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I am amazed and disappointed even, by the people who still don't know or accept what the design of this game has always been proposed to be. GW and Ryan have been remarkably consistent in stating their vision of open world pvp with consequences. I come from a tabletop background going back to the blue box, I've played some themepark WoW. I read the kickstarter, I read the blogs describing the overarching goals of the game. I joined expecting to have to learn to protect myself and my settlement at all times. I expect to learn to pvp. I expect to die. I expect to lose gear and resources. I just don't understand the willfull attempts to ignore everything that Goblinworks has always said this game will be. I agree. It is true that some sociopaths are playing PFO and killing characters and taking their stuff, but not all people killing characters and taking their stuff are sociopaths. It's like people have never played competitive sports before, or something... In American Football, one guy hits another guy and takes the Basic Stitched Leather +3 he drops. The rules of this game are that you can kill other characters and take their stuff; that is one of the ways you compete. I have attacked 2 poachers in EBA lands (Note: I have since learned it is currently against EBA policy to attack poachers not affiliated with belligerents). I ran one off, and one fought and died and called me a douche (both after several attempts at contact, suggestions to gather elsewhere and trade, and at least 10 minutes of non-action). I said 'sorry,' and told him he could return to his corpse and retrieve what remained of his goods. I did that because a person that has intimate knowledge of the rules would not have called me a douche; this person needed coaching, not to be 'taught a lesson.' When I got another reply that didn't include an insult, I gave an explanation of my actions and some pointers. I did this because I want to be known as a good player, which has nothing to do with my character's alignment. It is and will always be incredibly important to teach new players the rules of the game. My hope is that all players will be motivated by this tragedy to consider how they, personally, can better teach their fellow players how the game is played. It isn't required, it's a bit of a chore, but it's good sportsmanship, and I think the majority of us are interested in being good sports while we compete. EDIT: To add, I did not attack ANY possible poachers when we had that rush of new faces at the end of January/beginning of February. A little restraint was warranted.
I'm perfectly willing to accept Cheatle's assurance that this was a misstatement rather than an admission, and I'm ready to stop talking about this whenever y'all are. You guys must not spend as much time in the south as I thought =P
I will be awed if Cheatle's statement isn't fact. Based on the evidence, I find it laughable to doubt it... but perhaps that's just my particular perspective =)
I'm all-for rep-free PvP in monster home/escalation hexes. There are few enough of these, they are easily identifiable, and they are rewarding enough that it makes sense to increase the player activity and danger there. Make these dangerous places where only the most well-prepared, hardened characters venture, and MONSTERS rule the land according to their whims. "Sure, travel far from town in search of riches, to the lands of Ogg and his followers. A nasty sort frequents that place; and then there's Ogg! Don't expect anybody to be concerned or surprised by what happens to you there. You've been warned."
Player-run Farms and Lumberyards will be POIs, I think. The explanation given by the developers is that when we enter the world, we only see ourselves, the elite adventurers, gatherers, and craft foremen. In the background, there is a multitude of 'small folk' keeping our settlements running (manning the auction house, doing the actual crafting, etc). These small folk will be more noticeable, though still invisible and abstracted, when the War of Towers ends and settlements start dealing with Development Indices. One of the resources is Bulk Food used to feed them and grow the population.
My experience for probably the first week of playing was largely the same as yours, very frustrating. The number of feats at the start is overwhelming. They need to do something to make this easier for new players, though I'm not sure what that will be. Since so much to do with feats is based on matching keywords, I think that matching keyword highlighting will help. But I do also think they should somehow reduce the number of feats available at the start. I thought this at the beginning, too, but kept my mouth shut until I had a better understanding of the game systems. Now, I'm confident they could narrow down the number of combat feats (maybe attacks, armor, and role feature feats) for new players without making things 'weird' or 'unfair.' One option is to gate half of them behind Adventurer 1 (or 2), which should take minutes/hours for a new player, in which time they can get a handle on how combat works before they start getting into the details. A few hundred XP can be made up in a few hours.
PFO is about meaningful human interaction. Reaching the end-game requires a certain amount of social investment. I didn't get to vote on anything. I had no say or influence. This. In PFO it's a lot easier to 'vote with your feet' (move to someplace better) than in the real world.
Unless they have been specifically hired to kill that person or are defending territory, why would anyone play the game like that? Just to make other players miserable? Why would anyone play a game just to make other people have less fun? This seems perfectly legitimate to me, as well. What Kyutaru did not include was the reason this assassin was doing this, which may be why there is confusion. As Tink and Bludd already pointed out, there are various reasons: resource denial, hampering an enemy (if they are not war/feud targets, it will come at a large rep cost), territorial protection, or even just honing your assassin skills (again, at a large rep cost if not a war/feud target). This is not like PvP in WoW; many might consider this sort of behavior in WoW as mean-spirited or unsportsmanlike (I wouldn't, depending on a few factors), because the assassin's guild does not gain a significant advantage by hampering your advancement. I have never played a game where the risks/rewards for PvP were greater than what I could personally gain/lose from looting/dying, so I haven't thought everything through just yet. However, it seems to me that the Reputation mechanic is designed such that doing something like this against a group that is not an enemy (i.e. war/feud target) is a decision that must be made carefully. If you randomly kill people, your reputation will tank and you won't be able to 'use it' killing non-war targets that you might have better reasons for killing (gathering your resources near your settlement, scouting your territory/towers, etc). TL;DR If in Kyutaru's example the assassin chose this group at random, he/she will quickly lose rep and will have to stop or be forced to live with the consequences for awhile. If there is no rep-loss from the kills, there exists a myriad of legitimate reasons for the assassin to kill them. In other words, you are right, Harneloot; if they are doing it for no other reason than 'for the lulz,' the game will punish them through the reputation mechanic. The reputation mechanic will also punish them for legitimate reasons (defending territory, etc), which makes for interesting choices about how settlements will enforce 'no trespassing' rules... and I like that =)
Spawn camping a feud or war target is one way of keeping them off the battlefield. All is fare in warfare!! You can not grief a war target, especially one who is on the side that started the war.Basically this, except I'm not sure I would spawncamp somebody only because they are a feud or war target. That's why I said "I'm not sure." =) We will see what makes sense to me when it happens... I don't have any experience with PvP like this.
Basically this, except I'm not sure I would spawncamp somebody only because they are a feud or war target.
0: You have what you hold. This is really what I think it will come down to. Neighbors will naturally try to avoid conflict at home by making agreements, but I don't see why anybody else would respect those agreements. The only River Kingdoms-wide agreement I know of is the NAP which covers the core 6 towers around a settlement. Those towers allow a PC settlement to offer more training than an NPC settlement. That is the point that most can get behind e). After that point, I think e) will dwindle to the dedicated few pacifists and those that in reality have an interest in one or the other party. I don't know everybody, and definitely not more people than Thod, so I could be wrong; we will see =)
a) Proximity - the closer the tower is to you, the stronger the claim I think he was specifically asking if you accept the transfer of Hammerfall's claims to those towers to Phaeros, as described by method c). I don't think there was any malicious discrimination there, just a practical clarification and a question whether you agree, given a past statement =) It's possible that when you made that post you didn't know that Hammerfall had done that (I can't find your post to reference).
I agree with you your goal completely, Guurzak. Here's how I've been thinking about fast travel in PFO (besides thinking along the same lines as the above posters): The geography is such that there are only a handful of chokepoints at which to access another 'elevation,' which increases the number of hexes needed to travel to reach a destination. It also potentially increases the risk of bumping into bandits. Bandits will be able to Ambush people out of Fast Travel (this used to be a function of the now defunct hideout structure, but I think bandits can still do this). I also seem to remember mention of NPC monsters from nearby escalations possibly being able to do the same, but I could be wrong there (in which case, add it, GW! Another good reason to have a strong force of PvEers in your settlement: clear escalations from major highways!) I hope there will be ways for settlements and/or POIs to affect fast travel in their areas.
*DE-ESCALATION, ENGAGED* I am not going to respond, because you already know that I was referring to T7V vs Pax as the 'rhetoric' I thought you brought in here (and yes I did use the word purposefully). There was a time of confusion when some believed the issue was simply a political battle between 2 large groups; I just wanted to point out that the evidence out there is to the contrary. We do not want to derail this perfectly fine thread by bringing up the thread that shall not be named, right? Like I said, I tried to keep the drama level low in my posts, but I anticipated a flare-up =/ Sorry for my part in dredging this up, all! Editted to be better...
Ok so now I see my problem, after realizing which settlement icon was for Thod's friends... I actually thought the Emerald Spire was located in the strange swamplands between Z and Y! I see now the 7 plains hexes between Golgotha and Thod's Friends must be the Emerald Spire. Thanks for clearing that up for me, sorry! Carry on...
I think you bring up some important points to think on, Calidor. I especially agree that the first impression is a big deal. I think I've only ever seen 2 reviews for MMOs after they have had some patches, and I didn't end up buying the games despite my interest because my buddies had already shunned them. This quote gives me a lot of hope:
I think that if I had seen Rust before we planned Pathfinder Online we might have risked a much more minimum game than we did. As it is, we're still pretty "minimum" compared to what most people think of when they think of an MMO, but there's a pretty robust game in there already. It's a long way more complex than Rust. Of course, as you said (along with Morbis in the quoted thread), the subscription model adds another element to the equation.
I didn't see it that way; no worries. And I was doing likewise; simply trying to block the eye poke (scroll down to the first photo) =P I was cringing while posting what I did because I was anticipating some would read what they expected to see and not what I wanted to communicate. I actually breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Morbis's post (before he edited to address mine). I recognize I should have made it clearer for those that specifically avoided that thread that Pax had non-Pax support; anybody that didn't avoid that thread certainly came away from it seeing that it was a very divisive subject for the community.
Indeed. I tried to keep my post short! Like I said in my post, which you took care to quote, many people from T7V were 'pro-Golgotha,' so I find it difficult to perceive it as T7V vs. Golgotha. The only large group that all came out on one side of the issue was Pax. Pax Aeternum, Golgotha, and Fidelis. As I said, those weren't the only people that held that position. EDIT: And of course there were numerous people from all groups, large and small, that simply didn't voice their opinions, feeling it wasn't worth getting tangled up in the situation =P
It is my understanding that you begin using your Kickstarter play time when you activate your account to enter the world. I believe this was stated several times in various places, but unfortunately it was so long ago I can't remember where =P So for me, depending on how Alpha looks at the end, I may wait a few months until more of the systems that I'm interested in have entered the game EDIT: That's what I get for leaving my browser open for 13 minutes before responding ><
Putting name or other words with a crafted item is not minimum viable product and has resource and complexity issues. Look to be much later and may involve store. As an example, could more than one person use same label? How much more to have unique or sole user of a label? Hmm, yeah maybe naming an item should be a store item. A player could purchase the ability to rename an item and send the name they want in for approval. That way they could charge $1 or w/e to cover the costs of having a goblin browse through a list of suggested names once a day to 'ok' them. Of course, a player should thread their named items to avoid losing them =) |
