[Concern] Potential Flaw in the Corruption System

Hello! Just wanted to state a concern I have regarding the corruption system.

From what I understand on the corruption system, a player who deliberately kills one or several non-combatant players is flagged as a “combatant” and eventually a “corrupt” player.

However, if a very rare resource were to appear in my node, I wouldn’t want people from competing nodes taking that resource, which could potentially jump start their node into a metropolis. I would want to take this rare resource for my node. If a player from a competing node is traveling through my node and is harvesting/mining, its only natural my guild and I would want to ward the players away for taking resources from my node that benefit their node. If my friend and I were to kill these players from another node who are taking resources from my node, would we be flagged as a combatant and eventually corrupted?

I don’t see a way where I can ward players from stealing our nodes resources from players from competing nodes without getting corrupted.

Just my suggestion but hopefully you have a better solution:

I think players should be flagged as combatants the second they enter a node thats not their own or a node they don’t have a alliance or guild that owns the node they’ve entered. Or additionally attack any players they don’t have an alliance with.

Without a system like this I don’t see how players can ward players from other nodes without getting corrupt.

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Baku1

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

I think players should be flagged as combatants the second they enter a node thats not their own or a node they don’t have a alliance or guild that owns the node they’ve entered.

Defenitely no. It is an open world MMO where you should travel and discover the world. With this restriction noone would leave their territory anymore.

And for the ressources case:
Maybe that's just unlucky. Who sees it first, owns it. Don't know what's the problem about that.

Beowulf Anvilbane

Baku wrote: »

Defenitely no. It is an open world MMO where you should travel and discover the world. With this restriction noone would leave their territory anymore.

And for the ressources case:
Maybe that's just unlucky. Who sees it first, owns it. Don't know what's the problem about that.

I have a problem because it’s synonymous to letting the Sackville-Baggins family: Otho and wife Lobelia, and their son Lotho to take Bag End, Bilbo’s house without repercussions?

And players would still would leave their nodes if they required a resources outside their nodes habitat that gave their city/guild an advantage over a rival node. If you’re worried about gankfests...gankfests are already established through caravan ganking which allow players from competing nodes to collect resources and to get to a metropolis faster than your node. Which also makes it a faction based system hence why we get sieges.

Baku1

Please tell me if I unsderstand you wrong.
You mean that players are only allowed to leave their node if the node needs ressources you get from that "destination node"? If they enter the node without that need than they are flagged as combatant?

1st Question: How/when will one player belong to one specific node?

2nd Question: What happens if I belong to node A but there is a super cool dungeon at node B where I can get stuff i really need. Am I flagged as combatant then?

3rd Question: What happens if I just want to discover new cities/quests/landscapes or try to find a new guild oder friends and party members. Will I get punished for that and be a combatant?

Beowulf Anvilbane

You mean that players are only allowed to leave their node if the node needs ressources you get from that "destination node"? If they enter the node without that need than they are flagged as combatant?

You and friends are free to leave your node whenever you want whenever you want, with the risk of encountering players from the node you are visiting who would want to protect their resources in their nodes.

1st Question: How/when will one player belong to one specific node?

An example would be, if my friends/guild and I establish a city inside a node, that I would belong to that specific node. Thats where my home is and the city we built together

2nd Question: What happens if I belong to node A but there is a super cool dungeon at node B where I can get stuff i really need. Am I flagged as combatant then?

Yes, because that dungeon potentially has resources that Node B needs for their guild/city/players.If you want their resources you can always siege their node or fight them off

3rd Question: What happens if I just want to discover new cities/quests/landscapes or try to find a new guild oder friends and party members. Will I get punished for that and be a combatant?

You can always request an alliance and ask for clearance explore the lands. If you node has a resource their node needs it can lead to a trade alliance.

Just something I need to mention so this doesn’t become a heated discussion. I dont intend to have the solve all answer. I was just addressing a flaw of allowing rival nodes to take resources from your own node without being defenders is ridiculous IMO

daxiongmao87

I have a problem because it’s synonymous to letting the Sackville-Baggins family: Otho and wife Lobelia, and their son Lotho to take Bag End, Bilbo’s house without repercussions?

But unlike Bag End, that resource isn't your property just because it's in your nodes zone of influence. It's not your house.

It's more like if a Took from Tookland picked some mushrooms in some area of Buckland.

Grimzar

You only get corruption if someone doesn't fight back.
you can just hit him few times and warn him that way

or declare node war/guild war. Then if I am correct players who are citizen of other node (or member of a guild) will be flagged to your node/guild as combatants.
but if you want to scare away all players who aren't in your guild/alliance then you probably never reach level 5 or 6 node.

Beowulf Anvilbane

daxiongmao87 wrote: »

But unlike Bag End, that resource isn't your property just because it's in your nodes zone of influence. It's not your house.

It's more like if a Took from Tookland picked some mushrooms in some area of Buckland.

True, that resource is not your property even if it lies within your node.
But if the current corruption system is implemented on the final release of the game, you would in fact watch your rival pick a particular resource thats grown in your node, that would tip the balance of the scales towards your rivals node rather than your node without being able to do a single thing about it

VmanGman

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

Hello! Just wanted to state a concern I have regarding the corruption system.

From what I understand on the corruption system, a player who deliberately kills one or several non-combatant players is flagged as a “combatant” and eventually a “corrupt” player.

However, if a very rare resource were to appear in my node, I wouldn’t want people from competing nodes taking that resource, which could potentially jump start their node into a metropolis. I would want to take this rare resource for my node. If a player from a competing node is traveling through my node and is harvesting/mining, its only natural my guild and I would want to ward the players away for taking resources from my node that benefit their node. If my friend and I were to kill these players from another node who are taking resources from my node, would we be flagged as a combatant and eventually corrupted?

I don’t see a way where I can ward players from stealing our nodes resources from players from competing nodes without getting corrupted.

I think players should be flagged as combatants the second they enter a node thats not their own or a node they don’t have a alliance or guild that owns the node they’ve entered. Or additionally attack any players they don’t have an alliance with.

Without a system like this I don’t see how players can ward players from other nodes without getting corrupt.

If your node declares war (war and siege declarations are two different things), then any member of your node can kill any member of their node with no corruption gain. It works the same for guild wars.

Beowulf Anvilbane

vmangman wrote: »

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

If your node declares war (war and siege declarations are two different things), then any member of your node can kill any member of their node with no corruption gain. It works the same for guild wars.

That is true but the fact remains you need guild leaders to be present to declare wars or something of that nature.

By the time you’ve agreed to take up on war your rival node has already walked through your lands and taken a resource that would tip the balance of the war over to their favor.

Thats why I suggested (although needs more finesse):
“I think players should be flagged as combatants the second they enter a node thats not their own or a node they don’t have a alliance or guild that owns the node they’ve entered. Or additionally attack any players they don’t have an alliance with.”

This way a guild can defend effective immediately rather than wait for leadership to “log in”. Wether to start a war over that would be up to the guild leaders afterwards

Songcaller

I won't lie, I plan on not having a Node. If your suggestion happens, I'd be permanently flagged as a Combatant. I do not want to be forced to play in a way I do not want to play. I would not be happy if I am permanently flagged as a combatant.

Beowulf Anvilbane

Neurath wrote: »

I won't lie, I plan on not having a Node. If your suggestion happens, I'd be permanently flagged as a Combatant. I do not want to be forced to play in a way I do not want to play. I would not be happy if I am permanently flagged as a combatant.

I understand your concern. My suggestion was to adress the problem I had in mind. I know my suggestion doesn’t solve all the questions and discussions asked here but the fact remains it is a flaw in the system that is absurd IMO

Songcaller

It is impossible at this point to state how anything will work in terms of Resource Gathering. The World will be so big that its impossible to say how many people you'll run into when gathering resources. Also, from the Livestream yesterday it seems resources will be based on Regions and not on Nodes per say, which means multiple Nodes will relate to Regions. I do not see how making people a combatant outside of their Node is conducive to good gameplay overall.

Beowulf Anvilbane

Neurath wrote: »

It is impossible at this point to state how anything will work in terms of Resource Gathering. The World will be so big that its impossible to say how many people you'll run into when gathering resources. Also, from the Livestream yesterday it seems resources will be based on Regions and not on Nodes per say, which means multiple Nodes will relate to Regions. I do not see how making people a combatant outside of their Node is conducive to good gameplay overall.

Nor does allowing rival guilds on other nodes walk by you and look into your eye while they take the resources that dont grow in their land to make better items for their guild members or evolve their city into metropolis potentially giving them the advantage over you if they were to decalre war on your guild.

Just brought up the problem hoping devs can clarify things or have an idea up their sleeves to solve all out concerns.

Songcaller

Node Allegiance beats Guild Allegiance. A Guild could own a Castle and be in control of 20% of the Map. Guilds will rarely, if ever, control a Node. You could be part of a Node but you can also face Guild Wars from Guilds inside the same Node.

If you want to be a crafter, that's fine, but when ALL items decay and need repair, you can't have a situation where Node A can only use Iron Weapons, Node B can only use Bronze weapons and Node C can only use Wooden Weapons.

daxiongmao87

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

daxiongmao87 wrote: »

But unlike Bag End, that resource isn't your property just because it's in your nodes zone of influence. It's not your house.

It's more like if a Took from Tookland picked some mushrooms in some area of Buckland.

True, that resource is not your property even if it lies within your node.
But if the current corruption system is implemented on the final release of the game, you would in fact watch your rival pick a particular resource thats grown in your node, that would tip the balance of the scales towards your rivals node rather than your node without being able to do a single thing about it

I think this is fine to have as a risk. It will help define node rivalries specially if it becomes a "problem". Instead of using PVP to dictate who gets that gather able, it's whoever can get there first. And you theoretically should have an advantage against your foreign opponent as they are likely to have to travel farther (from their node) to gather from within your node's region of influence.

Roko

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

I don’t see a way where I can ward players from stealing our nodes resources from players from competing nodes without getting corrupted.

I see no problems with this.

IMO nobody should be able to ward resources out in the world without risking getting corrupted regardless of how close they are to where you live.

Beowulf Anvilbane

Roko wrote: »

Beowulf Anvilbane wrote: »

I don’t see a way where I can ward players from stealing our nodes resources from players from competing nodes without getting corrupted.

I see no problems with this.

IMO nobody should be able to ward resources out in the world without risking getting corrupted regardless of how close they are to where you live.

Wouldn’t you say that it’s already established that you already can by attacking caravans?

Caeryl

Big absolute no. You can defend a spawn all you want. If it’s valuable, people will fight you to try to take it. If it’s not valuable, then why bother defending it.

Beowulf Anvilbane

Caeryl wrote: »

Big absolute no. You can defend a spawn all you want. If it’s valuable, people will fight you to try to take it. If it’s not valuable, then why bother defending it.

But if the people you mentioned fight whoever is taking the rare valuable resources, they’ll get flagged as corrupted because the people taking the resource can just walk away with the resource or corrupt the people fighting by not fighting. Which they can just comeback and kill the corrupt players who have debuffs and take the resources without resistance

Roko

caravans are and entirely different scenario.

You are talking about you or anyone being able to prevent someone else from gathering a resource out in the world without incurring any corruption risk in doing so. And I'm saying I disagree

A caravan is another system entirely which enables someone to steal already gathered resources. And personally I love the caravan system as described as well.

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