Idea - about affecting the environment

Sexy_Fufu

Hello everyone !
I have an idea I want to share with you all.

We all know that when a player dies, they become ashes.
What if - a player dies in the vast open world and after some time:

- a plant grows up from the spot the player died and swallows the player's ashes and it becomes stronger (maybe it can summon a few weak mobs around as well);

OR

- a monster eats the ashes and becomes stronger;

OR

- an elite monster (that roams the world) eats the ashes and becomes stronger.

All this will have an impact on the environment. This way, the players side will be penalised, since it's a war between players vs monsters (PvE wise). The monsters side will get an edge when a player dies.
This won't apply to events like sieges, caravans and such.

What do you all think ?

McShave

Sounds like a lot of work for not much gain. You can randomize these events, tree growing, a strong monster appears, and I doubt anyone would notice.

I am all thumbs up for implementing immersive features like this, but they have to make sense from a development perspective too.

Imagine after a huge siege or guild/ node war battle and there is just a foot of ashes on the battlefield from all those slain. would be pretty cool

Percimes

Barbecue wrote: »

Hello everyone !

- a monster eats the ashes and becomes stronger;

Hihihi, why do I have flashbacks of Lister going around the ship sampling the piles of ashes in the first episode of Red Dwarf?

Simply having piles of ashes attracting creatures could be cool. Having them level up if they eat the ashes? Why not.

polarbear

Percimes wrote: »

Barbecue wrote: »

Hello everyone !

- a monster eats the ashes and becomes stronger;

Hihihi, why do I have flashbacks of Lister going around the ship sampling the piles of ashes in the first episode of Red Dwarf?

Simply having piles of ashes attracting creatures could be cool. Having them level up if they eat the ashes? Why not.

Man that brought back memories, love that show

Juicy Dubs

This might make more sense as a mechanic specific to a particular encounters rather than making it open world. Prevent the remains of the fallen from being consumed by others (player or NPC) otherwise they become more powerful and harder to manage.

But it could also be considered already in play when players loot your corpse and gain your resources. At some point the "role-playing" aspects of role-playing games must fall on the player themselves...

SirBarathon

That would be awesome in areas that have undead but I also find it cool if it stays there and drop some of ur inventory randomly until someone got it. The primary ideia is to loot the resources (whateaver that means). I think it would be great if they add changes on monsters by the changes on the envyroment itself (raining, snowing, night) and add buffs or debuffs accordingly

Noaani

While as a general idea it has merit, any system that rewards players for dying probably shouldnt be in an MMO.

A system exactly as described would be ripe for player exploitation, people dying on purpose to level up mobs in order to improve loot drops.

This idea would perhaps be better suited I'd there were a specific type of mob in a given area that dropped ashes.

BigRamble

How about having just a little extra corruption for looting the green guy you just ganked and making the character's hands black with the ashes.

Neaux

Percimes wrote: »

Hihihi, why do I have flashbacks of Lister going around the ship sampling the piles of ashes in the first episode of Red Dwarf?

"They're dead Lister. Lister, they are all dead. She's dead too Lister. Because they are all dead Lister."

LOL

Percimes

Juicy Dubs wrote: »

This might make more sense as a mechanic specific to a particular encounters rather than making it open world. Prevent the remains of the fallen from being consumed by others (player or NPC) otherwise they become more powerful and harder to manage.

Or only happening the corrupted places (like in one of the recent dev video). There could be a lore reason why the corrupted creatures are attracted to the Ashes.

Noaani wrote: »

While as a general idea it has merit, any system that rewards players for dying probably shouldnt be in an MMO.

A system exactly as described would be ripe for player exploitation, people dying on purpose to level up mobs in order to improve loot drops.

This idea would perhaps be better suited I'd there were a specific type of mob in a given area that dropped ashes.

Instead of a level up, a power up? A temporary buff that strengthen the creature. Losing a players only increase the threat, if it consumes the ashes even more so.