That article is very one sided all you show is from the point of view of the person doing all the "No Honour" things. Now I don't like the use of the word Honour in a game but everyone has their own area of rules for pkin they want to follow. In the "Honour" Clan world we like to follow rules like no crashing war's or other peoples planned fights. Why you may ask? Because its stupid and we find it un fair to go in and spoil someone else's fun. When it comes to pking with clans the "Honour" clans do not allow members to tele wear noob gear like hides with just a rune scimmy, they don't allow their members to run from fights. You want to know why. It's because we pk to fight not to save or gain rune. Afterall these are only pixels they have no use in the outside world. Once you quit this game its all gone. So why bother being so worried about losing rs money at pk's when in the end its worthless anyways. When it comes to fighting 1 on 1 I feel that you discribed the pray thing way wrong. When I pk and I p2p pk a lot. I do not pray 1 vs 1 I sometimes wont even smite a person for their whip if they don't want to use smite. Why? because im a nice guy and I don't pk for money I pk for fun. RS money is nothing to me so I don't care about profit just as long as I get rune legs or even a dds to restalk on food and pots its fine. But when you say if someone prays 1 vs 1 on you simply just put smite on you obviously no nothing about pking someone who prays.(which is probably true since you said yourself you pray melee) Think about this for a second. Lets say I am fighting you in the wilderness. I have my usual gear. Torso, rune legs, zerker helm, rune def, glory, dds, whip, barrows gloves, climb boots(or sometimes rune), and a legends cape. You have your white/gold armer dscim and bunch of other junk you dont care about losing. I will respectfully first ask you to pot if you won't I'll say ok last chance then I'll pot and attack you. Because you are to me 1 itemeing I'll automatically smite you. Now You say pray melee in fights is ok. So next you put pray melee on. Now my attacks are greatly weakend but yours are just as strong as ever. You say keep smiting if I don't like you praying 1 vs 1. Now lets see I normally hit 32ish with a dds spec so I'll say you hit same now because you are praying your gonna hit 32 20 on me and I'll only hit 15 18. You will then switch off dds and hit 30's with dscim while I hit 20's with my whip. How effective do you think the smite is gonna work on you. I have almost a 0% chance of killing you but you have about a 50% chance of killing me. Now I will probably say No smite? and then take it off(since some if they don't wanna fight with smite will pray) then wait for you to take off your pray melee. But because you pray anyways you will continue to pray melee. By the time ive smited all your pray pots I will have no food and you will still have probably half. This is just plain stupid. Just because Jagex lets you do it doesn't mean it isn't gonna ruin pking for other people. I spent 4 years f2p and 1 year p2p so far. In the 4 years i was f2p I mainly pked. I could go through 1k+ lobs a day fighting people who tele fight after fight. After a while it becomes a major waste of money. Even for people who tele it becomes costly cuz you never stick around long enough to win a fight. In my opinion if someone is able to kill me in a fight they deserve to get my stuff. If you cannot afford to pk don't pk just go skill some more. As for pking deeper the reason people pk at edge is because they don't want to end up fighting a 120+ 1 vs 1 where they are guarenteed to lose. I do agree that it has gone way out of hand the way some people act. I have no problem with eating to stay alive. Safe eating is a newer thing(to me atleast) things like that were never around and they started when the f2p pure fad came in. People couldn't hit very high so they were tired of not getting kills. As for far casting and rc pking. Far casters can try and far cast me any day i have a 90% chance of being able to ko you.(had lots of practice fighting them) when it comes to rc pkers you are just plain sad. Rc pkers are newb pkers(newb = new) who have little to no skill. they do it because its free glory's and the oponint has no prayer and little to no food. Not to mention it is very mean. People who rc using the abyss die to a rc pker have to go through all the hard work of getting their pouches again.(this is a very anoying process) Obviously the maker of this article has never rced using the abyss or they would be 100% against rc pking. Scott
