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Author: | gorboth [ 27 May 2014 11:22 ] |
Post subject: | PvP Arena Progress |
Hello all, Much like I have done in the past with the Cult of Chemosh development, I'd like to maintain a blog regarding the progress toward completion of the PvP Arena that I announced in the last Common Board post. We can use this thread for discussion about the arena, ideas, and dialogue back and forth. I'll very quickly delete posts that don't belong or are simply obnoxious, so lets stay on track and keep it positive. G. |
Author: | gorboth [ 27 May 2014 11:39 ] |
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress |
Update:
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Author: | Laurel [ 27 May 2014 12:05 ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress | |||||||||
will there be gain of gear or exp? |
Author: | Aristos [ 27 May 2014 13:03 ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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PVP gear, which would not work for PVE :-D Oh, wait, that's my WoW memory taking over... |
Author: | Zhar [ 27 May 2014 16:00 ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For PvP I'd rather solve it the Guild Wars way - it doesn't matter how it looks, all weapons and armours have the same stats. Zen balance. |
Author: | Mumon [ 27 May 2014 16:20 ] |
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress |
Sounds interesting. I think it would be a good idea if mercenary affiliation would confer the same bonus as the guild affiliated to, if that guild or any alliance it is part of control the keep. Also if alliances will get in-code support, perhaps mercenaries could affiliate directly with an Alliance? /M |
Author: | gorboth [ 27 May 2014 18:11 ] | |||||||||
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Regarding gear, the idea will be similar to WoW or FPS pvp, where you have the gear you have, you bring it to the party, and you keep it even if you die. What can be lost in terms of "EQ" here would be resources you were gathering and trying to get to your "base" whether that be the keep or some staging ground for a seige. Regarding exp, I will have to think about that. One thing that makes sense to me is to keep track of some kind of separate "pvp score" based on kill/killed ratio that gives you a certain rank in the Arena. If we did that, like in WoW, we could also have it transfer to certain advantages if we wanted to. Or, it could just be for the sake of glory/pride. G. |
Author: | gorboth [ 27 May 2014 18:16 ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress | |||||||||
This is something I'll have to do a lot of design work to get right, but I do want it. It won't be limited to Mercenaries, though. Rather, the idea will be that players can form alliances of any kind, whether it be a rag-tag group of players from various guilds, or a specific guild team. I think it will be up to the team that "claims" the Keep to set the parameters on who can benefit from the Keep's player-buffs. I am thinking, too, that the more you share, the less each person gets. So, if you have just one guild benefitting, the buff is more powerful than if you share it with two guilds. What I wouldn't want is to allow Mercenaries to simply use their affiliation to switch to the winners of the Keep, and get the benefits/entry. G. |
Author: | Cherek [ 27 May 2014 19:34 ] |
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress |
Gorboth: Do you plan on scaling the size of the arena based on how many are participating? If its a static 800 room area, it sounds huge? Anyone who has ever tried to PVP on the Krynn war areas (or just conquer the NPCs for that matter) has probably noticed how it's much more about running around huge plains that look the same, trying to find something/someone to kill, than it's about actual fighting. Personally, I have always felt the most fun PVP moments in Genesis has taken place in rather small areas. Like when I was a knight and someone raided the Spur or Keep and all the fighting took place in the rather small Vingaard Keep area + plains. Another example would be Flotsam/Balifor that I also remember as fun places to fight. (It was a pretty small area before the Centaurs area and Kendermore were added). And realistically we're probably looking at 1vs1 and 2vs2 battles, and any teams larger than that fighting each other will probably be pretty rare with our current playerbase? (Which is supposed to grow of course, but... well currently its not that big. Yet). So yeah, whether it's gonna be fun or not, I think finding the correct size of the area will be very important. Having that said, I love everything about the idea! |
Author: | Laurel [ 27 May 2014 19:45 ] |
Post subject: | Re: PvP Arena Progress |
merge Dragonarmies into one and Rangers into one for the calculations in this let Shieldbearers contribute somewhat to the Clan even if they are not Neidars - similar Worshippers to Psuchae, AA laymans to AA occ, KoT to PoT obviously AA occ and lay should contribute somewhat to MM too |
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