Wow, some really great ideas out there. You all have hit on many things that I have had similar thoughts of and a few I never would have imagined.
One idea that I didn't see yet that i think would help is a "penalty" system for doing things to balance out the rewards you might get. I have to say (and I know I might get a ton of flames on this) that I actually agreed with the perma-death for jedis in SWG, however I thought that that penalty need to apply to all players as well.
This would make players seriously think about what they are going to do and build a well rounded character since they will have invested so much time into them. This would also alliviate the power players from running into an area trying to kill everything in sight and not caring because they will just respawn a short distance away and have 100+ extra suits of armor and 100+ more guns available.
If they were to get perma-death they would lose everything. Now true folks can go out ther and kill a new or mid level guy to perma, but they have to think that eventually word would get out and they will end up having to start over themselves from the angry friends of the folks they killed.
---just a thought
-BaronJuJu
"If we don't attack them, they will attack us first. So we'd better retaliate before they have a chance to strike"
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Wow, some really great ideas out there. You all have hit on many things that I have had similar thoughts of and a few I never would have imagined.
One idea that I didn't see yet that i think would help is a "penalty" system for doing things to balance out the rewards you might get. I have to say (and I know I might get a ton of flames on this) that I actually agreed with the perma-death for jedis in SWG, however I thought that that penalty need to apply to all players as well.
This would make players seriously think about what they are going to do and build a well rounded character since they will have invested so much time into them. This would also alliviate the power players from running into an area trying to kill everything in sight and not caring because they will just respawn a short distance away and have 100+ extra suits of armor and 100+ more guns available.
If they were to get perma-death they would lose everything. Now true folks can go out ther and kill a new or mid level guy to perma, but they have to think that eventually word would get out and they will end up having to start over themselves from the angry friends of the folks they killed.
---just a thought
-BaronJuJu
"If we don't attack them, they will attack us first. So we'd better retaliate before they have a chance to strike"