PVP serversFollow

I myself wouldnt play on a PVP server, but there are many that would love it. I just have a feeling the hunting down and slaughtering of lower level players would be a problem. But for those that want to play on one, they are welcome to it.

And what about ganging up? It isnt that hard for a guild to ambush players as they travel. If they allow open attacking, I doubt the currant system can lock them to just one on one.


As I said, for myself, There is no intrest, but for others there is they can have it.

There would be a huge spike in the population of rogues, wizards and Alchemists. People would literlay slaughter each other for no reason.
Thats why I wouldnt suport it, killing npcs is better then strong people ruining the game for all.

Edited, Mon Oct 3 21:24:33 2005 by SefanaPPO

come on people get this forum goin i wanna hear some of your ideas..i heard that alotta times this is where developers look for ideas is from these kinds of posts, so post up!

And BTW
http://eqoa.allakhazam.com/polls/eqoa/poll.htm
Doubt its been updated in a long time but it may show how many suport/dont suport.

yes thats the reason I will never suport open PVP in any Online RPG(dont know how it works in WoW so thats not including it)

now thats the kinda stuff i like to hear..thank you for your insight

I played a game a while back called Conquer Online. Every server was PvP and it worked very nicely. It had tank classes, damage (melee and caster) and healers. I'll try to explain how it was set up and then how that could be related to EQOA.

First off, the cities were pretty much off limits in a sense. There were guards everywhere almost so if a high level caster decided to nuke a lowbie (although the lowbie would die) the high level would get a much larger death penalty (and yes, the high level caster would be slaughtered) whereas the low level ones maybe lose half their gold if they had any on them. This would be a good idea to put in the towns and cities. There were parts of the major cities though where very few guards travelled.

There were also some reasons why high levels wouldn't go on rampages killing off people.

1. As I said before the guards would kill you nearly instantly leaving you with a lot of exp lost.

2. The "respect" system. Your name starts white with 0% respect. As it goes up it gets greener, and redder as it goes down. If you kill a lot of people with a 0%+ respect you will lose respect and your name will get darker. At -50% I think it was you were no longer permitted into major cities or else suffer the wrath of the gazillionth level guards. The only way you can get your respect back up is by killing people with a negative respect while they are outside a city. Respect gets harder to change as you gain levels (also like karma on Alla although I'm not too sure about that "Hail 3.12").

3. Maybe it was just that game or people over exaggerate the amount of *** holes that would do this but there wasn't many killing sprees. There were parts where people could go to farm ore from rocks and such. When I went there, there would literally be 20-30 people hacking away at the walls of mines farming ores, chatting or afk. People respect each other and therefore don't try to kill everybody. Unfortunetly Archers were very overpowered when it came to PvP in that game because at higher levels they could get a large multi-target attack that does high damage, hence the greifers were usually Archers and ran into the mines and killed all the lowish levels. The good part was the other high levels would then all jump and kill him.

I think it would be really cool to have a PvP server. People would have to watch their backs outside the protection of cities, but as murran said EQOA would have to change the story a lot because as of now it isn't set up to run a PvP server.

The problem with pvp in this game is that their are unbalenced classes that can do much damage at once, that would make pvping unfair. Wizards and alcs would run up to person nuke/throw at them then run away, only to return to do it until their dead.
rogues would backstab/combo them and then finish off with quads
theese both are when targets arnt tanks, wouldnt work on one.

Except for the fact that this is the world that we live in, there are wars going on constantly..i think we all wish we could live in your little fairy tale happy world you idiot. Have you ever heard of the war in Iraq going on right now? or the recent terrorist attacks going on all around the world? Take your head out of your *** you nieve *****.

Do you really enjoy getting killed with out know what hit you? Class balancing is a huge part. The only thing that would change from EQPC pvp because of controls is that instead of getting nuked to death and not know what hit you, you can turn around and look at what color gear the guy is wearing.



Thats hilarious.

Good idea, and you wouldnt be ble to just see what color armor the guy hitting you has. You could hurt him a little instead of dying and thinking. "wtf????" And what I meant by expertly set up was set up good enough to have one.