The One Node to rule them all!

What if there was a possibility within the game mechanics such that should a variety of onerous conditions be met and maintained by the citizens of a zone and perhaps even include conditions met with their relationships with other nodes that said node might just unlock a "dark node". Limited to one per server and time constrained.

A dark node being a node that had rewards and risk that came with being a full pvp zone, and chaotic evil zone!

Just a what if!

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Noaani

Ah yes, because that is what this PvX game needs - more PvP.

Otr

Assuming that all nodes become very peaceful and the corruption becomes lore wise concentrated into a small place of land, and that would make the node become a full PvP node, those citizens would be tempted to fight each-other.
If you somehow make rules to prevent infighting, then it is like a normal node being at war with every other node on the map all the time. It is in both cases an imbalance.

( Your mind is trying to get out of the box

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blat

I like the idea.

Sengarden

A player-run Mordor that my friends and I can have epic battles fighting against, ultimately resulting in a last alliance between elves and men in which the evildoers are driven out, but not wholly defeated? Sign me up!

Aszkalon

akabear wrote: »

Like "Mortium" (Landscape) in V Rising ?

Constant Battles and Strife for Power ? ^.^
Such a thing is kinda happening on the open Sea's already ... ... ;->

akabear

I think there may end up some guilds that influence their alliance to max out all wars and therefore a possibility already.. but was wondering if that was to happen, perhaps the game mechanics could trigger some other state!

hleV

I would like a free PvP zone outside of open seas so that's a yes from me.

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Aqualutum

Chaotic zone eh?

To quote the dark knight movie "Oh, and you know the thing about chaos, it’s fair!"

akabear

Ah, then the inverse too, if certain conditions were met by a passive node then pvp would not be possible too!

MybroViajero

YES!

Otr

akabear wrote: »

Ah, then the inverse too, if certain conditions were met by a passive node then pvp would not be possible too!

in a world of PvX, if a full PvP area is added, one could ask for a full PvE area too.
But placing nodes or freeholds into those areas is not a good idea.

Voxtrium

I would love a Dark node with full PVP enabled.. similar to runescapes full pvp zone

CROW3

Unless it’s tied in to advancing or destabilizing nearby nodes, I’m not a fan. Creating segmented pvp nodes pushes Ashes toward the already existing PvE games with partitioned PvP: wow, eso, gw2, Albion online, etc, etc, etc.

Ashes is PvX, so players and mobs make up the risk (and rewards) for making your way into the world. Creating segmented zones will erode this entire concept - turning Ashes into another wow clone.

Voxtrium

CROW3 wrote: »

Unless it’s tied in to advancing or destabilizing nearby nodes, I’m not a fan. Creating segmented pvp nodes pushes Ashes toward the already existing PvE games with partitioned PvP: wow, eso, gw2, Albion online, etc, etc, etc.

Ashes is PvX, so players and mobs make up the risk (and rewards) for making your way into the world. Creating segmented zones will erode this entire concept - turning Ashes into another wow clone.

As long as the corrupted node could be destroyed it would be fine, basically just make the specific set of circumstances difficult to achieve, hard to make, harder than normal to destroy as well.

You could make it so that while the corrupted node is max level no other node in the game can progress, but they can all still be destroyed, then add in monster coin events on all remaining nodes until the corrupted node is destroyed

CROW3

Voxtrium wrote: »

It would

CROW3 wrote: »

Unless it’s tied in to advancing or destabilizing nearby nodes, I’m not a fan. Creating segmented pvp nodes pushes Ashes toward the already existing PvE games with partitioned PvP: wow, eso, gw2, Albion online, etc, etc, etc.

Ashes is PvX, so players and mobs make up the risk (and rewards) for making your way into the world. Creating segmented zones will erode this entire concept - turning Ashes into another wow clone.

As long as the corrupted node could be destroyed it would be fine, basically just make the specific set of circumstances difficult to achieve, hard to make, harder than normal to destroy as well.

You could make it so that while the corrupted node is max level no other node in the game can progress, but they can all still be destroyed, then add in monster coin events on all remaining nodes until the corrupted node is destroyed

Probably the best way to approach it would be to have the dark node slowly destroy the surrounding nodes - resource drain, increase corruption reach, and node level degradation - then tie pvp objectives to closing the dark node (or keeping it open if it supports an enemy node’s objectives).

Apok

kinda been daydreaming of a system like that, maybe player killing can lead to a lawless node where you're automatically flagged for pvp in that nodes region, or even a desiccated node from getting stomped into the ground by the other node in open world pvp.

Mag7spy

They said int he last live stream they aren't going to do anything like this. Only way i could see it working atm until things change is if the node citizens are auto flagged as purple. That is as far as a dark node gets.

oOKingOo

I dont think its a good idea since you can already pvp in every node. The pvp zone are guild wars/node wars/arenas/bounty hunting. I dont think pure pve/pvp zones are a good idea in a pvx game.

Roelath

akabear wrote: »

What if there was a possibility within the game mechanics such that should a variety of onerous conditions be met and maintained by the citizens of a zone and perhaps even include conditions met with their relationships with other nodes that said node might just unlock a "dark node". Limited to one per server and time constrained.

A dark node being a node that had rewards and risk that came with being a full pvp zone, and chaotic evil zone!

Just a what if!

I'd prefer if it was community driven pirate/bandit nodes where all of the PvPers that go around causing mayhem have their own spot on the map causing trouble. It could still be around as any regular node with the government system but, the players make the node and the culture of it. Being purple is a badge of honor in that area.

Similar to the old jumpgate neutral stations that housed numerous pirates with bounties. The community was super hostile towards anyone looking like a bounty hunter or a do gooder.

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