well there are few options you can do without hard coding: 
 
-declare some zones (like some cities) to be no combat - so there is some place relatively safe 
 
-via player.pl file you could say cast Divine Aura on a player who just been killed, which will last until he recovers his corpse 
 
-you could also remove corpse recovery - so players respawn with all their gear. But if you want to institute a penalty, upon death you could run a script that: 
 
-will remove a certain amount of plat from dead player and give it to his killer 
-if no plat was found, a random item removed, while random item is given to killer. 
-Amount of plat will be based of your level 
 
so you get same kill-reward, just without having corpse issue in between. 
 
Basically try to handle via scripts as much as possible so there is as little artificial rule enforcement as possible. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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