No perma death for reds <=> safe zones for all the others = balance in the game . Period
No perma death for reds <=> safe zones for all the others = balance in the game . Period
Edit: New idea to expand the first paragraph from my quote: A tribal city could have a building, like a temple, where they can do "research" to increase the number and kinds of expansion totems they could produce outside of safezones that would have different effects on tribemates withing a certain radius from the totem location.Originally Posted by me
Yeah, im for real. Ive seen complex crafting scripts used in conjunction with third party programs that easily macroed whatever the abusers heart intended. The macro's were more complex than NASA's current systems for the spacecraft. I know, i copied/pasted them! Dont underestimate the human ability for motivation, especially involving a less input/max output scenario. Would you rather the devs/mods spend all day long every day policing this type of action, or taking care of the NORMAL things they should?
Again, im all against exploiting and abusing the system. Just trying to highlight where it could go and prevent it if necessary.
IF you dont want to pvp...make sure your city is completely defensible, hide safely in it, make sure you have plenty of people around protecting you at all times, and if you see someone encroaching your land and you are scared to death to potentially FIGHT for your right to live there...i dunno...log out until they are gone???
Dont force the rest of us to NOT have the option of pvp. That is opening the door to soooo many bad things. Forcing a decision to have a safe zone is still forcing a decision to limit depth.
Stating for the last time: Balance involving all, including pvp. Thats my opinion. You dont HAVE TO pvp if you take the proper measures.
using third party programs is not macroing, that is more along the lines of botting, and the people that are willing to bot will do so regardless of safezones or the lack thereof.
Nobody is trying to force non pvp on anyone, even with safezones, the choice is there, go pvp if you want to.
regardless of how many times you say it, regardless of all the different ways you say it, you are still advocating forcing people into YOUR way of playing, and removing their choice in it.
Balance involving all, including PVP, sure, leave safezones in and you have it. ;P
How is it forcing you to not being able to pvp? In the system that I outline you would have your PvP and I will have my safezone. You just wouldn't be able to PvP anywhere. If you cannot see that, then you are blind. I hate to attack you (since I'm such a carebear), but you are failing to see the BIG picture. Stop thinking about just you and think about the game and the game's population as a whole.
There will be more than enough people that would want the resources and the items crafted from those resources in the PvP areas. There will be those people that want to conquest and take control of land in the PvP areas. You do NOT NEED the ENTIRE map for PvP. It's complete overkill.
Using a third party program to do a repetitive task, such as creating the same thing over and over again for the sole purpose of gaining skill only, is NOT macroing? Call it botting if you want to or whatever else, its still not a person "playing" the game. Now add 1000 people afk consuming bandwidth when they arent actually on their pc and you cant do ANYTHING about it due to safezone. Enjoy the lag, i guess?
Having a safezone is forcing non-pvp. No consequences for actions. Exploitable. I can place a totem right next to the biggest guild on the server with one purpose - re-tagging my entire tribe to be safe there and doing nothing besides "griefing" every single person that leaves the other tribe all day long. When we are done, we can just retag wherever we want, start macroing, log out. Repeat the process the next night. You can try to hurt us...but we are just gonna constantly run back to the safe areas (plural) that we will exploit until changed. You cant destroy our totem, so hope you dont mind us camping outside your village whenever we want!
Does the aforementioned sound fun to me? Absolutely not. As much as I love pvp...i dont see that as "true" pvp. Putting in a safezone isnt adding a compromise, it is forcing a lack of consequence for those who can easily choose to exploit it. Im actually against "griefing" as I see it as counterproductive to the game.
I DO NOT want to "force people into YOUR way of playing, and remove their choice in it." Im actually arguing for the other side of the debate which is freedom to choose to do anything. Fight or flight, not autochoose to "get to my safe zone asap, dont want to risk anything".