anyhow related to the players' statistics or level. Some games allow almost entirely unrestricted PvP, but inflict penalties on those who repeatedly attack players who do not regularly engage in PvP.
Lineage II uses a variation of this technique. Other games do not supervise player killing at all. However, since the days of Ultima Online, where player killing was originally entirely unrestricted, most developers have come to a consensus that some limitations are required to avoid driving away new players.
In EVE Online there is a security ranking for all locations (1.0 being safe and 0.0 being lawless) and in the more secure systems there is a solid NPC police force that actively hunts down any criminal that enters (personal security rating of -0.5 or lower). Even if you are not a ˇĄcriminalˇ¦ you can also expect to gain their attention if you start an act of aggression against another player or are caught carrying contraband. This sets up a safe, protected, civilised centre for new players, and those who would prefer to avoid confrontations but at the cost of reduced income as the real money is to be made out in the bad-lands, where the griefers lurk.
RuneScape humor
While there is plenty of serious content in RuneScape , there are also lots of quirky and humorous things going on too. Some of the more unusual things include the ability to cook a variety of types of pizzas; pick bananas on a banana plantation; hold parties with balloons; play with yo-yos, spinning saucers, and toy horses; whacking others with rubber chickens; raising a pet cat which can then perform activities such as catching rats; and duelling other players with a rubber chicken or a bunch of flowers. Around Easter 2005 players had the chance to catch up with the fast-moving giant Easter Bunny (a character no longer present in the game) and receive a rubber chicken.
In addition, if one searches a haystack, one will eventually find a needle. One can also "examine" certain items or people to discover amusing results. For instance, when one examines the Head Chef in the cooking guild, the game prints "Despite his name, he in fact only rarely cooks heads." When one examines the Examiner, the game prints "Upon examining the Examiner, you examine that he is indeed the Examiner." There are also various amusing 'emotes' your character can perform, including 'dance', 'panic', 'jump for joy', 'glass wall', 'cry' and 'blow kiss'. A random area has recently been added named "Miscellania", and their enemies, "Etceteria".
There are also a lot of quests which have humorous parts:
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