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How many of you will still be engaging in in world pvp/ ganking reguardless of corruption?

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That highly depends on how bad the corruption balancing is.

But outside of my own attacks, I will always fight back if attacked.

Azherae

+1~5

Noaani

I dont see corruption as being all that much of a deterrent to engaging in PvP.

It may alter the outcome of PvP, however.

Kilion

I'll definitely engage in PvP and on very rare occasions in PvP that has the risk of gaining corruption - as part of a greater campaign against a rival node for example.

Generally for the type of gaming experience I am looking forward to having, the corruption will be conducive rather than deterring as it will disincentivize more destructive playing styles.

Songcaller

Will probably try to avoid corruption until max level.

Depraved

Neurath wrote: »

Will probably try to avoid corruption until max level.

it will probs be better to go red at lower levels. easier to clean and you lose less, or at least, anything you lose can be cheaper to replace xD

Solvryn

Chicago wrote: »

How many of you will still be engaging in in world pvp/ ganking reguardless of corruption?

If I don’t actually like someone, we are going to fight.

I really don’t see a point to hand holding and the “social” aspects of MMOs if there isn’t bloodlust and strife involved.

Community is only good when it’s forged in blood and steel. Iron sharpens iron…

Songcaller

Depraved wrote: »

Neurath wrote: »

Will probably try to avoid corruption until max level.

it will probs be better to go red at lower levels. easier to clean and you lose less, or at least, anything you lose can be cheaper to replace xD

It would take longer to level with all the experience debt. You can just blitz through experience debt at max level and gauge how much you want to delve in. I'd never go corrupted if i had serious resources to lose.

daveywavey

Chicago wrote: »

How many of you will still be engaging in in world pvp/ ganking reguardless of corruption?

There are probably a lot of variables.

Iskiab

I’ll probably avoid corruption entirely and only PvP at sea. You don’t get corruption at sea so I’ll be a pirate.

Unless someone annoys me and then I’ll take them out.

BaSkA_9x2

Whenever I feel like having fun.

Vaknar

Yee will find me sailing the open seas 😈🦜🏴‍☠️

Lodrig

Not a PK myself, though I do really like the danger aspect they add, I once played a game called Haven & Hearth which was so hardcore that all players were subject to being killed at all times, with full loot and perma-death, even npc animals hiding behind bushes would perma-death kill you. In fact, you had to use leaches to heal and even trying to heal with them could inadvertently kill you. Oh and did I mention half the player base was Russian, and like Russia the only real defense was incredible population sparsity and the fact you spawned randomly in the world making it almost a single player survival game.

Lodrig

On a related note, I think Corruption received should scale heavily on how close to developed nodes that you are. This will lead to relatively greater safety in and around the most developed nodes and greater danger in the hinterlands.

Likewise, I've read speculation on 'open season' mechanics which would make everything outside of nodes as lawless as the high seas periodically. An in-game day/night cycle of ~45 minutes daytime/15 minutes nighttime might work well here as it allows reasonable time for travel from node to node or harvest during the day period followed by a natural 'pitstop' as casual players congregate at nodes for the night period to refine, craft and get some 1-hour duration bard buffs at the Tavern before setting out again. Alternatively, you can risk staying out at night for rare night only harvestables.

hleV

I'm gonna be PKing for all the right reasons (the other guy being an asshole, wanting their resources, contesting the area, etc.) and if it so happens to penalize me with corruption, so be it.

Then if the balance for corruption is bad, e.g. I get killed while corrupted (for the "right" reasons, not for griefing/going on killing sprees) and it procs a drop of a gear piece I worked weeks/months to obtain, I'll quit the game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tautau

Everyone will define 'right reasons' and 'wrong reasons' differently, so that distinction is meaningless.

If you go red carrying valuable gear, it is a risk that you choose to take. I suspect that, if you choose to take such risks, you might not stick around very long. Getting gear off of red players is probably much easier than getting gear off of boss raids.

hleV

Indeed, if PKing for reasons other than those that the corruption system is intended to prevent (griefing, mass-murdering for fun) poses an unreasonable (IMO) risk of taking a precious item from you, then there's hardly a reason to stick around.

At that point a PvP on/off flagging system does a better job because it removes the need to make decisions that can lose you precious gear and potentially have you quit the game.

Now something like that may have worked a decade and a half ago, but now..? I have my doubts, people have way more alternatives now.

I do have some faith in devs balancing it well enough in the end, though I don't think I've heard their current opinion about corruption as a whole, like whether they're still willing to have a small chance to extremely punish for even the lowest levels of corruption.

Songcaller

In l2 you would only go red for an excellent reason. Ashes has a more severe system on the whole so you would need a damn good reason to go red.

Solvryn

There are definitely gonna be some folks here on the forums that will have to change their name in game or they’re going to get ran off their server.

Songcaller

Was going to link my toons to my forum signature for a change. Usually I keep them separate. Might request a forum name change to match my main though.

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