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Quick question from a possible new group of players.

Simple and short...Is this game PvP enabled all the time as in you can get ganked out in the world just minding your own business or inside of a dungeon? We would like to know before we plop down $100 each to join the alpha.

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  • AzheraeAzherae Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Simple and short...Is this game PvP enabled all the time as in you can get ganked out in the world just minding your own business or inside of a dungeon? We would like to know before we plop down $100 each to join the alpha.

    Yes.

    The goal is to make this unlikely but right now the plan is that it will always be possible.
    You can always have my opinions, they are On The House.
  • WoW that's unfortunate. We thank you for the heads up.
  • CawwCaww Member, Alpha Two
    Simple and short...Is this game PvP enabled all the time as in you can get ganked out in the world just minding your own business or inside of a dungeon? We would like to know before we plop down $100 each to join the alpha.

    yeah... "This game isn't for everyone...and that's OK"
  • XeegXeeg Member, Alpha Two
    Simple and short...Is this game PvP enabled all the time as in you can get ganked out in the world just minding your own business or inside of a dungeon? We would like to know before we plop down $100 each to join the alpha.

    The way it is set up right now, this rarely happens. If you choose not to fight back, they cant kill you without going red. If they go red, a mark appears on the map and everyone can see that someone is red. If they die red, they drop 3 items. Dropping 3 items can be losing dozens of hours of work and is almost never worth whatever you might be killing people for.

    So technically you can be killed in the open world randomly, but practically it never happens outside designated open PVP regions.
  • REHOCREHOC Member, Alpha Two
    Xeeg wrote: »
    Simple and short...Is this game PvP enabled all the time as in you can get ganked out in the world just minding your own business or inside of a dungeon? We would like to know before we plop down $100 each to join the alpha.

    The way it is set up right now, this rarely happens. If you choose not to fight back, they cant kill you without going red. If they go red, a mark appears on the map and everyone can see that someone is red. If they die red, they drop 3 items. Dropping 3 items can be losing dozens of hours of work and is almost never worth whatever you might be killing people for.

    So technically you can be killed in the open world randomly, but practically it never happens outside designated open PVP regions.

    Best response, take my like. I’d like to add something: just like in Archeage, when players turned into pirates and entered cities, everyone would join forces to kill them. I think something similar will happen here if someone kills you in a spot and goes red-flagged.
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  • nanfoodlenanfoodle Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    WoW that's unfortunate. We thank you for the heads up.

    It's not that cute and dry, there is allot of protection with the flagging system. Attacking people not flagged for PvP has some very deep impact for doing so, even opening themselves to losing gear. There are other protections as well.

    We will also have rotations of where PvP will happen. There is allot more to this game and there is a space for PvE players but just know, PvX games mean PvP can break out at any time but the game should be balanced for that. It isn't yet. IMO Ashes is still worth playing in your situation but as stated about, its not fir everyone. But this game is just a sub price. So subbing for a month when it launches is an easy entry and not much of a gamble.
  • Also, there is guild PvP, node PvP. So if a node is in war with another node, they can kill you, if your part of the node. Same with guilds. They can declare war on eachother.
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