I originally posted this on the World of Rubi-Ka forum, it was a reply to a post about guard killing, so I'm copying it here so it since this is the appropriate place.
I don't like guard killing in highly populated areas, but I understand why people do it. The guards provide a consistant factor in terms of the level, ac and evades on a mob, missions don't. If something is to be done about guard killing, it has to be convenient, or at least a better alternative to killing guards. Here's my suggestion, my apologies is someone has come up with this idea earlier, and thanks to Bionitrous for putting me on the idea in the first place.
We should get Firing Ranges (sorry melee users, I'm a soldier, I think ranged weapons. Find a better name if you can. ), one in each town. Inside there should be fixed mobs of various levels, say 50, 100, 150 etc. The AC's and evades of these mobs should be written on a poster on the wall, and there should be several mobs of the same level to avoid crowding. To add a certain RP'ing element to it, the targets could be criminals sentenced to death or something like that. These mobs should of course not give out any xp or loot or anything useful besides their purpose as a test facility.
edit: silly me, I forgot to state the purpose of this. In case you didn't figure it out, it's for testing weapons in a controlled environment
