Life in Qeynos

Kill On Sight!

In Everquest 2, I learnt a new acronym - KOS.

It means - "Kill On Sight". Most times it's referring to mobs, ie if they hate you (ie you have a bad faction with them), you're KOS to them. That means they will attack you on sight. This acronym only applies to mobs that do not necessarily kill everyone on sight, only those with a bad faction to them.

An example would be the centaurs in Thundering Steppes. When you're a lowbie level 20 running around there, and you kill some centaurs due to a quest (or just for fun), your faction with them gets a hit. Once you have killed enough centaurs to make them hate you, you are KOS to them, and they will then become aggro to you.

So it was with some amusement that players now refer to the new expansion Kingdom Of Sky as "KOS". At least Desert Of Flames (prevoius expansion) was called DoF, which does not share any acronyms with anything else, so it's unique.

Speaking of expansions, I am going out to try to buy Kingdom of Sky from Tecdrome later. I hope I can get it, and then I can install it and get back into EQ2 and start levelling up to 70. Killing guards is fun for awhile but eventually you will get bored and want to do something else.

posted by FoxTwo @ 17:22