This game will already be as Niche as it gets, they better not ruin the pvp part of it like they did with rift.
This game will already be as Niche as it gets, they better not ruin the pvp part of it like they did with rift.
That's cool, I'm not against PvP per se, I'm just against dickheads ruining my fun purely for their own enjoyment.
Was I wrong before, or is most of the "Sandbox" type stuff (the crafting, house building, ship building etc) located on the same third island as the PvP openworld free for all?
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SWG could be played almost exclusively PvE if you chose to do so. It gave you the flexibility to PvP when you felt like it, but also not be bothered when you were out checking harvesters.
I'll be honest, I can deal with PvP servers, as even sometimes I like to do it. What I can't deal with is the old UO style where people steal your stuff afterwards. There is a reason games got away from the concept, it kills overall sub numbers. You tell a crafter that they may get ganked while checking their harvesters and they won't like it, but they can probably deal with it. You tell one that in the process the guy also steals everything you've been working towards and people get pissed and leave.
People don't mind losing an hour or two of time because someone decided you needed to die alot. They do mind losing a weeks worth of work because not only did they decide you needed to die, but that you needed to lose your stuff as well.
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I doubt they do, mainly because the PvP servers tend not to do as well once you give people a way to play without being screwed with. See the hardcore PvP group that likes the old UO style is fairly small, and if you give people a PvE server to go to, that hardcore server just languishes because of a lack of numbers.
While I agree with your partner, it could open some interesting doors ( its the great thing about sandbox play), I don't have the time nor the patience anymore to really deal with it. The better option is to just not play, rather than only being able to play when your mercenary for hire is on to escort you around
They are not, however, for many larger items it requires you to build "packs" made from various resources (100 wood 100 iron etc) then take these packs to traders around the world to be turned in for special coins (which are then used to buy said items). These traders usually are in contested areas that require travel , and while carrying a pack you have reduced speed. When you die, you drop your pack which can be picked up by someone else and this is what fuels most of the pvp/pirating.
When OBT ended there was a ton of camping of the traders, and trade routes as you'd expect. I don't know if they have fixed this but there are ways to get to them following safe zones which don't allow pvp.
not only the numbers to fall, but to remove pvp entirely...imagine 2 gangers hidding and wait one the other to be on disadvantage in order to attack him lol this fight will never end because fair fights are not in existance in ffa pvp games...
I like archage very much and watching videos about it long time ago when it was on the early stages of develop but probably I doubt I will ever spend time to it since I hate ffa pvp...not because I am not good at pvp..but because I hate unfair battles..and since I never took advantage to attack to anyone in my games, I am not going to be the victim of a group of players who will wait for me to fight 5-1 or someone that will wait me to fight 2-3 mobs and then attack me.
Hopefully everquest next will be a pve sandbox and elder scrolls could be a perfect pve sandbox if they could just make it skyrim online...
The trick of selling a FFA-PvP MMO is creating the illusion among gankers that they are respectable fighters while protecting them from respectable fights, as their less skilled half would be massacred and quit instead of “HTFU” as they claim.
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