PVP L2 for now but I think RFO is going to be the new PVP king. RFO is made for non stop PVP well in this case RVRVR. Chip wares are a server wide battle. winner gets control over the best mineing fields. PVP leavers in each race get rights to chats over races and armor that makes them stand out. ect. all and all RF for the win.
Originally posted by Malickiebloo This will probably get me shot , but i feel for friends who are still playing SWG. So i will suggest SWG, along with WOW ,EVE or DAOC . All four have what you seek .
hahaha. PvP based? pvp was an afterthought in each of these games. RvR requires you to be level insane+ and does little more then grant "carebear points" to upgrade "carebear skills". The frontier is a joke, unless you're level six thousand, with a party of level six thousands...
The phrase from above "Don't PvP in anything you can't afford to lose", is quite true.
Problem is that if you want to fly a decent ship that will fair well in PvP, you have to spend money, in order to spend money you have to make money.
I found myself spending way more time, mining, trading, etc. to get enough money to buy ships to PvP in. By the time I got to the big ships that could compete, I had invested so much time and money into getting the ships, that I didn't want to risk them in PvP. I played with several corporations (equivalent to a guild in other games), and a large number of the players felt the same way. "I spent two weeks making enough game money to buy and outfit this ship, I'm not going to risk losing it in PvP"
So unless you join an uber corp that re-imburses you for ship losses you are pretty much relegated to frigate PvP, which consists of fighting other frigates, or running interference in your frigate for someone who has enough cash to PvP with a big ship.
Yes death does mean something, it means alot in this game, big money penalty if you have a nice ship. If you are looking for something to just jump into and start PvP'ing, this is not the game. You'll have to play for 3 months or more before you have enough skill and enough money to be competitive in PvP
Again great game, but most of your time is spent doing money making types of tings, because PvP is VERY expensive.
Currently I'm really liking the PvP servers on WoW, there are battlegrounds for even level PvP, and once you get past level 20 (which you can get to in a week or two), the PvP starts up and is everywhere. There are instanced dungeons, but for the most part you are in the same world with everyone else mixing it up. No real death penalty other than a corpse run, so if you want big death penalties, you won't find it in WOW.
Ultima Online use to be really hard core, but the graphics are now very dated, it went care bear quite a bit before I left. Used to be, someone could kill you, take all your stuff and laugh at your naked corpse. Now THAT was a death penalty.
Other than that I haven't really seen a good PvP MMO, tried a few others, SWG, MXO, Planetside, none of them really hit the mark, lots of potential, but just large things missing.
I'd have to say WOW and EVE are pretty much the best there are right now for MMOPVP. Very different games, but enough there between the two of them to satisfy all tastes.
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For someone just getting started in DAoC, you buy the Epic Edition. There's all your expansions, right there, in one reasonably priced package.
Chris Mattern
hahaha. PvP based? pvp was an afterthought in each of these games. RvR requires you to be level insane+ and does little more then grant "carebear points" to upgrade "carebear skills". The frontier is a joke, unless you're level six thousand, with a party of level six thousands...
EVE.
'Nuff said.
I love Eve, it's a wonderful game.
The phrase from above "Don't PvP in anything you can't afford to lose", is quite true.
Problem is that if you want to fly a decent ship that will fair well in PvP, you have to spend money, in order to spend money you have to make money.
I found myself spending way more time, mining, trading, etc. to get enough money to buy ships to PvP in. By the time I got to the big ships that could compete, I had invested so much time and money into getting the ships, that I didn't want to risk them in PvP. I played with several corporations (equivalent to a guild in other games), and a large number of the players felt the same way. "I spent two weeks making enough game money to buy and outfit this ship, I'm not going to risk losing it in PvP"
So unless you join an uber corp that re-imburses you for ship losses you are pretty much relegated to frigate PvP, which consists of fighting other frigates, or running interference in your frigate for someone who has enough cash to PvP with a big ship.
Yes death does mean something, it means alot in this game, big money penalty if you have a nice ship. If you are looking for something to just jump into and start PvP'ing, this is not the game. You'll have to play for 3 months or more before you have enough skill and enough money to be competitive in PvP
Again great game, but most of your time is spent doing money making types of tings, because PvP is VERY expensive.
Currently I'm really liking the PvP servers on WoW, there are battlegrounds for even level PvP, and once you get past level 20 (which you can get to in a week or two), the PvP starts up and is everywhere. There are instanced dungeons, but for the most part you are in the same world with everyone else mixing it up. No real death penalty other than a corpse run, so if you want big death penalties, you won't find it in WOW.
Ultima Online use to be really hard core, but the graphics are now very dated, it went care bear quite a bit before I left. Used to be, someone could kill you, take all your stuff and laugh at your naked corpse. Now THAT was a death penalty.
Other than that I haven't really seen a good PvP MMO, tried a few others, SWG, MXO, Planetside, none of them really hit the mark, lots of potential, but just large things missing.
I'd have to say WOW and EVE are pretty much the best there are right now for MMOPVP. Very different games, but enough there between the two of them to satisfy all tastes.