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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Dynamic PvP Zones, Node Territories, Caravans... I will tell u about all that AOC needs
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Member, Alpha Two
I’d like to sketch out a few ideas that will make your game a hundred times better.
1) Node Territory Size Based on Node Level
I suggest making the territory controlled by a node and its laws dynamic. This way, a level 0 node (which is not even a village) won't control huge areas. Controlled territory should grow with the node's level, through special buildings, or by conquering land from other nodes. Now, you might say, there will be meaningless neutral zones between nodes. But I say — not neutral, but lawless. In these lawless areas, PvE players could have an increased chance of finding rare resources (PvE players would love this), while PvP players would benefit from PvE players entering these areas (PvP players would be happy too). In the end, everyone wins — your game becomes not just good, but outstanding, your player base grows, and so does your revenue.
Steven, I know you’re a good guy — please make it happen!
2) Have you ever thought that killing is wrong?
Of course you have. Remember when you realized it? Oh right, when after killing a player, you got hit with the Corruption debuff. After all, the great laws of the nodes don't allow killing players without consequences.
But what if I told you that you've been lied to all this time? The laws are not against killing — they are hypocritical. After all, you can freely kill any player during a caravan event. Feel the hypocrisy our beloved developers have brought into the world of Verra? I do too!
Here’s what I propose: remove the unnecessary caravan event system altogether. Let any player freely attack caravans, but if a player deals a certain amount of damage to a caravan, they should receive Corruption just like when killing another player. This way, the laws would truly apply across all systems, but players could still attack caravans thanks to point 1.
3) The Corruption Effect Should Not Work in Lawless Zones
Once you enter a lawless area, the Corruption system should deactivate and then reactivate when you leave. I think this is just logical — no one would even argue with this.
4) Rework the Corruption Debuff
Seriously, the Corruption system needs to be more forgiving toward players. What's the point of creating an open-world PvP system if people are too scared to engage with it? Right now, there are almost no rewards that justify a player willingly getting corrupted. Think of something — anything — but remove item loss on death due to Corruption. Without this change, the first three ideas simply won't work properly.
1) Node Territory Size Based on Node Level
I suggest making the territory controlled by a node and its laws dynamic. This way, a level 0 node (which is not even a village) won't control huge areas. Controlled territory should grow with the node's level, through special buildings, or by conquering land from other nodes. Now, you might say, there will be meaningless neutral zones between nodes. But I say — not neutral, but lawless. In these lawless areas, PvE players could have an increased chance of finding rare resources (PvE players would love this), while PvP players would benefit from PvE players entering these areas (PvP players would be happy too). In the end, everyone wins — your game becomes not just good, but outstanding, your player base grows, and so does your revenue.
Steven, I know you’re a good guy — please make it happen!
2) Have you ever thought that killing is wrong?
Of course you have. Remember when you realized it? Oh right, when after killing a player, you got hit with the Corruption debuff. After all, the great laws of the nodes don't allow killing players without consequences.
But what if I told you that you've been lied to all this time? The laws are not against killing — they are hypocritical. After all, you can freely kill any player during a caravan event. Feel the hypocrisy our beloved developers have brought into the world of Verra? I do too!
Here’s what I propose: remove the unnecessary caravan event system altogether. Let any player freely attack caravans, but if a player deals a certain amount of damage to a caravan, they should receive Corruption just like when killing another player. This way, the laws would truly apply across all systems, but players could still attack caravans thanks to point 1.
3) The Corruption Effect Should Not Work in Lawless Zones
Once you enter a lawless area, the Corruption system should deactivate and then reactivate when you leave. I think this is just logical — no one would even argue with this.
4) Rework the Corruption Debuff
Seriously, the Corruption system needs to be more forgiving toward players. What's the point of creating an open-world PvP system if people are too scared to engage with it? Right now, there are almost no rewards that justify a player willingly getting corrupted. Think of something — anything — but remove item loss on death due to Corruption. Without this change, the first three ideas simply won't work properly.
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I ain't taking the bait.
1) Totally down with dynamic borders through conquering and control, but Lawless status shouldn’t just be automatic. Let the node’s mayor call the shots about this or have citizens vote on it, give some power to the people! Would be fun if the citizens could decide to make it Lawless right at it's border and just the border be lawless LOL
2) Corruption in Verra’s a spiritual thing, not about laws, love the lawless open sea. The system is hypocritical for sure, but scrapping the caravan system’s inner workings would break the whole game, pvp laws in AoC is a shaky house of cards. When people talk about pvp in this game we do trample on this corruption hurdle... thanks for all the carebars around Steven who poisoned his mind instead of helping him design something good
3) 100% right, Corruption effects shouldn’t touch Lawless areas. Corruption’s was created for shielding carebears, so debuffs in lawless zones make zero sense. No debuffs in lawless areas is the only logical move, anything else is just nonsense what are you even doing.
Let people just go corrupt on land and go live at the seas as a corrupted god, and if you ever lose your corruption just go raid the coast and get your corruption as badge of honor and back to the sea. I know this goes 100% against what Steven previously said, but what he said is unfun that corruption should never have any kind of reward not even moral reward, which is lame
4)Yeah, it’s way too harsh, but entirely removing drops will never gonna happen.
The core issue AoC faces right now, in two posts, lol.