Player ghost one-turn kill

[quik]

Went to I:1 to have a smooth early game, coming back after a while. Then, the first player ghost I've ever met shows up and I get killed on the first turn.

Is this unbalanced at this stage or was I just unlucky?

[shockeroo]

I think they're unbalanced. Run into them too early and you're in real trouble, especially on a non-caster. I've lost characters to them and suffered multiple TO drains on other characters. I think they should scale to the level you encounter them on or something.

I would rather have no ghosts at all than ghosts in their current incarnation.

[JellySlayer]

There's an option to turn ghosts off entirely in the config file if you want.