Lawless Areas

Hutchy1989

If you didn't catch in on stream, they announced that there will be lawless areas that will not be affected by Corruption. They will be higher level areas and they will have caravan drop off point that will pay more.

Just wondering what people thoughts about this.

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Ludullu

Hate it. I hated the seas as well. This will push away even more people, while completely ruining the whole fucking point of wars between guilds and nodes.

And don't even start me on corruption and BHs...

arkileo

Just the usual concern about the potential for big guilds to monopolize them, especially when there's a reward like the caravan thing.

Generally I am in favor of them, though, so long as there isn't strong incentive to form a zerg.

Azherae

I don't think the information given was enough to assume that this is for anything other than testing.

Now, there could be some concerns over 'thinking this needs to be tested at all', but as Steven says, they are aiming for a very specific segment of the market.

As long as that market segment enjoys the resultant gameplay, I think it's good to have them, but some eventual clarification on the purpose of adding them to the tests would be good.

I'm not looking forward to the number of people who will just assume this means the game has gone full ArcheAge (or 'worse'), knowing that we still have another year of this to go before we can even clear up basic design goals.

GreatPhilisopher

the lawless areas are the tropics and desert biomes lol , they probably have it to get data on the pvp and how it is , riverland wll be your normal game with the corruption system and i think only for phase 1

Garrtok

Ludullu_(NiKr) wrote: »

Hate it. I hated the seas as well. This will push away even more people, while completely ruining the whole fucking point of wars between guilds and nodes.

And don't even start me on corruption and BHs...

I love that they do it's. It's basically a pvp area like in warhammer online. Every pvp game needs that.

Diamaht

It's totally fine. It's only certain areas. And if there are "badlands" style areas between major players hubs it will develop stronger local communities and economies.

If I could just freely walk the earth any where I like, or sail across the ocean at any time, and with no risk, why would I ever care what is happening locally? Why would I ever deal with local crafters when I can just freely go to the cheapest market hub?

Sathrago

Ludullu_(NiKr) wrote: »

Hate it. I hated the seas as well. This will push away even more people, while completely ruining the whole fucking point of wars between guilds and nodes.

And don't even start me on corruption and BHs...

i would agree and correct me if im wrong but it doesnt look like they are planning for war between guilds/nodes to have long term engagement between players. What I mean is they sound like prime time events and then outside of those events its basic corruption system instead of being flagged purple to each other at all times.

I would prefer them being flagged purple the whole time, but i dont think that will happen. But yeah, if this indeed how it will work then i would be fine without lawless zones.

Dolyem

I love it. I think the lawless land areas are just a supplement until open seas are available

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhoaEwj5B8w

Aszkalon

Hutchy1989 wrote: »

If you didn't catch in on stream, they announced that there will be lawless areas that will not be affected by Corruption. They will be higher level areas and they will have caravan drop off point that will pay more.

Just wondering what people thoughts about this.

Playerkillers, Gankers - and normal PvP'ers only be like : " It's fr~eeee real Estaaate ... ... " ...

Iffithy

I was a little confused from the stream. Steven said they were lawless because they don’t have nodes. Did he ever clarify if they were a permanent feature or if they would go away after nodes are included in there?

Dolyem

Iffithy wrote: »

I was a little confused from the stream. Steven said they were lawless because they don’t have nodes. Did he ever clarify if they were a permanent feature or if they would go away after nodes are included in there?

this is just a guess on my part but I think the lawless zones are supplements for what open ocean will be and once the game launches the zones wont be where nodes are capable of spawning and only out at open sea

Chunka

Iirc they didnt say its corruption free, just that its auto-flag and i absolutely love it. It did sound as if its just part of testing tho, I hope they will have some of those on full launch as well. Maybe even some random pvp events which auto flag u as well.

Smaashley

I don't know how to feel about it. It doesn't feel very attractive to go in there unless you are a zerg lol and if it is the case, it must not content lock players.

Mag7spy

I'll have to bring law back to the land so people don't jump dgyz XD

KingDDD

It'll be good to see what the payout is for caravan runs and what is too much or too little for running in a lawless area.

Iffithy

Dolyem wrote: »

Iffithy wrote: »

I was a little confused from the stream. Steven said they were lawless because they don’t have nodes. Did he ever clarify if they were a permanent feature or if they would go away after nodes are included in there?

this is just a guess on my part but I think the lawless zones are supplements for what open ocean will be and once the game launches the zones wont be where nodes are capable of spawning and only out at open sea

As a testing feature I think it sounds like it could be both fun and rewarding. I would not be as thrilled for another permanent pvp free for all zones.

But then again I am against the oceans being auto flag also so what do I know

Veeshan

lawless zones are only existing for new biomes basicly until nodes can develop in them and im guessing it many to test pvp along with how ocean works since thats basicly a lawless zone

rollox

Mag7spy wrote: »

I'll have to bring law back to the land so people don't jump dgyz XD

Lol I can already see the Dygz Exploratory Group Zerg (DEGZ) clearing they way for Dygz to continue his work

Spif

There won't be much content in these lawless zones (no POIs, quest, etc), so opening up PvP in them is a way to add content and get more traffic. It may also be designed to spread people out a bit more so L25s aren't overrunning lower level zones and killing low level bosses because there's nothing else to do.

Dolyem

Spif wrote: »

There won't be much content in these lawless zones (no POIs, quest, etc), so opening up PvP in them is a way to add content and get more traffic. It may also be designed to spread people out a bit more so L25s aren't overrunning lower level zones and killing low level bosses because there's nothing else to do.

I couldve swore I heard him say there is higher content in the lawless zones

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