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Yet that is part of the risk and you cannot escape the risk in AoC as long as Steven keeps his word the design pillar.
I seen before the "small change" argument with a big impact.
You simply don't care and you want your game mechanic.
But you will not get it because all players are the same, by default green and for a short time purple.
Remains to be seen how often we see reds. Maybe quite often, if their guild helps them.
If, so - I'd back that. My long standing perspective on Ashes is that you give consent to be attacked upon login, being perma-purple is just an extension of that agreement. I'm open to modifying the drop penalty though for folks that choose this option.
So I'm curious to see your opinion on it. What about WARS... The penalty is already pre-lowered, the pvp flag doesn't go away during it and the people on both sides of the flag are all too happy to kill each other over and over again
Actually, my first thought was to raise the death penalty. Perma-purple is a true commitment to owpvp, so I'd want it to walk the walk. It might also sway players away from attacking greens because they might be able to get the same loot % from a perma-flag player without the threat of corruption. The added risk being that you're fighting someone who is probably quite skilled and may pose a greater chance of you dying.
I don't think I'd feel any additional changes to node wars, or other pvp-centric phases would be necessary.
Though having higher penalties would definitely detract any potential megaguilds that would be trying to use the xp boost (if you support that part of the suggestion that is). Probably not stop them outright, but if there's even a slight opposition here and there, the chance to lose too much stuff would probably be too high to be optimal.
idk - you could probably keep the same colors, and now it adds an additional unknown to target selection. All things being equal you have a 100% chance to gain corruption with a green to get 100% of the loot, and a 0% chance of corruption for a purple with 50% chance of 100% loot.
The question would be whether there is any additional benefit to perma-flag beyond the philosophical commitment to owpvp (or not wanting to 'flag up' as a green)?
That's exactly right. It's simply an early opt-in to the existing combatant state.
The thread context was initially about certain scenarios where the existing system "gets in the way" of purer wpvp. IE: where getting the jump, taking situational advantage can be punished by using (exploiting) corruption as a threat.
The suggestion was an attempt to fix that for those willing, without affecting PvEers / those who hate non-consensual PvP.
Increased loot drops are an interesting one.
Whichever way you go with that, there'd need to be an incentive to perma-flag otherwise it would effectively become a sort've niche "hardcore mode" rather than actually achieve what it sets out to (due to low adoption rates even amongst PvPers).
Personally right now I think perma-purples would attract so much extra attention over the course of their character's life that the additional drop penalties wouldn't be necessary, provided a reasonable incentive.
But yeah all details that would be up for discussion.