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Killing citizens

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Furrik
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I've heard that you can kill any non-essencial town citizen at any time, but I can kill them only when they attack me first (for example, when I fail to pickpocket them). I can't use my weapons when aiming at the NPCs. Am I doing something wrong or I can really only defend myself when attacked?
  • Allyhoo811
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    Check your settings...There is an option that turns off the ability to kill citizens. It is for people who don't want to accidentally murder innocent people by pressing the wrong key when running around a town.
  • Mandrel8
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    Why would you want to kill NPCs?
  • Allyhoo811
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    Mandrel8 wrote: »
    Why would you want to kill NPCs?

    Role-Playing reasons (e.g. your character isn't a nice person).

    There are achievements for killing X number of NPCs.

    They have really annoying dialogue that you've heard too many times (too bad most of these NPCs aren't able to be killed).

    P.S. The NPCs do not stay dead, they respawn after a certain period of time.

  • thunderwell
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    Come to the cloud district often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.
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  • Fruitmass
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    thunderwell wrote: »
    Come to the cloud district often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.

    Lol. Yeah, Nazeem dies on general principle. So does every bard who dares sing "Ragnar the Red" within my presence.
    Beware all ye who log on for here there be typos...
  • Furrik
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    Hah, I've never noticed there's an option for that! Thanks for the help. Now I got 15k bounty on my head! :D
  • Alucardo
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    Allyhoo811 wrote: »
    P.S. The NPCs do not stay dead, they respawn after a certain period of time.

    Is this a bad thing? There's a limited number of NPCs you are able to kill. If they perma-died there'd be none left for the rest of us
  • Allyhoo811
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    Alucardo wrote: »
    Allyhoo811 wrote: »
    P.S. The NPCs do not stay dead, they respawn after a certain period of time.

    Is this a bad thing? There's a limited number of NPCs you are able to kill. If they perma-died there'd be none left for the rest of us

    No, of course it isn't a bad thing...I was responding to the person above who asked why anyone would want to kill NPCs. He/she didn't really seem to understand the mechanic, and I just didn't want him/her to think that it was a permanent action.

  • Alucardo
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    Allyhoo811 wrote: »
    No, of course it isn't a bad thing...I was responding to the person above who asked why anyone would want to kill NPCs. He/she didn't really seem to understand the mechanic, and I just didn't want him/her to think that it was a permanent action.
    lol my bad, I thought you were stating it as a negative thing sorry xD
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