Tera MMORPG - Page 34

On February 07 2012 19:59 Shelke14 wrote:
On a side now, I wish a new MMO would come out with a style for suited to Ultima Online's PK system from Age of Shadows. Although the earlier verisons were a lot more exciting due to the fact everything was lootable, Age of Shadows used a formula that allowed people to PvP with nice gear on and not worry about losing it.

For those who never played UO. The system was: There were four types of people, Blue, Grey, Red, and Orange. Blue ment you were just a good normal citizen who could not be attacked in cities and guard protected areas because you had not commited any crimes (Everyone starts out this way). Grey ment you commited a criminal act (stealing from someone's backpack, or attacked a blue outside guards zone). Red ment you had killed and ben reported by five blue characters, this ment "counts" were added to your character and it would take 40 in game hours to work off every count. After getting lower than 5 counts, you could be Blue again. Orange: This one is different because there were four factions in UO, you didn't have to joing them but if you did, you would be at war with the other three. Being Orange ment it didn't matter if you were in guards zone or anywhere, you could be attacked by other Orange players. (This is obiviously a very quick outline of it, I could go into further details if needed)

The looting system: Pre-AoS everything was lootable on a character except blessed items (Almost impossible to get, from what I remember). After AoS came out a new system came into place. Insureance was added to the game and you could insure the more expensive items in your inventory for a cost. Not everything was insurable, money, poitions, ingredints, stones, etc... Items like Armor, weapons, and clothes could be insured and if being killed and you had enough money in your bank, your items would be re-auotinsured. Of course if a person forgot to insure an item and that person died then of course it would be lootable. (This is where you would see nice players give back items and people who just wanna grief keep items). What made this system nice was the aspect of not being so fucking scared to walk out of guards or joning factions due to the fear of being "ganked" by a mob of 40 people and have your armor looted dry off you. What it ment was you had to be weary of what you brought along on each outing, did you want to be 100 poitions or just 30... etc. So while losing poitions and ingredints sucked, it wasn't the end of the world and they were easy to get back (make them or buy more) but it allowed for a simple and nice reward for killing the person. Also you would get a small piece of their insureance (so if the person had 15 insured items then you would claim 3000 gold off them, if they only had 5 insured items, then you would claim less). Of course I could go even further into items and insureance and everything but i'll keep it breif right now.


Lastly, the reason I felt this system was best was due to multiple reasons. Its ability to allow people to have a risk and reward system to PvPing. Making it not seem like a hell zone that would cause you to lose everything if you died. I am wanting a MMO to come out that allows one of the servers to have this setting just to see how it is accepted by the players.

It is 3am in the morning and I am dead fucking tired, any errors in my writing, I'm sorry but I think you guys will get the basic understanding of what I am trying to explain. I would glady talk further on the subject if anyone would like. PS. Please nobody use the arguement that I should just go to the Free UO servers, that is not something I am interested in.

On February 07 2012 20:50 Ighox wrote:

As much as I want 3D UO I just don't think any of the mainstream MMO's will try it for a long time because they're just trying to grab the huge numbers.
Something like looting in PvP would just scare most people away (unfortunately).

They should just make specific servers for free for all PvP or something, they wouldn't have to change that much to make PvP flags on all the time outside of cities and that way they'd cater to everyone.

But lets not complain too much before we actually know how it does work in US/EU, maybe they've already changed it.