Healing in Combat - Allowed or not?

[Julio.]

It's been always like this.

If you can escape the heat, and have nobody in visual, you can heal.
If you can escape the heat, and have nobody in visual, you can buy new armour.

It has always been like that and should stay like that. It has always been enforced.

Yeah, this is always what I've worked by.

[Han_Solo]

Today there was an announcement on the Event Bar info, which said "Healing in combat is allowed" "go to Kojak if you disagree with the rule"

So yes, it is allowed.

[Get Murked]

Before Kojak, this rule was strictly being enforced, mainly by Aragorn and was not tolerated at all. It is basically script abusing.

[Kojak]

Before Kojak, this rule was strictly being enforced, mainly by Aragorn and was not tolerated at all. It is basically script abusing.

That is an important point; the fact is it has not been strictly enforced at all. Some admins take a zero tolerance approach to it, others take no action at all; the reason for this inconsistency is that it has not been defined. It is not quite as straight forward as stating, "no healing during combat" because we also have to think about enforcement and defining where combat ends and begins.

Personally I don't see a need for this rule because anyone can heal so there is no advantage given to one player over another, but as I don't play roles often that are affected by the issue of healing during combat my personal opinion is not relevant. So, objectively speaking I do not necessarily oppose the rule, I just want to make sure it is necessary (because an unnecessary rule increases staff workload) and consistently enforceable (because I don't want players being banned wrongly).


Post Merge: January 18, 2012, 11:52:54 amUpdate to this, the matter is now closed. To clarify the rule will continue to exist, healing during actual combat is strictly prohibited but equipping armour is not. It will now be enforced by all staff consistently.

Thank you.