I would agree. I loathe the abuse of stealth. Admittedly I became a lot more tolerant of it after taking up stealth - the UO environment is terribly uinteractive and you can't exactly emote whilst sneaking around. I'd happily emote climbing over walls and running along roof tops or hopping from tree to tree or something like that, but quite frankly I just don't trust a majority of my fellow roleplayers. Generally as a rule I try to not stealth too ridiculously obviously, though of course I imagine I've been guilty of it at times.

I still hate the abuse of hiding, mind. Anyone who makes a habit of hiding in plain sight should simply have the skill banned. I think it'd anger someone in this thread in particular if I started pointing fingers, but I can think of one highly regarded (hah, sort of anyway) roleplay veteran that's been LoS hiding shamelessly for about a decade! I guess it's different opinions.

But, yeh, since ML tracking abuse has just been horrific. Everyone and their aunt is like the best tracker in the world and can miraculously do it at full sprint. I think at times it's fairly justified, I've seen Klion do it on a horse in the middle of the keep - that seems fair. I mean from his vantage point and with the minimal cover in the keep* he's going to have a good look.


* that said, that does bring me back to point A about using your imagination in stealth. There's nothing to say that "lol hedlyn is by the tradepost get yr xbows out" isn't ACTUALLY, say, on the roof.