07-20-2004, 05:27 PM
I have no problem with the idea that players provide the best opponents. I've played a lot of DOOM, Duke Nukem 3d, Quake, Quake II, Quake3Arena, Unreal Tournament.... you get the idea. I'm not opposed to facing other players as my opponents. But in those games, I can go from newly-spawned to fully equipped in perhaps a minute. And even in those, camping spawn points (for either players or equipment) is generally frowned on.
But for me, non-consensual PvP adds nothing to an RPG. So I won't be playing on the PvP/FvF server. Which, of course, will get me called a "carebear" by the jerks who want to grief me without fear of retribution.
That said, though, I think that the suggestion about honor loss for killing low-level guys could work nicely. You'd simply need to make it only apply to characters in their home area. So killing a level 1 Alliance player in Horde territory is no big deal ("he knew the risks") but killing one in Alliance territory gets you dishonor. You might even have players get reps as lawbreakers affecting their home territory, so that enough of a killing spree of newbies gets you hunted in every town, not just the enemy ones.
If you do have a system that gives dishonor, you'd want some means of gaining honor as well, apart from defeating higher-level opponents. Not sure what that would be, though....
But for me, non-consensual PvP adds nothing to an RPG. So I won't be playing on the PvP/FvF server. Which, of course, will get me called a "carebear" by the jerks who want to grief me without fear of retribution.
That said, though, I think that the suggestion about honor loss for killing low-level guys could work nicely. You'd simply need to make it only apply to characters in their home area. So killing a level 1 Alliance player in Horde territory is no big deal ("he knew the risks") but killing one in Alliance territory gets you dishonor. You might even have players get reps as lawbreakers affecting their home territory, so that enough of a killing spree of newbies gets you hunted in every town, not just the enemy ones.
If you do have a system that gives dishonor, you'd want some means of gaining honor as well, apart from defeating higher-level opponents. Not sure what that would be, though....
Of course, your mileage may vary.