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Another PVP MMO game with similarities to Ashes

skafftarussskafftaruss Member, Phoenix Initiative, Hero of the People, Kickstarter, Alpha One
Take a look at the video posted. It discusses balancing PVP and PVE in an environment like Ashes. The franchise in the post seems to grapple with the PVP balancing conundrum during development. Eye opening. Please respond cheerfully. Best regards ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5djpP_VgZc&feature=emb_rel_end

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  • Wandering MistWandering Mist Moderator, Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    I agree with the guy in the video about the developers being very naive when it comes to high level players bullying newbies in a completely open world PvP environment. Even in games where there are restrictions in place to prevent this, it still happens ALOT, and players are notorious for finding loopholes to grief other players despite the restrictions.

    There are 3 main ways of tackling this problem:

    1. Separate PvP and PvE servers.
    2. PvP Opt-in where you enable PvP on a character per character basis.
    3. PvP-enabled zones.

    Personally in games like New World and Ashes of Creation I would prefer to see zones similar to what we have in Albion Online and Eve Online. Both these games have different zone categories that range from completely safe (no PvP allowed at all) to very dangerous where you not only can engage in PvP but lose everything if you die. The benefit of this system is that it allows the developers to adjust the risk-reward element of the game since typically the PvP-enabled areas contain more valuable resources.

    I'd also like to give a shoutout to Runescape here for its Wilderness (AKA Wilds) area, which is the only place where you can do open world PvP. The Wilds are split up by levels, the deeper you go the higher the level. This is important because the Wilds level affects who can attack you. At level 1 you can only be attacked by players within 1 level difference of you, but at level 20, you can be attacked by anyone within 20 levels difference of you. This means that the further into the Wilds you go, there higher chance you will be attacked by a higher level player.
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  • unknownsystemerrorunknownsystemerror Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    Old news that New World is Ashes Lite. Smaller sieges (50v50), smaller servers (1k cap), one race, no classes, no dungeons or raids at launch. They ran their alpha with a minor corruption system that had no stick and was all carrot and then wondered why the gankers turned out in droves to do their regular shenanigans. So instead of fixing the core issues that were wrong with their approach, two months before launch they knee-jerked and made all pvp content opt-in. Will be the next Dark and Light.
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack
    Will be the next Dark and Light.
    Or the next Tabula Rasa.
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