What is murder status and how do I get rid of it?Once you are level 20 you can attack or be attacked by any player who is also level 20 or higher, without wearing a cape, without wearing a job item, and without being at war. To do this, you must hold the ALT key when attacking. When you attack someone in this way your name turns pink to indicate
offender status. As an offender you may be attacked by any player freely; they will not become offenders, and they can kill you without penalty.
Offender status wears off if you have not attacked a player or been attacked by a player for roughly 20 seconds.
If you continue to attack using the ALT key and you kill the other player, your name will turn red to indicate
murderer status. This status is much more serious and does not wear off on its own. Every murder gives you 1200 murder points, and adds to your daily PK limit. If you murder a much lower level player, you will be given more than 1 point on your daily PK limit; when this limit reaches 15/15, you cannot murder anyone else until the next day. As a murderer, you have the following penalties:
- Any player can kill you with no penalty, as in offender status.
- If killed by a player, you lose 20 SP and 2% (less at higher levels) of your experience level.
- If killed by a monster, you lose 60 SP and 6% (less at higher levels) of your experience level.
- Cannot use return scrolls, dimensional gates, horses, or pack animals.
- Cannot open a stall.
- Much higher chance to drop items if killed, depending on the level of murder status.
- When in town, you lose HP at a rate of 5% every 4 seconds.
- When in town, the autopot function does not work.
There are three ways to remove
murderer status.
- Killing monsters decreases your murder points, depending on the strength of the monster. A monster with a blue name (lower relative level) reduces murder points by 1 per kill; a monster with a red name (higher relative level) can reduce murder points by 7-10 per kill; monsters with green, white or orange names occupy the values in between.
- Being killed by a player removes 200 murderer points, except during a cape match, or during job PvP.
- Being killed by a monster removes 600 murderer points.
When your murder points reach 0, your name turns white and you are no longer a murderer, but the skull icon remains below your HP/MP bar for another day, or until your daily PK limit is 0.
