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Reputation, Griefing & PvP Detailed in New Dev Post - Wild West Online News
SBFord
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Reputation, Griefing & PvP Detailed in New Dev Post - Wild West Online News
The Wild West Online forum has a detailed post about both the Reputation / Fame System and how griefers and PvP will function in the game. The goal is, according to the post, to ensure that PvP remains unrestricted but simultaneously inhospitable to griefing, something that
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"May Your Head Explode And Blood Swell From The Wound"
- Hashcow
Well, if true, that's really disappointing.
What really matters is the impact of wearing gear. If a small group of under geared or even naked players can take down a fully geared one, we've seen in the past how that will likely go.
Alt accounts with good standing have often supplied those with bad karma, one way around it would be to limit trading by players with bad karma to only other players with similar bad standing.
Thing is, over the years we've seen players work around the best efforts Devs have tried in open world PVP games, I'll be surprised if this team can really pull it off
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Many have tried to implement "PVP with consequences", but inevitably the consequences are either weak sauce or else the players find work-arounds.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IMO most devs don't see the big picture when trying to recreate realism.
Obviously in the real wild west,every minute your life may be in danger ,however there would be vigilantes,Marshall's,Judges etc etc,there was likely some form of recourse and dead was dead,no coming back.
My point is that it is a game and it is NOT nor will it ever recreate realism unless your going to actually die for good,so even death is FAKE in gaming.Point being,since your not even treating death as such,then obviously you can and should bend all the other rules as well.
This is why we need penalties and some form of repercussion towards ideals we don't really want.
IMO the real truth behind devs always going for open pvp is their games do not have enough content to survive without it.So if players can't go around shooting each other,they will get bored.It really says that developers should put more work/effort into their games to keep players interested long term.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I'm just going to follow his advice to hold off buying until some time post release, which is my standard practice these days.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Definitely not one of those games you take a chance on pre-purchase.
Yeah, they cover that post in the video and much more.
-Verenath-
Great vid.
I'll pass on this one and gonna buy crapload of popcorns for launch.