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Im not interested in your arrogant dismissals and whether you take me seriously or not.
Its not your response or opinion Im concerned with, as I already said several times.
You obviously think your response to me matters, but it doesnt.
I think to some extent there is some of that, but it's not in a direct way, nor do I personally believe it would make much sense.
Let's say you accrue enough corruption to get Bounty Hunters on your trail. You manage to fend em off in a consensual PvP fight (they are always flagged as combattants to corrupted players). Meanwhile you're not just standing still waiting. You're killing mobs and doing what quests you can without access to the local Node.
Doing so works off your corruption and then you can go back in town and be boisterous about your victories over X amount of Bounty Hunters > Get a reputation > ? > Profit.
But I would say offering a direct "reward" to remove some of that corruption by fighting off Bounty Hunters, doesn't seem entirely logical, even from a lore/irl perspective.
That would be like if you committed a murder irl, and the police came after you. You decide to kill the cops and other forces chasing you. And after a number of dead law enforcers, someone goes: "Everyone go home. He killed 20 cops. He's earned his freedom". Wouldn't make much sense would it?
Another example, in videogames would be something like GTA. Once you get that first star, if you keep causing mayhem to the point of getting 5 stars, you don't really expect the game to lower you to 0 stars because you managed to fight off the army for X amount of time.
The only way to do so is basically hiding and running away. Which is the most "realistic" scenario for someone on a killing spree not looking to get caught and killed himself.
Throw in some possible options for exploits and ultimately, while it could be fun, it wouldn't entirely fit the logic of any world with enough law sense to have bounty hunters chase "criminals".
Even then you still wont be wearing good gear because of the risk of losing it if you dont survive, which is very high.
So the only true reward for surviving is being able to say you beat the very tough odds and did it.
And you would likely only be able to say it once or twice in your entire playing career in AOC.
If someone tries to exploit being helped by their buds, then other people will see that and know it wasnt a genuine escape.
I can imagine those who will actively really try to do this will capture their effort on video so they can have proof of a clean escape without exploiting player help.
Logically speaking, if a player could hypothetically evade all attempts to kill them at peak corruption, then it should not be the case that they remain corrupt until they eventually do die.
That kind of thing will just lead to corrupted players stashing their gear, letting themselves be killed to get rid of corruption and doing the whole thing all over again.
There will be zero incentive to attempt a miraculous escape with life and gear intact at all.
There seems to be some contention on whether or not corrupted players will be able to actually remove their equipment. I think it was on the last livestream where Steven was talking about this issue. He wanted to avoid players just dropping their gear to their friends to avoid losing anything upon death while corrupted.
We'll see what the tests they conduct on it will leave us with
If you want them to even look at it seriously, you need to have basically all players on board agreeing that it is a good idea, and that Intrepid wmshould consider it.
Until you have that, you wont get the opinion you want - and even if we all agree it's a great idea you likely still wont.
That is why I said you need to work on your idea. If you actually want Intrepids opinion on your idea, you need to get the posters here on board first - and you have not done that.
I dont really know what it might take for you to step back from yourself and recognize that your opinions about the opinions of others are merely subjective and are not by any means authoritative statements.
That's the point, there is no reward in surviving. Your reward is you live a few more minutes until the next bounty hunter comes.
A path of corruption equals a life on the run until justice is served or you're a corpse. Most likely the later.
They have plenty of PvP where you can be handsomly rewarded with loot while not gaining corruption.
As far as dropping gear so they don't drop it I propose as soon as a player goes corrupted their gear is bound and cannont be removed until death.
Half the fun for these types of players is trying to find ways to survive what are meant to be insurmountable odds, and that and the potential achievement of that is the reward in itself.
You have a similar dynamic with people who do solo boss kills, etc.
Then why do they need corruption to be removed?
For what ever reason, you keep confusing me stating my opinion for me stating a fact.
Because that represents beating the system and the 'law' within the sandbox of the mmo.
Why is it so hard for you to grasp lol.
Why do solo raid boss killers do what they do?
Because its something thats not supposed to be doable or at least extremely hard, and its something most would not/are not be able to do.
You dont state facts, you state opinions and you often state opinions as facts.
I state opinions.
If you read them as fact, that is on you.
The near impossible part is staying alive with the debuffs associated with corruption.
The "beating the system" part is staying alive with those debuffs, ones that are designed to make it hard to stay alive.
I understand wanting a reward for things, but if the goal you are going for here is an incentive to beat the system, or to do the impossible, removing corruption isnt required at all.
Any reward for that same act should be fine.
The reward is represented by the fact that you didnt die and got to keep your gear which in nearly every circumstance doesnt happen.
Its not rocket science to understand - the same reward as staying alive instead of getting killed, and what that represents, as in any other pvp scenario, except that its extra thrilling because its in an area of wpvp that is designed to be an (almost) fail-proof system.
Corruption represents the imposition of the rules which through skilful and clever use of game mechanics, the rare player should occasionally be allowed to overcome.
There is no need for a second reward, which is what your suggestion is.
Ashes is not a sandbox mmorpg. Ashes is a sandpark mmorpg.
I think it's the reset to 0 that is supposed to be, according to your suggestion, a reward for skillful and clever use of game mechanics, allowing the rare player to overcome the imposition of Corruption.
But, that is not a reward the devs will offer because the devs do not want to reward being Corrupted. And the devs also do not want to reward skillful use of the Corruption mechanic to stay Corrupted.
For example, a criminal would be someone who is robbing caravans from your node. What can you do in this
case? How do you get rid of them?
I just picture a situation where it becomes cost/time prohibitive to deal with this situation.
I do like the idea of a blacklist for crafters/freeholds to refuse service to players/guilds. Eventually you may get a bad enough reputation that you cannot buy anything and have to move on.
Good point.
Another way to put it would be to say that corruption is something that you attain, by choice for players, but otherwise in the lore you can become corrupted just through exposure. Meaning its more like a deadly infection that rots the brain and causes you to act more and more like a sadistic murderer.
Crime and being a criminal are lesser forms of evil, that are purely through choice. It's something that does not innately change you into a monster, so it's never going to be as bad as corruption. At least in this fantasy setting.
Corruption is basically what old people think happens when you smoke weed. The gateway drug from Hell.
And then, bounty hunters in PvP, purple on purple or vs corrupted, should kill them and get some gold in return.
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/58899/bounty-hunters#latest
We can't see my post yet, but is one of the first posts.
Or : just try your best and "hire" many of the PvP-eager People who would become Troublemakers otherwise and create one or a few nice Groups of People for your Node and or Guild, to hunt unsuspecting Caravans with. 😁
How to deal with longterm Criminals however is something we can not know yet. We must wait and see what Sir Steven and his mighty Crew do around Alpha Two and from there forward.
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✓ Guild is " Balderag's Garde " for now. (German)
Yeah, they had to make some forum changes recently cos of some accounts that were taking the piss. Just keep trying.
This has been vaguely mentioned previously, but I have not heard anything on it recently. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Reputation
In EVE, people have to spend some in-game currency and use an item to fix the character status, but if you make way more than you spend then commiting crimes is fine. Just keep farming loot from others and pay the bill later to fix your status.
So, it doesn't affect at all what people do, their actions are the same at all times, people don't care for finnancial tickles if you can make more than you spend