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Message ID: 21311
Date: Fri Sep 8 21:47:27 BST 2000
Author: jhenders@bogon.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Horizons (was Official confirmation from Ester)
On Fri, Sep 08/00, "Kimes, Dean W." <dean_kimes@...> wrote:
> Yes, and no. I don't think they believe that their PvP environment will be
> perfect, but they think it will be good. I like the concept behind it and
> generally I abhor PvP because it is all about PK for the most part. Two
> things they are doing will make a huge difference. Like the Team PvP
> servers, only races openly at war can PvP one another without consequence.
> The big difference is, there will not be a way to tell the difference
> between PC's and NPC's on sight. If you see an Orc on the road ahead and
> you are an elf, you know that he is dangerous to you, whether he is a player
> or an npc.
>
> Their consequence system is brutal against PK'ers. If you kill a race that
> you are not at war with, even a mere 5 or 6 times you will suffer enormous
> problems. These problems will include having npc bounty-hunters showing up
> to kill you at random. Playing a PK character would rapidly become
> unplayable as every time you logged in you were ambush by these npc
> enforcers. Even if you kept your PK-ing to a race yours was at war with,
> you would always find yourself in enemy territory where few would feel any
> compunction against killing you.
>
> I wasn't really interested much in Horizons initailly due to it's PvP
> system, but they have convinced me to give it a chance. They feel their PvP
> system will promote the 'risk game' like Player competition while severely
> punishing to the point of oblivion anyone who PK's for the joy of hurting
> others. Time will tell.
>
>
> Kit
>
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>
>
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