This just soundsike a case of people not retaining the knowledge of role playing. If people didn't go afk they could answer to the demands of the aggressor (fear to) or if they would role play and take turns being a guard with their friend the guard could be protecting them. We stopped people from building in the mines because the only thing happens is that a bunch of people sit their farming cash. The lock picks are made to be lost if we didn't want them to be lost we would of made them permanent and then everyone could of had one. I'm sure I could think of a hundred ways to role play not getting killed down in the mines if it came down to it. Long story short be alert when mining and don't sit down there like a depressed teenager in their room.