A Couple of Concerns

I am very impressed by the scale and attention to detail I am seeing in this game so far .. but I do have a couple of concerns.

I've basically been gaming since Pong and have run the full spectrum of MMO's including: UO, Everquest, WoW, Anarchy Online, Planetside 1 & 2, DAoC, Guild Wars 2, Rift, Warhammer, ESO, Eve and pretty much everything in between.

I've talked to a few old gamer buds about jumping in AoC with me and they all had the same concern: "Nope, I'm not up for getting ganked and losing some of my stuff." From what I've read here, even non-combative players killed by other players will lose a portion of what they've gathered (in addition to durability loss, exp, etc)

I think that would be fine in a world like Wow where you have hundreds of 20-40 member guilds running around but it looks like your gameplay will encourage larger scale communities. There will likely be a dynamic like Eve where you have giant Corporations that control large areas and just trash anyone else that tries to venture through it or around it. They could do this without fear of the corruption process because being in the same 'Guild' they would be unable or unwilling to attack their own members. Solo players or smaller guilds would probably brave this for some durability loss or whatever but I don't think they'll stick around if they are constantly losing things they've gathered and exp to other players.

I know risk vs. reward is a big aspect of this game but you might want to leave that to larger scale transport like caravans or mules and take a closer look at the penalties you want to apply to solo players' experience, bagspace, etc.

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Neaux

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@Jist

Anyway on the occasion it does happen you now have a large group of corrupted players roaming around ganking solos, map/area chat starts going crazy, people who were killed start calling their guilds/alliances with delight because there is a giant group of reds roaming around somewhere in the area. Enemy guilds of the red group start forming groups because they hear they are grouped up and they want to fight them any chance they have. Large amounts of people start converging on the location as quickly as they can with hopes of wiping a disliked red group from a hated guild for free gear before they vanish or work their corruption off. All this leads to large groups of players meeting each other in the middle of nowhere for a large fight. Sounds fun to me.

I like this perspective on it. I hope it plays out this way.

zammwich

I feel like a percentage of your gathered goods is probably not gonna be enough incentive to be worth driving everyone away from your node, it could long term hurt your economy and would likely eventually result in some sort of revolt. Its more likely to be the independent player on his alt that just likes to be a jerk, and he would probably do that with or without a death penalty. For me a death penalty is important in a game because it makes those close fights feel more important when you've actually got something to lose.

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