Sorry, no actual outrage contained in this post. With the understanding that it seems like Rangers have more than enough people to whack these days, I wanted to offer up yet another opportunity on the off-chance that one of them found themselves feeling unusually bored.
I've been in the game three weeks, settling a nice little claim, making friends nearby, and generally minding my own business- which is to say, I've scavenged stuff I've encountered in the wilderness if it looked abandoned, but not taken anything off a claim or trespassed. So I'm reasonably certain that the guy who hacked me apart while I was on my claim building My First Palisade(tm) was just going after people for fun (I highly doubt my low-level squishy self gave him much in the way of LP). Granted, when I saw him running up to me with no word of warning, sword ready, and a certain glazed look of bloodlust in his pixelated eyes (okay, that last part was probably my imagination), I x'd out of the game like the callow little noob I am, hoping he'd just settle for a good assault and/or battery. Maybe that irritated him; I really don't know. He didn't steal anything that I noticed, probably because the overwhelming majority of my material wealth at the moment is comprised of pumpkins. Altogether, it wasn't a big deal, and I get the sense from other posts that variations of this happen frequently.
But in case there's anyone out there who enjoys picking on garden-variety wankers who enjoy picking on newbies, I'd be very grateful if you'd let me know, and I will provide you with my location. Thanks!