Last year the rules stated that civs can't knife kill unless armed/wearing yellow armband. Regular civilians had only possibility to carry weapons IF their profession or other attributes demanded so. Otherwise they would have yellow armband showing that they are armed and possibly hostile. They had possibility to knock out each other or soldiers BUT only with larp weapons.I.Kullberg wrote:If you don't need any weapon to knife kill, you can do it after being searched and handcuffed. It has happened before in Berget that civilian in the prison just started knifekilling guards, with hands tied.
Every handshake is a risk, if just words "knife kill" will eliminate you. If you need to have some kind of "weapon" in your other hand, be it airsoft gun or orange rubber knife or any other rule specified object while you use your hand to touch the opponent (not the knife holding hand, but the empty one) the enemy has possibility to see that you are armed and dangerous.
Knife kills between "soldiers" is not the problem with current rules. Knife kills between civilians is the problem.
So that kind of cuts the case. I agree that with civilians I would suggest there could be rubber knives for a case you have been interrogated and someone didn't search you well enough so you could use the rubber knife hidden in your boot etc. And of course if you are armed it is a whole different situation.