PVP - A player discussion

[Faroukel]

I would -love- to see a combat scenario where each opposing side squared off against a single combatant, and it eventually narrowed down to the last combatants for a declared winner.

[Tykanis]

Thats what I mean, we all have mildly twinky habits and it would take both sides cooperation.

[krelm]

Stuff about people ganging up on 1 PC

I don't see a problem with this, personally. It was a problem back in old SOI when there wasn't a hard limit of how many people could be attacking one person, when you could get 10 people on one guy, for instance.

With this engine, however, there's a hard cap of 4 people on one target, and there's a plethora of ways to get out of that situation if you're the one being targetted (mainly with the 'ward' command, or having your followers 'rescue' you).

It sucks to be the person on the receiving end of that, sure, but it won't guarantee your death if you have friends with you. Just make sure you set defensive (or pacifist if you're really panicking), ward, and have your buddies rescue.

[Tykanis]

Not everyone has access to ward, and sometimes they hit a little to0 hard in a matter of around 30 seconds the most recent one seemed to be. A little difficult to both ask, and juggle help in that amount of time, and once again coming from a very PK heavy mud that involved very little RP I have been in many a gank squad. But for the sake of RP and realism due to it being a Roleplay intensive game and not a PK mud I was suggesting that perhaps in keeping to the realism that we not systematically all focus one person at a time.

[Tykanis]

I have been in the middle in many of those, and both times I have been skilled enough to keep them at bay for a long period of time, so that isn't an issue to me.