Lawless zones need to be a permanent feature

mainedutch

Alright, we all know that PvP is a highly contentious subject right now.

Many people are saying making PvP toggleable. Many say make PvE servers. Many say remove corruption.

All of those ideas are bad. Now, I'm not saying my idea is the answer, but I'm offering appeasement. I also want to make it abundantly clear we're nowhere near when features and systems are being refined. We're not even a month into preliminary stability testing. We're only making sure the game plays normally and stays online.

I heavily believe that this game needs to remain true to its form: PvP anywhere, anytime---but at a cost. You need repercussions for killing someone in normal zones. But corruption is a bit heavy-handed (we also know it's temporarily over tuned). If someone takes my corpse loot, I can't fight them for my loot back because I get penalized with corruption even though they were the thief. That's a small example, but not this post's point...

The point of this post is that lawless zones need to be a core part of the world, and not just on the seas.

As of now, lawless zones are only intended to remain in the Alpha and not the actual game upon release. From the AoC Wiki: "Lawless zones are open-world areas where the corruption system is disabled. These are intended to be an Alpha-2-only feature to help test what will become open-sea content."

There should always be the threat of PvP in the normal zones, and it should come with corruption (agreeable). That adds interest and risk to the gameplay. It also makes gankers think twice before jumping on you.

But there needs to be lawless zones with attractions to bring people into the zones so those PvP maniacs can get their fill. This will offer more balance to the gameplay, giving a place for PvPers to go knowing they will always get sum' and even deter them from becoming griefers because it's their only option.

I think there are plenty of PvP events planned already, but a lot of PvPers aren't satisfied with it. I hope this helps.

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Friendly note: don't get angry about features and systems until well into Phase 3 of Alpha. That's when they're going to start fleshing these things out. If it's still bad at the end of Phase 3, then you can be mad. Also, don't tell me this game was marketed as a "PvP game." It's always been PvX, and corruption was always on the docket.

mainedutch

daveywavey wrote: »

mainedutch wrote: »

There should always be the threat of PvP in the normal zones, and it should come with corruption (agreeable). That adds interest and risk to the gameplay. It also makes gankers think twice before jumping on you.

But there needs to be lawless zones with attractions to bring people into the zones so those PvP maniacs can get their fill. This will offer more balance to the gameplay, giving a place for PvPers to go knowing they will always get sum' and even deter them from becoming griefers because it's their only option.

Why do you need to be able to freely kill players that don't fight back?

Do you even class that as Player Versus Player, when it's actually Player Versus Nothing?

I want to note I'm not interested in becoming corrupted. But I do want PvP to be always on.

It adds risk to the gameplay. You're always under threat of "someone could attack me at any moment." Just like in reality. That's exactly why we have (and should always have) corruption. This is what prevents you from being attacked wantonly. I love the idea of it and absolutely want to always be under threat of attack. That makes it feel like the real MMOs of yore, and corruption will prevent it from getting out of hand.

And to further prevent PKing from getting out of hand, we should keep some lawless zones (the real point of this post), so those people can go and get their bloodthirst out without maiming innocent civilians due a to a lack of PvP events (which I don't even think will be an issue).