Back when I first started playing, gassing mounts and packers was considered griefing and was petitionable, if you could catch the person doing it. Apparently today, there are still people who do that kind of thing, whether by digging or by yelking.
If a harvest source explodes or releases gas, it should not affect your meks unless you were involved in causing the source to destabilize, whether by prospecting, extracting, or careplanning. Similarly, if someone drags a yelk and kills it near meks, the meks should not take damage unless the owner was involved in the kill.
Basically, if you -could- earn experience for the action releasing the gas, whether harvesting or killing yelks or any other method of causing damage to the meks, it should damage any meks you own in the vicinity. Otherwise, it should not damage your meks.
Instead of allowing people to grief and then trying to catch them after the fact, just make it impossible to grief. The checks for experience are already in place, so the game already keeps track of who was "involved" in each kind of action.
If this practice is now permitted, ignore everything I just said and please let me know that it is now acceptable behaviour. I'll continue on my merry little way =)
If a harvest source explodes or releases gas, it should not affect your meks unless you were involved in causing the source to destabilize, whether by prospecting, extracting, or careplanning. Similarly, if someone drags a yelk and kills it near meks, the meks should not take damage unless the owner was involved in the kill.
Basically, if you -could- earn experience for the action releasing the gas, whether harvesting or killing yelks or any other method of causing damage to the meks, it should damage any meks you own in the vicinity. Otherwise, it should not damage your meks.
Instead of allowing people to grief and then trying to catch them after the fact, just make it impossible to grief. The checks for experience are already in place, so the game already keeps track of who was "involved" in each kind of action.
If this practice is now permitted, ignore everything I just said and please let me know that it is now acceptable behaviour. I'll continue on my merry little way =)