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Corruption…. LOOKING FORWARD TO ‘Sith”….
Optics2134
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I have played many of the current MMO RPGs always based my characters looks builds and theme, “Sith Lord” of that particular platform. Wow BDO ESO ect… With that being said I am pleading to have this heard to not completely cripple the idea of being a head hunting pvper, not so much a Ganker that stuff is crap but to have some type of system in place via religion or Nod type that plays to the (Darker) nature of players and rewards them for being excellent at solo style play in pvp I like the corruption idea to stop the ganking but maybe some people want to be hunted by bounty hunters and the good guys lol you make it a choice to hunt the gankers I want to Hunt the people hunting them.. IE chose to be Marked as Corrupted with out committing the gank act there in negating the x4 cost at death… and amplifying the reward for killing “combatant” players… Just an idea…..
Want to build a bomber…. you have large scale pvp… You say high risk high skill = greater rewards Steve
Take a gander from your failed competitor as far as what I was able to create on their platform I was a thing to be feared…. the originator of the BOMBER in ESO the one and only Optics- I attributed to the rise of many emperors in my time played to bad their servers turned to SHIT
https://youtu.be/9g_fI-NYdJw
Want to build a bomber…. you have large scale pvp… You say high risk high skill = greater rewards Steve
Take a gander from your failed competitor as far as what I was able to create on their platform I was a thing to be feared…. the originator of the BOMBER in ESO the one and only Optics- I attributed to the rise of many emperors in my time played to bad their servers turned to SHIT
https://youtu.be/9g_fI-NYdJw 0
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I think it would be a good RP tool. Would enable you to flesh out your character's personality. But, I do think you'd have to keep the penalties that go with it, or it would be a cheap get-out for people to abuse the system.
This being said, my understanding is that it makes you weaker...
So no sith so far... maybe reverse sith
Yeah, you gotta move the h two places to the left
I do understand the desire, but I also think it's gonna mess with the whole purpose of the corruption system, and disrupt it. To me it's way more important that works well.
What I would do if I were you is go to the nearest city and become a bounty hunter yourself. Then watch other players and your bounty hunter map. If they become combatants and start moving in the direction of the nearest corrupted player on the map, then follow them outside the city and kill them without any corrupted penalty.
It seems like you're aware, but corruption is only meant to be a penalty mechanic. Maybe it should be called something else like "weakness disease" to stop people from idealizing it and treating it as a lifestyle.
I think we have too much corruption penalties for this to happen, specially the lowering of the stats, wich makes it basicly nonsense to try to be a "bad guy" and bring terror to the population.
You can have extremely malicious guilds without removing corruption penalties or turning corruption into a lifestyle. Just because a designation of corruption exists, doesn't mean that there is nothing malicious outside of corruption. Corruption = Penalty. Malicious actions are not limited to actions that result in corruption.
Even light and dark is a matter of perspective depending on what one would deem "good" and "evil".
“please don’t gank me while I farm top tear mats on my endgame Dps build” So I can gear up with out resistance then turn around and go god mode on people because I hit legendary gear score before everyone else cause I didn’t flag for pvp until I was top tear.
This is my fear with this system…
Being marked as a combatant better have at least a 20% drop rate buff, 25% more mats harvested and 30 to 40% more Xp earned otherwise WHY WOULD YOU FLAG FOR PVP unless it was a pvp “event” happening IE transport, node siege, or Castle seige… Think logically. People will only flag for pvp when it is safe and benefits them to pvp…. Selective pvp status at end game level is kinda crap in my mind… primarily for material harvesting reasons… Although until we see how contested areas work I’m very hope full that they will get it right.
Secondly I am hoping the “religion” aspects will allow for a “Darkside” type of “theme” to style your characters…. Ya know red eyes pale skin, crazy dark robes and “necromancer” shit…
Point me to a guild looking to massacre the “happy people” and I will join. What is Good with out Evil. What is pleasure without suffering….
Can’t have an epic hero’s with out a few God mode villains running around
Once servers and what not start showing up pre launch I will be Starting a discussion to recruit Darkside players… I ran large scale pvp groups in ESO but I do not have the time to be a full blown GM anymore but I’m sure there are many like minded Sinister bastards out their chomping at the bit to reek havoc on the fluffies…
Optics- Out
It's an open world PvP system to prevent killing sprees.
Feel free to roleplay as you like.
Dont expect changes to the system.
You know what I was getting at though….. not trying to be all philosophical
I just wanna murder some questers and look scary doing it lol
An attacker will flag for PvP to gain an advantage over whoever they're attacking. That advantage could be to steal their loot, to remove them from a power-levelling area, to give the attacker a chuckle by attacking them just for shits and giggles, etc.
A defender will flag for PvP to gain an advantage for themselves. That advantage could be to ensure that if they die, they drop less loot and receive less XP-debt, to steal the attacker's loot, to remove the attacker from their area, to teach the attacker a vital lesson not to attack them again, etc.
People will indeed only flag for PvP when it benefits them, but there are plenty of different benefits that could direct this.
Quoted just to make sure people see it!
WaveyGravy was right to quote that, it is quite apt and essentially what I was going to say. There are many avenues to play evil-y without retooling corruption. It is to prevent ganking and is unfortunately named because it keeps sparking people's PvP themed interests. And yeah, if you want to be 'evil' there probably will be some corruption involved- you are entering into a free-for-all system to gain personal power. Sith kill each other, too.
I hope they do design some structures and mechanics that fit thematically with anti-social/ death god/ miscreant/ criminal intentions for aesthetic and PvP instead of just node war and caravan hassling.
I'm aware what the purpose of the system is.
I'm also aware people are likely going to work their way around it masterfully.
That is if the system even makes it into the game (Amazon didn't have the balls to go for an actual pvp game and now its just a bad manner autistic fest of a game).
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but your character will be pathetic.
You missed the point of what I was saying....
here's the rest if you are interested. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Lore#King_Atrax
You certainly aren't more of a bounty hunting target. That is already built in the current system.
You aren't really adding to a persons thrill factor (outside existing systems.) Not only will fighting strong mobs likely be more fun, there are going to be plenty of fight clubs with a sense of comradery IF combat is skillful/fun.
So it adds what, evil religion? That will already exist. There is basically no real reason to add it to corruption as it does not add to other people's gameplay. You want to disrupt people's fun in a way that adds to their own? Go hunt a caravan. Go siege a castle.
Heck even get org missions for erecting territory corrupting totems that disrupt trade/drops somehow to create an objective for nonevil religion orgs quests to smash (completely made up off the cuff idea not confirmed by IS). There are plenty of sensible things to connect to evil religion goals with in the game while contributing to the world.
Heck go grow eggplants in the name of my corrupt god of harvest.
If none of that appeals to you either accept the games penalties and write your own fanfic on the matter or go play knights of the old republic in your anti-social fantasy. There is no reasonable bonus to give corrupt players other than mats dropped from their victims.
I even have cosmetics already on my account that’ll do that.
Right now I’m planning for my main to wear this, I also have boots, gloves, and a belt to match:
This set's also pretty badass.
Agreed and that out fit is sick Sathrago, I have been debating to jump into the alpha 2, kinda been waiting on the right cosmetic pack and I didnt see that one until it was to late... has anyone found or founded a guild with the dark side in mind? I have been filling my mmo down time playing Valhalla lately kinda put this game on the back burner since it is so far from launch LOVE the fact that it will be a unreal engine 5 game this game my truely be the LEGENDARY game of a generation.
Yeah, but unfortunately you can't mix and match pieces of a full costume. I have a few costumes but I'm not even sure when or if I'll wear them. I don't like the lack of customization.
That costume does look pretty sweet on its own though.
Yeah the fact that you cant mix and match costumes sucks, but hopefully they have a dye system for said costumes to change up the monotony.
According to the Wiki, dyes will be available on any cosmetic, but only portions of them can be dyed. So you can maybe dye the trim or whatever. We’ll see!
well looking at the cosmetic i linked before, i think we can safely say we all want to dye the glowing red part.