Social Player Mobs

0.89.0

Not fighting an echo back makes your own echo flighty

Your echo used to be shaped only by the violence you did. Now it is also shaped by the violence you refused. An echo that comes for you and doesn't get a fight out of you leaves its mark: take its blows without hitting back, or slip away from it alive, and the echo born from your death leans toward Flight. Hit it back even once — or kill it — and the whole credit is handed straight back. A fight once joined is a fight.

• Damage you take from an echo you never strike back counts toward Flight, point for point against damage you deal.
• Getting away clean from an echo that was hunting you counts too, once per echo.
• One blow in return, or the kill, cancels everything that echo had earned you.
• A life that never raised a hand used to reincarnate as a fighter; now it comes back timid.

0.88.0

Fighting back no longer marks you as a killer

When you die, the echo you leave behind is shaped by how you treated the people you met — but until now it couldn't tell murder from survival. Kills where something came for you first now count for a tenth as much, so a life spent defending yourself reincarnates near neutral instead of as a monster.

• Damage and kills against a mob that targeted or struck you first are weighed at 10% toward both Fight/Flight and Friendliness.
• Your own first strike still counts in full — the discount only applies once the other side has picked the fight.
• Hate-seeded death-note echoes hunt you, so cutting one down barely stains the life you leave behind.