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  • azzamasinazzamasin Member UncommonPosts: 3,105
    Originally posted by kadepsyson

    Perhaps because it doesn't make sense.  Two people standing next to each other, and you can't attack one of them because an hour earlier he aligned himself to some faction.

     

    How about if you have PVP let the players choose how much to risk through the actual actions they take rather than set in stone game mechanics.  In other words, those rare resources you mention, would require adventuring a bit farther from the safety of guards watchful eyes, away from the nearest city.  Also realize that if someone is attacked in the town, they are unlikely to die, but it still could happen.  Just the attackers would be easily apprehended.

     

    I think letting players choose their path using actions and thinking about what they are willing to risk for what they want to gain is far better a practice than just "you aligned to the third faction, safe from all pvp forever"

    Asheron's Call does it on the White servers (PvE) I don't see what the harm would be.

    Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!

    Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!

    Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!

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  • NaughtyPNaughtyP Member UncommonPosts: 793
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by Benedikt

    Ad1. Except it didn't work to provide more potential customers now did it. Because those not interested in open world pvp ignored it and instead pvped from time to time in the set pvp lakes. Whilst those really interested in open world pvp merely avoided the game for the main part.

     

    You could have only 2 people interested in open world pvp and 3 billion interested in arenas, that doesn't change the fact flagging is a crap mechanic for open world pvp.

     

    There isn't a choice of always pvp or never pvp. People not interested in open world games have the option of taking part in arenas, instances, tournaments, guild wars, pvp lakes, duels et al. Whilst those interested in open world pvp can take part in open world pvp games. Whacking in a flagging system to bastardize open world pvp just serves to fk up the situation for one group and add next to nothing for the other group.

     

    Most "casual" pvpers in SWG used Restuss and the stim base lakes. They didn't pop SF and go looking for random fights.

     

    Ad2. What? I pointed out there is a fking huge difference between roaming an open world and having to take the rough with the smooth, and being able to roam about in total safety until you see the chance to gank someone. The difference should be patently clear to anyone with eyes as should the issue with the latter.

     

    If a pve player wants to pve from time to time as and when they choose, then they take advantage of lakes, arenas, duels, guild wars and instanced pvp. PvP on demand as and when they want it, not randomly walking about hoping for the best which is what flagging offers them. A flagging system which does nothing for casual pvpers and at the same time totally balls up open world pvp for those with a real interest in it.

     

    SWG didn't need the flagging system to provide pvp to those with no interest in open world pvp.

    SWG's flagging system brought more detrimental effects to open world pvp than positive effects.

    A flagging system as seen in SWG as part of an open world pvp system (outside of the context of safe zone flagging) is utterly defunct at best and utterly detrimental to the system at worst.

    SWG is far, far away from a good example of how open world pvp should be handled.

    Seeing as how I am one of the glue-sniffing, mind-boggling, bastardized-PvP-loving SWG fans, I'm curious what your idea for a good, optional open world PvP system would be. Any thoughts or ideas?

    Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure.

  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    Originally posted by azzamasin

    Asheron's Call does it on the White servers (PvE) I don't see what the harm would be.

    Asheron's Call has it on white servers because the game was originally designed with no white servers in mind. The white servers were a change prior to release and hitting up a shrine to toggle red/white was added in. Comparing DT to the white servers should give you your answer, as it is rather meaningless to be red on the white servers because all of the gameplay related to PVP was lost such as controlling a dungeon or holding a town/fort. Even PVP for the fun of it was quickly losing appeal on the white servers which is why they implemented PKLite in 2004 to reduce repercussion, make it a toggle, and make it more accessible.

    To understand the harm it would do, don't try to imagine a white server with a red toggle. Imagine a red server with a white toggle.

     

    There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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  • nariusseldonnariusseldon Member EpicPosts: 27,775
    Originally posted by Quirhid

    E-sports is bigger than it ever was. There are monthly cash tournaments in many games and some games have had a tournament prize pool of 3 million dollars. Instanced PvP is hugely popular. People love it. To say its popular only because of the rewards and devs are lazy is only you trying to bury your head in the sand - you trying to wrestle with the fact that you belong in a minority.

    There's nothing inferior about instanced PvP.

    Yeah .. look at SC2 .. it is practically the national sport of South Korea. Look at LOL. It has MORE active players than WOW. They don't get so popular because of the rewards. In fact, there is no reward in SC2 except the feeling of winning.

     

  • TorikTorik Member UncommonPosts: 2,342
    Originally posted by Loktofeit
    Originally posted by azzamasin

    Asheron's Call does it on the White servers (PvE) I don't see what the harm would be.

    Asheron's Call has it on white servers because the game was originally designed with no white servers in mind. The white servers were a change prior to release and hitting up a shrine to toggle red/white was added in. Comparing DT to the white servers should give you your answer, as it is rather meaningless to be red on the white servers because all of the gameplay related to PVP was lost such as controlling a dungeon or holding a town/fort. Even PVP for the fun of it was quickly losing appeal on the white servers which is why they implemented PKLite in 2004 to reduce repercussion, make it a toggle, and make it more accessible.

    To understand the harm it would do, don't try to imagine a white server with a red toggle. Imagine a red server with a white toggle.

     

    Trying to add "meaningfull" PvP to a non-PvP server is a recipe for pissing of everyone.  To the PvPers it will never be satsfied with how "meaningful" the consequences are and the non-PvPers will not like if it interferes with their primary activities.  The non-PvPers specificly chose a non-PvP server so their gameplay is not dominated by PvP.

  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    Originally posted by Torik
    Originally posted by Loktofeit
    Originally posted by azzamasin

    Asheron's Call does it on the White servers (PvE) I don't see what the harm would be.

    Asheron's Call has it on white servers because the game was originally designed with no white servers in mind. The white servers were a change prior to release and hitting up a shrine to toggle red/white was added in. Comparing DT to the white servers should give you your answer, as it is rather meaningless to be red on the white servers because all of the gameplay related to PVP was lost such as controlling a dungeon or holding a town/fort. Even PVP for the fun of it was quickly losing appeal on the white servers which is why they implemented PKLite in 2004 to reduce repercussion, make it a toggle, and make it more accessible.

    To understand the harm it would do, don't try to imagine a white server with a red toggle. Imagine a red server with a white toggle.

    Trying to add "meaningfull" PvP to a non-PvP server is a recipe for pissing of everyone.  To the PvPers it will never be satsfied with how "meaningful" the consequences are and the non-PvPers will not like if it interferes with their primary activities.  The non-PvPers specificly chose a non-PvP server so their gameplay is not dominated by PvP.

    That's usually the outcome. :)

    There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by Quirhid

    Yes, I play pretty much everything. No I don't everything to be the same. I'm quite far from black & white thinking,

    SNIP

    E-sports is bigger than it ever was. SNIP

    Loved how you started out defending yourself for not thinking in black and white and ended up right back where you started, associating something that is not tied to the MMO genre at all while avoiding every other point of my post....so the one part of my post you did refute, you ended up defeating your own argument...again.

    Grats, care to try again?

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  • DavisFlightDavisFlight Member CommonPosts: 2,556
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by DavisFlight

    It's been done in the past. Many times. Many ways.

    DAoC did it best.

     DaoC was crap and it wasnt sandbox like the OP is talking about, it was the start of PvP becoming meaningless zergs, PvPing for rank and or items and removing PvP from the actual game world, placed into a seperate area and it became nothing more than just another themepark attraction.

    DAoC had two FFA PvP servers. 

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by Benedikt

    Seeing as how I am one of the glue-sniffing, mind-boggling, bastardized-PvP-loving SWG fans, I'm curious what your idea for a good, optional open world PvP system would be. Any thoughts or ideas?

    Ha, I'll answer as it was a rather amusing response :P

     

    A good option would be to either play a game with open world pvp, embrace it and get on with it. Taking the option to either try and avoid pvp within it or take on the risks, sticking to safe zones or venturing out and hoping for the best. Or to just pick a game with consensual pvp.

     

    A bad option would be to twist the concept of open world pvp to try and make it something it really isn't in order to appease a crowd with clearly little interest in the overiding core ideal in the first place. Not the answer you wanted no doubt but there we are.

     

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage. PvP groups will abuse it to get an advantage and you will end up with horrendous downtimes between pvp (which happened all the time in SWG). It makes a mockery of the concept of open world pvp as a venue for risk and danger and it would be a game killer for any game with territory, resource control or looting etc. Neutral characters would also be abused.

     

    A game with massive rvr lakes, duelling, arenas, guild wars and the like. That would appease even the most ardent casual pvper (and a great deal of full on pvpers as well). You could have truly epic zones and give people the option of entering them or not. People could guild war or duel anywhere they want, it would still all be consensual. That makes far more sense from a theoretical and mechanical perspective than trying to take an open world pvp system built on the core concept of full on non restricted combat and working in opt out buttons creating a nonsense hybrid which warps the core concept and leads to a balls up of a system.

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • NaughtyPNaughtyP Member UncommonPosts: 793
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by Benedikt

    Seeing as how I am one of the glue-sniffing, mind-boggling, bastardized-PvP-loving SWG fans, I'm curious what your idea for a good, optional open world PvP system would be. Any thoughts or ideas?

    Ha, I'll answer as it was a rather amusing response :P

     

    A good option would be to either play a game with open world pvp, embrace it and get on with it. Taking the option to either try and avoid pvp within it or take on the risks, sticking to safe zones or venturing out and hoping for the best. Or to just pick a game with consensual pvp.

     

    A bad option would be to twist the concept of open world pvp to try and make it something it really isn't in order to appease a crowd with clearly little interest in the overiding core ideal in the first place. Not the answer you wanted no doubt but there we are.

     

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage. PvP groups will abuse it to get an advantage and you will end up with horrendous downtimes between pvp (which happened all the time in SWG). It makes a mockery of the concept of open world pvp as a venue for risk and danger and it would be a game killer for any game with territory, resource control or looting etc. Neutral characters would also be abused.

     

    A game with massive rvr lakes, duelling, arenas, guild wars and the like. That would appease even the most ardent casual pvper (and a great deal of full on pvpers as well). You could have truly epic zones and give people the option of entering them or not. People could guild war or duel anywhere they want, it would still all be consensual. That makes far more sense from a theoretical and mechanical perspective than trying to take an open world pvp system built on the core concept of full on non restricted combat and working in opt out buttons creating a nonsense hybrid which warps the core concept and leads to a balls up of a system.

    While an RvR approach sounds like a close solution, it isn't because it still carves the world up into specific areas for specific purposes instead of all types of players being allowed to find some kind of content in that particular area no matter their playstyle. The large world shrinks rather quickly for someone who only wants PvP or only wants PvE.

    Normally I would totally agree and say PvE and PvP shouldn't really overlap, but I think there are valid reasons to consider alternatives to the segregation of playstyles. Specifically the shrinking of the world mentioned above but also the added strain it puts on development and programming to have different rulesets for every zone (and possible areas within a zone like an RvR lake) and every piece of instanced content. If the developers could focus more on expanding the world and only have one type of overarching ruleset for the entire game to think about, we might end up with a lot more content to enjoy.

    Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure.

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Perhaps your head does hurt if you think a group of players disinclined to a full open pvp system are going to be happy about having their pve content turned off or in anyway impacted upon in any meaningful way unless enough of their "side" gets on with the job.

     

    If it makes little difference, they wont bother unless gank ready. If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by Benedikt

     

    While an RvR approach sounds like a close solution, it isn't because it still carves the world up into specific areas for specific purposes instead of all types of players being allowed to find some kind of content in that particular area no matter their playstyle. The large world shrinks rather quickly for someone who only wants PvP or only wants PvE.

    Normally I would totally agree and say PvE and PvP shouldn't really overlap, but I think there are valid reasons to consider alternatives to the segregation of playstyles. Specifically the shrinking of the world mentioned above but also the added strain it puts on development and programming to have different rulesets for every zone (and possible areas within a zone like an RvR lake) and every piece of instanced content. If the developers could focus more on expanding the world and only have one type of overarching ruleset for the entire game to think about, we might end up with a lot more content to enjoy.

    Well from a technical point of view it is actually probably much easier, especially in terms of server load. Remember the hamsters struggling at Restuss? Remember how bad it was when people tried to do events away from Restuss? The first was pretty bad, the second was shocking with anymore than fifty people.

     

    I agree it zones off the land but that's why I also included duelling and guild wars. Which you could participate in anywhere and which is ofc, still a consensual system.

     

    In terms of not having pve and pvp overlap, well actually that really depends on the game. In a consensual based game it shouldn't really overlap (unless you consider mini pve narratives like objectives within pvp lakes), but in open world pvp games it should overlap. You should be going out there for rare resources and taking the risk of getting bashed over the head, that's part of the fabric of the system. And another reason why "off switches" are an anathema to it.

     

    If someone really wants a more free and open system, then an open world pvp set up with safe/r zones ala EVE seems to be the most fundamentally sound system which also offers the greatest scope for alternative playstyles.

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • TorikTorik Member UncommonPosts: 2,342
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Why would you want to flag for PvP when just staying neutral gives you access to the content without having to conquer keeps or any such distraction?  Since PvP is optional, people will opt not to participate in the PvP when all they want to do is the non-PvP activities in the area.  By flagging themselves they limit what content they have access to when by staying neutral they have access to all the content.

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by Torik
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Why would you want to flag for PvP when just staying neutral gives you access to the content without having to conquer keeps or any such distraction?  Since PvP is optional, people will opt not to participate in the PvP when all they want to do is the non-PvP activities in the area.  By flagging themselves they limit what content they have access to when by staying neutral they have access to all the content.

     Reading, its fundaMENTAL.

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Perhaps your head does hurt if you think a group of players disinclined to a full open pvp system are going to be happy about having their pve content turned off or in anyway impacted upon in any meaningful way unless enough of their "side" gets on with the job.

    If it makes little difference, they wont bother unless gank ready. If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

     Reading comprehension FTL or are we playing the lets give a reason, then after getting one pretend it was never made ploy?

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Perhaps your head does hurt if you think a group of players disinclined to a full open pvp system are going to be happy about having their pve content turned off or in anyway impacted upon in any meaningful way unless enough of their "side" gets on with the job.

    If it makes little difference, they wont bother unless gank ready. If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

     Reading comprehension FTL or are we playing the lets give a reason, then after getting one pretend it was never made ploy?

    If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

    Did you miss out that part completely or something?

     

    People moaned like fuck about one single bit of pve content that was tied to pvp in SWG, the Jinzu hilt spawn. They also moaned like fuck when people mentioned it might be a good idea to tie combat ranks to special forces players. If you think a crowd like that (one not really all that interested in open world pvp) is going to think it's a great idea to have their pve limited in order to push pvp outside of dedicated zones in their games then you have more faith than I do.

     

    The issue with your idea is that if you offer enough incentive to promote pvp via a carrot and stick measure than people will moan about forced pvp. If you don't offer enough incentive than no one will bother. In otherwords, unless you come up with some amazing balancing act (which is unlikely) then it will not work.

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • TorikTorik Member UncommonPosts: 2,342
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by Torik
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Why would you want to flag for PvP when just staying neutral gives you access to the content without having to conquer keeps or any such distraction?  Since PvP is optional, people will opt not to participate in the PvP when all they want to do is the non-PvP activities in the area.  By flagging themselves they limit what content they have access to when by staying neutral they have access to all the content.

     Reading, its fundaMENTAL.

    Let me rephrase this:

    Since PvP in this game is optional, non-PvP players will be able to access that content without having to flag themselves.  Why would PvP players choose to risk access to that content just for a chance to PvP?  Also, once you flag yourself, would the game prevent you from unflagging yourself so you could do the quests as a neutral and only reflag yourself when you wanted to do PvP?

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Perhaps your head does hurt if you think a group of players disinclined to a full open pvp system are going to be happy about having their pve content turned off or in anyway impacted upon in any meaningful way unless enough of their "side" gets on with the job.

    If it makes little difference, they wont bother unless gank ready. If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

     Reading comprehension FTL or are we playing the lets give a reason, then after getting one pretend it was never made ploy?

    If it makes a good deal of difference they will moan about "forced pvp".

     

    Did you miss out that part completely or something? Reading comprehension FTL indeed.

     Ahh, the pretend it was never made ploy...Duck and cover, throw out a red herring, quick and hope to derail it before everyone knows I have no ground to stand on!

    Shall I use the largest font next time or are you going to man up and realize you used a bad argument?

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • NaughtyPNaughtyP Member UncommonPosts: 793
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
     

    Well from a technical point of view it is actually probably much easier, especially in terms of server load. Remember the hamsters struggling at Restuss? Remember how bad it was when people tried to do events away from Restuss? The first was pretty bad, the second was shocking with anymore than fifty people.

    I agree it zones off the land but that's why I also included duelling and guild wars. Which you could participate in anywhere and which is ofc, still a consensual system.

    In terms of not having pve and pvp overlap, well actually that really depends on the game. In a consensual based game it shouldn't really overlap (unless you consider mini pve narratives like objectives within pvp lakes), but in open world pvp games it should overlap. You should be going out there for rare resources and taking the risk of getting bashed over the head, that's part of the fabric of the system. And another reason why "off switches" are an anathema to it.

    If someone really wants a more free and open system, then an open world pvp set up with safe/r zones ala EVE seems to be the most fundamentally sound system which also offers the greatest scope for alternative playstyles.

    Let's be fair here. SWG had a lot of bugs and problems, and any number of them could bring a server to its knees!

    I think there will always be games where you need risk vs reward, similar to the competition of resources like you mentioned. But I also believe there is a group of players that want competition... but only when they really want it, yet instanced content might feel a bit hollow to them. I suppose it is a strange dilemma. Wanting to compete, but also wanting the safety of an off switch. I suppose this is where a neutral faction could solve the problem... one that cannot be in faction combat at all until they've chosen a side, but can still participate in other content unrelated to faction. Maybe this is what I've been missing. Not the flagging, but the neutral faction.

    Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure.

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by Torik
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by Torik
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

    An individual pvp flagging system, well that just makes zero sense. Virtually no one will use it unless they have a clear advantage.

     Unless, I dont know...the reasons being given to PvP in PvP only zones or full tilt PvP games are also added to the open world...you know, that keep there, that can be taken over by a faction, give the faction whatever bonuses and even turn part of that area towards their side making questing impossible for your faction unless its taken back!

    And suddenly, taadaa! people have a reason to flag for PvP in a PvP optional open world.

    ZOMG TEH TINKING OUT OF TEH BOXORS HURTZ MY HEADS!

    Why would you want to flag for PvP when just staying neutral gives you access to the content without having to conquer keeps or any such distraction?  Since PvP is optional, people will opt not to participate in the PvP when all they want to do is the non-PvP activities in the area.  By flagging themselves they limit what content they have access to when by staying neutral they have access to all the content.

     Reading, its fundaMENTAL.

    Let me rephrase this:

    Since PvP in this game is optional, non-PvP players will be able to access that content without having to flag themselves.  Why would PvP players choose to risk access to that content just for a chance to PvP?  Also, once you flag yourself, would the game prevent you from unflagging yourself so you could do the quests as a neutral and only reflag yourself when you wanted to do PvP?

     Ugh, as the HIGHLIGHTED and UNDERLINED point makes, by giving them an actual reason to want to do it on occasion.

    I fully understand why people who PvP in games like DaoC and WoW cannot understand this concept because they know only PvP with a giant carrot hanging in front of them, it masked the piss poor gameplay.

    Throw out the old outdated moronic game style brought on by those games, go back to the original way and throw in the incentives without the limitations of the previous mindset that is making people think that NO ONE WOULD EVER IN THE WHOLE OF FOREVER not flag for PvP as if games that HAD THAT OPTION had NO ONE doing it...its downright moronic to bunch every single player that ever played those games into the small box created by any one persons mind...also, the mind that states that people would only do it with and advantage like the other...person in this thread...only thinks this way because that is what HE WOULD DO.

    Hell, the single best times I had in SWG was running flagged into a rebel town right into a bunch of flgged people standing around thinking they are SAFE and flamming throwing a few of them down before dieing. Nothing says WTF like one person running into a dozen+ of them unexpecting an attack and throwing them all into chaos, and I wasnt the only one who did that, and they used to do it to us. But then, I am in an old time PvP guild, we dont think like the l33t d00d ub3r PvP kidies that popped up with instanced PvP with uber ranks for bragging rights.

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by jtcgs
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

     

     

     

     Ahh, the pretend it was never made ploy...Duck and cover, throw out a red herring, quick and hope to derail it before everyone knows I have no ground to stand on!

    Shall I use the largest font next time or are you going to man up and realize you used a bad argument?

    What? How exactly is saying many would be unhappy about having their pve experiences limited in order to push a bastardized form of open pvp a bad argument?

     

    If you want to motivate people to be involved in games with open world pvp systems (those players not inclined to them), then you demonstrate why such systems benefit their chosen playstyles. You demonstrate the depth it adds to their crafting, pve and trading. You show how territory control, resource control, player haulers, pirates and bodyguards, how decentralised trading hubs and people fighting over trading routes all creates an incredibly deep game for them. You show how players fighting over player towns and cities adds a complex meta narrative which everyone can get involved in whether directly or indirectly. You incentivise them to be part of an open world pvp system, not offer them some cheap ass opt out.

     

    If they don't buy into that, cool. It's not for everyone. Some just want purely consensual pvp and more power to them.

     

    You don't though say "heres an on-off switch and btw if you don't pvp a load of your pve contents getting turned off".

     

    Oh and btw, you seem to be under the impression that I have suggested that people would stay comb and then only go SF to gank because that's what I would do. Given I spent/spend the vast majority of my mmo gaming time in full on, ffa, full loot mmos (not "oh don't attack me at the moment I'm not ready!!" games) and given I have been arguing against such on off switch systems in this thread, well i'm not sure where you are pulling that one from. No the reason I suggested that is because first hand experience over many years pointed to that being the actual case in SWG. The VAST majority only went SF when they could bumrush fewer people (outside of organized events). Any suggestion to the contrary is just rose tinted revisionism of the highest order.

     

    TLDR:

     

    I pointed out exactly why I thought your idea wouldn't work.

    An on-off opt out switch for an open world pvp system is fucking stupid.

    For the main part, the dumbed down version of open world pvp that was offered up by SWG was complete and utter shite from an open world pvpers perspective.

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • bunnyhopperbunnyhopper Member CommonPosts: 2,751
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
    Originally posted by NaughtyP
     

    Let's be fair here. SWG had a lot of bugs and problems, and any number of them could bring a server to its knees!

    I think there will always be games where you need risk vs reward, similar to the competition of resources like you mentioned. But I also believe there is a group of players that want competition... but only when they really want it, yet instanced content might feel a bit hollow to them. I suppose it is a strange dilemma. Wanting to compete, but also wanting the safety of an off switch. I suppose this is where a neutral faction could solve the problem... one that cannot be in faction combat at all until they've chosen a side, but can still participate in other content unrelated to faction. Maybe this is what I've been missing. Not the flagging, but the neutral faction.

    Wouldn't the safe/r zones offer that safety or would that be too limiting for those not inclined to full on open pvp? I suppose so.

     

    I guess from my point of view the best idea would be to work on making the rvr lakes/arenas more "meaningful" in terms of an overarching global goal for those people who wanted that kind of aspect but who didn't want true open pvp.

     

    I am somewhat cautious when it comes to neutral factions due to how they can be abused by competeing factions (using neut characters as mules, spies and the like). If the game involves no real conflict meta narrative (resource control and the like) then it is probably a decent option.

    "Come and have a look at what you could have won."

  • jtcgsjtcgs Member Posts: 1,777
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper

     Ahh, the pretend it was never made ploy...Duck and cover, throw out a red herring, quick and hope to derail it before everyone knows I have no ground to stand on!

    Shall I use the largest font next time or are you going to man up and realize you used a bad argument?

    What? How exactly is saying many would be unhappy about having their pve experiences limited in order to push a bastardized form of open pvp a bad argument?

     Its called making a comment, getting a reply to THAT comment, then trying to bring up something that is NOT related to the orginal statement in hope to derail the topic. A red-herring.

    Your original comment does not stand, a refute and idea was given to prove it wrong, then you went on a tangent. sorry, im not getting trapped in that, you were refuted, your argument no longer stands.

    “I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomes Jefferson

  • KenFisherKenFisher Member UncommonPosts: 5,035
    Originally posted by bunnyhopper
     

    For the main part, the dumbed down version of open world pvp that was offered up by SWG was complete and utter shite from an open world pvpers perspective.

     

    I would guess that's because PVE was a large focus of the game.

     

    I'm coming to the opinion that open world PVP and holding a PVE playerbase is an either or situation.

     


    Ken Fisher - Semi retired old fart Network Administrator, now working in Network Security.  I don't Forum PVP.  If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.  When I don't understand, I ask.  Such is not intended as criticism.
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