Buffing the Punisher may work, since that's his actual purpose even if he's not very effective.
There needs to be a SYSTEM fix, not just an npc who annoys you like Dan Asty. Like, if you're above say 150k xp and you kill someone beneath 100k and YOU started the fight then you get a permanent nerf or something. Cause jesus, this is just fucking stupid at this point.
A system fix like that just wouldn't be feasible even if possible. You'd have things like n-tags going around harassing GOKU trying to exploit the system.
Just keep newbies informed that they should page help if they're being incessantly griefed and make sure admins are handling situations properly.
High levels should be able to kill whomever they want, regardless of how low-xp they are. They just should be strongly limited from actually griefing players instead of just characters.
But they're not and they never will be I suspect.
Wasn't that pretty much the whole cause of the schism to begin with, some people decided they were fed up with the rampant griefing from veteran players and wanted to enforce no-pvp rules or some such, with HATE essentially being all the veteran griefers who went off to make their own game?
There's a strong difference between the only consensual-pvp of GilMOO and no-griefing. Getting killed by someone in the game is not being griefed, the setting is one of the more brutal post-apocalyptic worlds and without random people trying to kill you occasionally part of the game is just missing.
Newbies being repeatedly killed is something which the admins should work to punish or at least dissuade even if pvp is an integral part of the game.
Oddly enough I haven't seen much griefing. Well except apartment robberies... which I've somehow avoided, despite having only a scanlock keeping people out of my cheap apartment (and a silver keeping people in hehe). To date I've never been random killed, and the only time I have been killed by a player was when my stress attacked Stabs (which was entertaining).
Maybe I just have some sort of voodoo protecting me that I don't know about. I've been attacked by people who wanted to do some random newbie killing. But so far they've never expressly targeted me.
That will probably change if I start hacking gangland cams.
I haven't really seen too much griefing either, honestly. My first day back to hate I was raped by bonghitz when I tried to deliver a package to the tandoori shack, and I still managed to escape alive. Other than that, there was maybe one occasion that someone even attempted to kill me and I pulled a smoke bomb and disappeared.