Gameslapper

Got some friends at work that are playing and thier server got merged into our server so figure I go romp around a bit and decapitate some peeps and see what the changes are.

let us know how it's lookin.

I still have it installed and everything I suppose...

I wish I still had it installed before.... little over 3 hours to install and update...

Not exactly sure what to say has changed or how... I did check out the auction house... everything has gotten pretty damn cheap so all the crap I was holding before I quit is practically worthless or atleast worth 10-50x less than when I got it...

That's an MMO. I still have gear on my EQ character that took months (and years) of 40-60 player high end raid encounters (beating each expansions ultimate Mob).
Now you can get better gear from a pickup group.

MUDflation. You get it in any RPG.

PvP is rampant.. reminds me of AC... during prime time or just about any time, guilds are standing in high traffic areas in groups and its a gank fest, your not safe any where really though... not to mention they made it so you can't pick different spawn points, but you can still switch instances if you can find an open one. So it seems like the new fad is to create lowby toons and duke it out in white sands.

The pvp system is interesting, its like JG honor system but based on levels rather than a flag (unless you flag I think). the level gap is +/-4 levels.. attack and you get a temp icon over your head, kill and you gain murder points, 100+ points puts a permanent red skull over your head untill you do some quests to clear it. When you have either icon on you, its free game, guards attack at will, vendors won't talk to you, and if your a lowby, no one will take penalty for killing you outside of 4 level difference, and the points don't go away, you still have to do the quests...

wow, sounds like it got worse.

certainly would be the case if your a lone wolf type of person... Ah the joys of a PvP server!

sounds alot like lineage pk system with the exception you dont drop your gear

Guess I don't need to try to fire up the game and patch after all...

Yeah, maybe you guys shouldn't pick a PvP server next time...

This setup works for me, I'm playing for the sake of playing, its fun and its not fun, just like any other game.

Well I'm having fun so far, this PvP system really plays well I think, few mild corrections I need to make to how I said it works...

You can only kill 3 levels below without a penalty, unless someone in your group who is lower has tagged them or hit your group mate(I think, hard to prove with all the chaos goin on), you can kill over your level for however high you can manage. roughly 9-12 points per murder, so after 8-10 kills your flagged permanently untill its worked off... working off the flag is very easy, (the quests are simple kill and gather and do 3 at a time and each one takes off 11.5 murder points). if some one in the group gets a murder kill everyone is flagged as criminal (5 minutes), and refreshes with each kill or if someoen joins with a flag. If your flagged and someone attacks you, you can fight back without penalty, I actually tested this one, was funny as hell.

Had about 50 kills, 5 deaths tonight and only put on 47 murder points and worked it down to 10 with one round of quests on my barbarian. Then the group went to Khesophf province, I pulled out my lvl29 ranger (group members were 23 & 26, both rangers too) and we went after and killed anyone that was 20-63, the 63(conq) had a hilarious ending, he charged a groupmate so I closed in with sword and board and got the fatality in one hit (I was trying to drop a trap and hamstring him and the fatality triggered on the hamstring combo). had some nice group fights with that guy's guild. The only things we died to were city guards, other than that we whooped'm hard despite being out-numbered and out-leveled. My ranger ended the night with 15 kills and 3 death, no murder points (suprisingly)... Another note, mentoring is taken into account for level differences so you don't have to worry about what real level they are aslong as they are within 3 levels below. Also, the lvl 80 guards now 1 hit anything, including other lvl80 players, they are not agro'd by criminal tags but haven't tested murder tags.

Big patch yesterday...

Added some dungeons, made changes to the PvP system, additions to the PvP mini-games, ect. lot of stuff in this one..

They upped the level difference from 3 levels to 8... added a notoriety system, PvP resources in the borderlands (lootable).... big difference they made now is that mobs tend to drop "stuff" that stacks rather than common grade weapons and the like so its possible to hunt around for a decent amount of time and actually loot everything and make better money faster.