fleshnbrain wrote: » What will the policy be on multi boxing. I'm worried about people multi boxing and killing their own characters that have corruption to clear their corruption and to continue to PK lowbies/people that don't attack back with no penalty and gaming the system. Hopefully they will address that.
noaani wrote: » Multiboxing is allowed. There are other penalties associated with corruption other than gear loss. While I am sure there will be people that will try this, it is unlikely to be worth persivering with. The rewards from killing a character are actually quite low, so there is no real monetary incentive to do this. Someone that has two accounts could absolutely come up with a better way to spent their time. Obviously some people just want to see the world burn, but there are better things these people could spent their time on to that end as well.
fleshnbrain wrote: » noaani wrote: » Multiboxing is allowed. There are other penalties associated with corruption other than gear loss. While I am sure there will be people that will try this, it is unlikely to be worth persivering with. The rewards from killing a character are actually quite low, so there is no real monetary incentive to do this. Someone that has two accounts could absolutely come up with a better way to spent their time. Obviously some people just want to see the world burn, but there are better things these people could spent their time on to that end as well. Doesn't matter if its an easy way for a player to clear their corruption to continue to PK players or people that don't fight back people will do it. Hell you dont even have to multibox you could just roll around with a friend and your friend could PK someone and your friend could just drop group and kill the corrupted friend to clear it.
noaani wrote: » fleshnbrain wrote: » noaani wrote: » Multiboxing is allowed. There are other penalties associated with corruption other than gear loss. While I am sure there will be people that will try this, it is unlikely to be worth persivering with. The rewards from killing a character are actually quite low, so there is no real monetary incentive to do this. Someone that has two accounts could absolutely come up with a better way to spent their time. Obviously some people just want to see the world burn, but there are better things these people could spent their time on to that end as well. Doesn't matter if its an easy way for a player to clear their corruption to continue to PK players or people that don't fight back people will do it. Hell you dont even have to multibox you could just roll around with a friend and your friend could PK someone and your friend could just drop group and kill the corrupted friend to clear it. Indeed they could, and people will. But as I said, look at the other penalties. Lets say you are minding your own business, and mean little me comes over and kills you. You make the decision to not fight back, forcing me to either stop the attack, or gain corruption (I still have that choice at this stage). If I kill you, you die, and I gain a small amount of materials based on what you have on you. You can an amount of item degredation, and an amount of experience debt. This experience debt means you have slgihtly lower health, mana, skills, stats and gear proficiency, and need to gain experience to work it off. Now, I killed you and gained corruption. While I have corruption, there are four major things I need to be aware of. The first is that if I am killed, I could drop an item I have equipped. The second is that I am less effective in PvP combat while corrupt. The third is that when killed, I will respawn in a random location rather than in a designated respawn location. In our situation, I have a friend or a second account near by to kill me to remove that corruption. This is fine, if I drop an item, he can give it back to me. I respawn in a random location and then eventually find my way back to my friend. However, the thing you are forgetting are the other penalties. I was killed in PvP combat, so I still suffer the same penalties that you suffered when I killed you. This is the materials dropping, item degredation and experience debt. The only difference here is - I was killed while corrupt, and so I have those penalties applied to me at four times the rate you had them apply to you. That means that if your items took a 2% hit to durability, mine take 8%. That means if your experience debt sees all your stats reduced by 5% and take you 25 average equal level mob kills to work off, mine is down 20% and will take me 100 kills. This is the deterrent to this kind of behavior.
hazardnumberseven wrote: » Multi-boxxing sucks and I wish it wasn't allowed. To me, it is essentially cheating (though to a light extent) combined with p2w. That person can afford as many accounts as they want, and so they get their own personal army. Just doesn't seem fair... But on the other hand, multi-boxxing sucks in other ways too, like... It's just not very good. Usually in WoW when there is a multi-boxxer you can easily solo the entire group of 10 by just finding the lead box/second/third in line and CCing those to death. AoC has PvP content that matters to the game and the world though, and I would be really annoyed if it came down to me vs some guy ... and some guy happens to also be 10 guys. I have some hopes that multiboxxing will just not be viable because of mechanics, like collision, which could be used to separate them beyond /follow distance, or even just not having a /follow function, which is what WoW did to remove multi-boxxers from BattleGrounds, and it worked pretty well. Would prefer it be bannable, but I understand how difficult that is to police when there's technically not any botting happening. TECHNICALLY. Essentially though, it is still botting as far as I'm concerned. Just a very inefficient one.
JustVine wrote: » I for one welcome our Ambidextrous pianist programmer overlords
fleshnbrain wrote: » Imagine someone multi boxing 40 characters haha
ptitoine wrote: » fleshnbrain wrote: » Imagine someone multi boxing 40 characters haha U mean the Asian Bot Gold selling company
Noaani wrote: » ptitoine wrote: » fleshnbrain wrote: » Imagine someone multi boxing 40 characters haha U mean the Asian Bot Gold selling company Most companies that sell gold are based in North America or Europe, but are happy to let bias reign. They also dont farm their own gold, they buy it off other players and market it up to on-sell.
bigepeen wrote: » Noaani wrote: » ptitoine wrote: » fleshnbrain wrote: » Imagine someone multi boxing 40 characters haha U mean the Asian Bot Gold selling company Most companies that sell gold are based in North America or Europe, but are happy to let bias reign. They also dont farm their own gold, they buy it off other players and market it up to on-sell. Source for both? I'm actually curious about this
