Preventing players from gaming the Corruption System

Namil

Currently as it stands there isn't much in the way of preventing corrupted players from cheating the intended repercussions of the system, I have a few ideas that I think might be a good solution to this but this is more so an open discussion.

Right now I can think of 3 major issues:
1) Players can easily take their important equipment and crafting reagents and store them in a safe place and wait for bounty hunters to kill them so the whole point of the corruption system would boil down to an eye for an eye, rather than an eye for your gear (if that makes sense).

2) Having familiar faces kill you over and over to remove the corruption rating, this would mean that people are free to grief and kill as many players as they'd like with few repercussions and this is especially going to be a problem when exp isn't a factor at max level.

3) Group PvP and directly trading stolen goods to players who are marked as a non-combatant to minimise loss in case of death.

To start off I think corruption levels shouldn't be lowered per death, it should be a timer that adds exponentially longer increments of time depending on how far corrupted you are to demotivate players from doubling down on being fully corrupt and ontop of this, the node of influence where the PK happened should not allow players from entering zones which might be deemed safe such as town or cities or if they do then they should be captured or killed by guards and have the same consequences as if they had died from a player except the items they lose should be thrown into the void or be forcefully committed to the node's reliquary and not be rewarded to any player specifically. If a player is killed by a node, only then should the corruption time lessen because there's no way the player could've gamed their item loss.

Once a player becomes corrupted, their inventory should be locked out from transferring to a location where they would not drop on death. This still means they can swap out their gear but P2P trading and depositing into banks / caravans or chests would not be an option. This doesn't totally negate people gaming their item drops as they could be killed repeatedly to have all of their gear drop by a friend but they'd be totally defenceless during this period where they have no gear on, their gear would take heavy damage on repeated deaths, their PvE progression would be stunted because they wouldn't be able to fight against mobs and this would all be ontop of the already hefty death penalties in the game.

Finally to combat some of these heftier penalties, I think removing scaling combat dampening as corruption duration got longer would be a good idea. The incentive not to be an absolute bandit is already there in this case but if you do choose to go down that path then you'll have to seriously hide but at least you'll be able to protect yourself in the process as I'm not personally a fan of dampening in games.

I know some of these ideas definitely won't be for everyone and there are certainly some flaws but what do you think? Do you have any ideas that could prevent the player-base cheating the system and making Corruption redundant?

Songcaller

I don't get how I see so many people saying people will exploit the corruption system...How would they exploit the corruption system? The only way I can see an exploit is if someone blocks access to a door, there is a fight and someone gets turned corrupted. I don't see any other way it can be exploited.

Edit: Corrupted Players have a chance to kill Bounty Hunters, it would not be in a corrupted's interest to leave their gear behind, because if they left their gear behind they'd stand no chance at all.