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[Suggestion] Clarify how Karma works in the "My information" window
Mar 30, 2022, 20:14 (UTC)
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Last Edit : Mar 30, 2022, 20:14 (UTC)
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Hi!

I am someone who feel as if Karma is one of the game's major mysteries even though I can press "P" (opens up "My information window) and hover over my own karma for some information on how it works. After reading it there are however still some questions that spring to mind and thus I feel as if it could use an update to clarify some things.

1) It states that there's a chance to lose trade goods when you die if you have low karma.
 a) This feels weird as I have died plenty of times with positive karma and I always lose trade goods, be it fishies or things gained from gathering/farming (was ganked while pruning my own garden once, bye bye trade goods). I've lost these both from PvE and PvP deaths so not sure how this part is relevant in the karma information (unless I'm missing something).

2) It states that dying might cause you to lose crystals and even enhancement levels.
 a) As we all know, with positive karma you always run the risk of losing crystals from PvE deaths and you never lose enhancement levels. I believe this part should be clarified and point out what type of deaths we're talking about. I'm fairly sure there are those out there who know how this works but for those who have no clue, the tooltip isn't helping. I've been told (no idea if it's true) that the crystal loss applies to PvP and enhancement loss is PvE death.

3) The tooltip suggests that killing a player would result in loss of karma.
 a) This only holds true if you flag and kill someone. Players who are not flagged for PvP can always defend themselves against aggressors without consequences. It doesn't say that killing red players are okay either but suggests karma loss applies when killing them as well.

I'll admit that I never gank other players and I wouldn't be surprised if I've misunderstood some things but my point here is that I'd like to see some clarifications so that we who don't know how it works got a reliable in-game source of reference that explains it to us.

Thank you all for reading! =)

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