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I recognized that we both kinda have interests that are in the same neighbourhood
But I think that things should unfold in a different way, but still be on the table for everybody
No! Why do you even say that? That makes no sense
Everybody should have neutral and green alts, that's where all the market pvp, logistics, spying and industry of war comes from
Majority of your suggestions would just remove any and all casual/carebear players from the game.
The good guys are the pirates
I had a nightmare once where you were revealed to be Steven Sharif's alt account on the forums.
Absolutely not, tell me one idea that I gave that would overkill carebear?
There's not even one, I even suggested that people should have freehold pvp settings and be able to opt for no pvp in the freehold yard
I made a joke to a friend that I am Steven's alter ego when he is thirsty for pvp, people would be shocked... what if he is just like me behind the curtains?
It's because it is actually so believable, that it was a valid nightmare instead of triggering a lucid dream.
Alright, let's make a deal, from now on you should call me out right away if I ever suggest anything just for forcing greens out
What I say about carebears is that they shouldn't be taken as lords of game design, because they mostly ask for safety and this is game breaking... they don't ask for systems that are community based and fair for both sides
I just want to make things fair for the community
There's not even one example of system I suggested that is for forcing greens out... I do suggest spicy stuff thats all
Well you generally don't do that. You just overlook the effects it would have because you're one of those 'people should toughen up or not play!' people.
That's why I'm a carebear in comparison to you, because that term to me implies a person who would support a stressed teenager playing an MMO to be social, or a person with some sort of social anxiety issue trying to play an MMO casually because they can't do the 'real life' thing as easily.
To those people, you're a nightmare though.
I am a meta game pvper,the pvp doesn't start when the button smashing begins... there's the preparations, counting people, reaching out other, market pvp, knowing the mechanics, etc... all culminates with button smashing
I see greens for what they are, a syphon of gold to their war alt who will kill me later
I think I'm somewhere in the middle, cause I'd try to push those anxiety people into being social, but I'd try to come up with a way to make that push as painless as possible.
Yep, the type of person who murders a group of farmers taking their crop to market because 'it might feed a soldier I don't like at the castle'.
So, to get back to topic.
Corruption's goal is to prevent unwanted PvP, and in that I think it is doing the wrong thing but I can see that it will achieve that well. It will not achieve it as well if it diminishes while logged out.
If the goal were different, I'd be somewhat fine with it diminishing, or if the Corruption design itself was different, with the intention of softly creating moments of inescapable conflict for the Corrupted in a way they care about in that moment.
As it is now, it can't be allowed to diminish, it's already lenient in terms of 'how easy it is to evade real consequences for having it'. Something else would have to change.
My threads are very mild
The "unwanted PvP" is not Steven's goal or how he see this
Steven's goal is not letting you suffer by yourself in a corner, Steven wants people to suffer holding their hands together in the sieges and wars or purple zergs
This is why you can not simply walk to somebody's else freehold and destroy it out of the blue, there is a scenario after a node siege has been successful where you can attack freeholds for a couple hours
Everything is around the community, nobody should suffer alone and be stomped, this is why there is corruption and this is why freeholds are invulnerable overall
The AoC is a hardened version of this, and as such, I think there will be less capacity and/or incentive to pk and hence less ability for players, guilds and/or alliances to exert power or create peace.
A lost opportunity for a dynamic in game that perhaps only those that have a L2 background could understand.
My wish is that someone builds a system that makes PvP itself, even sudden PvP, a social experience, while removing the option for a single player or group to give a target a consistently negative experience.
If only someone would... I'm kidding I built it already.
But it does not fit Ashes because Ashes seems to have entirely opposite goals.
Do it! (speaks in Palpatine voice)
Why is 'Arya is Honorable' the only one without an image?
I never figured it out, but she has a picture tough, but the ingame search engine doesn't show her pic
Sus.
Not trying to derail or create a supreme court case out of this lol. And I think I know what you meant with what you said, there's just nuance left out of your statement.
But from the wiki - "The goal of the corruption system is to keep risk alive while significantly curtailing or deterring the ability for players to grief other players."
There was even another statement on the wiki until recently, unless I'm losing my mind, that worded it more as, "The goal of the corruption system is to prevent excessive griefing." I don't see it now though.
Does it seem that it's being geared now more towards not just preventing excess griefing, but unwanted pvp period? Yeah.
As far as the original post in this thread - seems like he's saying there should be a corruption amnesty basically for someone who hasn't played in 30+ days. I don't really see any reason for this unless the devs made some kind of drastic change to the penalties of corruption, making them harsher, and they decided that people who accrued their corruption in the old system shouldn't be subject to the new penalties. Edge case, entirely up to the discretion of the devs if this scenario were to happen.
Sus.
No, you're right. I conflated 'what I believe it will do and is creeping towards' with 'goal', and that's absolutely not correct, so yes.
Eh, I'm just discouraged at Intrepid today, I think. I'll take a break.
I go through the same cycles lol. Think we only have like 2 more years of this though.
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