[imported_Hate]

Yes guards shouldnt be allowed to be called from NPC unless you attack them. Same with players they shouldnt be allowed to call guards unless you attack them.

.. or if the person you want to call guards on happens to be red

This is however an issue that have both good and bad sides to it, no matter how we put it.

Lets think about it like this: if some gangster comes to the town and starts beating up innocent people - then it would make perfect sense that everybody seeing that should be allowed to call for the police to help the poor guy being beat up - after all he was innocent, right? (too bad most people in the real world would rather "look away" than help the poor guy).

Another reason why it is this way - if we get back into the world of UO - is most likely because otherwise AFK-macroers would get killed all the time in blue towns, unless they have an "guards!-macro" which pops out of their ass all the time, or as soon as they get hit, depending on how advanced their script is.

But at the same time I can see why it would be annoying to have it this way as well, mostly if you're the guy whose beating somebody up

I think we should stay true to the Sphere-replica and make it the way it was at basic Sphere.

Regards,
Hate