Forced pvp caused by war

The town I am a citizen of went to war when I was offline. When I came back the war was on and there where multiple lvl 25s camping my hometown. I consequently died before my game had even rendered all the way costing me a living blue rarity bear material, I planned on making into a beast of burden. This death both felt cheap as it will cost me xp and time but also unfair as I had no way of knowing there was a war until I was already dead. i feel there needs to be an opt in feature for wars or at the very least spawn protection for a few mins on log in to give time to offload mats or leave a conflict zone if that's your preference. As it stands, I'm now stuck not playing since my home spawn point and closest spawn are the same and it is being camped so I'm stuck waiting for the war to end this was a massive turn away for my desire to play which was my plan for this evening for myself and my brother.

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AirborneBerserker

Zapatos80 wrote: »

There's a ton of jank right now with these systems. At the bare minimum, you should get a 10-15 minutes delay between declaration and war. It makes 0 sense that you can declare war, then gank all the low/mid levels right in town where they have no means to defend themselves nor see it coming.

IMO town centers should be damage immune zones. As it stands now the level of griefing that is possible (and does/will happen in town centers) is much too high, even outside of any war. Especially when there is no risk/reward, rhyme or reason for it to be possible to happen (low/mid levels being griefed have no way to defend themselves and will just die outright and lose materials to a grief, even if they have ten lvl 25 guildies right next to them).

Again if you are given a 15 minute warning then you can do things like call for help from other guilds, gather up non-guild members, or fortify positions in other ways. Which they don't want.

Lark Wyll

Volgaris wrote: »

Lark Wyll wrote: »

Pvp in towns is a poor idea, node wars or otherwise. I've never understood the dev teams fascination with promoting griefing in towns where players commonly go afk, chill, are barely paying attention to their screen if at all.

Are there even any pure PvP MMORPGs that can be considered successful? I wonder what 'success' would be for Intrepid. I wonder if anyone has done the math on that.

Albion Online's model is pretty good. No town pvp though. Town pvp is just licensed griefing imo. Ganking afk players in town will devolve into players logging out of the game constantly rather than hanging out. Puts more load on the launcher/login funnel, will make the game feel less alive, and the obvious player complaints.

Node wars are ok for it but it can't be constant griefing.

loneundrawolf

I see the comments of just renounce citizenship but hares the thing, if I log in and the war is already going then what chance do I have to get to the town hall. In the case that started this thread I had not even rendered the game before I died then getting back into town was impossible. There were 20 or so max lvls just camping the one-way road up to town hall so good luck opening the chat box and renouncing with anything less than a personal goon squad of your own lvl 25s, in which case just fight. All I'm saying is for those in the mid tiers of gameplay going from logging out at "home base" a supposed safe place, to I can't play for almost 3 hours while this war resolves is going to put off a lot of players.

Its_Me

loneundrawolf wrote: »

I see the comments of just renounce citizenship but hares the thing, if I log in and the war is already going then what chance do I have to get to the town hall. In the case that started this thread I had not even rendered the game before I died then getting back into town was impossible. There were 20 or so max lvls just camping the one-way road up to town hall so good luck opening the chat box and renouncing with anything less than a personal goon squad of your own lvl 25s, in which case just fight. All I'm saying is for those in the mid tiers of gameplay going from logging out at "home base" a supposed safe place, to I can't play for almost 3 hours while this war resolves is going to put off a lot of players.

You can minimize this risk by simply not logging out in your node or finding a more secure place than the center of town such as upstairs in one of the buildings or another lower traffic area.

atuday

Spawn protection on first log in should be a thing.

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