Going Red

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"My opponent not fighting back."

I do not think there is a point in the game where my reaction to 'initiating PvP and my opponent decides to do nothing' will lead to me 'not continuing to kill them'. So to me the question is literally just 'why would you ever attack anyone?'

I do not expect to EVER pay attention to Corruption. If I had a reason to attack, I will continue to attack until the opponent is dead. As for whether or not I would attack any given person, that will be the calculation based on what I expect they are carrying.

So, for clarity 'If I think you are carrying enough mats that I want them, your choice to not fight back will not prevent me from continuing to kill you'.

As it should be.

Most likely my main reason would be to remove someone from a farming spot (if there are any in the game). Outside of that prooobably some resources? Though I feel like I'd rather spend time farming money to buy those or just farm the resource itself. And then if someone's there farming it already - I PK them for the right to farm it.

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I mean, they can just stand there, let you kill them and become Red and then let you get fucked by that corruption. That's the 3rd choice a victim has and if anything that's a stronger choice than fighting back.

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Ok, I shouldn't have said "just stand there". They'll just continue doing whatever it is they were doing. The same thing you came there to do and would be trying to fight over. Except they wouldn't fight back in hopes that you gonna kill them and become red.

So your choice is to either share the resource/mobs or to go red. I've had many such cases in L2, when some dude didn't want to give up a farming spot but also didn't fight back when I attacked him.

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We don't know whether it interrupts or not. We also don't know CD on gathering abilities, so if there's none - your target could just immediately restart gathering.

And in the case of farming mobs you'd have to outdps them to get the loot so there's that too.

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Let's assume that it does. Now he's taken damage. Now he starts gathering again. Now you have to hit him again. Do this enough times, and you're red. He doesn't have to hit back.

If you want to say "well a mob will finish him", then I'll just point out he might already have damage from a mob, and you'll last-hit without realizing. (This is specifically intended, and why Steven has said you will not see other player's HP levels.)