I've been killed more times by people who speak my native language than any Russian, Pole or Czech.
Also, you have not-to-be-specified persons that carry a false visage and call themselves "anti PK" acting self-rightous while they themselves do the acts which they vehemently claim to oppose.
You can always (or nearly always) trace those mistakes back to yourself. + if you can't defend your 3k worth of stuff, you should just leave it in your tent or someone stronger/more skilled/numerous then you will. I don't see any problem with that. If this game ever gets stuff that does't drop when you die, I'm out. Ultima Online's been ruined that way, WoW was poop (concerning pvp) from the start, all mmos these days are for pussies who don't want to lose their pixels. I agree idiots are a problem though.
In other MMO's you may not drop stuff but even if you did high level pcs tend to not go to lowbie areas.Ussually there is protection for that short of thing... ie opposing faction high level players are auto-attacked by guards in a city. Hence a Horde level 80 guy that goes to Stormwind end up being chased by lvl 80 guards,,, In this game there is no "karma" for killing pcs, there is no global karma that precludes you from staying a "villain" and away from cities if you decided to take that role, nor is there any protection for even the player who just started the game and is killing rats outside NCR...There are people that will show up and shoot you without a word for the two flints and 9mm mauser with 5 bullets that you are carrying... there are others who will laugh at you on top of that and there are those that will show up, shoot you with a burst and then say "oups sorry, I did it just in case"... yes yes... you killed the 40 hp blueshirt in case he had a hidden enclave armor and plasma rifle in his pocktet but decided to kill rats for the precious challenge they pose.In the end I dont care though...this morning I just made my tent and got my combat shotgun and a nice leather armor so I can actually start enjoying the game...But overall , and this is important more for whenever this game will go live and not for beta, not many games offer hard start and less hard future... its something that will drive away even a non-casual gamer if he doesnt LOVE the fallout feeling and concept. MMO games are supposed to reward new players and make the start easy for them otherwise people will just drop out.
yea... is why they really need to bring back the usual negative karma system(with a few modifications like revenge and stealer killings)...... at the moment people only loose karma if you are part of BoS or Enclave, but that means you cant be part of any player factions.... nor is there a negative effect from killing bluesuits
gaining karma for killing higher level would be highly abused.