Smurfing is griefing by all means , but how do you know for sure to start with . Then how do you know it ' s not his very first match ever on the account and he has no intention to smurf , just have to go through the low ranks to get to the high ranks . Finally you may stop playing the game for a couple months and come back , lose the first game and voila ! Say hello to your new rank , where difficulty level is such that you can fall asleep . Unless you ' re a gamma male and enjoy that fierce competition . Also it ' s funny how playing with people of much lower skill makes you repeat their mistakes eventually . It ' s a trap . Gaben is angry with you for leaving the game . <| sep |> It still has the biggest impact on novicecasual players . I try to link as often as I can for the new or uneducated players . Knowledge is power . One problem with that is that people might like player to player interactions , but are turned off by ' murderhobo ' tendencies of some pvpersMurder Hobos are part of pvp . You cannot have a legitimate free for all PvP system without extremes on either end of the spectrum . All you can do is try to regulate it with a proper consequence system , which has been suggested by many , myself i n c ludedMurderandConsequence ? p 4427268 # post 4427268 .