Personally, I liked the way PvP was handled in the old NWN (on AOheLl) where
you had a lot of zones that weren't PvP, and a few that were. To get from
Neverwinter to Longsaddle (for instance) you could take the short route
through the Lost Hills (which were PvP) or the longer way (which was not
PvP). That way, whenever you set foot in the Hills and did a <whatever the
command was> to see who all was in the area, if you saw certain guild names
like MECH, UDL, KAAOS, etc. you knew you were rolling the dice and taking
the chance of getting jumped. Sure, it wasn't "realistic", but it let the
player make the decision every time they decided to make the trip.
-=B=-
----- Original Message -----
From: Kimes, Dean W. <dean_kimes@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Horizons (was Official confirmation from Ester)
>
> >Isn't Horizons another one of those games where the developers think
> >that in spite of UO having nothing but problems with PKs and grief
> >players, and EQ showing the overwhelming majority prefer a PvP
> >switch, that they can come up with the perfect, abuse free forced PvP
> >environment?
>
> 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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